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It’s true. Former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson explains that our tax dollars are giving a big boost to our enemies Al Qaeda in the Arab Peninsula. While the news media focuses The post Colonel Wilkerson: “We Are Supporting the Most Dangerous Group in the World” appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio...

We all know the impact Fox News has had on politics and government. Now comes Sinclair with its alt-right slant and their clever way to your local TV without becoming a network. Media analyst John Kosinski sheds light into their The post Sinclair News Sneaking In//Right Wing Men and Sex appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

And you thought the first NAFTA was bad. Trump’s new version puts the globalist corporations squarely in the drivers seat, never mind local or state laws. Food labeling? Forget about it. The crucial work that bees perform? Again forget about The post Worse Than The First NAFTA//How Progressives Can Win in the South appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Millions of jobs will be eliminated because artificial intelligence is smarter than we are in many ways. We humans therefore face a serious and historic new challenge. What must we do to endure? According to our guest, author Edward Hess, The post Redefining “Smart” in the Smart Machine Age appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In the 21st century, it seems every new war is a “humanitarian intervention.” Our guest on this show, Jim Kavanagh of Counterpunch defines that as just more “missionary imperialism.” As the US quickly ramps up its war against the government The post US Pilots As Bait in War With Syria appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

How dangerous is it that Americans are adjusting to truths changing by the hour? What is official truth now may not be so tomorrow. It’s all up to Trump’s White House. We mere citizens must accept and believe the dictate The post Truth is the Beliefs of the Strong: Trump and 1984 appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

In the American war on drugs, the Mexican drug cartels work hand in glove with the  federal, state, and local police. Most of the guns used in the tens of thousands of killings in recent years come from (guess where) The post American Guns Mean Mexican Slaughter appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

What can winning look like if the nation is decimated in the process? Sara Tesorieri speaks to us from Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, where she is working with the Norwegian Refugee Council to provide desperately needed humanitarian aid. The The post On the Ground in Yemen: Famine Approaches appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Direct action is successful when it creates a crisis for those in power. It baffles the powers that be because it is truly democratic, merely a movement of movements. So says L.A. Kauffman, organizer of many direct action events, and The post Why Direct Action Works appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

The right wing depends for its power on people not reading. Books have always been subversive. They lead to critical thinking. On the first part of this show, Ken Gloss,  proprietor of the internationally renowned Brattle Book Shop talks about The post The Threat of Reading//The Danger of Gorsuch appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Violence at anti-Trump protests is a gift to the powers being protested. Just as the Weathermen in the late sixties were greatly appreciated by Nixon, so too the Bannon/Trump Right loves to label protestors as violent thugs. A veteran of The post Black Bloc Weather? appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

“Voting third party helps those you despise.” So argues Raymond Buckley, who recently ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee. The fact that the race was high in the news demonstrates the beginning success for necessary changes in the The post Why To Not Give Up on the Democratic Party appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Liberals were shocked by the outcome of the 2016 election. As they were in 1920 when Republicans put up Warren Harding, a big business Republican who campaigned and won on an America First message, stoking the public’s fear of immigrants The post Out of Disaster A Liberal Renaissance in the 1920s: House of Truth appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Asleep in her home the night of March 2, 2016, Berta Caceres was murdered. The military police of Honduras are suspected. But the government failed to stop her work: there are many more Berta Carcereses today. A government getting much The post When They Killed Berta Caceres A Year Ago, She Multiplied appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Do they really intend to destroy the economy and serve the short-term greed of billionaires, or do they just mouth simplistic phrases and really not know what they are doing? We deon’;t really know. The Bannon/Trump Administration is taking aim The post Malice or Mere Incompetence? Trump vs Dodd-Frank appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

She traveled 12,000 miles through 18 states and five Indian reservations to discover what local people are doing to address problems of racism, climate change, and economic inequality. Ordinary people doing extraordinary things in places you would not expect. Author The post Revolution Where You Live: Solutions from the Bottom Up appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Sh...

Sometimes citizens must break the law to uphold the law. History shows that sometimes patriotic resisting requires taking personal risks. But how to determine which risks are worth it and will yield the results we want? For a long time, The post Time to Defend the Republic Against The Government appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Over 3,000 prominent scientists, musicians, religious leaders, intellectuals, artists, actors, and others signed on to a full page ad in the January 4 New York Times, with the bold letters, “NO! In the name of humanity, we REFUSE to accept The post Take Action To Stop Trump’s Fascism appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

Is America merely a conduit for corporate wealth? Is the earth merely for exploiting without care? Trump’s designate to be secretary of state, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson is all that an more. Though the job of SoS is about The post Tillerson Portends Great Instability: Environment and Between Nations appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .

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 .

Indigenous Americans for over 300 years have been treated as invisible; treaties and promises routinely ignored. Mainstream media ignored it as long as they could for fear of upsetting advertisers but pressure kept building and, surprise: the water protectors put The post The Invisible People Halt Big Black Snake 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 .

Trump won’t do it; time now to push Obama to bring justice to a grave injustice. When guest on this show Robert Meeropol was six his mother Ethel Rosenberg was put to death. Knowing she was innocent, our government held The post Obama: Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg appeared first on KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show .