Burt Cohen
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bert Cohen tests American military policy against historical consequences, critical reporting and the realities faced by countries subject to intervention.
Bert Cohen starts with a pointed question, then uses the interview to test the assumptions behind American military power. Military and Defence Policy Archives - KDA Keeping Democracy Alive Podcast & Radio Show repeatedly connects present policy to the record of earlier wars,…
Bert Cohen asks whether your anti-war reflex tells you enough about Ukraine.
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A sober critique of war culture that links remembrance to the wounds war leaves behind.
The episode treats Veterans Day less as ceremony than as a question of what the country owes the people it sends to war. Bert Cohen traces the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day and reads that shift as part of a push toward a more nationalist celebration of war, then…
A serious left-leaning exchange about Ukraine, anti-war skepticism, and familiar arguments that still have some bite.
Bert Cohen frames the episode through a left anti-war skepticism about major U.S. military support for Ukraine, then keeps pressing on Russia, NATO, American weapons contractors, and the use of "deep state" language.
A measured look at how private military force can turn war's stated aims against itself.
Outsourcing War looks at private military force and its influence on public policy, beginning with Dwight Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial complex and moving into the steady profits and large budgets that support modern military operations.
The Iran war tests whether the US-Israel alliance still serves American interests, especially at home.
The episode uses the durability of the US-Israel alliance as a way into a broader argument about foreign policy and dissent at home. It places more than 75 years of bipartisan unity and AIPAC's influence in Washington beside the guest's warning that the Iran war could prove…
A hard look at Kissinger's legacy that ties Vietnam, military power, and modern respectability together.
The piece uses Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday as a way into a larger argument about memory, power, and how major media can turn a long record of violence into respectability.
A forceful antiwar argument that questions the language used to excuse bombing.
This piece tracks Bert Cohen and Norm Solomon as they push back on the idea that bombing can be clean, justified, or neatly separated from civilian harm.
A forceful hemispheric reading that places U.S. pressure on Venezuela inside a longer regional power story.
The episode reads the Americas as a contested political field, and it makes a fairly direct case that the language of security, sovereignty, and empire still hangs over U.S. pressure on Venezuela and its neighbors.
A serious antiwar listen about militarism, propaganda, and the cost of war spending.
This episode looks at the moral and political cost of measuring national strength by military power. Bert Cohen traces the move from America as an arsenal of democracy to William Astori's harsher phrase, arsenal of genocide, and uses that shift to question what a global war…
Sea power, policy, and history in context.
Leadership lessons with history in the room.
Weekly military policy, pay, and deployment briefings.
Strategy beneath the threshold of war.
Military headlines, measured against hard power.
Bert Kohn’s Keeping Democracy Alive opens by asking why Jack Merkinson calls the Iran war potentially catastrophic for the U.S.-Israel alliance and says that outcome would be good.
Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, the show opens with a blunt question about what the war did to America.
Bert Cohen opens by noting that many listeners lived through the Vietnam War period and still have more to learn about it.
Burt Cohen opens by asking what is really driving attacks on small boats leaving Venezuela.
Burt Cohen opens with a blunt question about whether Israel's war in Gaza can be compared to America's Vietnam.
Bert Cohen opens with a hard question.
Bert Cohen starts with credibility.
Bert Cohen opens with a theory of decline.
Bert Cohen opens by asking whether conservatives, not the left, may be driving the end of interventionist dominance.
Bert Cohen opens by asking whether journalism is built to love war.
Bert Cohen opens with a blunt question about why Africa gets pushed to the margins.
Bert Cohen opens by pushing back on the idea that high-tech bombing can somehow be cleaner than terrorism.
Burt Cohen uses Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday as a way to ask why he is still treated as a serious public figure.
Burt Cohen opens with a direct question: do American service members have the right to refuse illegal or immoral orders?
This episode explores moral injury among U.S.
Historian Michael Kazin discusses the troubling left-right alliance opposing U.S.
Bert Cohen interviews Dr.