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Talk World Radio: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

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.

Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on a 24-Hour Peace Wave and Related Matters

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://worldbeyondwar.org International Peace Bureau is at https://ipb.org Merchants of Death is at https://merchantsofdeath.org Ban Killer Drones is at https://bankillerdrones.org

Talk World Radio: Do Prosecutors Have to Obey Any Laws?

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 Foundation, a nonprofit founded by a San Quentin prisoner to support innocent inmates. See: https://itcouldhappen2you.org

Talk World Radio: Keyanna Jones: Stop Cop City

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 on self-sustainability). Before moving back to Georgia in 2020, Keyanna was a Community Organizer in Roselle, NJ. It was there that she began her life of advocacy and resistance to white supremacy and oppressive systems. She was ordained as a Prophetess in the Lord's Church on July 14, 2020 by Pastor Shonda Obi, of Obione Global Ministries International. She is the proprietor of E Equals MC Squared Educational Services, LLC, where she works as a Homeschool Curriculum Consultant, IEP Advocate and German Translator. She is a proud daughter of East Atlanta; old-school hip-hop lover and the biggest fan of her Granny, Mary Kate Thomas. Keyanna is the wife of Jerrod R. Moore and mother to their 5 unique and extraordinary children. See: https:// stopcopcitysolidarity.org

Talk World Radio: James Bamford on Israelgate and Nordstream

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 https://www.thenation.com/authors/james-bamford

Talk World Radio: Why We Need Nonviolent Journalism

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 former Undersecretary of State of Chile, and former environmental advisor to the Minister of Agriculture. She is Vice President of the Pangea Foundation and director of TempoConsultores. Since 2008, she has been co-director of Pressenza, international press agency. Tony Robinson is from the UK and has been an activist for peace and nonviolence. He has been a writer, an editor and finally a co-director for Pressenza, International Press Agency, specialising in matters of peace and disarmament. In 2019, he produced the award-winning documentary film, The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons.

Talk World Radio: Nuclear Nincompoopery Needs Nullification Now

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

Talk World Radio: Margaret Kimberley on a Zone of Peace

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 Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents.

Talk World Radio: Krishen Mehta on Why the Global South Does Not Support the War in Ukraine

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 Initiatives, an organization devoted to women's empowerment in Asia and Africa. Krishen also serves on the Board of the Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, The Nation Fund for Independent Journalism in New York, the Center for Citizen Initiatives (CCI), the American Committee for US Russia Accord (ACURA), the Human Rights Watch Foundation in Japan, and SaveLife Foundation in India. See: "5 Reasons Why Much Of Global South Isn’t Automatically Supporting The West In Ukraine"

Talk World Radio: Doug Lummis on War Is Hell: Studies in the Right of Legitimate Violence

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 democratic practice anywhere in the world." Karel van Wolferen has referred to him as an "eminent observer of the American-Japanese vassalage relationship."

Talk World Radio: Nat Parry on the October Surprise

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."

Talk World Radio: David Cortright on Peace Activism Against the War on Iraq

This week on Talk World Radio we're looking back at the peace movement against the war on Iraq, or the phase of it that began 20 years ago. Our guest, David Cortright, is Professor Emeritus and special adviser for policy studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He was an organizer for peace as an active duty soldier during the Vietnam War, and Executive Director of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (1977-1988). He is Co-founder and board member of Win Without War, and author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 22 books, including a terrific new book, A Peaceful Superpower: Lessons from the World’s Largest Antiwar Movement.

Talk World Radio: Jodie Evans and Joe Lombardo: All Out for Peace on March 18

This week on Talk World Radio, we're planning for a big peace rally in Washington, D.C., on March 18th. We have two guests. Jodie Evans is Cofounder of CODE PINK. See https://codepink.org And Jodie is Founder of China Is Not Our Enemy. Joe Lombardo is Coordinator of UNAC, United National Antiwar Coalition. See https://unacpeace.org For more on the upcoming event in DC and sister events elsewhere, see any of these websites: https://www.codepink.org/march18 https://www.answercoalition.org/protest_march_18_19_peace_in_ukraine_say_no_to_endless_u_s_wars https://peoplesforum.org/events/peace-in-ukraine-say-no-to-endless-u-s-wars

Talk World Radio: Isaac Evans-Frantz on Ending War in Yemen

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the war in Yemen with Isaac Evans-Frantz, the executive director of Action Corps, a grassroots humanitarian advocacy organization that co-leads a nationwide coalition to end U.S. complicity in the Saudi war on Yemen. Action Corps provided support to activists in over 12 U.S. cities who organized Yemen war protests the first week of March. See https://actioncorps.org

Talk World Radio: Kari Lydersen on Nationalizing Railroads

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing train wrecks and the idea of nationalizing freight trains. Our guest Kari Lydersen is a Chicago-based journalist, author and assistant professor at Northwestern University, where she leads the investigative specialization at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Her books include Mayor 1%: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 99%, and she's just published an article at In These Times called "The Case for Nationalizing the Railroads."

David Swanson on Ukraine with Jimmy Durchslag at KMUD

From Friday Night Talk February 24, 2023 at https://archive.kmudfm.org

Talk World Radio: Chas Freeman on Making Peace with China

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the United States and China with Ambassador Chas Freeman, who chairs Projects International, Inc., and was a Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs from 1993-94, earning the highest public service awards of the Department of Defense for his roles in designing a NATO-centered post-Cold War European security system and in reestablishing defense and military relations with China. He served as U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm). He was Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs during the historic U.S. mediation of Namibian independence from South Africa and Cuban troop withdrawal from Angola. Ambassador Freeman worked as Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires in the American embassies at both Bangkok (1984-1986) and Beijing (1981-1984). He was Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981. He was the pr…

Talk World Radio: Calling for Peace in Southern Ethiopia

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Oromia and the Oromo people. Seenaa Jimjimo is Executive Director for the Oromo Legacy Leadership & Advocacy Association. The website is http://ollaa.org Seenaa is an Oromo-American born and raised in Ethiopia. She was a key player in the adoption of U.S. House Resolution 128 – an important factor in enabling change in Ethiopia in 2018. Take action at https://worldbeyondwar.org/oromia

Talk World Radio: The Teenage Atomic Spy Who Saved the World

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with the great journalist and author Dave Lindorff, whom you can find at thiscantbehappening.net. Lindorff was awarded the 2019 “Izzy” Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism from the Park Center for Independent Media. His new book is called Spy for No Country: Ted Hall: The Teenage Atomic Spy Who Saved the World. It's also a film now in festivals.

Talk World Radio: Nicolai Petro on the Underlying Divisions in Ukraine

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Ukraine and an amazing book called "The Tragedy of Ukraine: What Classical Greek Tragedy Can Teach Us About Conflict Resolution." Its author is our guest Nicolai N. Petro, Professor of Political Science at the University of Rhode Island. Petro is a graduate of the University of Virginia. He is the recipient of two Fulbright awards (one to Russia and one to Ukraine).

Talk World Radio: Rage Against the War Machine on February 19th

A rally and march against war are being planned for February 19 in Washington DC called Rage Against the War Machine. See: https://rageagainstwar.com. This week we speak with two of the key planners, Nick Brana, Chair of the People's Party of the United States (Previously he was the National Political Outreach Coordinator on Bernie Sanders' 2016 run for president and the Electoral Manager at Our Revolution), and Angela McArdle, Chair of the Libertarian National Committee.

Talk World Radio: Vijay Prashad on the Cold War in the Arctic

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the new (or is it the same?) Cold War. Our guest Vijay Prashad is the author of dozens of books and countless articles, his books including The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. He is executive-director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research where he has just published an article or newsletter called "The Winds of the New Cold War Are Howling in the Arctic Circle."

Talk World Radio: Everything You've Heard About Canada Is Wrong

Pitasanna Shanmugathas has produced a series of videos exposing the little-known horrors of Canadian foreign policy. See https://www.truthtothepowerless.com Pitasanna Shanmugathas holds a master’s degree in global affairs from the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs—he has worked in multiple organizations advocating for peace and disarmament such as Save the Children, Science for Peace, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and STAND Canada. While completing his post-graduate education at the University of Toronto, Pitasanna decided to embark on a three year documentary journey starting in 2019 to explore the role of Canada's foreign policy in the international arena.

Talk World Radio: Who You Gonna Call? Historians!

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Historians on Call with Margaret Power, who is co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. See historiansforpeace.org She is a professor of history emeritus from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author or co-editor of seven books including Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973 and Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism. See: https://www.historiansforpeace.org

Talk World Radio: Niamh Ni Bhriain on Weapons Business Booming

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race." The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

Talk World Radio: Niamh Ni Bhriain on Weapons Business Booming

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race." The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

Talk World Radio: Ilan Pappe on the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Professor Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies and a senior fellow of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Pappe is the author of 20 books his two most recent ones are Our Vision for Liberation, with Ramzy Baroud and The Historical Dictionary of Palestine with Johnny Mansour. His most known work is the 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and he also co-authored two books with Noam Chomsky.

Talk World Radio: Daniel Akst on the Pacifists of the Greatest Generation

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing U.S. resisters to World War II with Daniel Akst, author of the brand new book War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance.

Talk World Radio: Allison Lira on U.S. Efforts Against Democracy in Honduras

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Honduras. Our guest Allison Lira is the Director of the Honduras Program for the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective. Allison Lira holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.Phil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin. See https://solidaritycollective.org

Talk World Radio: Medea Benjamin on Making Peace in Ukraine

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Ukraine with Medea Benjamin. Her latest book is "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict," co-authored with Nicolas J.S. Davies. See: https://peaceinukraine.org and https://codepink.org

Talk World Radio: Ian Lustick on the Demise of the Two-State Solution

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with the author of Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. Dr. Ian Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair (Emeritus) in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely in the fields of Middle East politics, comparative politics, social science methodology, U.S. foreign and national security policy, and social science-based computer simulation.

Talk World Radio: Jackie Cabasso on Nuclear Hypocrisy

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about how nuclear war is nothing to worry about and if you just go indoors you'll be fine -- NO, we're not! We're talking sensibly about nukes with someone who knows what she's talking about. Our guest, Jackie Cabasso, has been involved in nuclear disarmament, peace, environmental, and social justice advocacy at the local, national, and international levels for more than 40 years. She has served as Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation since 1984. In 1995 she was a “founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, where she continues to serve on its Coordinating Committee. She also serves as North American coordinator of Mayors for Peace and as a National Co-Convener of United for Peace and Justice. Jackie was the 2008 recipient of the International Peace Bureau's Sean MacBride Peace Award.

Talk World Radio: A Socialist and a Libertarian Discuss Ending War

This week on Talk World Radio, our guest is Christopher Coyne, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. He is the author of the new book In Search of Monsters to Destroy. His website is https://ccoyne.com

Talk World Radio: Dennis Kucinich: Democrats Should Not Make Support for War a Test of Party Loyalty

This week, we speak with former Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich about the turn toward warmongering in U.S. politics.

Talk World Radio: Drone Murders and Merchants of Death

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about murdering people with flying robots, er excuse me, doing noble targeted drone strikes, except when Russia does them because then they're evil. We welcome back two guests. Nick Mottern and Kathy Kelly are co-coordinators of BanKillerDrones.org. Nick is on the board of Veterans For Peace. Kathy is President of the Board of World BEYOND War. They are also planners of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. https://bankillerdrones.org https://merchantsofdeath.org https://veteransforpeace.org https://worldbeyondwar.org

Talk World Radio: Rashid Khalidi on The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine

This week we're speaking with Rashid Khalidi, who is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and author, among other books of the fantastic book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.

Talk World Radio: Graylan Hagler on Palestine and the United States

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Palestine, Israel, and what one is and is not allowed to say out loud. Our guest is Rev. Graylan S. Hagler, former chief pastor at the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C. and director of Faith Strategies.

Talk World Radio: Nancy Mancias and Cindy Piester on Upcoming COP27

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the upcoming COP27 UN climate meeting in Egypt, with Nancy Mancias and Cindy Piester. Resources discussed are posted here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/cop27 Nancy Mancias is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She holds a MBA from Dominican University of California and BA in Drama from San Francisco State University. She has worked over 15 years in the non-profit sector, focusing on social services, social justice, and theater. She has volunteered and visited the refugee camps in Greece and Kurdistan, Iraq, and provided migrant support on the US-Mexico border. As an anti-war advocate, Mancias has been actively trying to bring the troops home from their overseas misadventures. She has also been part of the movement against torture and a proponent of closing the prison in Guantanamo. Cindy is a lifetime activist and organizer focusing on peace, justice, human rights, and the…

Talk World Radio: Women for Weapons Trade Transparency

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with two members of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. Founded in July 2020 by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, Women for Weapons Trade Transparency is a nonprofit promoting transparency of the weapons and arms trade. Their website is https://w2t2.org Rosie Khan is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, with a quintuple-major. She hopes to eventually be a novelist and turn her solarpunk vision of the world into reality. Lillian Mauldin is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Thematic Specialist with Amnesty International USA's Military, Security, and Police Transfers Coordination Group. Lillian hopes to continue building a career in policy advocacy.

Talk World Radio: Tara Villalba and Tom Rogers on Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them with two activists from the Seattle, Washington, area, Tara Villalba, who organizes with neighbor tenants and workers, and Thomas Rogers who is a former Navy submarine captain now active with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. I'll be joining them for a rally in Seattle on September 24 which can be found at https://abolishnuclearweapons.org I hope we can inspire others to do the same in their towns.

Talk World Radio: Sanam Naraghi Anderlini on Peacebuilding

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing peacebuilding and women's rights with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, Founder/CEO of International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and director of the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security who was awarded an MBE in 2020 in honor of her contributions to international peacebuilding.

Talk World Radio: Susan Wind on the Tragic Corruption of the EPA

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about cancer clusters in heavily polluted neighborhoods in the United States, and an upcoming protest on September 29th at the EPA in Washington D.C. September 20, 2022: https://www.safeprotestepa.org Our guest, Susan Wind, became an environmental advocate after her daughter Taylor was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017. Through her investigative skill set, she exposed a thyroid cancer cluster in her town along with a dirty secret - builders, contractors and landscapers used Duke Energy's coal ash (instead of soil) as structural fill in communities throughout Lake Norman, NC. This coal ash came from its neighboring coal burning plant (the Marshall Steam Station). While the health department, the state, and the politicians tried to dismiss the issues, Susan Wind continued to build alliances and connections with advocates from all over the country to address the broken system that fails people's health.

Talk World Radio: Junaid Ahmad on Regime Change in Pakistan

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing dramatic political developments in Pakistan with Professor Junaid S. Ahmad who is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality and teaches Law, Religion, and Global Politics in Islamabad, Pakistan. He does a wide array of consultancy on issues related to international law and international affairs. Junaid is also the founder and Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) - Pakistan.

Talk World Radio: Zaher Wahab on How the United States in Killing More Than Ever in Afghanistan

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Afghanistan with Dr. Zaher Wahab, Professor Emeritus, Lewis and Clark College and the American University of Afghanistan; born, raised, and schooled in a village in Afghanistan; Attended the American University of Beirut, Columbia University, and Stanford University. Zaher Wahab was senior adviser to the Minister of Higher Education of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006; taught at Kabul University and Kabul Education University 2006 to 2013; and directed MA programs and taught full time at the American University of Afghanistan from 2013 to 2019.

