Global Connections Television Podcast

Aaron S. Williams has experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including posts as USAID mission director for South Africa, vice president of the International Youth Foundation, executive vice president of RTI International, and director of the US Peace Corps (2009–2012). His most recent book is “The Young Black Leader’s Guide to a Successful Career in International Affairs: What t...

Dr. Robert Zuber, Director of Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict, serves as a consultant, adviser or board member to several non-profit and educational organizations including Green Map System and the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Cameroon. As a participant in the United Nations System, he highlights the major issues discussed at the 78th Session of the General Assembly. The UN, es...

Thom Hartmann is an American radio personality, author, former psychotherapist, businessman, and progressive political commentator, whose talk show has been rated in the top 10 shows for over a decade by Talkers Magazine. He discusses his recent book, “The Hidden History of American Democracy: Rediscovering Humanity’s Ancient Way of Living ,” by focusing on facts, such as many of the founders were...

Elizabeth Graham had a Top-Secret CIA security clearance at the age of 16. She worked for an international corporation for 12 years, began to travel to the Soviet Union, and then became one of the very few Americans to move to Russia. She lived under Communism in the Soviet Union, then Russia, and Central Asia. Her most recent book, “From Democracy to Democrazy: A Warning to all Americans” reads l...

John Seager, President and CEO of Population Connection, describes how his organization provides education, advocacy and small loans to assist people in voluntarily achieving their family planning goals. Rather than think about a total population, we need to think about how we want to live, how we want others to live, and the resources required for our lifestyles. A population of 2- billion, rathe...

Norman Solomon, an American journalist, media critic, author, and activist discusses his latest book is, “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.” Solomon's dozen other books include “ War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death .” He has been actively involved in RootsAction and is the founder of the Institute for Public Accuracy....

Kevin Cassidy, Director and Representative to the Bretton Woods and Multilateral Organizations of the United Nations International Labour Organization Office in Washington, DC, highlights the main goals of the ILO in advancing social justice and promoting decent work that was adopted as the social justice definition from the Declaration of Philadelphia Convention which declared that “all human bei...

Dr. Gregory O. Hall, Associate Professor, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY., USA discusses his recent book: “ Examining US-China-Russia Foreign Relations: Great Power Politics in a Post-Obama Era.”   He proffers that, although the Russian military has been grossly overrated, the post-Soviet Russia is still a "great power.&qu...

Claire Marie Regan, the 106th president of the Society of Professional Journalists (2022-2023), has more than 30 years of newsroom experience. She is the recently retired managing editor of her hometown paper the Staten Island Advance, New York, USA. The Society of Professional Journalists helps its members in a variety of areas, such as combatting attacks on democracy, promoting freedom of the pr...

Dr. Frank Costigliola is a Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His most recent book is, “Kennan: A Life Between Worlds.”  Although the 1940s were a period of optimism due to the end of WW2, creation of the United Nations and a commitment to re-building Europe and key Asian countries, storm clouds were looming with the advent of the Cold War. Kennan offered a third...

Jeff Hardy, a Global Change Agent and International Healthcare Facility Futurist, is the founder and president of “Care for Peace-International.” His new book, " The Care for Peace Manifesto: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity,” ” Jef identifies some healthcare projects in Myanmar, formerly Burma. Prior to the military junta seizing control, he had coordinated...

William Shields, Executive Director for the American Society for Public Administration, explains how ASPA is the organization that brings together the academic scholarship and the front-line practitioners in all fields of public service. Public administration transcends international boundaries since Best Practices can be shared. ASPA has memoranda of understanding (MOUs) with counterparts in Sout...

Dr. Bob Flax, a psychologist, organization development consultant, educator and activist, is the former Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions, and an Advisor to The World Federalist Movement (WFM) - Institute for Global Policy. The WFM was founded in 1947 with the goal of creating a world federation to achieve world peace, human rights and preserve the environment. Three areas of int...

P aula DiPerna, author of “ Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the Climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets,” posits that we need to value the atmosphere, forests, oceans, natural resources and nature. The Forest Resilience Bond quantifies the economic benefits of a forest to all of the beneficiaries. Many groups have contributed to the discu...

Craig Mokhiber, Director of the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights in New York, details how when the UN was established in 1945, the main goals were to eliminate the scourge of war, promote economic and social development and enhance human rights worldwide. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) defines the myriad of human rights and was adopted on December 10, 1948.  I...

Brenden Varma has served as a United Nations spokesperson and political affairs officer for over 20 years in New York, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Mogadishu and Pristina. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the UN Information Center in Washington, DC. The UN Information Center works to inform, educate and update a wide range of groups, such as environmentalists, governmental agencies, businesses...

Johanna Chao Kreilick is the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists , a 501 c 3 scientific advocacy nonprofit based in the United States. She has represented the organization in lobbying Congress and business leaders to address climate change, attacks on democratic institutions and the threat of nuclear war. Regarding the number 1 challenge, climate change, the UN conferences and the UN IP...

Chuck Collins is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he co-edits Inequality.org. His 2021 book is titled, The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Spend Millions to Hide Trillions . His newest book is a novel, Altar to an Erupting Sun , which is a near-future story of one community facing climate disruption in the critical decade ah...

Jerry Glenn is a futurist who serves as the executive director of the Millennium Project.  He authors an annual publication, “ State of the Future.” Previously, he was the executive director of the American Council for the United Nations University and the deputy director of Partnership for Productivity International. He was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi. The Millennium Project is a globa...

Steve Schlesinger, author of "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations," highlights how the UN has expanded to deal with problems such as diseases, regional conflicts, as well as moving aircraft, ships, mail and weather information worldwide. Since creating the UN, there has not been a WW3; although there were volatile conflicts such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, potential Cold War...

Mark Oettinger, Attorney and World Court of Human Rights Design Team Leader, discusses the concept of the World Court of Human Rights (WCHR). The concept was launched in 1947 when the UN was temporarily in Paris and was debating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which passed on December 10, 1948. The UDHR is often viewed as the “Constitution for the World,” having drawn upon concep...

Kerri Murray serves as President of the global disaster relief nonprofit, ShelterBox USA. Since 2000, ShelterBox has provided shelter and life-saving items to more than 2.5M displaced people following more than 300 disasters in nearly 100 countries. ShelterBox has responded to earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, cyclones, tsunamis, or conflict situations. It collaborates with local partner...

Steve Killelea, an Australian national, is the Founder and Executive Chairman of the Charitable Foundation and the Institute for Economics and Peace. He had a successful career as an IT innovator and global philanthropist.  In the pursuit of peace, he launched the Institute for Economics and Peace and the Global Terrorism Index. He has worked closely with Rotary International and the United Nation...

Jared Yates Sexton is an author whose recent book is: " THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis.” Mr. Sexton is also the host of The Muckrake podcast. The “Midnight Kingdo m” starts very early in Western history and delineates how anti-democratic forces blossom and perpetuate lies, myths and rhetoric that protect entrenched power in the West. One major concer...

Dr. Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Organization, is a leader in highlighting this sanitation issue. Generally, humans use the toilet 6 to 8 times a day, however, over 2 billion people of the Earth’s 8 billion population do not have access to safe or sufficient toilet facilities and openly defecate. Two million people die each year from diarrhea. Dr. Sim has collaborated with a wide range of...