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May 3, 2017

No More Oil for Wars!

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Published on May 03, 2017 18:10

May 2, 2017

Talk Nation Radio: John Washington: We Need a Whistle-Blower in U.S. Customs and Border Protection


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John Washington is a writer and translator based in Arizona. His most recent translation, A History of Violence, about Central American politics, was published by Verso Books in 2016. He writes regularly for The Nation and In These Times. We discuss his recent articles on U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and the Nation's appeal for a whistleblower.


Read Washington's articles:
https://www.thenation.com/authors/john-washington


Submit information anonymously:
http://www.thenation.com/tips


Find John Washington on Twitter at @jbwashing


Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.


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Published on May 02, 2017 13:05

April 30, 2017

What I Said at the Peace Hub of the Climate March

Most countries on earth have the U.S. military in them.


Most countries on earth burn less fossil fuel than does the U.S. military.


And that's without even calculating how much worse for the climate jet fuel is than other fossil fuels.


And it's without even considering the fossil fuel consumption of the world's leading weapons makers, or the pollution caused by the use of those weapons all over the world.


The U.S. is the top weapons dealer to the world, and has weapons on multiple sides of most wars.


The U.S. military created 69% of super fund environmental disaster sites and is the third leading polluter of U.S. waterways.


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Published on April 30, 2017 06:05

April 28, 2017

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April 25, 2017

Hey Ireland, Your Ambassador Just Told Me You’ll Do Anything Trump Wants

Dear brothers and sisters of Ireland, your ambassador to the United States Anne Anderson spoke at the University of Virginia Tuesday afternoon.


After consulting one of your fine citizens named Barry Sweeney, I asked her this: “Since the U.S. government assures the Irish government that all U.S. military aircraft being refueled at Shannon are not on military operations and are not carrying weapons or munitions, and since the Irish government insists on this in order to comply with Ireland’s traditional policy of neutrality, why does the Irish department of transportation almost daily approve civilian aircraft on contract to the U.S. military to carry armed U.S. troops on military operations, weapons, and munitions through Shannon Airport in clear breach of international laws on neutrality?”


Ambassador Anderson replied that the U.S. government at the “highest levels” had informed Ireland that it was in compliance with the law, and Ireland accepted that.


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Published on April 25, 2017 17:39

Talk Nation Radio: Deirdre Enright on Freeing Innocent People from Prison


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Deirdre Enright is director of investigation for the University of Virginia Law School's Innocence Project Clinic. Enright previously worked at the Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center, where she represented clients and consulted on cases in all stages of capital litigation, with primary focus on federal and state post-conviction proceedings and Supreme Court certiorari review. After graduating from the University of Virginia Law School in 1992, Enright worked as a staff attorney at the Mississippi Capital Defense Resource Center. We discuss the work of freeing innocent people from prison.
 
See: http://www.innocenceprojectuva.org
 
Total run time: 29:00

Host: David Swanson.
Producer: David Swanson.
Music by Duke Ellington.


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Syndicated by Pacifica Network.


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Past Talk Nation Radio shows are all available free and complete at
http://TalkNationRadio.org


and at
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Published on April 25, 2017 06:54

April 24, 2017

Wanted to Hire: Someone who can convert websites from Drupal to Wordpress

I have four Drupal websites, two of them quite large, that I need to convert to Wordpress, because I'm unable to deal with all the updating that Drupal requires. A month and a half ago, I hired a guy named David Gusick who did part of the job and was paid for it, but still hasn't given me the work he did. I've given up on him. I'm looking to hire someone who can do the job in a reasonable and agreed upon amount of time for a reasonable and agreed upon price to be paid upon completion. The job requires moving thousands of posts, pages, and images, and working with Wordpress to make them all accessible, including the images, in Wordpress. It does not require designing the new Wordpress sites beyond adjusting templates to make images visible. If you're interested, please send resume and references to david AT davidswanson.org.


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Published on April 24, 2017 13:50