Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


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Risings All Over The Country Against Data Centers
December 29, 2025

You’ve seen the ads on network TV:Huge data centers bringing life to hollowed out communities. But the reality is these huge projects suck electricity and water and provide virtually no lasting jobs. Not just people on the left but peopleThe post R

Europe Fighting Back Against President Trump
December 21, 2025

He’s only president of the United States, not the European Union, right? Unlike the US, there’s a longstanding bipartisan commitment to social democracy on the continent. Yet Trumpism is having a serious mark on this tradition, with Trump maki

Yet Another Courageous New Democrat: Now From NH
December 15, 2025

It’s a historical fact that Democrats win when there is a movement beneath the electoral process. Karishma Manzur is running for US Senate having risen from the leading base of such a movement. On this show she speaks about whatThe post Yet Another

A Wealth Tax: Boost the Economy and Democracy
December 08, 2025

It’s a long term necessity, but tragically, short term policy-makers put off a solution essential to a strong economy and restoration of our republican form of government. As of today, both the economy and democracy are in a downward spiral.The pos

What’s Happening in “Our Backyard?” Sovereignty Is Happening.
December 01, 2025

We’re in Monroe Doctrine 2.0. Our guest on today’s show Terie Matson is in Mexico City, the other side of Rubio’s multipolar scheme for division of the world. Trumps random attack on Venezuelan vessels is but a symptom or a The post What

Freer Kids and Safer Streets
November 24, 2025

After decades of having to look “Tough on Crime”by jailing teenagers, notably people of color, at last we’re seeing the end of adult prisons housing kids. Forty four states have dialed back the sequestering of kids in medieval fortresse

Is America on an Irreversible Path to Decline and Fall?
November 17, 2025

At the nearly two hundred fifty year mark, we’ve already lasted longer than most great nations. As with others which declined and fell, a loss of confidence led to anxiety and the impulse for a strong man to protect usThe post Is America on an Irre

Immigration Justice: Is it Even Possible?
November 10, 2025

What we’re seeing today is a far cry from justice. Today’s policy of cruelty toward immigrants is an abject failure, yet it’s impractical to have a totally open border with Mexico. As with most solutions, the answer has to involveThe po

Do We Really Want to Get Back to America’s Founding Ideals?
November 03, 2025

This book actually changed my view of US History. The author says the Confederates and the January 6th assault are the inheritors of the original intent! He argues that the standard story is not the t

Why are Young Men Drawn to Fascism? What Can We Do?
October 27, 2025

Why do they feel a need for violence to prove their manhood? Whats the connection between an angry Germany after the First World War and what many young men are feeling in 2025? Why do they see equality as deprivation?The post Why are Young Men Drawn to