Talk World Radio: Carmen Wilson on Demilitarising Education

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Carmen Wilson, a community development expert and the Community Manager at Demilitarise Education, a world renowned organisation that envisions a world where universities champion peace. She is a world citizen, having grown up in Asia for 14 years, including in Taipei, Taiwan, Beijing, China, Tokyo, Japan, and Manila, Philippines. She has a B.S. in Media Management and an M.A. in Globalization & International Development Studies, having completed her dissertation on the importance of freedom of press and information for democratic accountability. Since finishing her M.A. 2019, she has gained professional certifications in maximizing community impact and non-profit management. She is a passionate advocate for peace, youth work, critical discourse and education. A former English (ESL) teacher, she is also passionate about using communications technologies (ICT's) to promote access to quality education, with specific experience teaching an…

Talk World Radio: Matt Hoh on Running for Election in a Rigged System

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Matt Hoh. In 2009, Matthew Hoh resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the U.S. escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matt had taken part in the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Since his resignation, he has been a peace activist and truth teller. In 2010, Matt was named the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling and, in 2021, he was awarded as a Defender of Liberty by the Committee for the Republic. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Accuracy, an Advisory Board Member for the Committee to Defend Julian Assange and Civil Liberties, Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee to Investigate Torture, The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, Veterans For Peace, and World BEYOND War. He is a candidate for U.S. Senate from North Carolina.

Talk World Radio: Richard Silvertsein on AIPAC Buying Elections

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, and its financial power over U.S. elections. Richard Silverstein is an independent journalist who writes the blog, Tikun Olam, which exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He also publishes at Jacobin Magazine, Middle East Eye, and The New Arab. Check out https://www.richardsilverstein.com

Talk World Radio: Negar Mortazavi on Iranian-U.S. Relations

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Iran. Our guest, Negar Mortazavi, is an Iranian-American journalist and political analyst and host of the Iran Podcast based in Washington DC, who has been covering Iranian affairs and U.S. foreign policy towards the Middle East for over a decade. She is a regular media commentator and has appeared on CNN, NBC, NPR, BBC, France24, Aljazeera, and i24News. Her writing has been published in Foreign Policy magazine, The Intercept, Politico, and The Independent. She has been named by Middle East Policy Council among 40 under 40 leaders shaping the present and future of U.S.-Middle East relations. And she and I will be speaking in Washington DC on August 5 at an event you can find at worldbeyondwar.org See: https://www.negarmortazavi.com/iran-podcast https://mepc.org/resources/40-under-40 https://actionnetwork.org/events/77-years-later-eliminate-nukes-not-life-on-earth?clear_id=true

Talk World Radio: What to Do About Ukraine

This week on Talk World Radio, I'm discussing what to do about Ukraine. See also https://worldbeyondwar.org/ukraine and https://defusenuclearwar.org

Talk World Radio: Myrna Pagan: U.S. Cleanup Effort in Vieques Is a Joke

This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with Myrna V. Pagan a longtime activist from Vieques, Puerto Rico, the Colony of the Colony. She is the founder of the Vidas Viequenses Valen movement (Vieques Lives Matter) established by the people of Vieques to continue their struggle for justice when they, after decades of protests and a campaign of nonviolent civil disobedience forced the U.S. Navy to close its bombing range and base on May 1, 2003. The struggle continues now in the cleanup stage of this Super Fund site where for more than 60 years a trillion pounds of explosives and toxic substances were dropped by the Navy and its NATO allies on Vieques creating an environmental nightmare and health crisis.

Talk World Radio: Saadia Qureshi and Nick Rea on Preemptive Love

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with two people who will be leading a training session on Nonviolent Communication Skills at the July 8-10 online NoWar2022 conference. That can be found at https://WorldBEYONDWar.org -- We're speaking with Saadia Qureshi and Nick Rea, both of whom work at the Preemptive Love Coalition, which can be found at https://preemptivelove.org -- Preemptive Love Coalition’s mission is to end war and stop the spread of violence. Saadia Qureshi works as a Gathering Coordinator and Nick Rea works as a Workshops Coordinator at Prememptive Love. They are both from Florida. "Militarism + Machismo = Gun Violence in America" https://preemptivelove.org/blog/militarism-machismo-gun-violence-in-america

Talk World Radio: James G. Kahn on 300,000 U.S. COVID Deaths from Lack of Universal Healthcare

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the COVID pandemic. Our guest, James G Kahn, is an emeritus professor of health policy at the University of California San Francisco. He is an expert in evidence-based medicine and medical decision-making, and a leading researcher in U.S. and global health economics, with more than 200 academic publications. He is also the editor and primary blogger for Health Justice Monitor (http://healthjusticemonitor.org ), and a coauthor of a recent study finding that universal health coverage in the U.S. could have saved 338,000 lives just from COVID-19.

Talk World Radio: Irvin Waller on Ending Violent Crime

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ending violent crime. Our guest Irvin Waller is emeritus professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa, and author of, among other works, the incredibly useful book, Science and the Secrets of Ending Violent Crime. His website is IrvinWaller.org

Talk World Radio: Aisha Jumaan on Yemen

Aisha Jumaan is the Founder and President of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation. Jumaan has over 30 years of experience in public health, including in viral vaccine preventable diseases, cancer research, maternal & child health and nutrition, and women in development. She worked with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for over a decade. Jumaan also worked in her native home, Yemen, with the United Nations Population Fund and the United Nations Development Program. She also participated in health-related program development, evaluation, and training activities for the Peace Corps. She has served on the faculty of Emory University, as well as Sana’a University. Jumaan is currently working as an Independent Consultant coordinating health- projects in Yemen. Do something about it: https://bit.ly/leaveyemen

Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on Defusing Nuclear War

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Ukraine and nuclear weapons with Norman Solomon who is Co-Founder and National Director of RootsAction.org. Norman also 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 Easy" and "Made Love, Got War." Defuse Nuclear War: https://defusenuclearwar.org

Talk World Radio: Jenny Ricks on Davos and Inequality

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Davos. Our guest Jenny Ricks, speaking to us from Johannesburg South Africa is the global convenor of Fight Inequality Alliance. See http://fightinequality.org

Talk World Radio: Bruce Levine on Psychiatry and Spinoza

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about psychiatry. Our guest Bruce Levine's new book is A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment.

Talk World Radio: Tim Pluta on Protecting Activists in Western Sahara

This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about the unending Moroccan occupation of Western Sahara with Tim Pluta who is speaking to us from the town of Boujdour, in the home of human rights activist Sultana Khaya. Tim is an organizer in Spain with World BEYOND War, a U.S. military veteran, a conscientious objector, and an unarmed civilian protector. See: https://karamasahara.org/register

Talk World Radio: Greta Zarro on #NoWar2022

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about #NoWar2022, an online event planned for July 8th to 10th. Our guest Greta Zarro is Organizing Director of World BEYOND War, where I'm Executive Director, so we are colleagues. Greta is based in Upstate New York, where she and her partner run Unadilla Community Farm, a non-profit organic farm and permaculture education center. See: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2022

Talk World Radio: Angelo Cardona on Latin America and the War in Ukraine

Angelo Cardona is a multi-award-winning human rights defender, and peace and disarmament activist. He is representative of Latin America in the Council of the Nobel-peace prize-winning International Peace Bureau (IPB), Co-founder and President of the Ibero-American Alliance for Peace, member of the International Steering Committee of the Global Campaign on Military Spending, Youth for TPNW, peace ambassador of the Global Peace Chain, and Member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War.

Talk World Radio: Marjorie Cohn on the Rule of Law and Ukraine

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the state of international law and the war in Ukraine. Our guest Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, and member of the bureau of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and the advisory boards of the American Association of Jurists and of Veterans for Peace. Marjorie is a legal and political analyst who writes a regular column for Truthout ( https://truthout.org/series/human-rights-and-global-wrongs ). She has published several books about U.S. foreign policy, torture, and drones. Marjorie is co-host of Law and Disorder radio, and she lectures, writes, and provides commentary for local, regional, national and international media outlets.

Talk World Radio: Arthur Kanegis on Being a World Citizen

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about world citizenship. Our guest, Arthur Kanegis, is President of Future WAVE, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to shifting our culture of violence to a culture of peace. He is the Director/Producer of "The World Is My Country" about the amazing adventures of World Citizen # 1 Garry Davis. Kanegis produced "War Without Winners" narrated by Paul Newman and filmed by Haskell Wexler -- a compelling TV documentary on the nuclear war issue. He also worked on the 1983 most watched ever made-for-television production called "The Day After" which Ronald Reagan credited with moving him to negotiate and sign weapons reduction agreements.

Talk World Radio: Ned Dobos on Reasons Not to Keep a Standing Military

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about whether it's good or bad for a country to have a permanent military. Our guest, Ned Dobos is Senior Lecturer in Ethics at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia. He is the author of Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military.

Talk World Radio: Ruth McDonough on Unarmed Resistance in Western Sahara

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the use of nonviolent activism in Western Sahara. Our guest, Ruth McDonough is a 35-year-old former secondary school teacher who was born and raised in the northern mountains of Wabanaki/New Hampshire. Ruth is an educator, facilitator, and activist in service of understanding across diversity of experiences and perspectives. Right now she is one of a team of people serving as nonviolent unarmed protectors in Western Sahara.

Talk World Radio: Milan Sekulović on Saving a Mountain in Montenegro

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing efforts by local residents to save a mountain in Montenegro from being turned into a military training ground. Milan Sekulović is a journalist and environmental activist. He started to deal with environmental activism after the government of Montenegro declared the mountain Sinjajevina a military training ground. Milan is the son of a farmer and was born and raised on Sinjajevina. Together with other members of the local community, he formed the Save Sinjajevina movement, of which he is currently the president. They have been working for the preservation of the mountain for four years, and so far they have prevented attempts to use heavy weapons on the pastures of Sinjajevina. Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/save-sinjajevinas-nature-and-local-ccommunities?clear_id=true

Talk World Radio: Hassan El-Tayyab: Stop Waging War on Yemen

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the war on Yemen with Hassan El-Tayyab, the legislative director for Middle East policy at the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Prior to joining FCNL in August 2019, Hassan El-Tayyab was co-director of the national advocacy group Just Foreign Policy, where he led their lobbying work to advance a more progressive foreign policy in the Middle East and Latin America. He played a major role in the successful passage of the War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s war and blockade on Yemen.

Talk World Radio: Lee Camp on the Shutdown of RT America

This week on Talk World Radio, Lee Camp. He was the host, head writer, & creator of "Redacted Tonight" for 8 years, until it was canceled due to U.S. sanctions. It was the only anti-war anti-corporate comedy show on U.S. TV. In the same week, Lee's podcast "Moment of Clarity" was removed from Spotify, and his youtube channel was banned across Europe & the UK. Now he's at: https://www.patreon.com/LeeCamp

Talk World Radio: Now That War Victims and Burn Pits Matter, Meet Iraqis Who Live Near Burn Pits

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about burn pits. Our guest Kali Rubaii is an assistant professor of anthropology at Purdue University, researching the environmental health impacts of war. She did research among farmers from Anbar, Iraq, in 2014 and 2015, documenting the environmental effects of the 2003 U.S. occupation. She is currently in Fallujah conducting research on the epidemic of birth defects in the region. https://www.facebook.com/fallujahhospital2012 https://reparations.org

Talk World Radio: Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine and the Rule of Law

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking with Alfred de Zayas, author of Building a Just World Order. He is former UN Independent Expert on international order (2012-18), senior lawyer with the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee and Chief of the Petitions Department.

Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on the Occupation of Western Sahara

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Western Sahara and a book -- now out in an updated second edition -- called Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution by Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy. Our guest, Stephen Zunes is professor of politics and international studies at the University of San Francisco. His books include Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism.

Talk World Radio: Jonathan Katz on What You Don't Know About Smedley Butler

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Smedley Butler with the author of a terrific new biography called Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire. The author, Jonathan Katz, based here in Charlottesville, Virginia, as most of the coolest people are, received the James Foley/Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism for reporting from Haiti. His first book, widely praised, was The Big Truck That Went By. You can find him at https://jonathanmkatz.com For more on the topic of World War II try Leaving World War II Behind.

Talk World Radio: Braxton Brewington: End Debt

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about debt, including student debt. Our guest Braxton Brewington is a spokesperson and organizer for The Debt Collective. See https://debtcollective.org The Debt Collective is the nation's first debtors union fighting for debt abolition and a transformation to our economy. Braxton is a North Carolina native and graduate from North Carolina A&T State University.

Talk World Radio: Julian Assange Warned Us What Was Coming

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the saga of Julian Assange with Richard Hillgrove who was hired by Assange in 2018 to lobby British MPs for his release, and worked for him until September 2020. You can find Richard Hillgrove at https://6hillgrovepr.com

Talk World Radio: Ken Mayers on Nuclear Posture Review

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing nuclear weapons and war with Ken Mayers from Veterans For Peace, which has -- in anticipation of the Biden administration's nuclear posture review -- released its own nuclear posture review. See https://veteransforpeace.org About Ken Mayers: The Marine Corps paid Ken’s way through Princeton as an NROTC scholarship holder. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering in 1958 and accepted a commission as a regular Marine Corps Officer, intending to make the service his career. However, his experience as an instrument of US foreign policy drove him out of the Corps at the end of 1966 when he returned to graduate studies at UC Berkeley, earning a Ph.D. in so-called Political Science. In 1986 Ken was recruited into Veterans for Peace by then President John Barr, another former career Marine Corps Officer. In July 2002, Ken co-founded the Santa Fe Chapter of VFP. Ken was a member of the national VFP Board of Directors from 2004 throug…

Talk World Radio: Jared Ball: The Rebranding of MLK

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., media, activism, and related topics with Jared A. Ball, who is a Professor of Communication and Africana Studies at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, and author of The Myth and Propaganda of Black Buying Power. Ball is also host of the podcast “iMiXWHATiLiKE!”, co-founder of Black Power Media which can be found at BlackPowerMedia.org, and his decades of journalism, media, writing, and political work can be found at http://imixwhatilike.org

Talk World Radio: Robert Fantina on Iran and Non-Agreements

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the difficulty the U.S. government has in ceasing to threaten war on Iran or even committing to uphold future commitments. Our guest, Robert Fantina, is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Canada. Bob is an activist and journalist, working for peace and social justice. He writes extensively about the oppression of the Palestinians by apartheid Israel. He is the author of several books, including Empire, Racism and Genocide: A History of U.S. Foreign Policy. His writing appears regularly on Counterpunch, MintPressNews, and several other sites. Originally from the U.S., Bob Fantina moved to Canada following the 2004 U.S. presidential election, and now resides in Kitchener, Ontario.

Talk World Radio: Charles Lenchner on Refusing Military "Service"

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about refusing military "service." Our guest Charles Lenchner is a veteran peace activist, organizer, and political campaigner. Born in the United States, he grew up in Israel where he became an anti-occupation activist at a young age. In 1987, he was drafted into the Israeli Army and subsequently refused orders and spent time in military prison. More recently he was a co-founder of People for Bernie Sanders and today is part of the RootsAction team that publishes ProgressiveHub. I also work for RootsAction. Read articles by Charles Lenchner at https://progressivehub.net/?s=charles+lenchner

Talk World Radio: Greta Zarro on Peace Activism in 2021

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in 2021 and looking ahead to 2022. Our guest Greta Zarro is Organizing Director for World BEYOND War, where I'm Executive Director. Greta previously worked as New York Organizer for Food & Water Watch. There, she campaigned on issues related to fracking, genetically engineered foods, climate change, and the corporate control of our common resources. Greta and her partner run Unadilla Community Farm, a non-profit organic farm and permaculture education center in Upstate New York.

