Political Analysis
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Political Analysis - WORKERS UNITE FOR ENERGY DEMOCRACY...
On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy Leon Vest is joined by Dr. Sean Sweeney of the Global Labor Institute to discuss the push for Energy Democracy, the Energy Democracy Initiative and the burgeoning global movement for the democratization of vital resources, including food, water and energy. Dr. Sweeney talks about what his organization and others — trade [...]
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Political Analysis - TONIGHT’S GUEST: GREENPEACE USA’s...
Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest is joined by Greenpeace USA’sDeputy Campaign Director Dan Howells totake a critical look at the current Arctic drilling craze, and Shell Oil’s recent decision to halt its exploratory drilling in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas. They also discuss Shell’s current efforts to criminalize dissent — and its use of [...]
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Political Analysis - 04/30/13
Karyn Strickler, of Climate Challenge Media, guest hosts for Sandy LeonVest. Karyn talks with Distinguished Professor Gerald Markowitz from the City University of New York, about his article, co-authored with David Rosner,“Your Body is a Corporate Test Tube.” In the article they say, “A toxic dump used to be a superfund site or a nuclear [...]
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Political Analysis - REAL National Security - 04/16/13
Tonight on Political Analysis, in the wake of yesterday’s twin bombings at the Boston Marathon, Sandy LeonVest is joined by teacher, activist and author Chris Williams to connectthe dots between the US security state, the exploitation of fear, resource depletion, war and a permanent wartime economy. They also discuss the fossil fuel industry and militarism [...]
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Political Analysis - Allan Lichtman - 03/26/13
Karyn Strickler guest hosts for Sandy LeonVest. Karyn hosts her own show, Climate Challenge Media, which you can find on Facebook. Today, we’re talking with Allan Lichtman, Professor of History, about his latest book, co-authored with Professor Richard Breitman, called “FDR and the Jews,” a topic which generates spirited debate, even today.The issue of Franklin Delano [...]
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Political Analysis - Web of Lies: Iraq Ten Years Later -...
Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest presentsWeb of Lies: Iraq Ten Years Later — a Political Analysis special on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq … Ten years after the US-led invasion and near-total destruction of Iraq, Sandy LeonVest challenges the mythology of the US (or anyone else) having “won” that war, along [...]
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Political Analysis - No Nukes: Not Now, Not Later, Not...
On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest airs live audio clips from the March 11, 2011 nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi. These chilling excerpts, originally made public by Scientific American, reveal the extent of the chaos and panic that characterized the March 11, 2011 disaster — both on March 11th, and in the days following the [...]
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Political Analysis - 03/05/13
PULLING THE PLUG ON FOSSIL FUELS AND NUCLEAR POWER On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest talks during the first half of the show about the global extent — and impact — of hydraulic fracturing (or fracking). The show features a speech by Friends of the Earth president Nnimmo Bassey, who talks about Shell Oil’s fracking in [...]
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Political Analysis - No Nukes, No Fracking … NO MORE -...
Tonight’s guests: Ben Davis Jr. and Food & Water Watch’s Adam Scow On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVestis joined during the first half of the show by energy activist and visionary Ben Davis Jr. to talk about two separate energy-related initiatives he is proposing for the 2014 California state ballot. One (the California Nuclear Waste Act) [...]
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Political Analysis - 02/19/13
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Political Analysis - America In Revolt - 02/12/13
As the nation awaits President Obama’s State of the Union address, Sandy LeonVest hosts an inspiring program on the essential nature of activism in our (failing) democracy and what is rapidly becoming the second “American Revolution.” She’s joined in this endeavor by Move to Amend founder David Cobb, and human rights activist and single-payer advocate [...]
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Political Analysis -ENERGY and the Delusion of Endless...
Tonight on Political Analysis, author, eco-activist and senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute (PCI) Richard Heinberg joins Sandy LeonVest to talk about, among other things, PCI’s new book, “Energy: Overdevelopment and the Delusion of Endless Growth.” They discuss the folly of an economy whose very existence requires endless growth and ongoing environmental devastation on a [...]
