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Talk Nation Radio: Arun Gupta on Iraqis in California and Professor Petraeus

Leave a Comment / May 15, 2013

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Arun Gupta, whose writings can be found at occupyusatoday.com, discusses the lives of refugees from the U.S. war on Iraq now living in California, and the crimes of David Petraeus who has now been made a professor by the City University of New York and the University of Southern California.

Total run time: 29:00

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Talk Nation Radio: Highway Boondoggles Bypass Budget Crunch

Leave a Comment / May 8, 2013

Randy “Salz” Salzman is a transportation writer and researcher and the author of Fatal Attraction: Curbing Our Love Affair With the Automobile Before it Kills Us.  He discusses how highway construction boondoggles that are bad for health, heritage, the environment, and even the flow of traffic, have survived in these times of cramped public budgets.  read more

Talk Nation Radio: Here Comes Corporate Nationhood

Leave a Comment / May 1, 2013

And you thought corporate personhood was bad enough!  Lacey Kohlmoos, Senior Field Organizer, Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch, tells us that the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) will create corporate nationhood by empowering corporations to sue and overrule real nations, as well as incentivizing the offshoring of jobs, hurting food safety, read more

Talk Nation Radio: Pentagon Professor Says the U.S. Military Overpowers Civilian Rule and Should Be Demilitarized

Leave a Comment / April 24, 2013

Gregory D. Foster is Professor of Political Science at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University, Washington, D.C., where he previously has served as George C. Marshall Professor and J. Carlton Ward Distinguished Professor and Director of Research. Foster says the United States no longer has civilian control of the military, and that the military should read more

Talk Nation Radio: Robert Shetterly's Portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth

Leave a Comment / March 27, 2013

Robert Shetterly is a painter who is producing a collection of portraits (currently 190 of them) of “Americans Who Tell the Truth.”  He discusses the selection of subjects, and the reception the collection has been receiving around the country, the educational and activism possibilities.  For more see http://americanswhotellthetruth.org

Total run time: 29:00

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Talk Nation Radio: Wenonah Hauter on Foodopoly

Leave a Comment / March 20, 2013

Wenonah Hauter is the executive director of Food and Water Watch and the author of Foodopoly.  She discusses the 20 companies that make our processed food — and the 2 companies, both foreign, that make our beer (despite the hundreds of brands all pretending a diversity of origins and owners).  Hauter tells a story of how we got here and how we can get out of here.

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