It’s been with us since before America’s founding. Now, as more and more of us demand a direction different from rule by the wealthiest few, the word populism is coming back into vogue. As Campaign for America’s Future’s Isaiah Poole

It’s about power: not just generation of electricity. The story of nuclear power is one of citizen power: big money and tremendous political power one one side and average citizens organizing at the local level on the other. And guess what; despite the…

Thousands of people joined the farmers, ranchers, and tribal leaders of the Cowboy and Indian Alliance the week of April 22-26 in Washington DC. They were joined by actor Darryl Hannah and rocker Neil Young. We open with Neil’s words to those gathered …

It was March 25, 1989 when the unprecedented oil spill from the Exxon Valdez tanker began polluting the Gulf of Alaska. What have we learned since then? Some call for “Drill Baby Drill,” and the political power of the petroleum industry has only increa…

Talk about bravery. More than 10,000 American women in 1917 left their homes to face violence and inequality on the battlefields of the Great War. On part one, author Jo-Ann Power talks about writing her new book Heroic Measures. And on part two, NoMor…

If you live in NH, you’ve probably heard of Northern Pass. The huge  proposed project would carry a lot of electricity. But at what cost? Guests are Christophe Courchesne, Staff Attorney for the Conservation Law Foiundation and Jack Savage of the NH Forest Society. This is an issue which reflects the question of who has the power in the Granite State.
 

There used to be momentum privatizing publuc utilities. But now it’s swinging back to public ownership and control. On part one, Slate columnist Matt Yglesias looks at what it means for the common good.And on part two, Ian Millhiser, Senior Constitutio…

We all have images of the Ku Klux Klan as rabid terrorists. But the frightening reality is they were just average white men of the South. In his new book, Klansville USA, author and sociologist David Cunningham delves into the American cultural and poi…

For most of us the cold war is a bad memory we’d like to forget. But for thousands living in America’s southwest, it’s a toxic nightmare that is there each and every day. On this show, internationally renowned expert on alternative energy technologies …

Renowned 21st century feminist author Jessica Velenti says;” The traditional nuclear family is becoming a thing of the past and it’s time for American culture and politics to catch up.” Her new book: Why Have Kids? directly addresses the ongoing d…

Remember the film “There Will  Be Blood?” Throughout the 20th century and now well into the 21st, a lot of blood has been shed for the oil powers. Burt’s guest is Professor Michael Klare, author fo the new book The Race for What’s Left: The G…

The world was riveted on March 11, 2011 by the tsunami and nuclear accident at Japan’s Fukushima reactors. But since then we haven’t heard much. Reporter Brad Jacobson did a lot of research and found the danger is anything but past.

Under Vermont law  the nuclear plant at Vernon was to close March 21 2012. And even though the owners had agreed to abide by that law, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission trumped that law, and today the plant still runs. The debate over stat…

Journalist Ethan Casey has lived in and written books about Pakistan, a much misunderstood country. In this interview, he talks about what’s real and what is not in nuclear-armed Pakistan. Is the government a reliable US ally? What’s likely ahead for…

It’s hard to miss the steady drumbeat toward an Israeli-led attack on Iran. If Ahmadinijad really is building a nuclear bomb, isn’t a preventive war a lesser evil than a policy of appeasement? Has Netanyahu boxed himself into a corner so badly that he …

Fukushima. The NRC trying to ram through a 20 year extension for Seabrook. Entergy fighting Vermont’s legal power over the Vernon plant. Huge public relations campaigns to sell us on “safe clean nuclear.”  Presidential candidates talking about…

The Tea Party these days looks with fondness to the 19th century as a time of rugged invidualism and unemcumbered free markets. As with so many mythic images, reality is exceedingly different. Like corporate personhood? Thank the railroads. Ever notice…

Raymond Learsy is author of Oil and Finance: The Epic Corrpution 2006-2010 , and is a Reagan Republican who writes in the Huffington Post of the absolute necessity of a government which will serve small banks and their customers, instead of our new and…

As Japan struggles to bring its nuclear catastrophe under control. the focus of today’s show is nuclear power itself. One the first half, guest is Diane D’Arrigo of the Nuclear Information Resource Service to explain what is happening at the Fukushima …

Famous for its coal mines, eastern Kentucky also pays a high monetary and air quality price for electricity generated by coal. But a number of members of the region’s electric co-op are determined to bring democracy back to that entity, as was original…

Proponents insist it will make America energy independent while polluting less. But is nuclear power that good to deserve a bailout to the tune of $54 billion of our money? On this show, Nuclear Information Resource Services executive director Michael …