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Political Analysis - Will The Real Evil-Doers Please...
On this, the 11th anniversary of George W. Bush’sAxis of Evil speech, Sandy LeonVest talks to author and investigative journalist David Lindorff about the ominous and prophetic nature of that speech, delivered on January 29, 2002 by then-president George W. Bush. They discuss the endless nature of the war on terror, and the ways in [...]
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Political Analysis - 01/24/13
Karyn Strickler of Climate Challenge Media guest hosts for Sandy LeonVest. You can find her at Climate Challenge Media w/ host Karyn Strickler, on Facebook,. Theonly climate change legislation to ever pass the U.S. House was called cap and trade. The legislation did not pass the U.S. Senate. At this time of major drought across the [...]
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Political Analysis - The State of America on the...
On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest observes the (real) birthday of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with civil rights activist, journalist and author Kevin Alexander Gray. They listen to excerpts from (and discuss) some of Dr. King’s lesser known, but equally important sermons, including “The Other America” and “Where Do We Go From [...]
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Political Analysis - Progressive Activism in the 21st...
On tonight’s Political Analysis, activist, author, journalist and visionary Norman Solomon joins host Sandy LeonVest to discuss the deplorable state of American politics today – and what we (still) can do to change it. The two journalists talk about the nation’s critical need for progressive leadership, transformation and inspiration, along with Lisa Jackson’s resignation last [...]
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Political Analysis - Fossil Fuel Industry Celebrates COP...
Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest spends the first half-hour of the show connecting the dots between the utter failure of the UN-sponsored international climate talks in Doha (COP 18), America’s “natural gas boom” (code for more hydrofracking) and cheaper gas (in the US) just in time for consumers to enjoy the holidays, as they [...]
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Political Analysis - 12/04/12
Karyn Stricklerguest hosts and discusses thelegislative effort to stop the devastating practice of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.It’s called the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act.The ACHE Act, as it’s appropriately nicknamed, focuses on the need to protect people from what advocates call a growing, urgent healthemergency– caused by mountaintop removal coal mining. Today we have two [...]
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Political Analysis - Obama’s Not-So-Grand Bargain -...
Guest: Dr. Costas Panayotakis, author of Remaking Scarcity Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest looks at the current US budget crisis, with analysis of President Obama’s “Grand Bargain,” while offering some perspective on the “fiscal cliff” — and why going over it might be a better option than cutting a deal with Republicans. Later, Dr. Costas [...]
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Political Analysis - 10/23/12
Citizens United, ALEC, WTO and Secretive “Free Trade Agreements” Decimate US Workforce, While Paving Way for Unprecedented Corporate Power Tonight on Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest is joined by the president of the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers (AWPPW) Greg Palleson and award-winning labor journalist Mike Elk to talk about, among other things, how US [...]
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Political Analysis - TransCanada’s Keystone XL Pipeline...
As most of America remains transfixed by the upcoming presidential elections, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest reminds listeners that there are other (possibly more critical) things going on in the world. Tonight’s show features excerpts from the film documentary Tar Sands Oil Extraction — The Dirty Truth, as well as clips from the current (and [...]
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Political Analysis - 08/07/12
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Political Analysis - 07/31/12
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Political Analysis - Hello There, Howard Greenebaum -...
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Political Analysis - 07/10/12
Exactly 50 years ago today, on July 10th, 1962, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., along with Ralph Abernathy, was convicted in Albany, Georgia for charges arising from their arrests in December, 1961 for demonstrating at theAlbany City hall in Georgia.In her toast to “Heroes and Heretics,” Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest pays special tribute [...]
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Political Analysis - 07/03/12
On this week’s Political Analysis, one day before Americans break out the barbecues and booze to celebrate “Independence Day,” Sandy LeonVest marks the occasion by celebratingnot Independence Day itself, but by celebrating some of the nation’s most independent, original and passionate thinkers — in other words, the spirit of REAL independence. Joining her in that [...]
