The countries, conflicts, and causes change, but has military action and defense spending become the one huge thing that unites both political tribes and parties? So that when one challenges leaders to be more more respectful of other ways of dealing with conflict and more realistic about our goals and how to achieve them - decision-makers and the media assign such common sense thinking to the fringe. We talk today with ANDREW BACEVICH, co-founder of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, about Ukraine, defense spending, and the ideas in his newest book, ON SHEDDING AN OBSOLETE PAST: Bidding Farewell to the American Century.
Episode 571: Is the press finally up to the climate emergency? MARK HERTSGAARD-COVERING CLIMATE NOW
Episode 570: (1) BARBARA EHRENREICH (2005), Nickel & Dimed; Bait & Switch; (2) EDUARDO GALEANO (2009), The Open Veins of Latin America; Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone.
Episode 569: Is the nightmare finally over? GARY GERSTLE, THE RISE & FALL OF THE NEOLIBERAL ORDER
Episode 568: Back to School-RAFE ESQUITH (2013) REAL TALK FOR REAL TEACHERS
Episode 567: American Heroes-1) HOWARD ZINN (2005), 2) GEORGE McGOVERN (2005) - both born 100 years ago this summer
Episode 566: How do we resist Minority Rule? STEVEN HILL, DemocracySOS - 10 STEPS TO REPAIR DEMOCRACY
Episode 565: Two Black Giants-1) BILL RUSSELL (2010), 2) CORNEL WEST (2009)
Episode 564: Can we count on the Dems? MICHAEL KAZIN, WHAT IT TOOK TO WIN: A History of the Democratic Party
Episode 563: How can progressives win in rural US? CHLOE MAXMIN & CANYON WOODWARD, DIRT ROAD REVIVAL
Episode 562: When the news is fast, furious, stressful-JON KABAT ZINN, COMING TO OUR SENSES: HEALING OURSELVES AND THE WORLD THROUGH MINDFULNESS
Episode 561: How did the 60s lead to both 1973 and 2022? KEVIN BOYLE, THE SHATTERING: AMERICA IN THE 1960S
Episode 560: FOR SAMA (2019) Oscar-nominated doc - civilians under Russian fire in the siege of Aleppo, Syria
Episode 559: What if a stroke strikes you or a loved one? JILL BOLTE TAYLOR, MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
Episode 558: PART 2 - Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89
Episode 557: PART 1 - Ahead of her time-HAZEL HENDERSON (2013) activist, green economist, global citizen, dies at 89
Episode 556: Why are we addicted to more? LEIDY KLOTZ, SUBTRACT: The Untapped Science of Less
Episode 555: After Buffalo-CHIP BERLET (2017), investigator of hate groups, author, Right Wing Populism in America
Episode 554: Are Antibiotics Doomed? DAVID HYUN & ERIN DUFFY on the Crisis No One Talks About
Episode 553: LINDA GREENHOUSE (2021) - JUSTICE ON THE BRINK - 12 Months that Transformed the Supreme Court
Episode 552: BILL McKIBBEN-THIRD ACT-New Movement to Mobilize Boomers vs Climate Change
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