Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

The Harmful Naivete of A Foreign Policy of Violence
October 01, 2021

With violence so deeply embedded into America’s foreign policy, it’s become invisible. But who does it harm more; us of them? On this show global religion teacher and author Kelly Denton-Borhaug says

Even When It Loses, the Pentagon Wins
September 29, 2021

They’re doing it again. Remember the Peace Dividend after Vietnam? Right, it never happened. Now with another war finally ended, here we are again. On this show, retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel Willia

There Is Enough to Go Around. But Not the Way We’ve Been Doing It
September 23, 2021

The earth itself is today paying the price for the 20th century fossil fuel bonanza. Now instead of continuing to have all humanity in service to that powerful sector, it’s time to pay the climate and

Must We Do the Cold War Again?
September 21, 2021

It’s so easy for the national security state to just paint the same old picture for Americans: Russia and China are military threats. But in truth they are not. They are rising economically in large p

Keeping Democracy Alive Trailer
September 20, 2021

Keeping Democracy Alive Trailer

Decolonize Philanthropy: What Does That Mean?
September 16, 2021

Philanthropies came into being to launder a plutocrat’s reputation. It’s become an industry today whose goal is preserving great wealth and maintaining dominance and control. According to our guest Ed

Are We There? How Empires Fall
September 14, 2021

The prospect of losing the power of empire brings out fear which can lead to police states. Or it can be seen as an opportunity for significant improvement. On this show, Matt Wehmeier, who spent rece

Plagues and Extremism: The Perfect Storm
September 09, 2021

The assault on science and reason:we’ve seen it before. In the plagues of the 1300s and in 1918, as well as Covid-19, fear and uncertainty combine to draw out extremism. On this show professor of hist

The Biggest, Most Inhuman Power in America: Amazon
September 07, 2021

The dehumanized Amazon warehouse as pictured in the movie Nomadland is more benign than reality. There is an “existential bleakness” where every instant is being watched, humans serve robots, and one

20 Years after 9/11: Are We Any Smarter?
September 02, 2021

Have we learned that the military is not necessarily the best tool for the job? On this show New Republic journalist Jordan Michael Smith talks about the self imposed failures, squandering America’s p