Talkk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the state of war and peace in the world with peace activist Kathy Kelly. Kathy's efforts to end wars have led her to living in war zones and prisons over the past 35 years. In 2009 and 2010, Kathy was part of two Voices for Creative Nonviolence delegations which visited Pakistan to learn more about the consequences of U.S. drone attacks. From 2010 - 2019, the group organized dozens of delegations to visit Afghanistan, where they continued learning about casualties of U.S. drone attacks. Voices also helped organize protests at U.S. military bases operating weaponized drone attacks. She is now a co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones campaign and serves on the Advisory Board for World BEYOND War.

Talk World Radio: Helen Caldicott: U.S. Warmongering Will Kill Us All

This week on Talk World Radio: We're all going to die. Our guest, Helen Caldicott, is founder and president emeritus of Physicians for Social Responsibility, founder of Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament, Co-Leader of the 1980 Nuclear Freeze Voter Initiative Campaign, founder of the Nuclear Policy Research Institute (now called Beyond Nuclear), founder of the Helen Caldicott Foundation, and initiator of the movement against French atmospheric tests in Australia and New Zealand. Her website is at http://HelenCaldicott.com She is also a member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War and will be hosting an online book club with her book Sleepwalking to Armageddon that you can sign up for at http://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs

Talk World Radio: They're Privatizing Medicare While Your Eyes Are on a Democracy Summit

This week on Talk World Radio, the sneaky and sleazy bipartisan privatizing of Medicare. Our guest, Kay Tillow, is chair of Kentuckians for Single Payer Health Care and Coordinator of Unions for Single Payer Health Care. She is a retired union organizer who has worked for decades with nurses and other hospital workers.

Talk World Radio: Alfred McCoy on the Supposed Rule-Based Order that He Claims China Threatens

Alfred W. McCoy is the author of a tremendous new book called To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change. He also holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After earning his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history at Yale in 1977, his writing has focused on Philippine political history, the history of modern empires, and the covert netherworld of illicit drugs, syndicate crime, and state security. His first book, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia (1972), sparked controversy over the CIA’s attempt to block its publication. His book A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror (2006) provided the historical dimension for the Oscar-winning documentary feature, Taxi to the Darkside.

Talk World Radio: Chris Gelardi on Guam Resisting Empire

This week on Talk World Radio, the U.S. colony of Guam. Our guest, Chris Gelardi is a New York City-based journalist. His work appears in The Nation, The Intercept, and The Appeal, among other publications. His recent article in The Nation is called "Guam: Resisting Empire at the 'Tip of the Spear'."

Talk World Radio: Is Wall Street Taking Over Ownership of Nature?

This week on Talk World Radio, Is Wall Street Taking Over Ownership of Nature? Our guest Randall Wray is a professor of economics at Bard College. His current research focuses on providing a critique of orthodox monetary theory and policy, and the development of an alternative approach. He also publishes extensively in the areas of full employment policy and, more generally, fiscal policy. Wray’s most recent book is A Great Leap Forward: Heterodox Economic Policy for the 21st Century.

Talk World Radio Debate: Reform War or Abolish It?

This week on Talk World Radio, we're going to hold a bit of a respectful and civil debate. I'm going to take the position that we should be focused on preventing wars and defunding militaries even at the expense of working to reform wars. My guest, Leonard Rubenstein's position includes support for reforming war to protect healthcare workers and patients. Rubenstein is the author of Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War. He is professor and director of the Program on Human Rights and Health in Conflict at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2011, he founded and now chairs the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, a group of 40 humanitarian, human rights, health provider organizations working at the national and global levels that seeks to reduce attacks on and interference with health workers, patients, facilities and transports. Leonard Rubenstein was previously president of Physicians for Human Rights and is a recognized…

Talk World Radio: Stuart Parkinson on What's Missing from COP26

Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. He has been an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provided advice to UK negotiators to the UN climate change convention. He then spent a year working for Friends of The Earth, co-ordinating research and policy work highlighting the link between environmental problems and social injustice. His reports include The environmental impacts of the UK military sector; and Under the radar: the carbon footprint of Europe's military sectors. He is also co-author of a book on the Kyoto Protocol, and an editor of the Responsible Science journal. Stuart Parkinson will be speaking at an event in Glasgow, Scotland, on November 4, presenting a petition to the COP26 conference demanding that militaries be included in climate agreements. You can sign that petition at http://cop26.info

Talk World Radio: Daniel Ellsberg on the Most Dangerous Missiles

Daniel Ellsberg is a former U.S. military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national uproar in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military’s account of activities during the Vietnam War, to The New York Times. Ellsberg has continued as a political activist, giving lecture tours and speaking out about current events, and as an author of critically important books, and as a guest on this program and many others. Dan Ellsberg has recently published with Norman Solomon an article in The Nation magazine titled "To Avoid Armageddon, Don't Modernize Missiles—Eliminate Them." See: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/eliminate-nuclear-missiles

Talk World Radio: Margaret Kimberley on Powell, Obama, and Assange

Margaret Kimberley is a co-founder and Executive Editor and Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report, a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromising Integrity in Journalism, a board member of Consortium News, and a recipient of a 2021 Women and Media Award from the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press. Ms. Kimberley is author of the book “Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents,” which we discussed with her last year. She is also a contributor to the anthologies “In Defense of Julian Assange,” “Capitalism on a Ventilator: the Impact of COVID-19 on China and the U.S.,” and “Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence.” Her activism includes leadership positions in the United National Antiwar Coalition, the Black Alliance for Peace, and the Board of Directors of the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.

Talk World Radio: Yves Engler on the Canadian Military

This week on Talk World Radio: Stand on Guard for Whom? — A People’s History of the Canadian Military. That's the title of the new book, his twelfth, from our guest Yves Engler. His website is YvesEngler.com

Talk World Radio: Punishment Without Trial

This week on Talk World Radio: a new book called Punishment Without Trial: Why Pleabargaining Is a Bad Deal. The author, Carissa Byrne Hessick, is the Ransdell Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she also serves as the director of the Prosecutors and Politics Project. Before joining the faculty at UNC, she taught at the law schools of Arizona State, Harvard, and the University of Utah. Her work on the criminal justice system has been published by the Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, and numerous academic journals. She also has one of the most informative and useful Twitter accounts for anyone interested in criminal justice. She lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Talk World Radio: The Kaepernick Effect

This week on Talk World Radio, The Kaepernick Effect is a new book by our guest Dave Zirin who is sports editor for The Nation and the author of 10 books on the politics of sports, including Jim Brown: Last Man Standing. His website is at EdgeofSports.com.

Talk World Radio: Delmarie Cobb on Rahm Emanuel's Nomination

This week on Talk World Radio: Rahm Emanuel has been nominated for worst politician ever -- just kidding, he's been nominated for Ambassador to Japan. Will the U.S. Senate go along with that? Our guest, Delmarie Cobb is a journalist from Chicago. She owns and operates The Publicity Works and is president of Deleco Communications, which produced the award-winning, nationally televised newsmagazine program, STREET LIFE on PBS affiliates. In 1988 she was national traveling press secretary to presidential candidate Jesse Jackson. She writes a column called Chicago Colors. Email Your Senators and the President: No to Rahm! at https://bit.ly/no-rahm

Talk World Radio: David Vine on U.S. Bases Everywhere

This week on Talk World Radio: U.S. military bases all over the world and what the heck are they doing there? Our guest David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University. His books include Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World and his latest, just out in paperback, The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State. Find him at https://davidvine.net Find an online book club he's about to do at https://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs

Talk World Radio: Coleen Rowley on the Failures of 9/11 and Everything Since 9/12

This week on Talk World Radio, the failures of September 11th and the failures of the global war launched on September 12th. Our guest Coleen Rowley is a retired special agent and former Minneapolis Division legal counsel of the FBI who taught constitutional law and law enforcement ethics to FBI agents and other law enforcement, then became a whistleblower about the FBI’s pre 9-11 failures and the folly of the Iraq invasion. She was named, along with two other corporate whistleblowers, as TIME Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Huffington Post, along with other publications. Ms. Rowley is also a senior fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), an organization of independent veteran military and national security experts.

Talk World Radio: Afghanistan: And Stay Out

This week on Talk World Radio: Better late and diastrously than never. It's never too soon to end a war, even if you don't really end it, tell lots of lies about it, and increase military spending to prepare for more wars.

Talk World Radio: KiJi Noh on How the U.S. Military Has Spread COVID Globally

This week on Talk World Radio, one of the ways in which the killing machine of war just keeps on killing. Our guest Kiji Noh and co-author Claudia Chaufan have published an article in Social Medicine called "The Neglected Role of the Military as a Disease Vector: Implications for Covid-19 and for Global Health Policy." Claudia Chaufan is Associate Professor of Health Policy & Global Health, past Program Director of the Graduate Program in Health at York University. K.J. Noh is an independent scholar, journalist, and educator, specializing in the geopolitics of Asia and in issues of global security and health. See: https://www.socialmedicine.info/index.php/socialmedicine/article/view/1301

Talk World Radio: Daniel Sherrell on Warmth

This week on Talk World Radio: Living through the dying of the Earth. Our guest Daniel Sherrell is the author of a powerful new book called Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of Our World. Daniel Sherrell is an organizer born in 1990. He helped lead the campaign to pass landmark climate justice legislation in New York and is the recipient of a Fulbright grant in creative nonfiction. He currently serves as Campaign Director for the Climate Jobs National Resource Center.

Talk World Radio: Danny Sjureson on What the U.S. Military Is Doing in Africa

This week on Talk World Radio: Danny Sjursen is a retired U.S. Army officer, director of the new Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), senior fellow at the Center for International Policy (CIP), and contributing editor at Antiwar.com. His work has appeared in the LA Times, NY Times, The Nation, HuffPost, The Hill, Salon, BuzzFeed News, Tom Dispatch and Truthdig.com, among other publications. He hosts the Fortress on a Hill podcast and has a website at https://skepticalvet.com

Talk World Radio: Robert Gray on Peace in the Streets

This week on Talk World Radio: Peace in the Streets. Our guest Robert Gray is Co-Founder of Uhuru, an organization based where I am, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Gray is a visionary, businessman, brand strategist, and social entrepreneur with a passion for education reform and economic empowerment. He's done a wide range of organizing work, and in 2019 received a Proclamation from Charlottesville City Council for his work in the community. He has over 10 years of experience working with high-risk youth and two years of experience applying the nationally recognized, evidence-based Check and Connect program within a targeted community of youth and their families in the City of Charlottesville, ensuring students were attending, engaging with, and investing in their education. Uhuru's Peace in the Streets program has recently received support from the City of Charlottesville.

Talk World Radio: Bryan Burrough: Forget the Alamo!

This week on Talk World Radio: Remembering the Alamo, or -- better yet -- forgetting it. Our guest Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair and the author of seven books, including the New York Times #1 best-selling Barbarians at the Gate (with John Helyar) and Public Enemies. He is co-author of a terrific new book called Forget the Alamo.

Talk World Radio: Ray McGovern: Put Russiagate Out of its Misery

This week on Talk World Radio: Why won't disproven Russiagate ever go away? Our guest Ray McGovern was an infantry/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing The President’s Daily Brief. He conducted the one-on-one morning briefings of President Reagan’s five most senior national security officials, including VP Bush, from 1981 to 1985. In retirement Ray co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) — an attempt by intelligence veterans to hold former colleagues to account for “fixing” intelligence to “justify” wars like Iraq. His website is https://RayMcGovern.com Ray's recent article for Antiwar.com: "The Guardian: Regurgitating the Russia-Gate Canard" is at https://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2021/07/15/the-guardian-regurgitating-the-russia-gate-canard/

Talk World Radio: Brian Concannon: Haiti Has Had All the U.S. Help It Can Stand

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Haiti with human rights lawyer and activist Brian Concannon. He is Executive Director of Project Blueprint, which promotes a progressive, human rights-based U.S. foreign policy by bringing the perspectives of people impacted by U.S. actions abroad into policy discussions. Brian founded the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and was its Executive Director from 2004-2019. He lived in Haiti from 1995 to 2004, where he served as a Human Rights Officer with the United Nations and Co-Managing Attorney with the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, a public interest law firm. See: https://blueprint389096451.wpcomstaging.com/ http://www.ijdh.org/

Talk World Radio: Yurii Sheliazhenko on Ukraine as Imperial Chess Board

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Ukraine, war, and peace. Our guest Yurii Sheliazhenko is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection. He obtained a Master of Mediation and Conflict Management degree in 2021 and a Master of Laws degree in 2016 at KROK University. In addition to his participation in the peace movement, he is a journalist, blogger, human rights defender, and legal scholar, an author of academic publications and a lecturer on legal theory and history.

Talk World Radio: Michael Messner: Unconventional Combat

This week on Talk World Radio, U.S. military veterans. Our guest, Michael Messner is professor of sociology and gender studies at the University of Southern California. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author or editor of nineteen books, and has in recent years focused his research on U.S. military veterans who become lifelong advocates for peace and social justice. The first book based on this research, Guys Like Me: Five Wars, Five Veterans for Peace, which I highly recommend, was published by Rutgers University Press in 2019. The new book, Unconventional Combat: Intersectional Action in the Veterans’ Peace Movement is hot off the press from Oxford University Press. The website is https://unconventionalcombat.com Messner is an associate (non-veteran) member of Veterans For Peace, on whose advisory board I serve.

Talk World Radio: Julie Varughese on the Unending War on Afghanistan

This week on Talk World Radio, the non-ending of the war on Afghanistan, the ramping up of the cold war on China, and the Black Alliance for Peace. Our guest Julie Varughese has served in an advisory role for the Black Alliance for Peace since it was founded in 2017. She also is the coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace's Solidarity Network. See https://blackallianceforpeace.com

Talk World Radio: Alexandra Klein on Ending the Death Penalty

This week on Talk World Radio, we’re discussing that barbaric vestige of uncontrollable ignorance and sadism, capital punishment. Our guest is Alexandra Klein. Professor Alexandra Klein researches and teaches in the area of criminal law, criminal procedure constitutional law, and the death penalty. Her scholarship has been published in, or is forthcoming in the Ohio State Law Journal, the Florida Law Review, and the Washington and Lee Law Review. Her recent article in The Nation magazine is called “A Few Words for the Firing Squad.” In the Washington and Lee LAw Review in March she published “The Beginning of the End: Abolishing Capital Punishment in Virginia.” https://www.thenation.com/article/society/south-carolina-firing-squad https://scholarlycommons.law.wlu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1140&context=wlulr-online

Talk World Radio: Rivera Sun on Draft Registration and Fiction for Peace

This week on Talk World Radio: draft registration. Is it unfair to young women not to force them to kill and die for weapons profits? Our guest Rivera Sun is the Editor of Nonviolence News, a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent movements, and the author of many books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between. She serves on the Advisory Boards of World BEYOND War and the Backbone Campaign. Her essays on nonviolence are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals. See: https://riverasun.com Join Rivera's online book club: https://worldbeyondwar.org/bookclubs

Talk World Radio: Scott Horton on Ending the War on Terrorism

This Week on Talk World Radio, it's time to end the terrorism-generating war on terrorism. Our guest is Scott Horton. Scott Horton is the director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on KPFK 90.7 FM in Los Angeles, and author of Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, and of the new book we'll be mostly discussing Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism.

