Global Connections Television Podcast

Dr. John Arquilla, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Defense Analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, highlights his recent book titled “Bitskrieg: The Challenge of Cyberwarfare,”  and explains the importance of confronting cybersecurity threats  and a potentially emerging international  “Cool Cyber War” that could spiral out of control.

Jennifer Jones, who will be the first woman president of Rotary International in 2022, discusses key programs pertaining to diversity, peace, and the environment, and highlights the importance of partnerships, such as with the United Nations, US Peace Corps, the CDC and Partnering for Peace, especially on major programs such as Polioplus.

Dr. Dot Maver, educator, peacebuilder and founding president of the National Peace Academy USA focuses on a wide range of peace initiatives such as a 2021 Peace Education Conference, the UN International Day of Peace and the importance of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Michael Butter, Professor of American Literary and Cultural History at the University of Tübingen and author of “The Nature of Conspiracy Theories,” explains how these concepts are dangerous in spreading disinformation and undermining democratic institutions worldwide, such as the Trump Insurgency on January 6, 2021, QAnon, Fox, Newsmax, OAN and other right-wing outlets.  

William Shields, Executive Director of the American Society for Public Administration, identifies how well-trained public administrators are critical to every society, as well as to how Donald Trump bungled the anti-Covid-19 campaign and incited insurrectionists to attack American democracy, the constitutional process and attempt a coup to overthrow a free and fair election.

Dr. Tom Tuttle, former Director of the University of Maryland Center for Quality and Productivity in College Park, suggests rethinking the traditional approach to economic development and highlights the importance of a vibrant democracy to the success of America, especially in light of the Trump-inspired January 6 insurgency to overthrow a fair and free election and the dysfunctional role of some...

Director of the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity and Professor of Sustainable Development at University of Surrey in the UK; Author of the book "Post Growth: life after capitalism."

Nathan Bomey, “USA Today” Reporter and Author of "Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age," posits that the task of bridge builders who promote successful communication between polarized groups is made more difficult due to the potentially large amount of misinformation and disinformation often propagated by media outlets such as Fox and OAN.

John Cavanagh, Former Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and author of “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed," explains how people in El Salvador banned mining to save the rivers and protect environmental areas from economic plunder by large mining corporations.

Dr. Andrei Tsygankov, Author of "Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry" and a Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at San Francisco State University, describes how Russia and the US could reduce tensions regarding Ukraine, NATO and their nuclear arsenals, as well as analyzing the cozy relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

John Feffer, Author of Splinterlands and Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, contrasts the Trump and Biden Administrations, especially with Biden’s positive policies on climate crisis, human rights, utilizing UN programs and nuclear nonproliferation--while Trump's policies weakened America and incited an illegal insurgency on January 6.

Ian Williams, President of the Foreign Press Association and author of “UNtold: The Real Story of the United Nations in Peace and War," discusses how the UN has changed over the past 76-years in peacekeeping, war and peace, human rights and economic and social development.

Chuck Collins, author of “The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions,” discusses economic inequality and how the ”Wealth Defense Industry” uses a wide range of trusts, foundations, offshore shell companies and fake losses to hide over $30 trillion from being taxed.

Xiao Yin Zhao, Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana, highlights the importance of learning more about people around the world, especially through programs such as Global Citizenship Education, Guest Speakers, International Visitors and the Sister Cities Programs.

Tom Blatner, President of both JANUS Solutions and the Family Success Institute, focuses on role of master capacity builders and the UN in confronting major problems such as the climate crisis, children's challenges, income inequality, and the inability to unite and overcome conflict, division and hatred that was exacerbated by Donald Trump.

Dr. Gerald Friedman, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Author of "The Case Of Medicare For All," delineates how the US health care arrangement, in comparison to others such as in Japan, the UK or France, is one of the most expensive systems that is not as comprehensive, efficient nor effective as many of the others.

Katrin Kohl, Professor of German at the University of Oxford  and Author of "Modern Languages: Why It Matters," describes the importance of all 7,100 languages in the world and the value of learning other languages, even though English is the predominant lingua franca of communication worldwide at this point in time.

Dr. Magdalena de la Teja, Former Vice President for Student Development Services at Tarrant County College, Northeast Campus in Texas, explains how students will develop new skills to effectively operate in an interdependent, interrelated and complex world and confront problems as income inequality, racism and climate change.

Ruben Nelson, Executive Director of  Foresight Canada, focuses on the climate change crisis, the Sixth Extinction, clean energy and the potential disintegration of society.

Stewart Levine, Resolutionary and Author of “Agreements for Results,” offers suggestions as to how the United Nations, governments, the private sector and the general public can resolve thorny differences when confronting the climate crisis, income inequality, gender equity and systemic racism.

Professor Felix Dodds, Author of “Stakeholder Democracy-Represented Democracy in a time of Fear,” delineates the challenges to achieving a sustainable, participatory democracy, especially in light of the recent assault by insurrectionists inspired by Donald Trump to overthrow a free and fair election.

Carrie Hessler-Radelet, Former Peace Corps Director and President of both Project Concern International and Global Communities, details how these organizations utilize many of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and develop programs to empower women and girls and combat poverty and hunger.

David Swanson, Author and Executive Director of WorldBeyondWar.org, focuses on why war is immoral, endangers the planet, threatens our environment, impoverishes people, and consumes over $2 trillion each year.

Alana DeJoseph, Producer and Director of “A Towering Task: A Peace Corps Documentary,” focuses on the importance of the United States Peace Corps, many of its humanitarian and educational programs, unique situations confronting thousands of American Peace Corps Volunteers working in over sixty-economically developing countries and challenges in producing a documentary to showcase the US Peace Corp...

Rachel Pittman, Executive Director of the United Nations Association of the USA, updates how UNA-USA provides objective information to Americans as to how the US benefits from US leadership at the UN in a wide-range of agencies that deal with health, peacekeeping, education and human rights, just to mention a few.