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Talk Nation Radio: John Dear on Catholic Church Rejecting "Just War" Theory After 1700 years, the Catholic Church is turning against the idea that there can be a "just war." We speak with John Dear.John Dear is an internationally recognized voice for peace and nonviolence. A priest, pastor, retreat leader, and author, he served for years as the director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the largest interfaith peace organization in the U.S. After September 11, 2001, he was a Red Cross coordinator of chaplains at the Family Assistance Center in New York, and counseled thousands of relatives and rescue workers. John has traveled the war zones of the world, been arrested some 75 times for peace, led Nobel Peace prize winners to Iraq, recently visited Afghanistan, given thousands of lectures on peace across the U.S., and served as a pastor of several churches in New Mexico. His many books include: The Nonviolent Life; Walking the Way; Thomas Merton Peacemaker; A Persistent Peace; Transfiguration;  You Will Be My Witnesses;   Living Peace;  The Questions of Jesus;   The God of Peace;  Jesus the Rebel;   Peace Behind Bars;  and Disarming the Heart.  He has been nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize, including by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sen Barbara Mikulski. He works forwww.campaignnonviolence.org, is a priest of the Diocese of Monterey, Cal., and lives in New Mexico. See: www.johndear.org Statement from April 11-13 Vatican Meeting:http://www.paxchristi.net/news/appeal-catholic-church-recommit-centrality-gospel-nonviolence/5855#sthash.gBLNmWLZ.Ko153230.dpbs Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!  

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Stephan Schwartz, editor of the daily Schwartz Report and author of the book, The Eight Laws of Change, explains how modern science and ancient wisdom are coming full circle . . . and why that's great news for everyone working for social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Stephan Schwartz is the author of Eight Laws of Change, the editor of the daily Schwartz Report, columnist for the journal Explore, and has spent over forty years exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change. Related Links: Stephan A. Schwartz http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/ Schwartz Report - Trends That Will Affect Your Future http://www.schwartzreport.net/ 8 Laws of Change by Stephan Schwartz http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Change-Personal-Social-Transformation/dp/1620554577/ Opening To The Infinite - Course With Stephan Schwartz http://www.glidewing.com/sas/opening_to_the_infinite-home.html Global Consciousness Project & Roger Nelson research http://global-mind.org/ Quantum Biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology Max Planck, Quantum Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck The Great Turning http://www.paceebene.org/2016/04/22/on-earth-day-commit-to-the-great-turning/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ David Korten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten 337 Whales Breached In Chile http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/03/22/337-dead-whales-in-chile-what-the-worst-case-of-mass-deaths-reveals-about-the-ocean/ Thomas Kuhn (coined the term paradigm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn Barbara McClintock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock The Axial Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age Quote from Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841). Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org "Interlude" by Max TenRoMhttps://www.jamendo.com/track/1314632/interlude About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Stephan Schwartz, editor of the daily Schwartz Report and author of the book, The Eight Laws of Change, explains how modern science and ancient wisdom are coming full circle . . . and why that's great news for everyone working for social change. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ About Our Guest: Stephan Schwartz is the author of Eight Laws of Change, the editor of the daily Schwartz Report, columnist for the journal Explore, and has spent over forty years exploring extraordinary human functioning, and how individuals and small groups can, and have, affected social change. Related Links: Stephan A. Schwartz http://www.stephanaschwartz.com/ Schwartz Report - Trends That Will Affect Your Future http://www.schwartzreport.net/ 8 Laws of Change by Stephan Schwartz http://www.amazon.com/Laws-Change-Personal-Social-Transformation/dp/1620554577/ Opening To The Infinite - Course With Stephan Schwartz http://www.glidewing.com/sas/opening_to_the_infinite-home.html Global Consciousness Project & Roger Nelson research http://global-mind.org/ Quantum Biology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_biology Max Planck, Quantum Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck The Great Turning http://www.paceebene.org/2016/04/22/on-earth-day-commit-to-the-great-turning/ Joanna Macy http://www.joannamacy.net/ David Korten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Korten 337 Whales Breached In Chile http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/03/22/337-dead-whales-in-chile-what-the-worst-case-of-mass-deaths-reveals-about-the-ocean/ Thomas Kuhn (coined the term paradigm) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kuhn Barbara McClintock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock The Axial Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age Quote from Emerson: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (1841). Music by: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org "Interlude" by Max TenRoMhttps://www.jamendo.com/track/1314632/interlude About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This past week, thousands of people marched and were arrested on the steps of the Capitol demanding that the people’s voice be heard; that we the people, not money, be the driving force of our government. Democracy Spring organized a full week of actions - rallying, marching and risking arrest. Democracy Awakening organized the final three days with teach-ins, panels, rallies and marches, wrapping up the events with hundreds arrested on the Capitol steps. This video covers the whole week - the rallies, the marches, and several of the people involved in this strong show of people power vs. corporate rule.    If you enjoy the show, please consider helping us create it! A coffee a month, an anonymous mask a month - help us keep acting out!    Site List: democracyspring.org democracyawakening.org citizen.org 99rise.org movetoamend.org rootstrikers.org wolf-pac.com Read more at http://actout.libsyn.com/#slIgDHpmbBLbQzad.99