Talk World Radio: Nora Barrows-Friedman on Palestine and Activism

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about activism on behalf of the basic human rights of Palestinians. Our guest is Nora Barrows-Friedman. Nora Barrows-Friedman is an associate editor at The Electronic Intifada and the author of In Our Power: US Students Organize for Justice in Palestine. She is also the co-host of The Electronic Intifada Podcast, and co-host of The Brief Podcast. Learn more: https://electronicintifada.net

Talk World Radio: Katrina vanden Heuvel on U.S.-Russia Relations

Katrina vanden Heuvel is Editorial Director and Publisher of The Nation magazine. See https://thenation.com She is also vice-president of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, a group interested in an informed dialogue about improving U.S.-Russia relations. See https://usrussiaaccord.com

Talk World Radio: Richard Falk on Peace, War, and the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim

This week on Talk World Radio, our guest is Richard Falk. Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and currently Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014). He has written several books. (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. Among his earlier writings are Legal Order in a Violent World and This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival. His most recent publications are Power Shift (2017); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament (2019). Since 2009 Falk has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in February 2021. His website is https://richardfalk.org

Talk World Radio: Veterans For Peace Take on Climate Collapse

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the earth's climate and militarism, and what Veterans For Peace is working on. Our guest is Vince Dijanich, a veteran of what the Vietnamese call "The American War," and a founder of the Climate Crisis and Militarism Project at Veterans for Peace. Vince also works with the Climate Reality Project and Sustaining All Life. Related link: https://www.veteransforpeace.org/take-action/climatecrisis

Talk World Radio: Sam Perlo-Freeman on the Brutal Weapons Dealing by the UK

Dr. Sam Perlo-Freeman is a Research Coordinator at Campaign Against Arms Trade in the UK, where he has focused on UK military spending and procurement, UK arms sales to Saudi and the war in Yemen, and global arms trade to countries in conflict. Previously, Sam worked at the World Peace Foundation on corruption in the international arms trade, and before that at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, researching global military spending, arms trade, and arms production. He has been involved as both a researcher and an activist on arms trade and other peace issues for about 25 years. He will be facilitating a session at #NoWar2021 https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2021 Related report: https://caat.org.uk/resources/business-as-usual-how-major-weapons-exporters-arm-the-worlds-conflicts/

Talk World Radio: Matt Hoh on Afghanistan and Why to Really End the War

Matthew Hoh is a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy and a member of the Eisenhower Media Network (EMN), as well as a member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War. He is a 100% disabled Marine combat veteran and, in 2009, he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the war.

Talk World Radio: Guy Feugap on Making Peace in Cameroon

This week on Talk World Radio, what's going on in Cameroon. Our guest is Guy Feugap. He is coordinator in Cameroon for World BEYOND War. More information: https://worldbeyondwar.org/?s=feugap

Talk World Radio: Peace Activism in Canada and on Campus

This Week on Talk World Radio in the first half of the show our guest is Vanessa Lanteigne. Vanessa is the National Coordinator at the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace which is Canada’s longest-running national women’s peace organization. Vanessa has worked in a variety of roles in non-profits around the world. In Tanzania, she worked at an organization to end child marriage and promote the rights of children. In Ghana as a facilitator for youth livelihood skills, she facilitated training for over 1,000 youth and was a part of a team that rolled out the Innovation Fund for green entrepreneurs that was replicated in five other countries. Vanessa will be speaking at NoWar2021, the annual conference of World BEYOND War, which is virtual this year and can be signed up for at https://worldbeyondwar.org On the second half of the show we'll be talking about militaries at universities. Our guest Lia Holla is a third-year Bachelor's student at McGill University studying Physics and Politi…

Talk World Radio: Yasmine Taeb on Iran, War, Peace, and Congress

This week on Talk World Radio, Iran, the United States, war, and peace. Our guest, Yasmine Taeb, is a human rights lawyer, progressive strategist, and former DNC Committeewoman for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Previously, she served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and a Senior Policy Counsel at Demand Progress. She's a seasoned human rights lobbyist and her efforts focus on ending militarism at home and abroad and advocating for refugees and asylum seekers. In 2021, she was named by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the "Most Influential People in Washington." In 2016, Yasmine became the first Muslim woman elected to the Democratic National Committee. She has advised and worked on several national and state political campaigns, including on President Obama's reelection campaign. Petitions you can sign regarding Iran: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-the-petition-to-president-biden-restore-the-iran-deal https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-biden-to-l…

Talk World Radio: Hanieh Jodat Barnes: Lift the Sanctions

This week on Talk World Radio: santions, the harm they do, and how to end them. Our guest is Hanieh Jodat Barnes, a Bernie Sanders 2020 Delegate, President-co-founder of Muslim Delegates and Allies, National Director of PDA Middle East Alliance, and Founding member of Women's March Los Angeles. See: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/tell-biden-to-lift-sanctions-for-covid-relief and http://liftthesanctions.org

Talk World Radio: Bob Lord: The Rich Are Taxed Less

This week on Talk World Radio: guess who's being taxed less than they used to be? Our guest, Bob Lord, is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he focuses on the relationship of tax law to inequality. He was co-author of a recent briefing paper that found that taxes on the rich are one-sixth of what they used to be. See https://ips-dc.org/ips-authors/bob-lord

Talk World Radio: Todd Miller on the Border Industry

Todd Miller is the author of the books Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (2019), Storming the Wall (2017), and Border Patrol Nation (2014). He is co-author of the recent report for the Transnational Institute "Biden's Border: The Border Industry, The Democrats, and the 2020 Elections."

Talk World Radio: Eli Clifton: Weapons Funding in Government

This week on Talk World Radio: Who funds so-called foreign relations experts and why? Our guest is Eli Clifton. He is senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and investigative-journalist-at-large at Responsible Statecraft. He recently published an article called "Weapons Biz Bankrolls Experts Pushing to Extend Afghan War." See: https://responsiblestatecraft.org/author/eclifton

Talk World Radio: Paul Jay on Prosecuting Trump

Talk Nation Radio is becoming Talk World Radio and can now be found at https://talkworldradio.org This week on Talk World Radio: Why hasn't Trump been prosecuted in court yet? Our guest Paul Jay is a journalist and filmmaker. He’s the founder and publisher of theAnalysis.news. He is past chair of the Documentary Organization of Canada, and was the founding Chair of the Hot Docs! Canadian International Documentary Festival. Jay was the co-executive producer of Face Off and counterSpin, nightly prime time debate programs that ran for ten years on CBC Newsworld. Jay was the founder of The Real News Network. Jay is currently working on a documentary series with Daniel Ellsberg, based on his book Doomsday Machine. See: https://theAnalysis.news

Talk Nation Radio: Pablo Domíngues on Defeating a Military Base

This week on Talk Nation Radio, a successful recent campaign to prevent the construction of a new military base in the mountains in Europe. Our guest Pablo Domínguez is an eco-anthropologist of the commons, especially centered on pastoral commons of the Mediterranean mountains. He mostly focuses on the ecological and socio-cultural holistic understanding of their functioning, at the same time doing research ‘about’ and ‘for’ action in favor of the natural and cultural values of such systems.

Talk Nation Radio: Brian Ferguson: War Is Not Built into Homo Sapiens

Brian Ferguson is a Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He is an expert in the anthropology of war, including ethnic conflicts, tribal warfare, the impact of expanding states on indigenous war patterns and the collapse of states. His 1995 book, Yanomami Warfare: A Political History, challenges popular assumptions about the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon, and has sparked debate within his field. Ferguson is director of the MA program in Peace and Conflict Studies as Rutgers University Newark. Additional reading: A general statement about human nature and war: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-is-not-part-of-human-nature/ A general overview of research findings on war: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233652423_Ten_Points_on_War On the "Fierce" Yanomami: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285635568_History_explanation_and_war_among_the_Yanomami_A_response_to_Chagnons_Noble_Savages A broad statement about archaelogy and the antiquity of war: https…

Talk Nation Radio: Rachel Small: Blocking Trucks to Move Canada from War to Peace

This week on Talk Nation Radio, putting your body in front of weapons shipments and organizing for peace. Our guest is Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, an organization of which I'm the executive director. Rachel Small is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous territory. She has organized within local and international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade, with a special focus on working in solidarity with communities harmed by Canadian extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has a background in art-based activism and has facilitated projects in community mural-making, independent publishing and media, spoken word, guerilla theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages across Canada. On the January 25th global day of action to end the war on Yemen one of the most dramatic actions that moved the demand for peace into the most media stories was taken by members of World BEY…

Talk Nation Radio: Steve Ellner on Ongoing U.S. Efforts to Overthrow Venezuelan Government

Steve Ellner is a retired professor of the Universidad de Oriente in Venezuela and currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books on Latin American politics and history, his most recent being his edited Latin American Extractivism: Dependency, Resource Nationalism, and Resistance in Broad Perspective (2021). He has published on the op-ed page of the New York Times and Los Angeles Times and in the Nation and is a regular contributor to NACLA: Report on the Americas. He has been a visiting professor at Georgetown University (2004), Duke University (2005), University of Buenos Aires (2010), Tulane University (2015) and elsewhere.

Talk Nation Radio: Pat Rosenstiel on National Popular Vote

This week on Talk Nation Radio, the National Popular Vote and the Electoral College. Our guest is Pat Rosenstiel with NationalPopularVote.com, which advocates for "The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact."

Talk Nation Radio: Salam Sarhan: Banning the Malevolent Political Use of Religion

Salam Sarhan is Founder & Secretary-General of BPUR international ( https://bpur.org ). BPUR stands for Ban the Political Use of Religion. Salam Sarhan is a well published writer and journalist with three books and over one thousand articles on a wide range of subjects in Arabic and English. He has worked as a TV presenter, producer, business editor, and TV commentator for numerous leading media establishments, including BBC, Alarabiya TV, Sky News Arabia TV, Alarab daily, and The Arab Weekly.

Talk Nation Radio: Jodie Evans: China is not our enemy

This week on Talk Nation Radio: U.S.-China relations. Our guest is Jodie Evans. She is co-founder of CODEPINK, which works to stop U.S. Military interventions overseas, and promotes diplomatic solutions and divestiture from war. She served in the administration of Governor Jerry Brown and ran his presidential campaigns. She has published two books, Stop the Next War Now and Twilight of Empire, and produced several documentary films, including the Oscar and Emmy-nominated "The Most Dangerous Man in America," and "The Square," and Naomi Klein’s “This Changes Everything.”

Talk Nation Radio: Where Did Coronavirus Come From?

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Where did Coronavirus come from? What do we know? What do we not know? What is it crazy to ask? What is it crazy not to ask? And why aren't more people interested? Our guest is Sam Husseini. Sam Husseini is an independent journalist (and artist) living in Maryland, his website is husseini.org.

Talk Nation Radio: Will Trump Attack Iran?

Michael T. Klare, The Nation’s defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC. Most recently, he is the author of All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon’s Perspective on Climate Change, and his latest article for The Nation is "A Very Trumpian Christmas Surprise? Signs Point to a Possible US Attack on Iran.”

Talk Nation Radio: Nicolas Davies on Ceasing to Create Terrorists

Nicolas "Sandy" Davies is a freelance writer, a researcher for CODEPINK and the author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq. We discuss the article he wrote with Medea Benjamin, "Will Biden’s America Stop Creating Terrorists?"

Talk Nation Radio: Alison Cole on Demilitarizing Policing

Alison Cole is a former researcher and activist living in Portland, Oregon. She is working with a coalition of community organizations to demilitarize their local law enforcement agencies. See: https://worldbeyondwar.org/policing

Talk Nation Radio: Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd on Michèle Flournoy

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Michèle Flournoy and other disastrous cabinet prospects. Our guests are Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. She has been described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times. Marcy Winograd served as a 2020 DNC delegate for Bernie Sanders, organizing a team of delegates to submit a foreign policy platform plank calling for reduced military spending, an end to the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and defunding of US military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. Prior to that, Marcy co-founded the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus and ran for office as a congressional peace candidate.

Talk Nation Radio: Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd on Michèle Flournoy

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Michèle Flournoy and other disastrous cabinet prospects. Our guests are Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. She has been described as "one of America's most committed -- and most effective -- fighters for human rights" by New York Newsday, and "one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement" by the Los Angeles Times. Marcy Winograd served as a 2020 DNC delegate for Bernie Sanders, organizing a team of delegates to submit a foreign policy platform plank calling for reduced military spending, an end to the wars and occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan and defunding of US military support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. Prior to that, Marcy co-founded the California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus and ran for office as a congressional peace candidate.

Talk Nation Radio: Daniel Selwyn on Martial Mining

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Martial Mining, or Militarism and Extraction. Our guest is Daniel Selwyn, a researcher and educator with the London Mining Network, an alliance of 21 organisations working to expose human rights abuses and environmental crimes committed by mining companies based in London, and campaigning for social justice and the ecological integrity of the planet. Daniel Selwyn recently authored a report called Martial Mining: Resisting Extractivism and War Together. See: https://londonminingnetwork.org https://londonminingnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Martial-Mining.pdf On Twitter: @redrosaroo Daniel Selwyn spoke on this show in his capacity as a researcher and educator with London Mining Network but that not all of his views represent those held collectively by the Network.

Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Wertheim on the Decision to Rule the World

This week on Talk Nation Radio: the decision to rule the world. Stephen Wertheim is a historian of U.S. foreign policy. He is Deputy Director of Research and Policy at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He is also a research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. His terrific new book is called Tomorrow the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy.

Talk Nation Radio: Jon Mitchell on Poisoning the Pacific

This week on Talk Nation Radio: the poisoning of the Pacific and who the worst culprit is. Joining us from Tokyo is Jon Mitchell, a British journalist and author based in Japan. In 2015, he was awarded the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan's Freedom of the Press Lifetime Achievement Award for his investigations into human rights issues on Okinawa. His latest book, Poisoning the Pacific, reveals the environmental damage caused by decades of U.S. military operations.

Talk Nation Radio: Steven Youngblood on Peace Journalism

This week on Talk Nation Radio, we’re discussing peace journalism. Our guest Steven Youngblood is the founding director of the Center for Global Peace Journalism at Park University in Parkville, Missouri, where he is a communications and peace studies professor. He has organized and taught peace journalism seminars and workshops in 27 countries and territories. Youngblood is a two-time Fulbright Scholar (Moldova 2001, Azerbaijan 2007). He also served as a U.S. State Department Senior Subject Specialist in Ethiopia in 2018. Youngblood is the author of “Peace Journalism Principles and Practices” and “Professor Komagum.” He edits “The Peace Journalist” magazine, and writes and produces the “Peace Journalism Insights” blog. He has been recognized for his contributions to world peace by the U.S. State Department, Rotary International, and the World Forum for Peace, which has named him a Luxembourg Peace Prize laureate for 2020. See: http://park.edu/peacecenter http://steve…

Talk Nation Radio: Yes, the U.S. Worked to Start the Soviet War on Afghanistan

This week on Talk Nation Radio, as we begin year number 20 of the U.S. war on Afghanistan that Obama pretended to end, Trump promised to end, and it seems every U.S. presidential candidate from here on out (including Trump again) will promise to end, we look at how exactly destroying Afghanistan got started over 40 years ago. Our guests are Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould, whose article at World Beyond War dot org is called “President Carter, Do You Swear to Tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth?” Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould are a husband and wife team, who in 1981 acquired the first visas to enter Afghanistan granted to a U.S. TV crew. Following their news story for CBS News, they produced a documentary (Afghanistan Between Three Worlds) for PBS and in 1983 returned to Kabul for ABC Nightline. Their 2009 book is called Invisible History: Afghanistan’s Untold Story, and their 2011 book is Crossing Zero The AfPak War at the Turning Point of America…

Talk Nation Radio: David Vine on the United States of War

David Vine is Professor of Anthropology at American University whose books include Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World. David Vine’s latest book is called The United States of War: A Global History of America’s Endless Conflicts, From Columbus to the Islamic State. Find him at https://www.davidvine.net

Talk Nation Radio: Charles Busch on War and Children

This week on Talk Nation Radio: war and children. Our guest, Charles Busch, is the founder of Peace Village Global, and Fields of Peace. He is the author of Soft as Water - 50 Meditations on Peace, and of A Promise to Our Children: Your Child, My Child, The Enemy’s Child: A Field Guide to Peace. His background includes employment in the U.S. Marine Corps, being a business owner in New York City, and 20 years as a church pastor in the United Church of Christ. He is presently Director of Fields of Peace, a peace education/activist nonprofit headquartered on the Oregon coast. See https://www.fieldsofpeace.org

Talk Nation Radio: Adbul El-Sayed on Healing U.S. Politics

This week on Talk Nation Radio: What sort of illness does U.S. politics have, and how can we heal it? Our guest is Abdulrachman El-Sayed, who is a physician, epidemiologist, public health expert, progressive activist, and author of HEALING POLITICS: A Doctor’s Journey into the Heart of Our Political Epidemic. He was appointed health director of Detroit at 30 years old. He’s a former professor at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. He holds a doctorate in public health from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and a medical degree from Columbia University. He is the host of the “America Dissected: Coronavirus” podcast and a CNN commentator. Senator Bernie Sanders has referred to him as “one of the brightest young stars in the future of the progressive movement.” He is a former candidate for Governor of Michigan, and was one of eight appointees to the Biden-Sanders "Unity Task Force" on healthcare. His book Healing Politics can be found at healingpoliti…

Talk Nation Radio: Thom Hartmann on Monopolies and Getting Rid of Them

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Monopolies and what’s wrong with them and how to get rid of them. Our guest is Thom Hartmann, radio host and author extraordinaire, whose latest book is called The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream -- which has a foreword by Ralph Nader calling it the most important book in a generation on this topic.

