Waging Peace

Paul Chappell's background includes his experiences as a West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran and author. Paul relates what he discovered about waging peace from his time in the military. Paul also speaks about how Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. waged peace. Paul grew up in Alabama, the son of a half-black and half-white father who fought in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and a Korean mother. Paul's web site is www.peacefulrevolution.com.

"When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living - to strengthen their conscience, compassion and ability to question and think critically - they can be easily manipulated by fear and propaganda.  A democracy is only as wise as its citizens, and a democracy of ignorant citizens can be as dangerous as a dictatorship" ~ Paul K. Chappell

Paul elaborates on three kinds of change that will aid us to bring about peace, societal change, spiritual change, and ideological change. Paul shows how these changes take place gradually. Paul details a non-violent approach that can be used on a personal, community, national and global levels to bring about a different approach to handling disagreements, violence and aggression.

Peaceable Kingdom by John August Swanson

"Captain Paul K. Chappell has given us a crucial look at war and peace from the unique perspective of a soldier, and his new ideas show us why world peace is both necessary and possible in the 21st century." ~ Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Source: C-SPAN: Book Discussion on The Art of Waging Peace

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Music includes Rise Against - Hero Of War, Michael Franti & Spearhead - Bomb the World, Dan Rheault - Antiwar, Capitol Steps - Shoe Bomb, Solar Twins - Rock The Casbah, Phil Ochs - Talking Pay TV, Tom Lehrer - Be Prepared, The Lion King - Circle Of Life, Linda Tillery & Cultural Heritage Choir and Frie - Wayfaring Stranger, The New Lost City Ramblers - How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live, Roger Mozian - Asia Minor

The Next American Revolution

Gar Alperovitz

Gar Alperovitz argues that our economy needs to be more responsive to ordinary citizens and outlines his plan to transform the economy. Gar also talks about the need to build on the Occupy Movement. He proposes a possible next system that is not corporate capitalism, not state socialism, but something else entirely.

Prof. Gar Alperovitz is a professor of political economy at the University of Maryland and a co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative. Gar's books include "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb" and "America Beyond Capitalism." For more, visit: garalperovitz.com.
Source: Book TV: What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution

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Music included Jesse Dyen - Freedom Isn't Free Tonight, Malcolm X - FBI and Black Muslims, anti-flag + DONOTS - Protest Song, Edward R. Murrow - October 15 1958, Roy Zimmerman - Hope Struggle and Change, Michael Barnes - A Soldiers Song, Lee Hays & Pete Seeger - If I Had a Hammer, Vince Gill - Let There Be Peace on Earth, Filomena Moretti - Asturias

End The War On Drugs

Dr. Carl Hart

Dr. Carl Hart says don’t blame drugs for society’s problems. Dr. Carl Hart grew up in a tough neighborhood in Miami. Carl tells Tom Ashbrook and us to end the war on drugs. Carl says we’ve misrepresented the effects of the drugs. He claims that we have confused effects of poverty and stifled ambition for drug effects.

Dr. Carl Hart, professor of Psychology at Columbia University, director of Methamphetamine Research Laboratories at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society. (@drcarlhart)

Dr. Alvin Poussaint

Dr. Alvin Poussaint, psychiatrist at Harvard University Medical School and author of Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors.
Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: A New Look At Drugs In America

The One-Page Plan To Fix Climate Change

Is climate change really a complicated, intractable problem? Listen to a couple economists about a very simple idea that could solve the climate-change problem: tax carbon emissions. A carbon tax could be paired with cuts in the income tax. And it would drive down emissions without picking winners or losers, and without creating complicated regulations.
Source: planet money: Episode 472: The One-Page Plan To Fix Global Warming

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Foreign Policy Begins At Home

Richard Haass

Richard Haass argues that for the U.S. to remain important in this century, it must reduce its foreign interventions (both military and humanitarian) and focus instead on restoring its own economic health. Richard is interviewed by E.J. Dionne a columnist for the Washington Post.

Richard says that U.S. national security depends on the United States addressing its burgeoning deficit and debt, crumbling infrastructure, second class schools, and outdated immigration system. Richard's primary focus is on domestic policy; the need to reverse the decline of U.S. competitiveness, stabilize the middle class, and strengthen the economy. Dr. Haass is the author or editor of eleven books on American foreign policy and one book on management.
Source: C-Span: Book Discussion on Foreign Policy Begins at Home

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Music includes George Carlin - A Modern Man, Anti-Flag - 911 For Peace, Iron Maiden - Paschendale, Big Bill Broonzy - Black Brown And White, Buffy Sainte-Marie - Soldier Blue, Toots & the Maytals - Reggae Got Soul, Vic Mizzy - The Addams Family, The Bobs - Helmet, Collin "Bulbie" York - Why Am I a Rastaman, James Cagney - Yankee Doodle Boy, Louis Armstrong - Ain't Misbehavin', Clark Gable - Puttin' On The Ritz, The Gov - Crystal Blue Persuasion, Ron Grainer - Doctor Who

Alternative Medicine Under The Microscope

Alan Weisman

Human Population Limits

Alan Weisman and Steve Curwood discuss the hot-button issue of reducing population. Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries, from India to Italy to Japan, to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth--and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth?
Source: living on earth: Counting Down the Planet

Population Limits

Alternative Medicine Under The Microscope

Alternative medicine, from herbs to acupuncture to supplements, is big business in America.

Dr. Paul A. Offit

Dr. Paul A. Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases and the director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Paul says alternative medicine has been way oversold. Paul and Terry Grossman talk with Tom Ashbrook.

Dr. Terry Grossman

Dr. Terry Grossman is founder and director of the Grossman Wellness Center and co-author (with Ray Kurzweil) of “Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever.”
Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: How Safe And Effective Is Alternative Medicine?

Lawrence Taylor

Climate Change And The Bottom Line

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission requires that publicly traded companies file annual reports that disclose potential risks to the company’s bottom line. That includes climate change yet more than 70% of businesses fail to mention the possible effects of climate change. Lawrence Taylor, a citizen researcher who compiled the data, lays out the details to Steve Curwood.
Source: living on earth: Climate and the Bottom Line

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Music includes One Man Blam! - Farawatastan, FDR - 12-5-1938, Jerusha - Leave The Tarsands In The Ground, Albert Einstein - Non-Violence, dreas - bells of war, Capitol Steps - Michael Brown, FDR - 9-23-1944, Peerless Quartet - I Didn't Raise My Boy To be A Soldier, Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Michael Franti and Spearhead - Light up your lighter, Edward Kennedy - Faith Truth and Tolerance in America, Los Lobos & Antonio Banderas - Cancion Del Mariachi, Movie Songs - Mission Impossible Theme