Economic Update: Prisons and Sugar Babies by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on IMF, Panama Papers and tax evasion, workers fighting back. Major discussions of economics of prisons and sugar babies and of how worker coops might have changed the USSR and China. Visit Professor Wolff's social movement project, democracyatwork.info. Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Economic Update: Prisons and Sugar Babies by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on IMF, Panama Papers and tax evasion, workers fighting back. Major discussions of economics of prisons and sugar babies and of how worker coops might have changed the USSR and China. Visit Professor Wolff's social movement project, democracyatwork.info. Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Talk Nation Radio: John Hanrahan on Avaaz's Warmongering John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for  The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations. He also has extensive experience as a legal investigator. Hanrahan is the author of Government by Contract and co-author of Lost Frontier: The Marketing of Alaska. He has written extensively for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. We discuss these articles by Hanrahan at Truthout.org: As in Libya, Avaaz Campaigned for Syria No-Fly Zone That Even Top Generals Opposed *** Avaaz Ignored Libya Lessons When Advocating for Syria No-Fly Zone Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Download from LetsTryDemocracy or Archive.Pacifica stations can also download from Audioport. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

Talk Nation Radio: John Hanrahan on Avaaz's Warmongering John Hanrahan, currently on the editorial board of ExposeFacts, is a former executive director of The Fund for Investigative Journalism and reporter for  The Washington Post, The Washington Star, UPI and other news organizations. He also has extensive experience as a legal investigator. Hanrahan is the author of Government by Contract and co-author of Lost Frontier: The Marketing of Alaska. He has written extensively for NiemanWatchdog.org, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. We discuss these articles by Hanrahan at Truthout.org: As in Libya, Avaaz Campaigned for Syria No-Fly Zone That Even Top Generals Opposed *** Avaaz Ignored Libya Lessons When Advocating for Syria No-Fly Zone Total run time: 29:00 Host: David Swanson.Producer: David Swanson.Music by Duke Ellington. Download from LetsTryDemocracy or Archive.Pacifica stations can also download from Audioport. Syndicated by Pacifica Network. Please encourage your local radio stations to carry this program every week!

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun uncover the deep themes that run like rivers through the shows. Exploring spirituality, economics, the commons, activism, and living boldly and creatively in these times of change, this show opens the heart and mind to new possibilities in our world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Americans Who Tell The Truth: Art and Education As Resistance with Robert Shetterly http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-29T14_00_00-07_00 The Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity with David Bollier http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-22T14_00_00-07_00 Nonviolent Classrooms and Public Schools with Robin Wildman http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-15T14_00_00-07_00 Challenging the Divide: Connecting Inner and Outer Change with Simon Dennis http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-08T14_00_00-08_00 Transforming Cops, Kids, and Whole Communities With Peacebuilding with Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00 The Divine Feminine in Transforming Our World with Miigamaghan and Nickie Sekera http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-23T21_00_00-08_00 Sounding the Depths with Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-16T19_43_46-08_00 Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

This week on Love (and Revolution) Radio, Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun uncover the deep themes that run like rivers through the shows. Exploring spirituality, economics, the commons, activism, and living boldly and creatively in these times of change, this show opens the heart and mind to new possibilities in our world. Sign up for our weekly email: http://www.riverasun.com/love-and-revolution-radio/ Related Links: Americans Who Tell The Truth: Art and Education As Resistance with Robert Shetterly http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-29T14_00_00-07_00 The Commons: Reclaiming Our Humanity with David Bollier http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-22T14_00_00-07_00 Nonviolent Classrooms and Public Schools with Robin Wildman http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-15T14_00_00-07_00 Challenging the Divide: Connecting Inner and Outer Change with Simon Dennis http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-08T14_00_00-08_00 Transforming Cops, Kids, and Whole Communities With Peacebuilding with Heart Phoenix and Jeffrey Weisberg http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-03-01T12_50_42-08_00 The Divine Feminine in Transforming Our World with Miigamaghan and Nickie Sekera http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-23T21_00_00-08_00 Sounding the Depths with Sherri Mitchell and Rivera Sun http://occupyradio.podomatic.com/entry/2016-02-16T19_43_46-08_00 Music By: "Love and Revolution" by Diane Patterson and Spirit Radiowww.dianepatterson.org About Your Co-hosts: Sherri Mitchell (Penobscot) is an Indigenous rights attorney, writer and activist who melds traditional life-way teachings into spirit-based movements. Follow her at Sherri Mitchell – Wena’gamu’gwasit:https://www.facebook.com/sacredinstructions/timeline Rivera Sun is a novelist and nonviolent mischief-maker. She is the author of The Dandelion Insurrection, Billionaire Buddha, and Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars. She is also the social media coordinator and nonviolence trainer for Campaign Nonviolence and Pace e Bene. Her essays on social justice movements are syndicated on by PeaceVoice, and appear in Truthout and Popular Resistance.http://www.riverasun.com/

You’ve Been Strip Mined! That’s how Ellen’s guest Les Leopold describes what has happened to the constructive role of capital, such as investment in research and development, expansion and improvement of services and industries. He calls it “economic strip-mining” in which capital speculators like hedge funds strip the equity of companies, countries and consumers to feed their insatiable desire for short term profits - outcomes be damned.  We also introduce the new national project and campaign called “What Wall Street Costs America” – the start of a national conversation revealing the massive extraction of public dollars by Wall Street interests.  And Matt Stannard reviews presidential politics and bank reform on the Public Banking Report.