Talk Nation Radio: Lisa Savage on What Maine and the United States Could Do Better

Lisa Savage is a longtime educator from Solon, Maine, currently running for U.S. Senate. In a life dedicated to public service, Savage has worked to make Maine and the United states more equitable, more peaceful, and more aware of the looming climate crisis.

Talk Nation Radio: Tunde Osazua on the U.S. Militarization of Africa

Tunde Osazua is a member of the Black Alliance for Peace’s Africa Team and the coordinator of the U.S. Out of Africa Network, which is the organizational arm of the Black Alliance for Peace's campaign to shut down AFRICOM and end the U.S. invasion and occupation of Africa. See: https://blackallianceforpeace.com

Talk Nation Radio: Brian Cannon on Undoing Gerrymandering in Virginia and the U.S.

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Undoing Gerrymandering. Our guest is Brian Cannon, executive director of FairMapsVA -- that’s VA for Virginia -- the website is http://fairmapsva.org The organization is working on the Vote Yes campaign for a redistricting reform amendment. Before leaving to run the vote yes campaign, Brian was Executive Director of OneVirginia2021, which raised the issue of ending gerrymandering in Virginia. While in law school, Brian studied election law and was on one of the winning teams in the 2011 state-wide redistricting competition. We discuss the state of undoing gerrymandering in Virginia and around the United States. To learn more, join David Swanson and Brian Cannon for a webinar and get your questions answered on September 17, 2020, at 12 p.m. ET. Register here: http://bit.ly/Amendment1info

Talk Nation Radio: Omar Ocampo on 12 Billionaires with $1 Trillion

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Billionaires and their ever-expanding billions. Our guest is Omar Ocampo, who is a researcher for the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies. He is coauthor of the study, Billionaire Bonanza 2020: Wealth Windfalls, Tumbling Taxes and Pandemic Profiteers, and of the recent article, “Twelve U.S. Billionaires Have a Combined $1 Trillion,” which you can find at Inequality.org. https://inequality.org/great-divide/twelve-us-billionaires-combined-1-trillion

Talk Nation Radio: Coleen Rowley on Endless Wars, Warrior Cops, and Eldercide

This week on Talk Nation Radio we welcome back Coleen Rowley. She is a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who testified about the FBI's pre 9-11 lapses as a whistle-blower in 2002 to staffers of the Joint Intelligence Committees' Inquiry; the Senate Judiciary Committee; and to investigators of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. Along with two other whistle-blowers, she was selected that year as Time Magazine's "Persons of the Year." Coleen Rowley has been a terrific activist and advocate for peace and justice ever since.

Talk Nation Radio: Ray McGovern on Lies, Damn Lies, and U.S. Discussions of China, Russia, and Iraq

Ray McGovern was an infantry/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing The President’s Daily Brief. He conducted the one-on-one morning briefings of President Reagan’s five most senior national security officials, including VP Bush, from 1981 to 1985. In retirement Ray co-founded Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) -- an attempt by intelligence veterans to hold former colleagues to account for “fixing” intelligence to “justify” wars like Iraq. His website is https://RayMcGovern.com

Talk Nation Radio: Ann Wright on Antiwar Activism

This week on Talk Nation Radio we’re talking antiwar activism with Ann Wright who was in the U.S. Army/Army Reserves for 29 years and retired as a Colonel but who, by my count, has been a fulltime model antiwar activist for over 17 years, so less than a dozen to go to match the Army career. Ann Wright resigned from the U.S. government in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience.

Talk Nation Radio: Marjorie Cohn on Legal Remedies to Federal Troops in the Streets

Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, former president of the National Lawyers Guild, deputy secretary general of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, and a member of the National Advisory Board of Veterans for Peace. She writes frequent columns about human rights, U.S. foreign policy, and the contradiction between the two. Her most recent book is Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues. Her website is https://marjoriecohn.com

Talk Nation Radio: All Questions Answered

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Where's our money? Why so many wars? A bill to put the Pentagon on the flag? Is everything we've been told a lie? Are there some things that are not Putin's fault? And how do you talk to people who won't wear masks?

Talk Nation Radio: Heidi Peltier on the Camo Economy

This week on Talk Nation Radio: massive, shameless, and endlessly expanding war profiteering by weapons dealers. Our guest is Heidi Peltier, author of a new report called “The Growth of the ‘Camo Economy’ and the Commercialization of the Post 9/11 Wars.” Heidi Peltier is the Director of the “20 Years of War” project at Boston University and part of the Costs of War Project at Brown University. She has written reports and articles on various costs of war, including the hidden costs of financing war through debt, as well as the opportunity costs of spending federal dollars on the war economy instead of on other domestic priorities such as healthcare, education, or clean energy.

Talk Nation Radio: Greg Mitchell on the Origins of Myths About Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This week on Talk Nation Radio: Why is much of what many people believe about the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not true? And how did Hollywood help get various myths started? Our guest is Greg Mitchell, author of numerous books, whose latest is called The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood -- and America -- Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Talk Nation Radio: Nina Turner: Wrap Your Mind Around How Much Is Spent on Military

Nina Turner is the former national co-chair of the Bernie 2020 campaign. She is a former Ohio state senator, and a former professor of African American history. Nina Turner is currently a Strategic Delegate Advisor for RootsAction.org. And she hosts a podcast called “We the People.”

Talk Nation Radio: Sonali Kolhatkar on Defunding Police and Pentagon

Sonali Kolhatkar is the host and executive producer of Rising Up With Sonali, a daily, primetime television and radio program syndicated on Free Speech TV and Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates. She is also a weekly columnist with Independent Media Institute and lead author of Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence. Sonali Kolhatkar recently wrote an article titled "If We’re Going to Defund Militarized Police Departments, Why Not Add the Pentagon?"

Talk Nation Radio: Jake Johnston on the Coup in Bolivia and U.S. Media

Jake Johnston is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. His research has focused predominantly on economic policy in Latin America, the International Monetary Fund, and U.S. foreign policy. Jake Johnston co-authored a report in March on the role of the Organization of American States in the coup in Bolivia in November of last year. The New York Times has recently admitted that OAS claims of fraud in last year’s Bolivian election were baseless, but at the time that paper promoted those claims, while Jake Johnston and his colleagues refuted them.

Talk Nation Radio: Peadar King on War, Suffering, and the Struggle for Human Rights

Peadar King is director of KMF Productions and presenter / producer of the RTÉ documentary series What in the World? We discuss his latest book, War, Suffering, and the Struggle for Human Rights.

Talk Nation Radio: John Perkins on Ceasing to Be an Economic Hit Man

John Perkins is an author and activist whose 10 books on global intrigue, shamanism, and transformation including Touching the Jaguar, Shapeshifting, and the classic Confessions of an Economic Hit Man have been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than 70 weeks, sold over 2 million copies, and are published in 35 languages. As chief economist at a major consulting firm, he advised the World Bank, United Nations, Fortune 500 corporations, and the U.S. and other governments. He regularly speaks at universities, economic forums, and shamanic gatherings around the world and is a founder and board member of the nonprofit organizations, the Pachamama Alliance and Dream Change. See: http://touchingthejaguarbook.com

Talk Nation Radio: Helena Cobban on the State of the U.S. Empire

Helena Cobban is a veteran analyst of international affairs and an anti-imperialist activist who campaigns for human equality at all levels. She's a Quaker who lives in Washington DC, which she describes as "the belly of the beast." Helena has authored seven books on international issues, four of which have been about the Middle East; and for 20 years she contributed a regular column about global affairs to The Christian Science Monitor. She has also been a publisher. Her company, Just World Books, has helped midwife the work of writers like Miko Peled, Laila El-Haddad, Leila Abdelrazaq, and David Swanson. She's the head of the non-profit Just World Educational, which has some great web-based programing, most recently on Syria. She has also resumed blogging on her blog Just World News, where her major current preoccupation is the ways the coronavirus crisis affects the hegemonic role the United States has played in world affairs since 1945. See: https://justworldnews.org

Talk Nation Radio: Richard John on the Past and Future of the U.S. Postal Service

This week on Talk Nation Radio, we discuss the past and possible future of the U.S. Postal Service. Our guest, Richard John, is a historian who specializes in the history of business, technology, communications, and American political development. He teaches and advises graduate students in Columbia University’s Ph.D. program in communications, and is member of the core faculty of the Columbia history department, where he teaches courses on the history of capitalism and the history of communications. Richard John is author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse and recently wrote the Washington Post article “The Founders never intended the U.S. Postal Service to be managed like a business.”

Talk Nation Radio: Saving a Native American Capital

This week on Talk Nation Radio we discuss efforts to save the site of a Native American capital. Greg Werkheiser is a founding partner of Cultural Heritage Partners. He’s an attorney and educator and is working on a campaign to save Rassawek, the site of the historic capital of the Monacan Indian Nation in what is now Virginia. http://CulturalHeritagePartners.com Rufus Elliot is a Monacan tribal member, and he was the Tribal Administrator until late last year. He's been coordinating the Section 106 consultation for the tribe on the Rassawek/James River Water Authority project. You can sign a petition in support at http://DIY.RootsAction.org

Talk Nation Radio: Grant Smith on Israel Within the Virginia State Government

This week on Talk Nation Radio, our guest is Grant Smith whose latest and ninth book about the Israel Lobby is called The Israel Lobby Enters State Government: Rise Of The Virginia Israel Advisory Board. You can find it at https://virginia.israellobby.org. Smith is director of the nonprofit Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy. In 2014, Smith sued the Department of Defense in federal court and won release of a detailed report, contracted in 1987, about the advanced state of Israel’s nuclear weapons program. The Nation wrote about it in the article “It’s Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too.” In 2015, Smith sued the Central Intelligence Agency and won release of 131 pages of formerly classified information revealing its overseas agents obtained compelling evidence that Israel stole U.S. government-owned weapons-grade uranium in the 1960s to build its first atom bombs.

Talk Nation Radio: Richard Tucker on What WWII Did and Is Doing to the Environment

This week on Talk Nation Radio we talk with Richard Tucker, who is one of the editors of the new book, Nature at War: American Environments and World War II. Richard Tucker is an environmental historian at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He is the founder and manager of a research network on the environmental consequences of military operations through history. See environmentandmilitary.com.

Talk Nation Radio: Tim Schwartz on How to Do Whistleblowing

Tim Schwartz is the author of a new book called A Public Service: Whistleblowing, Disclosure, and Anonymity. Tim Schwartz’s career focuses on data privacy and digital information as an artist, activist, and technologist. He specializes in teaching techniques for challenging power while protecting one’s identity. Schwartz co-organizes the digital training organization Los Angeles Cryptoparty, a member of the Electronic Frontier Alliance. He currently works as a digital strategist at Alley, a digital agency that builds websites and digital systems for the media, nonprofits, and others. After developing technology to reunite missing people affected by the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, he began organizing the Missing Persons Community of Interest, which develops technology for reunifying families after disasters. He lives in Los Angeles.

Talk Nation Radio: Sarah Lazare on Wars and Sanctions in a Time of Coronavirus

This week on Talk Nation Radio, we’ll talk about how the coronavirus crisis is impacting or failing to impact militarism and sanctions. Sarah Lazare is web editor at In These Times. She comes from a background in independent journalism for publications including The Nation, Tom Dispatch, YES! Magazine, and Al Jazeera America. A former staff writer for AlterNet and Common Dreams, Sarah co-edited the book "About Face: Military Resisters Turn Against War." Sarah got her start in journalism reporting for the Independent Media Center movement and has organized against U.S. militarism at home and abroad.

Talk Nation Radio: David Dayen on Systems Failing in a Time of Coronavirus

David Dayen is the executive editor of The American Prospect magazine. He is the author of Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary Americans Uncovered Wall Street's Great Foreclosure Fraud, winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. His next book, Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power, will be released in June. His work has also appeared in The Nation, The Intercept, The New Republic, Vice, HuffPost, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and more. He has been a guest on MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, NPR, and Pacifica Radio. He lives in Los Angeles.

Talk Nation Radio: Charlotte Dennett on Pipeline Wars

Charlotte Dennett is a former Middle East reporter, investigative journalist, and attorney. She is the co-author of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil. And she is the author of the new book we will be discussing: The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil. About the book: https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/the-crash-of-flight-3804/

Talk Nation Radio: Branko Marcetic on Joe Biden and Other Disasters

This week on Talk Nation Radio, we’re talking about Joe Biden, whether he can be found, and why anyone would want to find him anyway. Our guest is Branko Marcetic, author of Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden, and of numerous articles for Jacobin at JacobinMag.com.

Talk Nation Radio: Dean Baker on Coronavirus and Corporate Greed

This Week on Talk Nation Radio, we discuss Coronavirus, corporate greed, and other topics with Dean Baker. Dean Baker is Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, which he co-founded in 1999. His areas of research include housing and macroeconomics, intellectual property, Social Security, Medicare, and European labor markets. He is the author of several books, including Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer. His blog, “Beat the Press,” provides commentary on economic reporting.

Talk Nation Radio: Norman Solomon on Bernie v Biden

Norman Solomon is cofounder and coordinator of RootsAction.org as well as founder and director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of a dozen books including War Made Easy and Made Love, Got War. He has written op-ed pieces for almost every large daily U.S. newspaper and appears often on a wide range of radio and TV outlets. We discuss the U.S. presidential election.

Talk Nation Radio: Matt Hoh on Afghanistan and U.S. Foreign Policy

Matthew Hoh is a member of the advisory boards of Expose Facts, Veterans For Peace, and World BEYOND War. In 2009 he resigned his position with the State Department in Afghanistan in protest of the escalation of the Afghan War by the Obama Administration. He previously had been in Iraq with a State Department team and with the U.S. Marines. He is a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy.

