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At age 85, Caldicott sends a message even stronger and more urgent than ever: stop nuclear power and nuclear bombs! (Normally we present Counterspin in this time frame, but Counterspin's producers failed to make an episode available in time.)

The United States, like many industrialized countries, has undergone a corporate coup d’état in slow motion, cementing into place a system of control the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin calls inverted totalitarianism. Inverted totalitarianism retains the institutions, symbols, iconography, and language of the old capitalist democracy, but internally…

This is part B of Nader's recent show titled "Clean(er) Capitalism." Dr. Bandy Lee is a medical doctor, a forensic psychiatrist, and a world expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring recently to Columbia and Harvard. She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, an educational organization that assembles mental health experts to collaborate with other disciplines for the betterment of public mental health and public safety. She is the editor of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President and Profile of a Nation: Trump’s Mind, America’s Soul. ...

In retirement, Rothchild now spends her time advocating for justice in Palestine through her books, films, and critical commentary. Her new book, Finding Melody Sullivan, is a coming-of-age young adult novel that is steeped in exploring the Palestinian reality. This is a wonderfully crafted book. Melody Sullivan is falling apart after the death of her mother. The 16-year-old pours her cynicism and grief into poetry and an intense relationship with her Palestinian powerhouse best friend, Yasmina Khdour. When Melody’s father drags her to an overseas archeology conference in Jerusalem, she is left to wander alone. Hanging out on a Tel Aviv beach, smoking dope with her Israeli cousins and their army buddies, sounds like fun until she is sexually assaulted by a friend of her cousin. … This is a story about trauma and taking emotional risks, about facing internal demons and the external realities of war and occupation and living in a system of Apartheid ...

The attacks were a crime against humanity. But instead of treating them as a crime, they were turned into an occasion to launch aggressive and illegal wars. In our show today we examine the new evidence on who was responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001. The new evidence is a six year old FBI report released on President Biden’s order last month. Biden was told by the families of the victims of 9/11 that unless this report was released, he was not welcome at any of the memorial services. The FBI report demonstrates the complicity of the government of Saudi Arabia in the attacks. It was two Saudi Arabian government officials that helped the first two hijackers when they came to America. They were given money and help to get into flight school. They then hijacked an American Airlines plane ... US officials were also deeply involved.

Swanson describes what's wrong and what needs to be done about this insane proxy war.