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Suzie Dawson on Activism and Journalism in New Zealand and Russia

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Suzie Dawson is an accomplished independent New Zealand journalist and activist. She specialises in writing about whistleblowers, intelligence agencies, and technology. She currently resides in Moscow, Russia, where she has applied for temporary asylum due to severe persecution she reports being subjected to by those whose corruption she worked to expose. We discuss the state of activism and media and civil liberties in New Zealand, as well as the view of the United States from Moscow.

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Talk Nation Radio: Charlotte Dennett on Origins of U.S. Obsession with Middle East

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 Charlotte Dennett is an attorney, author, and investigative journalist. Born in Beirut,  Lebanon,  she became a roving correspondent for The Middle East Sketch in 1973 and a reporter for the Beirut Daily Star. Escaping Lebanon’s civil war in 1975, she returned to New York where she met her future husband, author Gerard Colby. They spent read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Francis Boyle on How to Impeach Trump

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Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Professor Boyle has served as counsel to Bosnia and Herzegovina and to the Provisional Government of the Palestinian Authority. He has represented the Blackfoot Nation, the Nation of Hawaii, and the Lakota Nation. He drafted the U.S. domestic implementing legislation for the read more

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Talk Nation Radio: John Lindsay Poland on U.S. Guns in Mexico

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John Lindsay-Poland is a writer, activist, researcher and analyst focused on human rights and demilitarization, especially in the Americas. From 1989 to 2014 he worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation as coordinator of the Task Force on Latin America and the Caribbean, as research director, and founder of FOR’s Colombia read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Hyun Lee on Prospects for Peace in Korea

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Hyun Lee is a New York City-based writer and activist.  She is a member of the Solidarity Committee for Democracy and Peace in Korea. She is also a Korea Policy Institute fellow and a member of Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Find her work also at ZoomInKorea.org.

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Host: David Swanson.
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Music by Duke Ellington.

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Talk Nation Radio: John Washington: We Need a Whistle-Blower in U.S. Customs and Border Protection

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John Washington is a writer and translator based in Arizona. His most recent translation, A History of Violence, about Central American politics, was published by Verso Books in 2016. He writes regularly for The Nation and In These Times. We discuss his recent articles on U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Nation’s appeal for a whistleblower.

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Talk Nation Radio: Deirdre Enright on Freeing Innocent People from Prison

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Deirdre Enright is director of investigation for the University of Virginia Law School’s Innocence Project Clinic. Enright previously worked at the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where she represented clients and consulted on cases in all stages of capital litigation, with primary focus on federal and state post-conviction proceedings and Supreme Court certiorari review. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1992, Enright worked as a staff attorney at the Mississippi Capital Defense Resource Center. We discuss the work of freeing innocent people from prison.   See: http://www.innocenceprojectuva.org  Total run time: 29:00

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Talk Nation Radio: Dale Brumfield on the State of Virginia's History of Murder

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Dale Brumfield is an Adjunct English Professor and the author of seven books. His last two, Richmond Independent Press (2013) and Independent Press in D.C and Virginia: An Underground History (2015) were both nominated for Library of Virginia Literary Awards in nonfiction. Dale is a weekly history columnist for the Staunton News Leader, and is a frequent read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Dennis Kucinich on Opposing War on Syria

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Dennis Kucinich is an internationally renowned champion of diplomacy and peace. His distinguished career in public service dates back to 1969 and spans councilman, clerk of courts, Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio State Senator, 8 term Member of US Congress and 2-time Democratic candidate for President of the United States. We discuss U.S. warmaking in Syria.
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Talk Nation Radio: Vijay Prashad on U.S. war making

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Vijay Prashad is Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford CT. He is the author of over twenty books, most recently The Death of the Nation and the Future of the Arab Revolution. He reports regularly for Frontline and The Hindu (India), BirGün (Turkey) and Alternet (United States). He is the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). We discuss his recent articles read more

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