Talk Nation Radio: Enough Blood Shed, End the Arms Trade

Mary-Wynne Ashford is a retired Family Physician, with a specialty in Palliative Care. She was Co-President of the International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War for four years, and President of Physicians for Global Survival (Canada) for four years. IPPNW received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She has received many awards for her work and her book Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror, and War. She has been teaching thousands of high school students about nuclear weapons and the Ban Treaty. Simon Black is a professor of labour studies at Brock University and founder of Labour Against the Arms Trade (LAAT), a coalition of peace and labour activists working to end Canada’s participation in the international arms trade. LAAT organizes for arms conversion and a just transition for arms industry workers. @_SimonBlack @LAATCanada Simon Black and Mary-Wynne Ashford will both be speaking in May at the NoWar2020 conference in Ottawa. See https://nowar2020.worldbeyon…

Talk Nation Radio: Richard Sanders on Shutting Down Weapons Shows

Richard Sanders is a researcher/writer/activist who has engaged full-time in the peace movement since 1984 when he escaped academia with an MA in cultural anthropology. His efforts to debunk Canada’s peace mythology began when coordinating Ottawa’s Peace Resource Centre, producing a community anti-war radio program for almost 20 years, and being a local organizer with the Alliance for Nonviolent Action. In late 1988, he founded the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT.ncf.ca). Its initial disARMX campaign, which included a conference, public inquiry, and march/rally of several thousand, precipitated Ottawa’s 20-year ban on arms bazaars. Richard Sanders will be speaking at No War 2020, World BEYOND War's conference in Ottawa in May which will be part of an effort to shut down CANSEC, the latest giant weapons show in Ottawa. See https://nowar2020.worldbeyondwar.org

Talk Nation Radio: Jefferson Morley on Israel, Iran, and the United States

Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and investigative reporter. Over the last 35 years he has served as Washington correspondent for The Nation and Salon and as editor and reporter at the Washington Post and Washingtonpost.com for 15 years. He is the author of three books of non-fiction history: The Ghost, a biography of legendary CIA spymaster James Jesus Angleton; Snow-Storm in August, the untold tale of a white riot that swept Washington in 1835; and Our Man in Mexico, a biography of Win Scott, the CIA’s top spy in Mexico in the 1960s. Morley is founder and editor of The Deep State, a news blog about secret intelligence agencies which averages 8,500 readers a month. See http://deepstateblog.org

Talk Nation Radio: Annette Brownlie: Australia Better Without U.S. Troops

Annette Brownlie is a mother and a life-long peace organiser and activist, arising out of the experiences of her father in WW2 and her own experiences as a teenager opposing the Vietnam war. Annette has had leadership roles in anti-nuclear, environmental, and peace organisations in Brisbane. She is a recipient of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom and the United Nations Association of Australia Community Peace Award. When the announcement was made in 2012 to host U.S. Marines in Australia, she, along with colleagues and friends, initiated the formation of the national network IPAN, the Independent and Peaceful Australia Network, now representing organisations from every state of Australia. She is the current national chairperson. See http://ipan.org.au

Talk Nation Radio: Margaret Kimberley on the 45 Worst Presidents Ever

Margaret Kimberley has been Editor and Senior Columnist for Black Agenda Report since its inception in 2006. Her first book, Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents, will be published by Steerforth Press on February 4, 2020. She is a contributor to the OR Books anthology, In Defense of Julian Assange. She has also produced original work for Consortium News, Counterpunch, the Dallas Morning News, and the American Herald Tribune. Ms. Kimberley was a contributor to the 2014 book Killing Trayvons: An Anthology of American Violence. She is a regular guest on radio and internet talk shows and has appeared on Al Jazeera English, RT, WBAI, WPFW, KPFK, KPFA, Sputnik News, Presstv Iran, The Real News Network, and Govorit Moskva (Moscow Voice Radio).

Talk Nation Radio: Phill Gittins on Educating to End War

Phill Gittins is World BEYOND War’s Education Director. Phill has lived, worked, and travelled in over 50 countries across 6 continents; taught in schools, colleges, and universities in eight countries; and led experiential training and training-of-trainers for hundreds of individuals on peace and conflict processes. Other experience includes work in youth offending prisons; oversight management for youth and community projects; and consultation for public and non-profit organisations on peace, education, and youth issues. Phill has received multiple awards for his contributions to peace and conflict work, including the Rotary Peace Fellowship and the Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace.

Talk Nation Radio: Roger Hallam on Extinction Rebellion

Roger Hallam is a PhD researcher on civil disobedience at King's College London and an organic vegetable farmer. He has been a vegan for 34 years. In 2018 he co founded Extinction Rebellion. He has also just authored a terrific short book called Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse. His website is rogerhallam.com

Talk Nation Radio: Lisa McCrea on How Military Bases Are Poisoning Us

Lisa McCrea is an environmental and human rights activist, and the mother of five. She lived on the former George Air Force Base in California from 1987 to 1991. She found out 30 years after first stepping foot on the base that it was and is extremely contaminated with numerous toxic substances, including nuclear waste. She became partially disabled in 1990 and completely disabled in 2003, at the age of 35, as a direct result of her contamination exposure. In 2017, she switched her focus from corporate contamination to military contamination. Already a veterans' advocate, she found out about the George AFB contamination through a veteran from Camp Lejeune, NC. Since 2017, she has been fighting for governmental and Department of Defense accountability and justice for all affected by military contamination. Learn more: Video: My Miscarriage and Radioactive Soft Drinks Military Times: Why women were told ‘Don’t get pregnant at George Air Force Base’ Facebook: Lisa McCrea Lisa M…

Iran War: Connect the Dots

I had a great conversation this morning on KPFK with Harvey Wasserman and Alan Minsky on Connect the Dots, Lila Garrett's show. -- David Swanson

David Swanson on U.S.-Iran War with Harvey Wasserman on KPFK

From Harvey Wasserman's Solartopia show on KPFK, January 2, 2020

Talk Nation Radio: Nukes, Space Force, and War Pigs in Space

Alice Slater serves on the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War and is the UN NGO Representative of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. She is on the Board of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, the Global Council of Abolition 2000, and the Advisory Board of Nuclear Ban-US, supporting the mission of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.

Talk Nation Radio: The Christmas Truce

This Week on Talk Nation Radio, we discuss the Christmas Truces of 1914. Learn more at https://worldbeyondwar.org/christmastruce

Talk Nation Radio: The Need to Ban Nuclear Weapons and Energy

This Week on Talk Nation Radio, we speak with two of the key people behind Beyond Nuclear International, which you can find at beyondnuclearinternational.org Linda Pentz Gunter founded Beyond Nuclear in 2007 and serves as its international specialist as well as its media and development director. Prior to her work in anti-nuclear advocacy, she was a journalist for 20 years in print and broadcast, working for USA Network, Reuters, The Times (UK), and other US and international outlets. Beyond Nuclear works to support grassroots, national and international efforts to phase out nuclear power in favor of safer renewable energy choices. It also draws attention to the perpetual link between nuclear power and the pathway to nuclear weapons and advocates for a global nuclear weapons ban. Cindy Folkers studies radiation impacts on health, with particular focus on women, children, and pregnancy. She monitors and encourages community engagement with Congress and national scientific panels on ra…

Preetha Gopalan on Appealing the ICC's Decision not to Prosecute War Crimes in Afghanistan

Preetha Gopalan is Reprieve's Deputy Head of UK Litigation. She works on strategic litigation efforts in the UK which seek to hold the British Government to account for complicity in the death penalty, torture, secret detention and extrajudicial killings abroad. Reprieve has just appealed the decision by the International Criminal Court not to pursue prosecution of war crimes in Afghanistan.

Talk Nation Radio: David Gibbs: Get Rid of NATO

David Gibbs is a Professor of History at the University of Arizona and has published widely on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and NATO. His publications have appeared in both academic and popular venues, such as the London Guardian, Los Angeles Times, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He also recently debated the topic of humanitarian intervention at the Oxford Union Society in the UK. Professor Gibbs is currently finishing his third book, on the rise of American conservatism during the 1970s, to be entitled "How America Became a Right Wing Nation."

Talk Nation Radio: Impeachment: Do It Right, Or Don't Do It

This week on Talk Nation Radio: a rant on impeachment, in favor of doing it right or not doing it at all.

Talk Nation Radio: Misagh Parsa on Protests in Iran

Misagh Parsa is a Professor of Sociology who has taught at Dartmouth since 1989. A specialist on revolutions, he is the author of States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, as well as Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution. His most recent book which we discuss here, is called Democracy in Iran: Why it Failed and how it Might Succeed.

Talk Nation Radio: Elizabeth Murray on OPCW Covering Up War Lies

Elizabeth Murray served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East in the National Intelligence Council (NIC), before retiring in 2010 after a 27-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. She was a political analyst focusing on various Middle Eastern countries and also served as an editor and media analyst for the U.S. Government’s Open Source Center, OSC, now known as the Open Source Enterprise. She is conversant in German, Arabic, and Spanish. A member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, Elizabeth currently serves as Member-in-Residence at the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action located near Seattle.

Talk Nation Radio: Lindsay Koshgarian on How-Ya-Gonna-Pay-For-It

Lindsay Koshgarian is the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, where she oversees NationalPriorities.org. Lindsay’s work on the federal budget includes analysis of the federal budget process and politics, military spending, and specifically how federal budget choices for different spending priorities and taxation interact.

Talk Nation Radio: Mark Isaacs on Peace Activism in Afghanistan

Mark Isaacs is the author, among other books, of the new book, The Kabul Peace House, which we discuss, and which describes a community of peace activists in Afghanistan. Mark is president of Sydney PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, a worldwide association of writers which defends freedom of expression and campaigns on behalf of writers who have been silenced by persecution or imprisonment. He speaks with us from Australia. His website is markjisaacs.com

Talk Nation Radio: Kings Bay Plowshares 7

The Kingsbay Ploughshares 7 are facing 25 years in prison for their action at a nuclear submarine base. We speak with six of them: Elizabeth McAlister, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Patrick O'Neill, and Carmen Trotta. https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/

Jeffrey Sterling, CIA Whistleblower, on What He Now Thinks Was the Purpose of Operation Merlin

Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer who was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and was in federal prison in Colorado. I don't think that prior to this program Sterling has been asked whether he believes the official purpose of the progam he worked on giving nuclear bomb plans to Iran. Does he really think the purpose of giving obviously flawed bomb-part plans to Iran was to slow down a nuclear weapons program that may not even have existed? Or does he believe the purpose was to plant evidence on the government of Iran? Listen to his answer. Before his trial and conviction, Sterling worked at the CIA, including for the Iran task force, for nearly a decade. He studied political science at Millikin University and holds a law degree from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He was released from prison in January 2018. While Jeffrey was in prison, his wife Holly was on this program. Jeffrey Sterling has a new book out called Unwanted Spy: The Persecution o…

Talk Nation Radio: Ahmet Tonak on a 2500% increase in worker exploitation

E. Ahmet Tonak is the author and editor of several books including Measuring the Wealth of Nations: The Political Economy of National Accounts (with Anwar Shaikh), Turkey in Transition: New Perspectives (edited with Irvin Schick) and Marxism and Classes (edited with Sungur Savran and Kurtar Tanyılmaz). Trained as a mechanical engineer at Istanbul Technical University, he earned a Ph.D. in economics from the New School for Social Research. Tonak taught for many years at Istanbul Bilgi University, Middle East Technical University, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and is currently a visiting professor at UMASS Amherst and works as an economist at Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Interregional Office, Northampton, Massachusetts. He wrote for several Turkish dailies and contributes to sendika.org, an alternative news portal in Turkey. We discuss his new report: "The Rate of Exploitation: The Case of the iPhone."

Talk Nation Radio: Lisa Fithian on Nonviolent Direct Action

Lisa Fithian has just published a terrific guide to direct action and strategic civil disobedience as the most radical and rapid means to social change, called Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce Loving Resistance. Fithian has been described by Mother Jones magazine as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant.” She has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and the uprisings at Standing Rock and Ferguson. The website for Lisa's new book, which I strongly advise getting is http://shutitdownnow.org Photo by Leon Alesi.

Talk Nation Radio: Kathy Kelly on Peace, Afghanistan, Yemen, Ireland, and the United States

Kathy Kelly has traveled to war zones and lived alongside ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon. She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe the U.S. should end all U.S. military and economic warfare and pay reparations for suffering already caused by U.S. wars. Recently, Voices has helped organize vigils, forums, fasts, and nonviolent direct action calling for an immediate end to hostilities driving near famine conditions in Yemen. Kathy Kelly is a member of World BEYOND War’s Advisory Board. See: http://vcnv.org https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019

Talk Nation Radio: Russell Gray on Plans to Shut Down Streets for Climate

Russell Gray grew up in Kansas City, graduated from college in 2017 and took a banking regulation job with the U.S. government. He left that job in November 2018 to help start the climate group Extinction Rebellion ( https://extinctionrebellion.us/ ) in the United States. He's now working to shut down DC on September 23rd ( see http://strikedc.org ) as a follow up to the September 20th global climate strike and a lead up to further climate strike actions around the globe. Join World BEYOND War's affinity group for Strike DC at http://bit.ly/wbwaffinity See also: This Is Really Not a Drill http://davidswanson.org/this-is-really-not-a-drill/ and: Nonviolence Denial Is As Dangerous As Climate Denial http://davidswanson.org/nonviolence-denial-is-as-dangerous-as-climate-denial/

Talk Nation Radio: Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff on Protesting War in Ireland

Ken Mayers and Tarak Kauff are out on bail and forbidden to leave Ireland. They attempted to inspect a U.S. plane for weapons in supposedly neutral Ireland. They will be taking part in #NoWar2019 (https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019). Ken Mayers was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island prior to attending Princeton University. Upon graduation in 1958 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corp, eventually rising to the rank of major. He resigned his commission in disgust with American foreign policy at the end of 1966 and returned to the University of California at Berkeley where he earned a Ph.D. in political science. He has been a peace and justice activist ever since. He has served six years on the Veterans For Peace Board of Directors, five of them as national treasurer. Tarak Kauff was a U..S. Army paratrooper from 1959 – 1962. He is a member of Veterans For Peace, the managing editor of Peace in Our Times, VFP’s quarterly newspape…

Talk Nation Radio: Clare Daly on Ireland, Peace, and War

Clare Daly is an Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament from Ireland since July. She is a member of Independents 4 Change, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. She served as a Teachta Dála or member of Ireland's parliament from 2011 to 2019. Clare Daly will be speaking at the NoWar2019 conference and rally being planned by World BEYOND War for Limerick, Ireland, on October 5th and 6th. https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019

Q&A re 10 Ways We Pretend War Is Not a Crime and How to Change Them

Recorded by Dale Lehman / WZRD and posted at Radio4All (listen here). Or listen below. This is a keynote talk by David Swanson for the West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition at their Peace Essay Contest Awards Presentation on August 27, 2019, the 91st Anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It was Swanson's 2011 book, "When the World Outlawed War", an inspiring but forgotten story from the 1920s of how people created a treaty to ban all war — a treaty still on the books but ignored, given to Frank Goetz, the Coalition's just past President and Peace Essay Contest coordinator, by peace activist Kathy Kelly, that inspired him to establish the Peace Essay Contest, now in its 7th year.

10 Ways We Pretend War Is Not a Crime and How to Change Them

Recorded by Dale Lehman / WZRD and posted at Radio4All (listen here). Or listen below. This is a keynote talk by David Swanson for the West Suburban Faith-Based Peace Coalition at their Peace Essay Contest Awards Presentation on August 27, 2019, the 91st Anniversary of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. It was Swanson's 2011 book, "When the World Outlawed War", an inspiring but forgotten story from the 1920s of how people created a treaty to ban all war — a treaty still on the books but ignored, given to Frank Goetz, the Coalition's just past President and Peace Essay Contest coordinator, by peace activist Kathy Kelly, that inspired him to establish the Peace Essay Contest, now in its 7th year.

