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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a new book called PRACTICAL RADICALS: SEVEN STRATEGIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Deepak Bhargava and our guest Stephanie Luce.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about illegal weapons shipments from the United States to Israel. We're joined by two guests. Josh Paul resigned from the U.S. State Department in October, 2023, due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush weapons to Israel. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affai...

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about what I think can be called a U.S. coup in Pakistan. We'll see if my guest agrees. Professor Junaid Ahmad teaches Religion, Law, and Global Politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality in Islamabad, Pakistan. See also: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240202-bidens-generals-in-pakistan https://www.middleeas...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about solving the climate crisis with John Berger, author of Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about locking up innocent people. Our guest Victoria Valenzuela is assistant publisher and investigative reporter at ScheerPost, and a graduate student at the University of Southern California focusing on investigative and social justice journalism. She has worked with The Marshall Project, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, BuzzFeed News,...

This week on Talk world Radio we're talking about U.S. public opinion on Gaza with two guests in the first half. Stephen Miles is President of Win Without War. And Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum is Chief Operating Officer and former Director of Research & Analysis at ReThink Media, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports movements through media and communications. See the polling we discuss: https:...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Namibia's denunciation of Germany's support for Israel's defense against South Africa's case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Our guest, Henning Melber is Senior Adviser and Director Emeritus at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He has served as Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Kassel University, was Director of the Namibian Eco...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the prosecution of Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice. Our guest is the independent journalist Sam Husseini. You can find his writing at https://husseini.substack.com To take action online and learn more on this topic visit https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-genocide

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Timmon Wallis, author of the new book Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War. See: https://warheadstowindmills.org/book Timmon Wallis is national coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills coalition. See: https://warheadstowindmills.org

This Week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new book called Abolishing the Military: Arguments and Alternatives, with two of the three authors, joining us from New Zealand, it being the New Zealand military in particular that they'd like to abolish. With us is Joseph Llewellyn who completed his PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago. He complet...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the media, what's wrong with it and what to do about it with Jeff Cohen. Jeff Cohen is Co-Founder / Policy Director at RootsAction.org. He is a media critic, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and retired journalism professor who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. For years, he was a regular pundit on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC discussing issues...

This week on Talk World Radio we listen to an event recorded on December 2nd at the Univeristy of Virginia in the former house of James Monroe who came back to life for the occasion of burying his 200-year-old doctrine.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing whistleblowers and Julian Assange and Iran and Palestine with RootsAction Whistleblower Advocate Jeffrey Sterling. Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer who was at the agency, including the Iran Task Force, for nearly a decade. He filed an employment discrimination suit against the CIA, but the case was dismissed as a threat to national secur...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about war, peace, and nukes with Norman Solomon. Norman is Co-Founder / National Director at RootsAction.org. He founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including "War Made Invisible," "War Mad...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ICBMs, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, possibly the very most likely thing to destroy all life on Earth, including everyone who doesn't know or care what they are or why they're so dangerous. Our guest, Peter Manos, is a retired consultation-liaison psychiatrist, a member of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the author of...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about making peace in place of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Mairead (Corrigan) Maguire is a Member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War. She is based in Northern Ireland. Mairead is a Nobel Peace Laureate and Co-founder of Peace People – Northern Ireland 1976. Mairead was born in 1944, into a family of eight children in West Belfast. At 14 she beca...

What should be done re Ukraine?

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about structural racism, non-structural racism, healthcare, gun violence, and politics with Dr. Brian Williams. He is the author of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. He is running for Congress in Dallas, Texas, where he became known in the media following the ordeal of trying to save the...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about genocide. Our guest, Ed Horgan, is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Ireland. Ed retired from the Irish so-called Defence Forces with the rank of Commandant after 22 years service that included peacekeeping missions with the United Nations in Cyprus and the Middle East. He has worked on over 20 election monitor...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the Anti-Defamation League with Emmaia Gelman who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is writing a book about the Anti-Defamation League. She recently published an article in the Boston Review called "The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems." See: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-gelman-anti-defamation-league https://rootsaction....

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about what the U.S. military is doing to drinking water in Hawaii. Our guest, Wayne Tanaka, is Director of the Sierra Club of Hawaii. Latest article by Ann Wright: https://worldbeyondwar.org/none-of-the-14-navy-officers-named-in-red-hill-toxic-fuel-spill-disaster-were-fired-suspended-had-pay-docked-or-reduced-in-rank Petition to Shut Down Red Hill fuel s...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing a recent legal settlement that will compensate family members of people killed by the Bolivian military. Our guest, Beth Stephens, is a Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School. The Center for Constitutional Rights is at https://ccrjustice.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in a country that has more of it than perhaps any other: Italy. Our guest Sergio Bassoli is senior officer at CGIL's International Department. CGIL is the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro -- the confederation of labor unions. He is also the Board's coordinator of the Rete Italiana Pace Disarmo or Italian Network for Peace...

This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones and organizer of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, as well as a member of the national board of Veterans For Peace. See: https://bankillerdrones.org https://merchantsofdeath.org https://veteransforpea...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the latest developments in the prosecution and persecution of Julian Assange. Our guest Greg Barns SC is an Australian barrister speaking to us from Australia. He is a member of the Assange Committee and former President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance. He was appointed Senior Counsel in Tasmania in 2020. He is Chair of the Prisoners Legal Servi...