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Talk Nation Radio: Iran Never Had a Nuclear Weapons Program
Thursday, 13 February 2014, 1:49 pm | David Swanson
Gareth Porter discussed his new book, Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. More >>
Is a Policy a Law? Is Murder Murder?
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 11:38 am | David Swanson
From the Associated Press: "An American citizen who is a member of al-Qaida is actively planning attacks against Americans overseas, U.S. officials say, and the Obama administration is wrestling with whether to kill him with a drone strike and how to do so legally ... More >>
Mythological Basis of Foreign Policy
Wednesday, 12 February 2014, 11:34 am | David Swanson
Is U.S. foreign policy based on myths? Public pressure has helped push back against a bill in Congress that would have torn up the negotiated agreement with Iran by imposing yet more sanctions on the people of that country. More >>
Do more to prevent war
Monday, 10 February 2014, 12:08 pm | David Swanson
Polls showed a large percentage of us in this country supporting the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and even — though somewhat reduced — the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But not long after, and ever since, a majority of us have said those were ... More >>
Portland Oregon Supports Its Teachers and Students
Thursday, 30 January 2014, 3:30 pm | David Swanson
Portland Oregon is sitting on a budget surplus while overworking and undersupporting its teachers. And it's not just the teachers who aren't going to take it anymore. More >>
Misplaced Lessons of Tahrir
Tuesday, 28 January 2014, 3:07 pm | David Swanson
I still want Dirty Wars to win the Oscar, but The Square is a documentary worth serious discussion as we hit the three-year point since the famous occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo that overthrew Mubarak -- in particular because a lot of people seem to ... More >>
The Thugs of Halftime
Monday, 27 January 2014, 1:30 pm | David Swanson
Three remarkable items in Thursday's Charlottesville Daily Progress. First, a football player explaining that when he proclaimed his superiority to his opponent after a game he was caught up in the game's passion, and that the overblown reaction to his ... More >>
The Congo and the U.S.-Backed Deadliest Conflict Since WWII
Monday, 27 January 2014, 12:40 pm | David Swanson
Maurice Carney is cofounder and executive director of the Friends of the Congo. He discusses the history of the Congo and its abuse and exploitation by Belgium and the United States. More >>
They Never Announce When You Prevent a War
Saturday, 25 January 2014, 12:06 pm | David Swanson
They Never Announce When You Prevent a War By David Swanson http://warisacrime.org/content/they-never-announce-when-you-prevent-war More >>
Talk Nation Radio: After the Legalization of Marijuana
Tuesday, 21 January 2014, 1:14 pm | David Swanson
Jon Walker is a writer and a senior policy analyst at FireDogLake.com and the author of the new book After Legalization: Understanding the Future of Marijuana Policy in America. We look into his crystal ball. More >>
Building a Global Movement to End All War
Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 3:35 pm | David Swanson
I've been involved in starting enough activist campaigns and coalitions to know when one has more potential than any other I've seen. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Edward Herman on the ICC for Africa
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 12:34 pm | David Swanson
This show opens with an awesome poem about drones by Misty Rowan. Edward S. Herman says that Desmond Tutu is wrong to support the International Criminal Court, given its bias for prosecuting only Africans and only those Africans not working with the ... More >>
International Scholars, Peace Advocates Condemn Base Plans
Thursday, 9 January 2014, 10:34 am | David Swanson
Leading scholars, peace advocatesand artists from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia today released the attached statement opposing the construction of the new U.S. Marine base at Henoko, Okinawa, planned by the US and Japanese governments ... More >>
Thou Shalt Not Make Fun of World War I
Wednesday, 8 January 2014, 9:06 am | David Swanson
The Secretary of Education of the United Kingdom (The United Kingdom has education?!) is royally upset that anyone would make fun of World War I as that great and glorious event hits the 100-year mark. And he's not upset because British humor is so relentlessly ... More >>
What Your Local Radio Stations Could Be Airing
Friday, 3 January 2014, 1:24 pm | David Swanson
Talk Nation Radio is a 29-minute program available every Wednesday for free to any radio station that wants to air it. Dozens are airing it now, and your local stations would probably be happy to do the same if they knew about it. Please let them know. ... More >>
The Story of Gaza | David Swanson
Friday, 3 January 2014, 1:10 pm | David Swanson
Young authors of fiction from Gaza, some of whom say they are finding Palestine on the internet while unable to see it exist in reality, have just published a collection of stories, written in English, marking the five-year anniversary of the 23 days ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: How TSA Trains Us in Complete Obedience
Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 10:33 am | David Swanson
Listen to this show and you may not think of air travel the same way again. Lisa Simeoneruns the civil liberties watchdog site TSA News Blog, where she and her writers keep track of the abuses of the Transportation Security Administration. More >>
The War on Marriage on Christmas
Saturday, 21 December 2013, 12:44 pm | David Swanson
Very rarely does our government ask us what to have a war on. The proposal for missile strikes into Syria was a rare occasion when public pressure and other factors compelled Congress to demand a say. Public pressure then compelled Congress to say No. More >>
Syracuse Is Fifth City to Pass Anti-Drone Resolution
Wednesday, 18 December 2013, 12:11 pm | David Swanson
Syracuse has passed this: WHEREAS, the prospect of using Unmanned Aircraft System (UAV’s) often referred to as “Drones” inside the United States raises far-reaching issues concerning the extent of government surveillance, the value of privacy in ... More >>
Peace in the Pentagon
Saturday, 14 December 2013, 9:44 am | David Swanson
I'm a huge fan of peace studies as an academic discipline that should be spread into every corner of what we call, with sometimes unclear justification, our education system. But often peace studies, like other disciplines, manages to study only those ... More >>
