The Burt Cohen Show is a twice-weekly radio show that tackles a wide range of today’s social, economic, cultural, and political issues.  With insightful questions and a keen understanding of our planet’s interconnecting social and economic fabric, The Burt Cohen Show reveals the hidden truths behind the stories that affect us all and gives you the information you need to build freedom, community, and a much better world.

With 40 years of experience as a political activist, writer, radio host, seven term state senator, and academic – Cohen understands that as the world gets smaller, the challenges we face grow larger while new opportunities arise.  He uncovers the real story behind today's headlines and gives voice to those previously unheard. 

Listen to podcasts, available any time here on this website, or subscribe on iTunes. Recent subjects have included: 

America's Chernobyl: It's in Navajo Country

What if American Foreign Policy Addressed Freedom From Want?

Consciousness and Ethics

Mark Green: Democrats Finding Backbone!

How Privacy In America Went Virtually Extinct in Just A Decade

Latin America Moving Left and Forward

Bread and Roses, Too: Less Work, More Jobs, and a Stronger Economy

Sex, No. Guns, Yes. The Right's Values.

The South Won the Civil War

Time For a Financial Transactions Tax?

The Greek Election

The Beginning of the End of Marijuana Prohibition?

Vatican Aims to Muzzle American Nuns But They Don't Surrender.

States Rights and Nuclear Power

Look! Up in the Sky! It's a Drone!

The Crusades Are Back: Islamophobia

Chomsky and McGovern: Two of the Greats Interviewed

If you want to learn how to empower your own community over corporate interests, and might deficits be exactly what we need for a stronger economy, and if you're curious what one of the originators of the culture war, Paul Krassner, has to say, and much more news behnd the news, then tune in often to The Burt Cohen Show and Turn Up Your Mind!

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." - Arthur Schopenhauer,

“The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plane.”  --George McGovern

"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking."
--John Maynard Keynes

"If slavery had been given up in a more peaceful way, America would be far ahead today," --Bob Dylan September 2012
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."--Albert Einstein

"To every complex problem there's a simple solution. And it's wrong."--H.L. Mencken

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group,” FDR

"Passion attracts, cautious positioning alienates." --Bob Borosage, Campaign for America's Future

"What is possible is only possible because some people have demanded the impossible." --Max Weber

"Be Realistic: Demand the Impossible" --Graffiti in May 1968 French studentr/worker uprising

"Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection," Vice President Henry Wallace describing American Fascists