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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.

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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

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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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Talk Nation Radio: Michael McPhearson and Michael Eisenscher on Jobs Not Wars

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A coalition of groups has launched a new campaign at http://jobs-not-wars.org

Talk Nation Radio speaks with national coordinator of U.S. Labor Against the War Michael Eisenscher and national coordinator of United for Peace and Justice Michael McPhearson, who is also a board member of Veterans For Peace.

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: Glen Ford on Black and Progressive Activism in the Obama Era

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Glen Ford of blackagendareport.com discusses what the Obama presidency has meant for black society, black activism, and progressive activism in the United States.

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: William Blum on America's Deadliest Export: Democracy

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William Blum discusses militarism, politics, and his new book “America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy: The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy and Everything Else.”

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: Brian Terrell Is Headed to Prison for Protesting Drones

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Brian Terrell is headed to prison at the end of this month for having nonviolently protested drone wars.  Brian is a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence.  He discusses the immorality of drone wars and the protest and trial that have led to his incarceration.

Total run time: 29:00

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

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