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Biden’s insane decision to allow US missiles to strike Russia

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President Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to attack Russia with US-made long-range missiles is insane. Yes, INSANE!

Vladimir Putin’s response? “This will mean that NATO countries, the United States and European countries, are fighting against Russia.” To drive that point home, Russia just updated its nuclear doctrine and lowered the bar for responding to a conventional attack with nuclear weapons.

We are witnessing intense, rapid escalation that could easily lead to the use of nuclear weapons.

I’ve been around awhile. I remember the tension of the Cold War years. I remember having nuclear nightmares as a teen. I remember being literally sick in my gut for months over what felt like the inevitable march toward nuclear conflict.

What’s happening now feels worse. If we care about our children, our grandchildren, future generations, and all life on Earth, we should feel compelled to act against this madness. Continue Reading →

Solutions to Iowa’s “red-state” problem

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I first met Dennis Kucinich in 2003 when he ran for president. Unlike most politicians, when Dennis took a position on an issue, you knew exactly where he stood. There was no equivocation, no weighing of political nuances, no corporate donors to appease. Refreshing and, alas, rare.

I hope you’ll listen to my discussion with Dennis, which covers the sorry state of the Democratic Party, the Biden administration’s misguided foreign policy, and how “free” trade treaties have eroded the economic foundation of our country.

Here’s a quote from my interview with Dennis: “The Democratic Party used to stand for the small farmers trying to resist monopolies. Now you have agribusinesses that don’t give a damn about the soil, and we see taxpayers’ money helping facilitate the destruction of millions of acres of farmland to create shopping malls for the purpose of marketing goods from China.”
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America needs a new peace movement

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Other than a few persistent, isolated voices for peace, we mostly hear crickets. Thus the question I ask in this week’s program and have asked before: Where is the peace movement?

Forty years ago, the anti-nuclear-weapons movement was broad and vibrant. It embraced every conceivable strategy — from hammering missile silos to volunteering in campaigns of “pro-peace” candidates.

That movement accomplished a lot: The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, START, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, US-Soviet citizen-diplomacy, and much more. There are still 13,080 nuclear weapons in the world, but that’s down from over 60,000 in 1986.

Change happened, as it always does, because hundreds of thousands of people marched, spoke out, got arrested, campaigned, and made more noise than the lumbering colossus of the federal government could ignore. Continue Reading →