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Marjorie Cohn: Trump-GOP Election Coup Attempt: Republican Party Morphs into a Threat to Democracy; Michelle Mahon: Major Challenges Ahead for the Equitable Distribution of Coronavirus Vaccine; The Rev. Nathan Empsall: Faithful America Confronts Religious Bigotry and Christian Teachings that Serve a Hateful Political Agenda; Bob Nixon: This Week’s Under-reported News Summary.

Workers in fields, factories and hospitals, endangered by the pandemic, are now held up as pawns, as some lawmakers look to make workers’ health and safety a “tradeoff” for Covid relief. Also on the show: An antitrust lawsuit against Google, our guest says, won’t address every important concern, but could usher in some scrutiny on companies that have been given a pass for too long.

Posted on December 15, 2020 by davidswanson Talk Nation Radio: Nicolas Davies on Ceasing to Create Terrorists Nicolas “Sandy” Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. We discuss the article he wrote with Medea Benjamin, “Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists?”

Ellsberg was the heroic whistleblower who in 1971 risked 100+ years in prison by releasing and publicizing the top secret Pentagon Papers, which blew open the lethal scandal of US military planning. At age 89, he still has plenty of energy and plenty to say, speaking passionately for more than an hour, much about the insanity of nuclear war planning and preparation. We've had to split this presentation in two: the first half-hour now, including an intro by Joe Gerson, and the remaining full hour at 9am. The entire proceedings, including music, Q&A, and other speakers and tributes are currently available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nY2mnj8GCw .

Today we take a long look at the Palestinian struggle within the context of Israel’s recent campaign to "normalize" relations with a myriad of corruptly ruled Arab States, none of them friends of Palestinians.

Ellsberg's remaining hour.