The Burt Cohen Show is a twice-weekly radio show that tackles a wide range of today’s social, economic, and political issues.  With hard-hitting 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 giving 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: ending corporate personhood, the dangerous new media power of Comcast, socialism for Wall Street only, the truth in Latin America, the dangers of the backlash against Wikileaks, 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.

"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 whole problem with the world is that fools & fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
— Bertrand Russell

“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

"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