We're Not Exceptional, We're Isolated
This weekend I participated in an interesting exercise. A group of activists staged a debate in which some of us argued that peace and environmental and economic justice are possible, while another...
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Talk Nation Radio: Taif Jany on #SoccerSalam
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-taif-jany-on-soccersalamTaif Jany, director of #SoccerSalam, discusses the need for humanitarian aid in Iraq this winter and how people can help....
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Militarism in the Air We Breathe
If there is a group of Americans to whom Iraqis struggling with the health effects of depleted uranium, cluster bombs, white phosphorous, and all the various poisons of war can relate, it might be the...
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Talk Nation Radio: Brian Salvatore on Army's Plan for Biggest Open-Air Burn...
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-brian-salvatore-on-armys-plan-for-biggest-open-air-burn-of-explosives-everDr. Brian A. Salvatore is a Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State...
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Talk Nation Radio: Richard Heinberg on Our Renewable Future
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-richard-heinberg-on-our-renewable-future/Richard Heinberg discusses our renewable future and how to get there. He is the author of ten books...
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Talk Nation Radio: Michael Schwartz: Israel's Wars Are for Oil
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-michael-schwartz-israels-wars-are-for-oil/Michael Schwartz is an Emeritus Distinguished Teaching Professor of sociology at Stony Brook State...
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Grand Canyon Sized Outrage Over Plans for Grand Canyon
"What a horrible idea! Leave this magnificent place as nature made it!"— Mikell Werder"NO! NO! NO! Leave our natural wonder ALONE!"— cathy blaivasRootsAction.org has posted a lot of petitions, but most...
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War Speaks Every Language But Never Knows What to Say to Frogs
Alice Walker explains this line, "Though war speaks every language it never knows what to say to frogs" in the opening of her beautiful book, Why War Is Never a Good Idea, illustrated by Stefano...
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Talk Nation Radio: Kayaks and Soap vs. Big Oil and Trash
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-kayaks-and-soap-vs-big-oil-and-trashBill Moyer is cofounder and executive director of the Backbone Campaign. He discussed the kayaktivists who...
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Hey, I Have an Idea Where They Can Stick the Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia campaigned on green energy (and I hear some people may have believed him, though I haven't met one) and then immediately backed the proposed construction of a giant...
View ArticleCould a Plant Win a Presidential Debate?
I don't mean an infiltrator planted in a nefarious plot to throw an election. I mean a green, soil-rooted, leafy plant.I've been reading Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant...
View ArticleFilm Review: This Changes Everything
I thought the cause of climate destruction was political corruption, but I thought the cause of so little popular resistance was ignorance and denial. Naomi Klein's new film This Changes Everything...
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Does the Pope Know a Boy Is About to Be Crucified?
The Pope will speak to Congress on Thursday. No other institution on earth does more to destroy the habitability of the planet for future generations. Will the Pope raise his concerns with them or only...
View ArticleClimate Blindness Could Afflict Millions
The poor frog has of course been slandered. A frog will die in boiling water, but jump out of a slowly warming pot.The homo not-so-sapiens is another story. You can sit a human down in front of a...
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Talk Nation Radio: Eric Bonds on War and the Environment
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-eric-bonds-on-war-and-the-environment Eric Bonds is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg,...
View ArticleI'm Dreaming of a Christmas Below 70
The sun is shining, the grass is greenIt feels like a summer dayIt's not supposed to be this wayIn Charlottesville VA 'Cause it's December the 24thAt latitude 38 North... I'm dreaming of a Christmas...
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Talk Nation Radio: Chris Williams on How Paris Set the Earth on a Course to Burn
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-chris-williams-on-how-paris-set-the-earth-on-a-course-to-burn Chris Williams wrote the book Ecology & Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist...
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Guess Where Huge Funds for Fighting Climate Change Are Being Wasted
In the United States it's not actually difficult to find significant funding with which to research new and innovative -- not to say bizarre and absurd -- pursuits, as long as they form part of an...
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Oh Frack, President Obama
By David Swanson, American Herald TribuneA new film called Dear President Obama that is narrated by Mark Ruffalo begins very gently, sympathizing with President Obama's supposed need to please his...
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Talk Nation Radio: Harvey Wasserman on Environmental and Antiwar Activism
https://soundcloud.com/davidcnswanson/talk-nation-radio-harvey-wasserman-on-environmental-and-antiwar-activismHarvey Wasserman is a life-long activist who speaks, writes and organizes widely on...
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