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While the left has had very few actual electoral victories, author Michael Kazin argues it has very effectively changed the nation. The author of “A Godly Hero: William Jennings Bryan,” talks about his book “American Dreamers.” What’s gone right and The post What America’s Left/Populists Have Won appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Is truth still the first casualty of politics? Not in the UK, where Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn stunned PM Teresa May. He dared to tell the truth; authenticity works. So says Marc Weisbrot of the Economic and Policy Research Center. And The post Truth as an Effective Political Weapon: Corbyn//Use Public Money to Fund Public Projects appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radi...

How much did the election of Trump turn French voters away from the right wing populist Marine LePen in the May 7th election? To what degree is her party, the National Front, still racist? What is the danger of normalizing The post LePen Lost But Is Far From Defeat appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They were real conservatives. They worried that our republican form of government was at grave risk if America joined the first world war over there. Michael Kazin’s timely new book is “War Against War: The American Fight for Peace 1914-1918.” The post Traitors or Prophets: Americans Who Fought A War Against WWI appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Sh...

People are asking: what can we do to fight the new authoritarianism? Our guest argues: “People  power need not be confined to a chant.” Keeping decision making close to home is something both right and left can agree on; municipalization The post Right and Left Solution to Trumpism: Municipalization appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Most of us thought Right to Work was a 20th century scheme to destroy collective bargaining rights. According to Cedric DeLeon, author of The Origins of Right To Work: AntiLabor Democracy in 19th Century Chicago, it started out as a The post “Right to Work” a Disguised Assault on Freedom appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The Vikings were brave explorers and they found wondrous new things. Today Scandinavia holds promise of how America can become happier and more free. George Lakey, author of the new book Viking Economics, talks about struggling toward something rather than The post Scandinavia Got it Right, So Can We appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Generally American cites are dumped on: Budgets cut, services eliminated, schools ignored. But 80% of us live in cities and despite the pressure from uncaring financial interests and their politicians, we are close to a tipping point where an urban The post Saving Our Cities: Transforming Urban America appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We’ve already seen the propensity of the angry, pumped up Trumpist mobs to violence. In his final debate performance, Donald Trump warned that his supporters might not abide by the results. Would the defeat of Trump be the end of The post The Danger of Trump Increases After Nov 8th appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

You think the Republicans are in a mess, look at Spain. They have been without a working government for years. The right is divided, the left is divided. Corruption is rampant. Catalonia wants to break off altogether. There are a The post Political Disarray: Not the GOP, Spain appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

It just sounds so bad: wars for domination. The new and improved justification is “humanitarian intervention” or Responsibility to Protect (R2P). It’s prime advocate is US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, likely to get a prime spot in a The post “Humanitarian Intervention:” A New Cover Story appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Oscar Meyer was Chuck Collins’ great grandfather. At age 26, he turned aside his inherited fortune. Why would anybody do that? His new book is called Born on Third Base; A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing The post Born On Third Base appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

We’ve all heard of ISIS, we know Iraqi forces flee from them. But have you heard of the Kurdish women warriors of Rojava? ISIS is scared of them. And nation/state powers like Turkey also fear them. Who are these new The post Kurdish Women Beat ISIS appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

They mostly came from big cities on the coasts. But why did fourteen young men came from rural New Hampshire in the Fall of 1936 to risk their lives in a foreign war? It was illegal for them to go The post Fall 80 Years Ago: Young Americans Went to Spain to Fight Fascists appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Populism has been part of our country’s identity since before the Constitution. It looked like there was a great populist uprising this year. Now, with the scare of Bernie Sanders behind them the corporate-serving Democrats are back to their “happy The post Populism: Where To Now? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Is the dream over? The socialist democratic Israel our parents generation dreamed of is not the right wing Israel we see today. What’s happening with Jewish Americans who are under 70? Why does the right wing Israel lobby still have so The post Under and Over 70: The Israel Divide appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

How do you like paying interest to use your own money? According to Mike Krauss of the Public Banking Institute, it doesn’t have to be that way. We can replace the privately held Federal Reserve system and use the treasury The post Serfs on a Debt Plantation//Palestine at the Democratic Convention appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

This changes everything. “Britons may have made a short term tactical mistake, but the true error is Europe’s” according to Patrick Lawrence, Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. He adds that Bernie Sanders got it right in saying, “Let’s be clear. the The post Disruption of Establishment Politics: The Meaning of Brexit appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive...

Are we watching a train wreck in progress? Journalist Robert Parry, who broke many of the Iran-Contra stories, offers his insight into how the 2016 Democratic Party may have ignored important lessons from the 1968 crack up. There will be The post The Coming Democratic Crack Up appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Adam Hochschild has written best selling books about a Belgian King’s holocaust in the Congo and another about the brave British women who fought against the insanity of the first world war. His new book is Spain in Our Hearts: The post The War Left Out of Your History Books appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Hundreds of thousands of people in France and elsewhere in Europe gather nightly. It is huge, but you probably have never heard of it. The blackout has been intentional. It’s more than a protest, it’s a serious movement. As Sorbonne The post Nuit Debout: Say What?//Clinton Erodes Habeas Corpus appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

He’s a mirror of our culture, the question is: will America look in the mirror? Guest on this show is Erin Aubry Kaplan, author of the new book “I (heart) Obama,” and a long time writer about the black experience The post Is Obama a Black Leader? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Throughout American history there have been times, rare moments in which the political establishment’s movers and shakers quiver as their best laid plans have gone awry. Their too-often successful efforts to keep citizens believing that we are powerless are on The post This Populist Moment appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The 2016 New Hampshire Presidential Primary is history. No one predicted a 22 point blowout for Bernie Sanders. The establishment of both parties was flattened by the results. What the heck happened? Media talent trainer and consultant John Kosinski puts The post The NH Primary From Media Optic appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The myth of the rugged individualist settling the west is just that: a myth. The work needed to tame the wild and vast open spaces was not done with a lasso. The white people who populated the massive west needed The post Cowboy Socialism? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .