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Talk Nation Radio: “I Killed People in Afghanistan: Was I Right or Wrong?”

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Tim Kudo is a U.S. Marine who has participated in the war on Afghanistan.

He’s authored these columns:

Washington Post: I Killed People in Afghanistan. Was I Right or Wrong?

Washington Post: How the Marines Video Made the Afghan War Even Tougher

New York Times: On War and Redemption

Kudo discusses the morality of war with, and disagrees with, host David Swanson.

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
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Talk Nation Radio: Robert Pollin: There Is No Fiscal Crisis

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There is no fiscal crisis. There is an unemployment crisis. And there is a solution: tax the banks. The support for this argument is explained by Robert Pollin, the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst.  His latest book and papers discussed during the program are here: http://backtofullemployment.org

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Talk Nation Radio: Marcy Wheeler: Brennan Is Obama's Cheney

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Marcy Wheeler blogs as Emptywheel at Emptywheel.net. She says John Brennan, the nominee for CIA director, has been Obama’s Dick Cheney, operating outside the law, lying about bin Laden, and lying about drones; the White House has killed an American for his speech; the CIA has stopped lying to Congress only by starting to tell Congress nothing read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Reese Erlich on Bahrain and Syria

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Bahrain and Syria: in one the United States supports a brutal dictatorship against a nonviolent movement for human rights.  In the other the United States supports violent opposition to the government in the name of human rights.  All is not as it appears.  We speak with Reese Erlich.

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Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Zunes on Kerry, Hagel, Brennan, and Obama Part II

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Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco, where he chairs the program in Middle Eastern Studies. Recognized as one the country’s leading scholars of U.S. Middle East policy and of strategic nonviolent action, Professor Zunes discusses the nominations of John Kerry, Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan, and the direction charted for the second term of Obama’s presidency.

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
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Talk Nation Radio: Shahid Buttar on Spying, Detention, Torture, and Zero Dark Thirty

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Shahid Buttar is the executive director the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the People’s Campaign for the Constitution which works to defend civil liberties, constitutional rights, and rule of law principles threatened within the United States by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. He is a constitutional lawyer, grassroots organizer, independent columnist, musician, read more

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Talk Nation Radio: Sam Pizzigati: What Serious Progressive Taxes Would Look Like

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Sam Pizzigati provides perspective on what serious progressive taxation (and labor organizing and populist activism) would look like via the lessons of his new book “The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970.”  Pizzigati is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and editor of http://toomuchonline.org

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
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Talk Nation Radio: David Hartsough on Peace Work

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David Hartsough has been a peace activist since the 1950s, a conscientious objector, a civil disobedient, arrested over 100 times.  In 2002 he cofounded the Nonviolent Peace Force (nonviolentpeaceforce.org).  Hartsough is the executive director of Peace Workers (peaceworkersus.org).  He discusses the current status of war and peace in our culture.

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Engineer: Christiane Brown.
Music by Duke Ellington.

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Talk Nation Radio: Roy Hange on Struggle for Peace in Syria and Iran

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Roy Hange is a Mennonite pastor in Charlottesville, Va., who has spent 30 years studying Western Asia (the Middle East).  He has lived for 3 years in Egypt, 6 in Syria, and 1 in Iran.  Hange has taught peace building at Eastern Mennonite University and the University of Virginia.  Hange discusses prospects for peace in Syria and Iran.

Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Engineer: Christiane Brown.
Music by Duke Ellington.

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Talk Nation Radio: Erica Chenoweth on the Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict

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Erica Chenoweth is co-author with Maria J. Stephan of “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.”  Their research finds that nonviolent action works against tyrannical rule with a higher success rate than violence and with longer-lasting results.  Their book has received the 2013 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, as well as the 2012 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, which the American Political Science Association gives annually read more

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