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. But saying the right thing to …
America: A Law Unto Itself Longstanding principles of international law “have given way to the idea that there are two sets of rules in the world: one for the United States, and one for everyone else,” said David Swanson, anti-war activist and publisher of the influential website, WarIsACrime.org. “Even so-called ‘human …
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We go from SAN ONOFRE to SYRIA as our weekly nuke report zeroes in on the two dormant California nukes everybody loves to hate. MYLA RESON and ACE HOFFMAN update us on how the tide is turning against these on-the-brink reactors. Then the great DAVID SWANSON, newly appointed Secretary of …
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Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, has a new book that should be required reading for Congress members, journalists, war supporters, war opponents, Americans, non-Americans — really, pretty much everybody. The new book is called Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. Of course, Scahill …
David Swanson, one of America’s great peace activists, graces this Solartopia Green Power & Wellness Show. David joins Harvey to talk about the killing of Osama bin Laden and the imperial wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere around the world. His brilliant research on the 1920s Kellogg-Briand Accord that brought …
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Housing is for People – Not Banks “Housing policy at its core should have as its primary end providing housing” for people, rather than as a national wealth-building mechanism, said Tim Sullivan, of Boston-based United for a Fair Economy. Sullivan is author of the group’ annual report, State of the Dream 2013: …
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http://youtu.be/iiPtJkK58lo Participating were Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, and Gary Johnson. Moderating was Larry King. Larry was a bit unprepared, but his questions were far superior to those asked at any of the corporate funded debates thus far. They weren’t his questions, though, as they’d been submitted through …
10 Nobel Peace Laureates Ask NBC to Stop WAR-O-TAINMENT show “ Stars Earn Stripes.”GUESTS: Jody Williams 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Mairead Maguire - 1980 Nobel Peace Prize WinnerDavid Swanson, Author, Peace Activist and Roots Action Campaign CoordinatorFollowing the Olympic games coverage on NBC a new ‘REALITY’ show premiered called “Stars Earn Stripes” …
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Apocalypse has been given a bad name. The Seventh Day Adventists are still around. The Nike sneaker cult failed to open Heaven’s Gate. The new millennium brought us George W. Bush, not Jesus H. Christ. And everybody’s terrified of “drinking the Kool-Aid.” But our species is living beyond its means. …
Which came first, the oil business or the war machine that protects it? Who started this madness, the military that consumes so much of the oil or the corporations that distribute and profit from the filthy stuff? An answer of sorts can be found in Timothy Mitchell’s book, “Carbon Democracy: …
The third in a series of “Conversations for the 21st Century” In recognition of May Day (International Workers Day) Sandy LeonVest pays tribute to workers all over the world during this third in a series of “Conversations for the 21st Century.” The participants in this conversation, David Swanson and Joshua Frank, …
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McKinney Sees New “Movement” in the Making If veteran community organizations and the Occupy movement can combine their strengths, “you have the beginnings of the makings of the movement that many of us have been longing to see,” said Cynthia McKinney, the former Georgia congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate. …
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In 1939, Sebastian Haffner sat down and wrote a pre-history of Nazism. Nazism had not been inevitable. It had not progressed steadily without setbacks. But it had been growing for many years, even before the name for it existed. It had been coming since the end of the Great War. …