Episodes
Thursday Jan 31, 2013
Burt Cohen Show - A New War: This Time It's Mali - 01/31/13
Thursday Jan 31, 2013
Thursday Jan 31, 2013
And we thought the Libya war was tucked neatly away. It seems all those weapons, loosed from the old Qadaffi regime, are now set loose in the desert nation of Mali, a former French colony. French forces are on the ground and in the air, fighting against, well who? Conn Halinan of Foreign Policy in Focus, sheds much needed light on this confusing and exceedingly dangerous situation. A Pandora's Box has been opened in northern Africa, and the likely beneficiaries are the Chinese, but not France or the US. Does the word Quagmire sound familiar?
Thursday Jan 24, 2013
Thursday Jan 24, 2013
The belief that the Second Amendment guarantees every individual the right to possess and carry any sort of gun anywhere is exceptionally recent. Guest on this show is Alternet senior fellow Stephen Rosenfeld, who has written a series of articles revealing history that is very inconvenient to the 2013 leadership of the NRA. He reveals that gun rights and gun control have existed side by side steadily since America's founding. And he also shows that the NRA leadership itself favored reasonable gun regulations until an internal coup in 1977. This is a fascinating history, which should be very useful to move us forward.
Thursday Jan 17, 2013
The Burt Cohen Show - 13 Ways To Change the Food System in 2013 - 01/17/13
Thursday Jan 17, 2013
Thursday Jan 17, 2013
Buying food at the supermarket is like flicking the switch to turn on the power: we don't see it but it has a lot of impact on the environment, and on human health. Guest on this show is Danielle Nierenberg, co-founder of a new think tank called Foodtank.com. She has 13 specific suggestions as to how to create a future which is better for the earth and human health. It'll take some focus, but appropriate changes have already started.
Thursday Jan 10, 2013
Healing Begun 150 Years After Largest Mass Execution in US - 01/10/13
Thursday Jan 10, 2013
Thursday Jan 10, 2013
Very few of us have heard of the US-Dakota War. It happened 150 years ago and ended with 38 Indians being hanged on December 26, 1862. Then it was erased from memory, for whites but not for the Dakota who stayed away from the scene of the horror, Mankato, Minnesota. But on December 26, 2012 a new monument was erected in a moving dedication ceremony. Mankato's Bud Lawrence got the ball rolling for reconciliation back in 1972 tells us about the war, the tragedy, and the hope.
Thursday Jan 03, 2013
The Cliff is Bogus: Let's Focus on Full Employment - 01/03/13
Thursday Jan 03, 2013
Thursday Jan 03, 2013
Most economists recognize the "fiscal cliff" as an invented crisis. High unemployment is the real problem, yet where is the political pressure on this? Today's guest is Robert Pollin, professor of economics at UMAss Amherst and founding co-director of its hgily regarded Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). In his new book Back to Full Employment, Pollin argues our current preoccupation with the fiscal cliff is all wrong, and that our real national security requres a new focus on federal stimulation of job growth. Let's do what works!