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Political Analysis - 06/26/12
Guest: Peter Sinclair As the sustainability conference in Rio de Janeiro comes to a close with little resolution in sight, triple-digit heat continues to cook the planet, droughts intensify in the Midwestern region of the US, and heavily forested areas in Colorado, Utah and other parts of the planet go up in flames. Tonight on Political [...]
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Political Analysis - 06/19/12
Sandy LeonVest observes Juneteenth, kicking off the show with a 2008 audio clip of then-presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s “More Perfect Union” speech, delivered in March of that year. She follows with excerpts from civil rights activistStokely Carmichael’sBlack PowerAddress,delivered at UC Berkeley in 1966. Next up,labor economist Sylvia Allegretto talks about increasing income and wealth disparities [...]
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Political Analysis - 06/12/12
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Political Analysis - 06/05/12
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Political Analysis - 5/29/12
Is War Inevitable? On this week’s Political Analysis, one day after the nation took a minute to pay tribute to its war dead with parades, speeches and too much drinking, Sandy LeonVest hosts a different kind of tribute with guest John Horgan, author of The End of War. An acclaimed science journalist, Horgan makes a research-based [...]
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Political Analysis - 5/22/12
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Political Analysis - 5/15/12
In this “repeat performance,”Sandy LeonVest hosts a groundbreaking conversation on how the 99 percent can create a sustainable (and livable) future – even as the nation’s disemboweled “democracy” becomes less accessible to the “living majority.” Tonight’s guests, author and educator Gar Alperovitz and entrepreneur, organic farmer Bryan Welch have very different — but sometimes converging [...]
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Political Analysis - 5/8/12
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Political Analysis - 5/1/12
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Political Analysis - 4/24/12
On tonight’s Political Analysis, Sandy LeonVest talks toLabor economist Sylvia Allegretto about the state of the economy … why the “working poor” shouldn’t be poor and SHOULD be earning a living wage. They also discuss the (oxy)moronic concept of a “jobless recovery” and why only Wall Street — not YOUR street or MY street — [...]
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Political Analysis - 4/3/12
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Political Analysis - 3/20/12
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Political Analysis
Guest: Richard Littlemore, co-editor of DeSmogBlog This week, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest commemorates the one-year anniversary of the nuclear meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, opening the show with newly released audio clips from Scientific American. The clips reveal a chilling sequence of events and interactions that took place between NRC officials and [...]
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As President Obama continues to hammer on natural gas as a “bridge fuel” (to a “renewable future”), Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest features a conversation on the subject of “safe hydrofracking.” Daniel J. Weiss, of the Center for American Progress argues that hydraulic fracturing can be made safe with proper regulations in place, while Adrienne [...]
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Political Analysis
Karyn Strickler of Climate Challenge Media guest hosts this episode, featuring:Distinguished Professor of History at American University Allan Lichtman. He discusses his system for predicting Presidential elections, “The Keys to the White House,” a model with 100% accuracy. Listen for his prediction on who will be the next President of the United States. We will [...]
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Tonight’s Guest: Whistle-blower Hugh Kaufman, senior policy analyst at the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response As the nation approaches the two-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive oil spill that followed, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) takes a closer look at the [...]
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Guest: Phil Rockstroh Tonight Sandy LeonVest pays tribute to deposed Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, with news, analysis and audio clips of what is now widely being considered a coup. The coup took place exactly one week ago today, when the Maldives’ first democratically elected presidentwas removed from office at gunpoint by police and military authorities. Maldivian [...]
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Political Analysis
Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) talks to author, journalist and consumer advocate Nomi Prins,about the US “economic recovery,” in the context of the European monetary crisis and austerity measures in Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and other countries. They discuss the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the evisceration of capital at the hands of a criminally corrupted global [...]
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Karyn Strickler of Climate Challenge Media guest hosts this episode, featuring: Alec Loorz and Jordan Howard, two of the kids suing the federal and all 50 state governments to force them to curb greenhouse gas emissions to slow climate change. These visionary young people and their attorney, Julia Olson tell us why they have turned [...]