Talk Nation Radio: Barry Sweeney on Global Anti-War Conference Planned in Ireland

Barry Sweeney is a member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. Barry is based in Ireland, but is often in Vietnam and Italy. His background is in education and environmentalism. He taught as a primary school teacher in Ireland for a number of years, before moving to Italy in 2009 to teach English. His love for environmental understanding led him to many progressive projects in Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. He became more and more involved in environmentalism in Ireland, and has now been teaching on a Permaculture Design Certificate course for 5 years. More recent work has seen him teaching on World BEYOND War’s War Abolition course for the last two years. Also, in 2017 and 2018 he organized peace symposia in Ireland, bringing together many of the peace/anti-war groups in Ireland. Barry is helping to plan NoWar2019: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019 He discussed this petition to the Irish and U.S. governments: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/the-world-must-support-irela…

Talk Nation Radio: Timmon Wallis on Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal

Timmon Wallis is the author of Disarming the Nuclear Argument and The Truth About Trident. He has a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University in England, and has been working on nuclear disarmament and other peace issues since the 1970s. Most recently, he was Program Manager for Peace and Disarmament for Quakers in Britain, before moving back to Northampton, Massachusetts. He has also been Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce. As a member of the ICAN (International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons) team at the UN in 2017, Timmon took part in the negotiations which led to the adoption by 122 countries of the Nuclear Ban Treaty and won ICAN the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. With his new partner, Vicki Elson, he is now running NuclearBan.US, the campaign to get cities and states in the United States to comply with the Nuclear Ban Treaty. Wallis recently authored a report called Warheads to Windmills: How to Pay for a Green New Deal.

Talk Nation Radio: Pat Elder on Military Bases Poisoning Ground Water

Pat Elder is a member of World BEYOND War’s Board of Directors. He is the author of Military Recruiting in the United States, and the Director of the National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy. The coalition works to counter the alarming militarization of the United States’ high schools. Pat also writes for World BEYOND War and Civilian Exposure, an organization that tracks how the U.S. military poisons people around the world. Pat’s focus is on documenting contamination caused by the U.S. military’s use in routine fire-fighting drills of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (also known as PFAS). Pat Elder will be speaking at the NoWar2019 conference and rally in Limerick, Ireland, this October 5th and 6th: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019

Talk Nation Radio: Ed Horgan on Ireland and Peace

Edward Horgan retired from the Irish 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 monitoring missions in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Asia, and Africa. He is international secretary with the Irish Peace and Neutrality Alliance, Chairperson and founder of Veterans For Peace Ireland, and a peace activist with Shannonwatch. His many peace activities include the case of Horgan v Ireland, in which he took the Irish Government to the High Court over breaches of Irish Neutrality and U.S. military use of Shannon airport, and a high profile court case resulting from his attempt to arrest U.S. President George W. Bush in Ireland in 2004. He teaches politics and international relations part-time at the University of Limerick. He completed a PhD thesis on reform of the United Nations in 2008 and has a master’s degree in peace studies and a B.A. degree…

Talk Nation Radio: Jeremy Kuzmarov on Obama's Unending Wars

Jeremy Kuzmarov has taught at numerous colleges across the United States and is author of four books on U.S. foreign policy including The Russians are Coming, Again: The First Cold War as Tragedy, the Second as Farce, with John Marciano and the new book that we will be discussing and which I highly recommend: Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State.

Talk Nation Radio: Jeff Ostler on Surviving Genocide

Jeff Ostler is Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History at the University of Oregon. He teaches courses on U.S. history and American Indian history. And he is the author of an important new book called Surviving Genocide: Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas.

U.S. Troops Back in Saudi Arabia: What Could Go Wrong?

http://davidswanson.org/u-s-troops-back-in-saudi-arabia-what-could-go-wrong/

Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kall on the Bottom-Up Revolution

Rob Kall is an award-winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector, and visionary. He's the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity. He has pioneered first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science, and Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful people on his Bottom-Up Radio Show. And Rob founded and publishes the progressive news and opinion site, OpEdNews.com, which has seen over 23 million visitors.

Talk Nation Radio: Donald McInnis on Miranda Rights for Children

Donald E. McInnis is the author of She's So Cold: Murder, Accusations, and the System that Devastated a Family. He is a California criminal defense attorney, and he represented one of the three accused boys, Aaron Houser, in the Stephanie Crowe murder case. Over the span of his 40-year legal career, Mr. McInnis has worked alternately for the prosecution and for the defense, having served as a deputy district attorney for two California counties and as a deputy public defender for one California county during his early professional years. His website is https://donaldmcinnis.com

Talk Nation Radio: Marc Mauer on Life in Prison and Felony Disenfranchisement

Marc Mauer is the executive director of The Sentencing Project, a national organization based in Washington, D.C. that promotes criminal justice reform. His books include The Meaning of Life: The Case for Abolishing Life Sentences, coauthored with Ashley Nellis. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has just released a report that draws on testimony by Marc Mauer on the impact of felony disenfranchisement.

Talk Nation Radio: Thom Hartmann on Guns and the Second Amendment

Thom Hartmann is a progressive national and internationally syndicated talk show host and the author of The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment. Talkers magazine named him America's most important progressive host and has named his show one of the top ten talk radio shows in the country every year for over a decade. A four-time recipient of the Project Censored Award, Hartmann is also a New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five books, translated into multiple languages.

Talk Nation Radio: Martin Hellman on Rethinking National Security

Martin E. Hellman is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His work spans cyber security, reducing the risk of a nuclear disaster, and peace. His invention of public key cryptography is at the heart of the secure portion of the Internet and has won him many honors, including the million dollar ACM Turing Award, the top prize in computer science. In 2016, he and his wife of fifty years published A New Map for Relationships: Creating True Love at Home & Peace on the Planet. He has applied risk analysis to nuclear deterrence and, in his most recent project, he has raised troubling questions about the assumptions that form the foundation for common current thinking about national security. Hellman also wrote "The Man in the TNT Vest."

Talk Nation Radio: Stephen Roblin on What Moves People Against War

Stephen Roblin is a scholar of U.S. public opinion towards U.S. war and conflict. He is committed to using his research to support activists, NGOs and policymakers working to mitigate and prevent the human costs of war. His research examines the effect of civilian harm by the U.S. military and anti-war messaging on U.S. public opinion. He is currently a PhD candidate in Political Science at Cornell University. Prior to attending Cornell, he earned his masters at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy in 2009 and his BA at Morgan State University in 2006. In 2019-2020, he will be a predoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS) at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. See https://www.stephenroblin.com

Talk Nation Radio: Joe Emersberger on the Media, Assange, Venezuela

Joe Emersberger is a Canada-based writer who writes primarily these days for FAIR.org, the Canary, and Counterpunch, and previously for Telesur English. You can find him on Twitter at rosendo_joe We discuss the media, Julian Assange, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

Talk Nation Radio: Ross Caputi on the Sacking of Fallujah

Ross Caputi is a PhD student in History at UMass and a coauthor of the critically important new book The Sacking of Fallujah: A People's History. Ross Caputi’s experience as a U.S. Marine in Fallujah in 2004 compelled him to speak out against the war and to organize solidarity efforts with Fallujah. He is also a co-founder of the Islah Reparations Project.

Talk Nation Radio: Danny Haiphong on American Exceptionalism and Innocence

Danny Haiphong is an activist, journalist, and scholar. For the last five years, Haiphong has been a weekly contributor to Black Agenda Report. His articles have also appeared in The American Herald Tribune, MintPressNews, and CounterPunch. His work was featured in former Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney’s latest book How the U.S. Creates Sh*thole Countries (2018). Haiphong recently co-authored the book American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News-from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror.

Talk Nation Radio: Marc Eliot Stein on Technology and Peace Activism

Marc Eliot Stein is a member of World BEYOND War’s Board of Directors. I'm the Executive Director of World BEYOND War. Marc has been a web developer since the 1990s, and over the years has built sites for Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, the international literary site Words Without Borders, the Allen Ginsberg estate, Time Warner, A&E Network/History Channel, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Center for Disease Control, and Meredith Digital Publishing. He is also a writer, and for years he maintained a popular literary blog called Literary Kicks using the pen name Levi Asher (he still runs the blog, but has ditched the pen name). Marc has begun creating a new podcast for World BEYOND War ( https://worldbeyondwar.org/podcast ), as well as helping World BEYOND War with social media, website issues, and the antiwar movement within the Information Technology world.

Talk Nation Radio: Mike Gravel on Why He's Running for President

Mike Gravel is a former U.S. Senator who opposed the war on Vietnam and entered the Penatgon Papers into the Congressional Record. He has been an activist and advocate for democracy and peace for decades. He is a current candidate for U.S. President in the Democratic Party primaries. See mikegravel.org

Talk Nation Radio: Max Blumenthal on the Management of Savagery

Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and his latest, which we will be discussing, The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions. Visit TheGrayZone.com.

Talk Nation Radio: Greg Grandin on the End of the Myth

Greg Grandin is the author of a number of prize-winning books, including The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, and Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. Grandin is a professor of history at NYU and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. We discuss his new book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.

Talk Nation Radio: Foad Izadi on U.S.-Iranian Relations and Peace Activism in Iran

Foad Izadi is a member of World BEYOND War's Coordinating Committee based in Iran. His research and teaching interests are inter-disciplinary and focus on United States-Iran relations and U.S. public diplomacy. His book, United States Public Diplomacy Towards Iran, discusses the U.S. communication efforts in Iran during the George W. Bush and Obama administrations. Izadi has published numerous studies in national and international academic journals and major handbooks, including: Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society, Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy and Edward Elgar Handbook of Cultural Security. Dr. Foad Izadi is a faculty member at the Department ofAmerican Studies, Faculty of World Studies, University of Tehran, where he teaches M.A. and Ph.D. courses in American studies. He'll be speaking at #NoWar2019 https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2019

Talk Nation Radio: Vijay Mehta on How Not to Go to War

Vijay Mehta is an author and peace activist. He is Chair of Uniting for Peace and founding Trustee of Fortune Forum Charity. His notable books include ‘The Economics of Killing’ (Pluto Press, 2012) and ‘Peace Beyond Borders’ (New Internationalist, 2016). His current book is ‘How Not To Go To War’ (New Internationalist, 2019). The Sunday Times described him as a “longstanding activist for peace, development, human rights and the environment, who along with his daughter Renu Mehta has set a precedent for striving to change the world” (The Sunday Times, February 01, 2009). In 2014, Vijay Mehta’s bio “The Audacity of Dreams” appeared in the book form “Karma Kurry” published by Jaico Publishing House, India with a foreword to the book by Nelson Mandela. “Thank you for all you do Vijay – both the organisation Uniting for Peace and yourself are inspiration and give us all hope that both yourself and the organisation can bring a world without a war. Indeed it is…

Talk Nation Radio: Maria Zakharova on Ukraine and NATO

Maria Zakharova is an activist and public lecturer based in Odessa, Ukraine. She has been a strong supporter of the Council of Mothers of May 2, which represents relatives of the scores of progressives murdered at Odessa’s House of Trade Unions by a right-wing mob on May 2, 2014, just a few months after the coup that overthrew the democratically elected president of Ukraine. Ever since the massacre, Zakharova has been promoting the demand by the Council of Mothers for an international investigation into who was responsible for the murders, addressing this issue at meetings, conferences, and rallies across Europe and in the United States. Zakharova is a graduate of Odessa National Technic University with a degree in computer engineering. She holds a doctorate in Social Psychology and currently is pursuing studies in the field of Scientific Community. She is speaking this week in Washington, D.C., as part of http://notoNATO.org.

Talk Nation Radio: Marcela Mulholland on the Sunrise Movement

Marcela Mulholland is a 21-year-old organizer with Sunrise Movement. Her personal experiences with the impacts of sea level rise in her hometown, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. motivate her to fight for coastal communities everywhere that will be devastated by climate change. She is currently a senior studying Political Science and Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida. In addition to being a student, Marcela is an organizer with Divest UF a group dedicated to financially disentangling the University of Florida from toxic industries including fossil fuels and private prisons.

Talk Nation Radio: Darcia Narvaez on Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality

Darcia Narvaez is Professor of Psychology at the University of Notre Dame and focuses on moral development and flourishing from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating anthropology, neuroscience, clinical, developmental and educational sciences. Dr. Narvaez’s current research explores how early life experience influences societal culture and moral character. One of her recent books, Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality: Evolution, Culture and Wisdom won the 2015 William James Book Award from the American Psychological Association. She writes a popular blog for Psychology Today (“Moral Landscapes”).

Talk Nation Radio: Omali Yeshitela on No to NATO — Yes to Peace

Omali Yeshitela is Chairman of the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace, and Reparations. The website is at blackisbackcoalition.orgHe has agreed to speak on April 4th in Washington DC at the No to NATO — Yes to Peace events. The website for that is NotoNATO.org.Chairman Omali is also Chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party USA and the African Socialist International, and is the founder of The Burning Spear newspaper. See theburningspear.com

Talk Nation Radio: Roy Eidelson on How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding

Roy Eidelson, PhD, is the former executive director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict and a past president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. His work focuses on applying psychological knowledge to issues of social justice and political change. His writing has appeared in a variety of scholarly peer-reviewed journals and other outlets including the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times. He is the author of Political Mind Games: How the 1% Manipulate Our Understanding of What’s Happening, What’s Right, and What’s Possible. Follow him online at royeidelson.com and @royeidelson.

Talk Nation Radio: Liz Remmerswaal Hughes on Peace Activism in New Zealand

Liz Remmerswaal Hughes is a member of the Coordinating Committee of World BEYOND War. She is the Country Coordinator for World BEYOND War in New Zealand / Aotearoa where she works with a number of peace organizations. In 2017 she was awarded the Sonia Davies Peace Award which enabled her to study Peace Literacy with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara, attend the WILPF triennial Congress in Chicago, and a workshop on Peace and Conscience in Ann Arbor. We discuss opposition in New Zealand to the purchase of U.S. war planes.See: https://worldbeyondwar.org/newzealand

Talk Nation Radio: John Lannon on Peace and Neutrality in Ireland and Europe

John Lannon is a member of the Executive Committee of the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) in Ireland, a founding member of Shannon Watch, and a lecturer and researcher at the University of Limerick. We discuss Ireland’s neutrality and lack thereof. https://worldbeyondwar.org/ireland

Talk Nation Radio: Ana Maria Gower on Art Against Militarism

Ana Maria Gower is a Serbian-British mixed media artist focusing on the themes of memories, life path, and experiences of war. The origin of her artistic interests goes back to her own experience of surviving the NATO bombings of Yugoslavia and its capital – Belgrade. Being a 10-year-old in a war zone, she witnessed the destruction caused by NATO involvement both during the conflict and for years after. A graduate of Central Saint-Martins (London, UK), she has participated in numerous exhibitions in the UK, Serbia, and the United States. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. And she will be exhibiting her art and speaking at the No to NATO - Yes to Peace Festival in April in Washington DC (See NotoNATO.org).

Talk Nation Radio: Lee Camp on Venezuela and Declaring Himself Governor of Idaho

Lee Camp is the head writer and host of the TV show "Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp" on RT America, which is watched by millions around the world. He’s a former contributor to The Onion, former staff humor writer for the Huffington Post, and had a hit web series called “Moment of Clarity." He’s toured the country and the world with his fierce brand of standup comedy, and George Carlin’s daughter Kelly said he’s one of the few comics keeping her father’s torch lit. Among his top accolades, he's also had smear pieces done about him by the New York Times and NPR's Weekend Edition.

