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Talk Nation Radio: Shutting Down the US Chamber of Commerce
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:10 am | David Swanson
Carl Gibson is currently engaged in a Green Jobs March from Philadelphia to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., as part of a campaign called ShutTheChamber.org. You can join the march virtually by uploading a photo on their website, or you can ... More >>
The Government's List of "Anti-Government" People
Thursday, 23 May 2013, 11:07 am | David Swanson
Should the U.S. government be building a list of people whom a stranger has concluded based on as little as a moment's interaction are "anti-government"? Look at this photo of a U.S. Census laptop. There's a box to check if a respondent is reluctant ... More >>
CIA: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone
Wednesday, 22 May 2013, 12:02 pm | David Swanson
There's a contradiction built into every campaign promise about transparent government beyond the failure to keep the promises. Our government is, in significant portion, made up of secret operations, operations that include warmaking, kidnapping, torture, ... More >>
No Koch News: A Movement to Unsubscribe
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:17 pm | David Swanson
After years of mismanagement, the Tribune Company newspapers -- including the Chicago Tribune and L.A. Times -- are up for sale. And one of the potential buyers? The Koch brothers. And wow are people outraged! More >>
Drone Pilots Expose Politicians' Lies
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:10 pm | David Swanson
Our elected and unelected officials tell us that drone strikes target top level enemies of the United States who are imminent threats to us, and that killing innocent people is avoided altogether or minimized. More >>
Hit and Stay
Friday, 17 May 2013, 5:04 pm | David Swanson
The CIA has been so busy consulting on Zero Dark Thirty, not to mention funding Hamid Karzai, bribing Russians, lying about weapons, and conducting humanitarian drone murders, that it didn't have any time at all to help out with Hit and Stay, and yet ... More >>
United States: How Your Town Can Stop Drones
Wednesday, 15 May 2013, 4:56 pm | David Swanson
Local resolutions have helped advance many issues, including war opposition, when they've been passed in large numbers. When we passed a resolution in Charlottesville, Va., last year opposing any attack on Iran, I heard from numerous cities that wanted ... More >>
Facebook Founder Gets an Earful after Promoting XL Pipeline
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:38 pm | David Swanson
Mark Zuckerberg's complaint box is filling up. The billionaire founder of FaceBook is behaving as destructively as other sociopaths who hoard vast riches while others starve and die for lack of medical care. And people are letting him know how they ... More >>
Why We Allow the Destruction of Our Planet
Tuesday, 14 May 2013, 4:29 pm | David Swanson
It's not enough to point out that our political system is completely corrupted by money, including money from coal and oil and nukes and gas. Of course it is. And if we had direct democracy, polls suggest we would be investing in green energy. More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Highway Boondoggles Bypass Budget Crunch
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 5:20 pm | David Swanson
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, ... More >>
Death Penalty Dying Out
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 11:12 am | David Swanson
Most of the world's governments no longer use the death penalty. Among wealthy nations there is one exception remaining. The United States is among the top five killers in the world. Also in the top five: the recently "liberated" Iraq. More >>
Asking Amnesty International to Oppose War
Wednesday, 8 May 2013, 11:55 am | David Swanson
Some human rights groups, especially Amnesty International, seem to have forgotten an important human right: peace. A petition has been launched to remind them. These organizations are not the warmongers. They do tremendously great work addressing ... More >>
Stop Expanding Arlington National Cemetery
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 10:47 am | David Swanson
An NPR story on Monday carried this headline: "Expansion Plans At Arlington National Cemetery Cause Environmental Concerns." Only environmental concerns? Are there any other concerns that anyone can think of? I mean if, for example, "All Things" were ... More >>
Some Don't Pay Their War Taxes
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 10:36 am | David Swanson
This past Saturday morning felt like mid-winter in Asheville, North Carolina, but was actually some weeks past tax day, and dozens of people were gathered in front of a federal building to say something about what federal income taxes are used for ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio: Here Comes Corporate Nationhood
Monday, 6 May 2013, 11:44 am | David Swanson
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 ... More >>
Libyan Door to Syrian Door to Iran
Monday, 29 April 2013, 11:57 am | David Swanson
"Our intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria, specifically the chemical agent sarin." More >>
Can a Drone Murder?
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 4:21 pm | David Swanson
Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee hearing on drones was not your usual droning and yammering. Well, mostly it was, but not entirely. Of course, the White House refused to send any witnesses. Of course, most of the witnesses were ... More >>
Dallas Morning News Claims Bush Never Lied
Wednesday, 24 April 2013, 11:28 am | David Swanson
George W. Bush should be given an indictment, not a library. More >>
Scientology for Agent Orange Victims
Monday, 8 April 2013, 10:35 am | David Swanson
The phrase "adding insult to injury" is no doubt being redefined in several online dictionaries this week following news of a U.S. effort to sneak one of our dumber religions (and that's saying something) into the minds of Vietnamese suffering from ... More >>
Talk Nation Radio:Richard Wolff on Putting Workers in Charge
Wednesday, 3 April 2013, 4:40 pm | David Swanson
Richard Wolff is a professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Democracy at Work. Hosted and produced by David Swanson. More >>