You’ve Been Strip Mined! That’s how Ellen’s guest Les Leopold describes what has happened to the constructive role of capital, such as investment in research and development, expansion and improvement of services and industries. He calls it “economic strip-mining” in which capital speculators like hedge funds strip the equity of companies, countries and consumers to feed their insatiable desire for short term profits - outcomes be damned.  We also introduce the new national project and campaign called “What Wall Street Costs America” – the start of a national conversation revealing the massive extraction of public dollars by Wall Street interests.  And Matt Stannard reviews presidential politics and bank reform on the Public Banking Report.

Economic Update: Efficiency: Capitalist vs Human by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on tax issues: Panama Papers, corp tax rates, tax-avoiding "inversions" and Yale's tax avoidance. Part 2 of interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad: capitalist efficiency produces human inefficiency and what to do about it.   Visit Professor Wolff's social movement project, democracyatwork.info.  Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Economic Update: Efficiency: Capitalist vs Human by Richard Wolff. On this week's episode of Economic Update, Prof. Wolff provides updates on tax issues: Panama Papers, corp tax rates, tax-avoiding "inversions" and Yale's tax avoidance. Part 2 of interview with Dr. Harriet Fraad: capitalist efficiency produces human inefficiency and what to do about it.   Visit Professor Wolff's social movement project, democracyatwork.info.  Permission to reprint Professor Wolff's writing and videos is granted on an individual basis. Please contact profwolff@rdwolff.com to request permission. We reserve the right to refuse or rescind permission at any time.

Panama Papers’ and the Shadow World of Finance by MFlowers The release of the ‘Panama Papers’ reveal the secret world of shell companies used by the rich to hide their wealth and avoid paying taxes on it. While it appears that the release of information was intended as a tool to demonize Russian President Vladimir Putin, it has backfired and instead led to a probing of who in the US is involved in this type of scheme. McClatchy News is publishing investigative pieces revealing the same activity taking place in states such as Nevada and Wyoming. The list of people involved connects directly to government figures such as US Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. It has also led to massive upheaval in Iceland where protesters are calling for the resignation of the government and new elections. We explore what’s going on with James Henry of the Tax Justice Network and Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies.   Relevant articles and websites: US Scolds Others about Offshores, but Looks Other Way at Home by Kevin Hall and Marisa Taylor The Price of Offshore Revisited by the Tax Justice Network Panama Papers Expose the Hidden Wealth of the World’s Super Rich by Chuck Collins Tax Justice Network The FACT Coalition Inequality.org We’re Not Broke Movie Treasure Islands by Nicholas Shaxson   Guests: James Shelburne Henry is a U.S. economist, attorney, and investigative journalist who has written extensively about global banking, debt crises, tax havens and economic development. In the corporate world, Henry served as Chief Economist, McKinsey & Co. (NYC global h.q.); VP Strategy, IBM/Lotus Development Corporation (Cambridge), Manager, Business Development, the Chairman’s Office (Jack Welch), GE (Fairfield), and senior consultant Monitor Group,the international consulting firm. As Managing Director of Sag Harbor Group, a strategy consulting firm, his clients have included such enterprises as ABB, Allen & Co., AT&T, AT Kearney, Calvert Fund, Ce-mex, ChinaTrust, the Scotland Yard/FBI Task Force on Caribbean Havens, IBM/Lotus, Intel, Interwise, Lucent, Merrill Lynch, South Africa Telkom, Rockefeller Foundation, the Swedish Power Board, TransAlta, UBS Warburg, Volvo, and Monitor Company. A member of the New York Bar, he has served as a pro bono cooperating attorney for the NYCLU on First Amendment issues, and as Vice President, New York Civil Liberties Union – Suffolk County. He is author of the acclaimed investigative economics book The Blood Bankers, and his articles and citations have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Nation, The Conference Board, The Washington Post, Harpers, Fortune, Jornal do Brasil, The Manila Chronicle, La Nacion, and many others.   Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and directs IPS’s Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is an expert on U.S. inequality and author of several books, including 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It. He is co-author with Bill Gates Sr. of Wealth and Our Commonwealth, (Beacon Press, 2003), a case for taxing inherited fortunes. He is co-author with Mary Wright of The Moral Measure of the Economy, a book about Christian ethics and economic life. He is co-founder of Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders, high-income households and partners working together to promote shared prosperity and fair taxation. This network merged in 2015 with the Patriotic Millionaires. In 1995, he co-founded United for a Fair Economy (UFE) to raise the profile of the inequality issue and support popular education and organizing efforts to address inequality. He was Executive Director of UFE from 1995-2001 and Program Director until 2005.