Talk Nation Radio: Hoor Arifi on Life in Endless War in Afghanistan

Hoor Arifi is an Afghan activist who has been involved with humanitarian works in Afghanistan since he was a young boy. He has worked as a Coordinator with the "Afghan Peace Volunteers" while living in Afghanistan. Currently, he is majoring in Politics and Business at a U.S. University. He also works as a facilitator with the "Afghan Diaspora Communities" trying to solve problems faced by Afghans at home and abroad.

Talk Nation Radio: Dana Frank on What the U.S. Is Doing to Honduras

Dana Frank is the author of The Long Honduran Night: Resistance, Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup. She is professor of history emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Since the 2009 military coup, her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in outlets including the New York Times, The Nation, and Foreign Affairs, and she has testified before the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament.

Talk Nation Radio: Rob Kajiwara on U.S. Bases on Okinawa

Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he was also made a cultural ambassador / special envoy for Ke Aupuni o Hawaii (the Hawaiian Kingdom) in order to share Hawaiian history, culture, and issues in Ryukyu. Rob Kijiwara recently organized a petition to the White House about Okinawa that many of us joined him in delivering there on January 7th. Stand With Okinawa. http://standwithokinawa.net/ The Tyranny of Contamination: The US Military is poisoning Okinawa. https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-tyranny-of-contamination-the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa/ U.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom https://worldbeyondwar.org/u-s-bases-in-okinawa-are-a-threat-to-freedom/ The petition https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-landfill-henoko-oura-bay-until-referendum-can-be-held-okinawa

Talk Nation Radio: Wes Bellamy on Charlottesville, Racism, and the Statue

Dr. Wes Bellamy is a City Councilman in Charlottesville, Va., and a political science professor at Virginia State University. He has helped lead the ongoing effort to remove statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. His new book is called Monumental: It Was Never About a Statue.

Talk Nation Radio: Peter Phillips on The Global Power Elite

Peter Phillips has been a Professor of Political Sociology at Sonoma State University since 1994. He was Director of Project Censored from 1996 to 2010 and President of the Media Freedom Foundation from 2003 to 2017. He has been editor or co-editor of fourteen editions of Censored, co-editor with Dennis Loo of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney 2006, editor of two editions of Progressive Guide to Alternative Media and Activism 1999 & 2004. His most recent book is Giants: The Global Power Elite.

Talk Nation Radio: Leonard Higgins on Extinction Rebeliion

Leonard Higgins is a member of the Extinction Rebellion U.S. National Coordination Team and was a valve turner two years ago, one of a number of activists who took nonviolent action to shut off pipelines. Now new nonviolent actions are underway.

Talk Nation Radio: Stephanie Welch on A Dangerous Idea

Stephanie Welch is a documentarian and executive director of Paragon Media, a nonprofit media organization that is the co-producer of the new film, A DANGEROUS IDEA. Welch is also Senior Producer at the nonprofit Bioneers and produces the award-winning syndicated program Bioneers Radio: Revolution from the Heart of Nature. She co-produced the radio documentary Biowars: First Do No Harm, which won a NFCB Silver Reel Award. Welch is also audio engineer for Women Rising Radio. We discuss A DANGEROUS IDEA. See http://adangerousideafilm.com

Talk Nation Radio: Mark Colville Tells Why He Hammered and Poured Blood on Nuclear Weapons

Mark Colville is one of the seven Kings Bay Plowshares activists. We recorded this interview on December 11th 2018, and Mark planned to turn himself in hours later at the Glynn County Jail in Brunswick, Georgia. Learn more: http://kingsbayplowshares7.org https://www.facebook.com/Kingsbayplowshares http://www.nukeresister.org

Talk Nation Radio: Dave Lindorff on the Pentagon's Fictional Budget

Dave Lindorff is an investigative reporter who writes for the Nation, London Review of Books, Salon and Tarbell.org. He is founder of the collectively run journalists' news site thiscantbehappening.net. Lindorff has just published an articled called "Exclusive: The Pentagon’s Massive Accounting Fraud Exposed." See: https://www.thenation.com/article/pentagon-audit-budget-fraud

Talk Nation Radio: James Crossland on War Reformers and War Abolishers

James Crossland is Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, and a founder member of the Humanitarian Working Histories Group. He is the author of Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945, and most recently, War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914.

Talk Nation Radio: Barry Sweeney on Ireland, Peace, and Neutrality

Barry Sweeney is a member of the coordinating committee of World BEYOND War, of which I'm the director. Barry is based in Ireland, but is often in Vietnam and Italy. His background is in education and environmentalism. He taught as a primary school teacher in Ireland for a number of years, before moving to Italy in 2009 to teach English. His love for environmental understanding led him to many progressive projects in Ireland, Italy, and Sweden. He became more and more involved in environmentalism in Ireland, and has now been teaching on a Permaculture Design Certificate course for 5 years. More recent work has seen him teaching on World BEYOND War’s War Abolition course for the last two years. Also, in 2017 and 2018 he organized peace symposia in Ireland, bringing together many of the peace/anti-war groups in Ireland. Barry is currently living in Vietnam, although he still continues his role of Country Coordinator for World BEYOND War in Ireland. Sign this petition: https://worldbey…

Talk Nation Radio: Stephen McKeown on Armistice Day

Steve McKeown was a radio operator in the 4th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army in Vietnam in 1966 to 1967. He was a founding member of Veterans For Peace Chapter 27 in Minneapolis / St. Paul, and is the coordinator for their newsletter. Steve has spoken to hundreds of classes in elementary and high schools, colleges, churches, and community groups on matters of war and peace. And he has been part of organizing all kinds of peace activism including related to Armistice Day, the 100th anniversary of which was this past Sunday.

Talk Nation Radio: Greta Zarro on Organizing a World BEYOND War

Greta Zarro is Organizing Director at World BEYOND War. She has a background in issue-based community organizing. Her experience includes volunteer recruitment and engagement, event organizing, coalition building, legislative and media outreach, and public speaking. Greta graduated as valedictorian from St. Michael’s College with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Anthropology. She then pursued a master’s in Food Studies at New York University before accepting a full-time community organizing job with leading non-profit Food & Water Watch. There, she worked on issues related to fracking, genetically engineered foods, climate change, and the corporate control of our common resources. Greta describes herself as a vegetarian sociologist-environmentalist. She is interested in the interconnections of social-ecological systems and sees the profligacy of the military-industrial complex, as part of the larger corporatocracy, as the root of many cultural and environmental ills. She and her…

Talk Nation Radio: Suyapa Portillo Villeda on Migrant Caravan

Suyapa Portillo Villeda is an Associate Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. She recently published an article in Counter Punch called An Illegitimate, US-Backed Regime is Fueling the Honduran Refugee Crisis.

Talk Nation Radio: Nicolas Davies on War Profiteers

Nicolas J. S. Davies writes about U.S. foreign policy, war and militarism for Consortium News and other outlets. He has been working as a researcher with CODEPINK, and co-authored its report on "War Profiteers: the U.S. War Machine and the Arming of Repressive Regimes." He is also the author of the excellent book, Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq.

1 - 20 - On this day in 1987, Terry Waite was taken hostage

January 20. On this day in 1987, humanitarian and peace activist Terry Waite, special envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury, was taken hostage in Lebanon.

1 - 19 - On this day in 1920, the ACLU was born.

January 19. On this day in 1920, in the face of egregious civil liberties abuses, a small group took a stand, and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was born.

1 - 18 - On this day in 2001, two members of Trident Ploughshares were acquitted

January 18. On this day in 2001, two members of the direct action group, Trident Ploughshares, were acquitted after being charged with harming the British HMS Vengeance which carried a quarter of Britain's nuclear arsenal.

1 - 17 - On this day in 1893, U.S. businessmen and Marines overthrew the kingdom of Hawaii

January 17. On this day in 1893, U.S. profiteers, businessmen, and Marines overthrew the kingdom of Hawaii in Oahu, beginning a long string of violent and disastrous government overthrows around the world.

1 - 16 On this day in 1968, the Yippies was founded

January 16. On this day in 1968, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin founded the Youth International Party (the Yippies), just one day before President Lyndon Baines Johnson gave his State of the Union Address asserting that the U.S. was winning the war in Vietnam.

1 - 13 - On this day in 1991, Lithuanians struggled for independence

January 13. On this day in 1991, Soviet Special Forces attacked a Lithuanian television and radio tower, killing 14 and wounding over 500 as tanks drove through crowds of unarmed civilians guarding the tower in defense of Lithuanian broadcasting independence.

1 - 7 On this day in 1932: the Stimson Doctrine.

January 7. On this day in 1932, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Stimson delivered the Stimson Doctrine.

1 - 5 On this day in 1968: Prague Spring.

January 5. On this day in 1968, Antonin Novotny, the Stalinist ruler of Czechoslovakia, was succeeded as first secretary by Alexander Dubcek, who believed socialism could be achieved.

1 - 4 On this day in 1948, the nation of Burma freed itself

January 4. On this day in 1948, the nation of Burma (also known as Myanmar) freed itself of British colonialism and became an independent republic.

Talk Nation Radio: Mark Dworkin on Navy Jet Noise Over Washington State

Mark Dworkin is, together with Melissa Young, an award-winning documentary film director, and the director of an important new film called Plane Truths. You can find Mark and Melissa at movingimages.org and this movie at planetruths.org. Plane Truths looks at the increased activity at the U.S. Navy base on Whidbey Island in Washington state -- activity that is making life unbearable for locals and wildlife — collateral damage in the ever increasing militarization of society.

Talk Nation Radio: Peter Kuznick on the Anti-Base Struggle in Okinawa

Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University, and author of Beyond the Laboratory: Scientists As Political Activists in 1930s America, co-author with Akira Kimura of Rethinking the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Japanese and American Perspectives, co-author with Yuki Tanaka of Nuclear Power and Hiroshima: The Truth Behind the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Power, and co-editor with James Gilbert of Rethinking Cold War Culture. In 1995, he founded American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, which he directs. In 2003, Kuznick organized a group of scholars, writers, artists, clergy, and activists to protest the Smithsonian’s celebratory display of the Enola Gay. He and filmmaker Oliver Stone co-authored the 12 part Showtime documentary film series and book both titled The Untold History of the United States.

Talk Nation Radio: Member of Knesset Opposes Apartheid in Israel

Aida Touma – Sliman is a Member of Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, and Chairwoman of the Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality. She joins us from Israel but recently toured the United States. Her lengthy resume includes three years as editor in chief of Al-Ittihad, the only Arabic daily newspaper in Israel, and for the past 9 years she has served as secretary of the World Peace Council. Touma - Sliman will be speaking at the No U.S. / NATO Bases conference in Dublin in November.

Talk Nation Radio: Hawes Spencer on Charlottesville's Summer of Hate

Hawes Spencer is a journalist who has reported for the New York Times, NPR, the Hook, and other publications. He has taught journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University and James Madison University. For over two decades, Hawes Spencer edited two weekly newspapers in Charlottesville, Virginia, both of which he co-founded: C-ville Weekly and The Hook. As the editor of the Hook, his staff delivered 149 awards from the Virginia Press Association during its nine-year run. His new book is called Summer of Hate: Charlottesville, Virginia. Hawes Spencer lives, as I do, here in Charlottesville, Virginia. We discuss his new book.

Talk Nation Radio: George Monbiot on a New Politics

George Monbiot is an author, columnist for the Guardian newspaper and environmental campaigner. Among his books and projects are Feral: rewilding the land, sea, and human life; The Age of Consent; Heat: how to stop the planet burning and the concept album Breaking the Spell of Loneliness. George’s latest book is Out of the Wreckage: a new politics for an age of crisis. We discuss this excellent book, and I ask George my usual question: How do you discuss U.S. budgets and public policies without ever mentioning military spending?

Talk Nation Radio: Ed Mead on Prison Strike

Ed Mead is former director of the Prison Art Project, former co-editor of Prison Focus and a former prisoner. He is the author of Lumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead. We discuss the prison strike in the United States and Canada.

Talk Nation Radio: Rajni Lalit on Justice for an Island Whose Whole Population Was Removed

Rajni Lallah is a leading member of LALIT (which means struggle), a political organization in Mauritius in the forefront for the past 42 years of the struggle to decolonize and demilitarize the Chagos Islands. Rajni Lallah was 12 years old when she joined the women's movement in Mauritius and remains active in Muvman Liberasyon Fam, a national women's organization in Mauritius. When she was 14, she went to the first solidarity all-night vigil in support of Chagossian women on hunger strike after they had been deported by the UK-USA military to Mauritius island and has been active on the Chagos front ever since. She is a musician, composer and music teacher by profession. At the time of Mauritian independence around 1968, the UK “depopulated” the Chagos archipelago, and then excised it from the rest of Mauritius to make way for a U.S. military base on Diego Garcia, one of the islands forming part of the Chagos archipelago. We discuss the case being heard in the International Court o…

Talk Nation Radio: Shireen Al-Adeimi on Ending the U.S.-Saudi War on Yemen

Shireen Al-Adeimi is originally from Yemen, and is an assistant professor of education at Michigan State University. She co-authored a recent article at In These Times titled "Trump Quietly Overrides What Little Civilian Protections Remain in Yemen War." She comes back on Talk Nation Radio to discuss current efforts to end U.S. involvement in the war on Yemen.

Talk Nation Radio: Alan MacLeod on the Utility of Russiagate

Alan MacLeod (@alanRmacleod) is a writer for the media watch group FAIR. He completed his PhD at the Glasgow University Media Group. His first book was "Bad News from Venezuela: 20 years of fake news and misreporting" published in April. He is currently working on a book called "Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent" which updates Herman and Chomsky's propaganda model (and is scheduled for release in the winter). He recently wrote an article titled "The Utility of the Russiagate Conspiracy," for FAIR.

Talk Nation Radio: James Loewen on Sundown Towns Today

James W. Loewen is the bestselling and award-winning author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, Lies Across America, and Lies My Teacher Told Me About Christopher Colombus, as well as Teaching What Really Happened, The Mississippi Chinese, and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. He has won the American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and many other awards. We discuss, among other things, the new edition of his book Sundown Towns.

Talk Nation Radio: David Gallup on World Citizenship

David Gallup is President of the World Service Authority, a global public service human rights organization founded in 1954. Previously he was a Dean’s Fellow at the Washington College of Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic, where he researched asylum and international human rights issues, developed and maintained a human rights document library, coordinated a human rights education workshop and represented asylum applicants. For fifteen years, he was the Secretary of the United Nations Association Task Forces on UN Restructuring and on Cultures of Peace. Gallup wrote several chapters in a United Nations Association Report entitled, “Restructuring the UN to Meet 21st Century Global Needs.” He is the legal columnist for World Citizen News.

Talk Nation Radio: Anna Feigenbaum on the Problem of Tear Gas

Anna Feigenbaum is author of Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of World War I to the Streets of Today, which we discuss. She is also co-author of the book Protest Camps, and her work has appeared in Vice, The Atlantic, Al Jazeera America, The Guardian, Salon, Financial Times, Open Democracy, New Internationalist, and Waging Nonviolence. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. Her website is www.annafeigenbaum.com. Follow her on Twitter: @drfigtree.

Talk Nation Radio: Yasha Levine on the Military History and Contracts of Internet Companies

Yasha Levine is a Russian-born American investigative journalist. He is the author of Surveillance Valley, a book about the forgotten military history of the Internet. See https://yashalevine.com

Talk Nation Radio: Victoria Law on the Struggles of Women in Prison

Victoria Law is a freelance journalist focusing on women’s incarceration. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women which I highly recommend and co-author of Your Home Is Your Prison (coming out next year). Since 2003, she has edited Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison. She recently published an article in In These Times magazine called "Corporations Are Profiting From Immigrant Detainees’ Labor. Some Say It’s Slavery." Her website is victorialaw.net