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Political Analysis
First half hour: Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign for the Environment Second half hour: Activist, author, award-winning journalist and cultural historian, Jeff Biggers Tonight on the first half hour of Political Analysis:EARTHQUAKES AND HYDROFRACKING Tonight’s first guest on Political Analysis has become one of the nation’s leading voices against hydraulic fracturing. Adrienne Esposito is [...]
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REPEAT PROGRAM: 10/25/11
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Political Analysis
Guest: Mike Ewall, founder and director of Energy Justice Network This week on Political Analysis, host Sandy LeonVest tackles the issue of people and power in the context of what has come to be known as “energy democracy.” During the first half of the program, she looks at the issue of carbon trading through the lens [...]
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This week Sandy LeonVest talks about the UN climate conference in Durban, South Africa, which most human rights and climate activists believe is destined for failure. The show features audio segments from Samson Malesi, human rights activist and coordinator of South Africa’s “Caravan of Hope” and Bongani Mthembu, campaigner with the South Durban Community Environmental [...]
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This week, two days before Thanksgiving, Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest waxes thankful for the Occupy Wall Street movement. She includes in her Thanksgiving tribute, audio clips from the brilliant Occupy teach-in that took place this November in Los Angeles, former labor secretary and economist Robert Reich’s magnificent speech there, and the organic emergence from [...]
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Political Analysis host Sandy LeonVest talks with Dr. Margaret Flowers at the top of the hour. Dr. Flowersupdates listeners on Occupy Washington DC, and talks about (among other things) the so-called congressional super-committee, charged with proposing at least $1.5 trillion dollars in deficit reduction over ten years through spending cuts and/or revenue increases. Doctor Flowers [...]
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Political Analysis
This week’s “Political Analysis” features host Sandy LeonVest reading and ruminating during the first half of the show about the so-called “debt crisis,” drawing parallels between Greece’s fiscal catastrophe and current political and economic developments here in the US. The second half of the show features an interview with Dr. Costas Panayotakis, author of the [...]
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Political Analysis
Guests: Ian Angus, Dave Finnigan Karyn Strickler guest hosts. As the planet’s human population is crossing the 7 billion threshold, we talk about climate change and human population. Some call the issue of overpopulation a myth. Others say it’s a fundamental driver of climate change. Is it the 7 billion people on planet Earth driving climate [...]
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Sandy LeonVest interviews visionary, teacher and author (of ten books), Richard Heinberg. They talk about his newly released book, “The End of Growth: Adapting to Our New Economic Reality,” and why an economy based on “the growth imperative” and fossil fuel consumption is no longer sustainable. They also discuss the current global economic meltdown, the [...]
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SolarTimes editor Sandy LeonVest (www.solartimes.org) engages in a profoundly trivial conversation with poet, lyricist, philosopher and political observer Phil Rockstroh about the Occupy Wall Street protests; (what Naomi Klein calls) the “capitalization of hope;” the ways in which we internalize corporate values, and how shame keeps us from embracing our rage at having been sucked [...]
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As Greece teeters on the edge of default and the European Union inches closer to financial meltdown, tens of thousands of people gather across Europe and the US to demand economic justice and an end to big bank-dominated politics. Tonight on Political Analysis, SolarTimes editor (www.solartimes.org) Sandy LeonVest brings PRN listeners up to date on [...]
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SolarTimes editor (www.solartimes.org) Sandy LeonVest in conversation with environmental journalist and author Joshua Frank. They discuss Obama’s campaign rhetoric/promises versus political “reality,” the American Jobs Act, the failure of the Obama administration to implement (anything resembling) a progressive agenda (including worker rights, clean energy and ending war). The also discuss the growing threat of corporate [...]
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SolarTimes (www.solartimes.org) editor Sandy LeonVest in conversation with activist, writer and blogger Mike Kaulbars, who currently focuses his energy on chronicling and putting into perspective the propaganda campaign being waged by climate change deniers. They discuss climate change denial, the Keystone XL pipeline demonstrations that wrapped up this weekend in Washington DC (barely noticed by [...]
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