Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen

Keeping Democracy Alive with Burt Cohen


Latest Episodes

Horseshoe Crabs and Covid//Biden’s Options for China Policy
August 10, 2021

They come to us as they were from millions of years ago and today they are vital to fighting Covid and other diseases. On part one, Author William Sargent talks about his new book Crab Wars. The deman

Veterans and Suicide: The “Moral Injury” We Don’t Want to See
August 06, 2021

Great stone monuments to the glory of war serve to silence the pain. Currently four times as many troops and veterans die by suicide as in combat. Our guest on today’s show is  Moravian University pro

The Global Right’s Bizarre Obsession with Pedophilia
August 04, 2021

It’s the ideal fear generator; there’s nothing more awful than child abuse. Intentionally whipping up  such fear is a tried and true tool for crushing democracy. Cosmopolitan globalism, the prospect o

9/11 At 20: So, Why Did We Attack Iraq?
July 29, 2021

Regime change in Iraq was on Bush’s agenda since 1998, September 11 merely enabled it. On this show is historian Larry Hartenian whose new book is titled George W Bush Administration Propaganda for an

America Will Be Lots Richer With No Billionaires
July 27, 2021

Everyone knows the tax code is there to serve the richest Americans. But when it was created, the tax code was actually intended to tax only the richest. The Progressive era was a way out of the last

Does it Have to be Militaristic Competition With China?
July 22, 2021

We hold their debt, they hold ours. Yet both countries are openly preparing for all out high intensity war. Flashpoints in the South China Sea. Nationalism here and in China. But as US Foreign Policy

Anti-Gun Americans Become a Wave of New Gun Owners: What?
July 20, 2021

Fear leads to actions people often later regret.  Why are people who’ve been against guns now buying them up? The pandemic isolation and fear of shortages is part of the explanation for the current su

David Beats Goliath: Water Over Gold
July 14, 2021

The most dangerous thing to be in Central America is a water defender. The transnational mining interests frighten regional governments with massive lawsuits if they don’t get their way. And they have

The Intent of the Drug War: Repress Black People
July 12, 2021

Remember Nixon’s “law and order?” It was a clever way to get whites to buy into racist repression. On this show author historian Alfred McCoy (who revealed government heroin distribution to GIs in Vie

Afghanistan: We’re Outta There, Now What?
July 08, 2021

President Biden is doing what presidents rarely do: seeing reality and making a change. At no small political risk. Are we abandoning the women to Taliban brutality? Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the