Talk World Radio

This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about cheering for the abusing of horses. Our guest, Patrick Battuello, has been writing on animal-rights issues since 2009 when he launched the Animal Rights blog for the Albany Times Union, one of the first of its kind in the nation. His work from this period has appeared in a high school text book, "The Case for Animal Rights." Patrick launched Hors...

This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about wars and borders, and an upcoming online conference called #NoWar2026 Beyond Borders. Our guest, who will be one of the speakers at the conference is Dr Mujib Abid, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He is an Afghan-Australian scholar of modern Afghan history, peace studies, and political theory. Mujib's work foregroun...

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about this terrific new book. It is called CAST OUT: A Call for a Forgiving Society in an Age of Incarceration. The author, our guest, Joseph Margulies is a writer and a litigator, and Professor of Government at Cornell University. He was lead counsel in Rasul v. Bush in 2004 which gave Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their detention in fede...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about this terrific book, Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole: The Shameful Story of the Deep State's War Lords, War Lies, & Failed Foreign Interventions. The author, whom we are privileged to have join us, is Charles Goyette, a best-selling author and award-winning talk show host.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing a new book called Strung Up: How White America Learned to Lynch Black Children. The author, our guest, Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, author, college professor, historian, and nationally recognized child advocate. Her scholarship and advocacy challenge corporal punishment in homes and schools and examine the historical relationship amo...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about U.S.-Iranian relations with two guests who recently visited Iran from the United States, Nuri Ronaghy and Alan Shorb. Nuri Ronaghy was born in Iran in 1940, and has been an activist for peace for over 70 years. She came to the United States nearly 60 years ago, and got her Masters degree in Economics from the University of Wisconsin while teaching...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about corporate power, the freedom of speech, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream with Ben of Ben & Jerry's, Ben Cohen, who has spoken out for years dramatically, creatively, and powerfully for peace and for a moral federal budget. Ben Cohen has frequently pushed the topic of obscene military spending and the wars it creates into the public discourse using repo...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the influence of the Israeli government, not just on the U.S. government but on government at the state level here in Virginia, and some of the things that can be done about it. We welcome two guests. Dr. Alex Hilert is a Jewish-American anti-zionist activist and organizer with the Richmond Chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America and the Vi...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about one of the ways in which the Israeli government has been murdering children in Gaza. Our guest, Dr. Mimi Syed, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician from the U.S. with extensive experience in managing trauma and critically ill patients in both urban and rural settings. She is an assistant clinical professor at University of Washington a...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about how obeying Trump's demand to move mountains of money into militarism is working out for European nations that had been doing much better than the United States in health and happiness by spending money on things other than wars. Our guest, Mikael Book, lives in Finland which has seen some dramatic changes in the past two years.

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking with the great journalist, activist, and now candidate for the U.S. Congress, my friend Sam Husseini. Sam has been tossed out of more fancy events than most of us have ever attended, including I believe a Trump Putin meeting at a palace in Finland, a U.S. State Department briefing, and recently a Chuck Schumer speech at the National Press Club. We'll ta...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the DNC, the Democratic National Committee, which is meeting in Austin, Texas, August 12-15, and will be voting on some interesting resolutions, and refusing to vote on at least one other. Key resolutions were drafted by our guest, Michele Johnson, who is a project manager by trade. She is an elected member of her local parish Democratic party cou...

This week on Talk World Radio, my recent thoughts on Robert Kagan, Christopher Nolan, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Donald Trump.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing wars, migrations, and borders with Josephine Solanki who is a project coordinator at the Transnational Institute where she works on the militarisation of the European Union, EU migration and border policy, and related topics. She is also a member of the international Abolish Frontex network. She will also be a speaker at the online annual conference...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new documentary called An Ordinary Insanity (which you can see at https://www.anordinaryinsanity.com ) which focuses on Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s calls to action about the global threat posed by nuclear weapons. Our guest, the maker of this and a number of other wornderful films is Judith Ehrich, film director, writer, and p...

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about nuclear insanity with Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (see https://wagingpeace.org ) and a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Chemistry at Columbia University. You can find her at https://nuclearinsanity.substack.com

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Venezuela after the earthquakes. Our guest Gabriel Aguirre is Latin America Organizer for World BEYOND War, is from Venezuela, and is currently based in Caracas. He has been an activist and advocate for peace, social justice, international solidarity and human rights, and has more than 13 years of experience in social and community work. He has par...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about whether opposing genocide in the UK is now a serious criminal offense and perhaps terrorism. Our guest, Tony Greenstein, is a leading Jewish anti-Zionist in Britain and founding member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. His books include Zionism During the Holocaust and A History of Fighting Fascism in Brighton...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about U.S. military spending. Greg Williams is the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. The Project on Government Oversight has worked with a number of friends of this program to put out a report called The True Total U.S. Military Budget. See: https://www.pogo.org/reports/the-true-total-u-s-military-bud...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about what the U.S. military does to Hawaii and what Hawaii could be without a massive military occupation. Our guest, Christine Ahn, is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the Founder and former Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about campus activism. Our guest, Francis Burns, is a student organizer at Cornell University and a native of Ithaca, New York. He grew up in a family of Catholic Workers who were deeply involved in the anti-war movement throughout the early 2000s. His father was one of the Saint Patrick’s Four. At Cornell, he is vice president of the Cornell progressive...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Bolivia and people who refuse to put up with outrages that people in the United States sit back and accept. Our guest Kathryn Ledebur is director of the Andean Information Network which is online at https://ain-bolivia.org/about/

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran and how we got to this point. Our guest Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and program director for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about abolishing the police. Our guest, brian bean, is the author of Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, which I've just read and highly recommend. brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been p...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ending the death penalty with Scott Langley, co-founder of Death Penalty Action. See: https://deathpenaltyaction.org https://abolition.org https://forwhomthebelltolls.org