Talk World Radio

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace, and not in your heart, and not as "more than just the absence of war," but in fact as the absence of war, in Ukraine in particular.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about pharmaceuticals with Dana Brown, the director of health and economy at the Democracy Collaborative, where her research focuses on health and care systems, the pharmaceutical sector, and economic transformation for health and well-being. See: https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/09/drug-shortages-public-pharma-option/ https://democracypolicy.network/age...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a U.S. supported coup in Pakistan. Our guest Abdul Jabbar is an emeritus professor at City College of San Francisco and a former visiting professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. He came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and has received two National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His books are: Reading and Wr...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about how many people in the United States have been dying for no good reason. Our guest Jacob Bor is one of the authors of a new study that assesses how many U.S. deaths would be avoided every year if the U.S.'s mortality rates were equal to other wealthy peer nations. Jacob Bor is an assistant professor in the departments of global health and epidemio...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about counter-recruitment, or discouraging people from joining a military. We have two guests. Debra Sweet is Director of World Can't Wait, and has been working to stop U.S. war on the world for almost 60 years. Hip-Hop Artivist and Educator Miles Megaciph is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and an advocate for peace. They have both been worki...

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Yemen with Arwa Mokdad, a peace advocate at Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation. https://YemenFoundation.org and a MPhil candidate at the University of Oxford researching conflict mediation within Yemen. Recent articles by Arwa Mokdad: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/yemen-blockade-medical-care/ https://dawnmena.org/what-many-western...

This week on Talk World Radio will be unusual. We're going to listen to a piece of music, and it's an unusual piece of music. It's a speech set to music. President John F. Kennedy's June 10, 1963 commencement address at American University is certainly the best speech ever made by a U.S. president and one that it would be hard to imagine a U.S. president giving today. "Peace for All Time" was crea...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing global broiling -- "warming" doesn't seem to cover it -- and what's being done and by whom to increase or lessen it. Our guest Helena Cobban is a writer on, and analyst of, international affairs. For two decades she contributed regular columns on global affairs to, respectively, the Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London). Of her seven books,...

This week on Talk World Radio we speak with Sean Conner. He was appointed Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (see IPB.org) in October 2022. He holds a Bachelors in Intercultural and Critical Communication Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Masters in Intercultural Conflict Management from the Alice Salomon Hochschule. Prior to joining the IPB team in B...

This week on Talk World Radio we speak with Dave DeCamp, news editor for antiwar.com.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking nuclear danger and antinuclear action with Ivana Nikolić Hughes, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University. See https://wagingpeace.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Matthew Hoh, who has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad D...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Venezuela, sanctions, and immigration with Adrienne Pine, visiting professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies Department of Anthropology and Social Change, and co-editor of Asylum For Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Norman Solomon about his brand new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine. Norman is cofounder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

This week on Talk World Radio we're remembering and learning new information about the IWW, the International Workers of the World or Wobblies, with Ahmed White, author of the new book Under The Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.

Kathy Kelly has been President of the Board of World BEYOND War since March 2022, prior to which time she served as a member of the Advisory Board. She is based in the United States, but is often elsewhere. Kathy’s efforts to end wars have led her to living in war zones and prisons over the past 35 years. The peace wave is at https://24hourpeacewave.org World BEYOND War is at https://worldbeyondwa...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about prosecutorial misconduct, and a new report from a coalition called It Can Happen to You. Our guests are Kat Dean, Communications Director for It Can Happen to You, who was the chief researcher on the report, and Peter B. Collins, a retired radio host and podcaster who worked on wrongful convictions for 30+ years as past president of the Freedom Fo...

This Week on Talk World Radio: Cop City: What is it and how can we stop it? Our guest is Reverend Keyanna Jones. She is a Political and Social Justice Activist and Community Organizer, and a staunch advocate for quality, affordable childcare and equity in education. She currently works with Community Movement Builders to educate, engage and empower the Black Community in Atlanta, Georgia (focusing...

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Israelgate and Nordstream. Our guest, journalist James Bamford, has a new book called Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence, and recent articles in The Nation, one called "The Candidate and the Spy," another "The Nord Stream Explosions: New Revelations About Motive, Means, and Opportunity." See htt...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing nonviolent journalism, and a new book called Nonviolent Journalism: A Humanist Approach to Communication. Our guests are two of the authors. A free public event will be held to debut the book in Washington DC on May 9: https://worldbeyondwar.org/upcoming-event-in-dc-nonviolent-journalism-a-book-debut-and-dinner Pía Figueroa Edwards is from Chile, a...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, nuclear waste, nuclear waste weapons, and other genius ideas thought up by our mentally challenged species. Our guest, Linda Pentz Gunter is founder and international specialist at Beyond Nuclear. See https://beyondnuclear.org and https://beyondnuclearinternational.org

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a Zone of Peace in the Americas, and events in Uganda, and presidential indictments, and everything we find time for with Margaret Kimberley, Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, member of the coordinating committee of Black Alliance for Peace, and author of a wonderful book previously discussed on this show called Prejude...

This week on Talk World Radio: Why doesn't the global south support war in Ukraine? Our guest, Krishen Mehta is a former partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked in their New York, London, and Tokyo offices. Krishen is currently a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University co-teaching a course on Global Trade, Tax, and Social Justice. Along with his wife, Krishen is co-founder of Asia In...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the new book War Is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence. Our guest is the author, Charles Douglas Lummis. He has written extensively on the topic of U.S. foreign relations, and is a vocal critic of U.S. foreign policy. Susan Sontag has called Lummis "one of the most thoughtful, honorable, and relevant intellectuals writing about democra...

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the October Surprise and independent journalism with Nat Parry, who is an author, independent journalist and the editor of the recently published book, American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader, as well as the article at Consortium News: "NYT Catches Up to Parry But Still Falls Short on October Surprise."