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Pedro Gatos of KOOP’s Bringing Light Into Darkness interviews David Swanson about NATO
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https://nonatoyespeace.orgBy David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: William Cooper on Why the U.S. Government Doesn't Work
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new book called How America Works and Why It Doesn't by our guest William Cooper. He is an attorney, national columnist, and award-winning author. His commentary has appeared in hundreds of publications around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, San Francisco Chronicle, …
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Talk World Radio: Ernesto Casteñeda on Immigration, Bigotry, and Biden
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about immigration. Our guest Ernesto Castañeda is director of the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, the Immigration Lab, and the Masters in Sociology, Research, and Practice at American University in Washington, D.C.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Dennis Kucinich on War, Peace, and the Imperial Presidency
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with former Congressman / current Congressional candidate Dennis Kucinich.Dennis Kucinich's campaign website: https://kucinich.comDennis Kucinich's substack blog: https://denniskucinich.substack.comThe 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Dennis Kucinich:https://www.…
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Talk World Radio: Fred Waitzkin on Anything Is Good
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing a wonderful new novel called Anything Is Good, with the author, Fred Waitzkin. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1943. He went to Kenyon College and did graduate study at New York University. His other books are Searching for Bobby Fischer, Deep Water Blues, Strange Love, Mortal Games, The L…
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Talk World Radio: Dan Kovalik on Why Palestine Matters
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Palestine. Our guest, who has been on before, is Dan Kovalik, whose latest book is The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care, with a forward by George Galloway. His previous books include No More War, which I just included in a yet-to-be-published article for a website that ask…
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Talk World Radio: The Coming Months of Crazy
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the coming months of crazy. Whether or not Frank Zappa ever really said it, politics is indeed the entertainment division of the military industrial complex. It is the circenses of the panem et circenses, the circuses of the bread and circuses. As we normalize genocide, increase the risk of nuclear war…
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Talk World Radio: Jon Mills on the End of the World
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing a new book called End of the World: Civilization and Its Fate, with the author Jon Mills.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Nations that Claim to Oppose U.S. Wars Loan the U.S. Government the Money for Them
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This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about countries around the world investing in U.S. investment in wars. We have three guests joining us from Mauritius. Nawsheen Uteene is a Certified Project Manager and Accountant. Zaynab Khodabocus is a Chemical and Renewable Energy Engineer. And Adil Aboobakar is a Chartered Financial Analyst and the …
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Talk World Radio: Public Money Is Going to Private "Education"
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the U.S. educational system. Our guest Jennifer Berkshire writes about education and politics for the Nation, the New Republic, the Baffler, the New York Times, and other publications. The creator and co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard,” she teaches in the Education Studies prog…
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Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about campus protests, accusations of anti-Semitism, and media malpractice with Richard (RJ) Eskow, who has served as a chief writer and editor for the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign; a Fortune 500 healthcare executive (those two things make an odd combination); a student activist; an economic consultant in…
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Harvey Wasserman on the Drugs You Have to Take to Believe Nuclear Energy Is Climate-Friendly
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Nuclear energy with our guest Harvey “Sluggo” Wasserman. He is a past guest and a life-long activist who speaks, writes, and organizes widely on energy, the environment, U.S. and global history, drug war, election protection, and grassroots politics. He has taught at Capital University, Columbus Sta…
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Talk World Radio: Ontario Teachers and Retirees Demand Divestment from Israeli War Machine
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Ontario Teachers and Retirees Demanding Divestment from the Israeli War Machine. Our guest Dave Szollosy has worked as Director of the Office of Social Justice in Victoria, B.C., high school teacher and president of the Toronto Secondary Unit of his union. He served three terms as Ward 3 Councillor …
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This week on Talk World Radio, we welcome back Coleen Rowley, 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 nam…
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Talk World Radio: Ann Wright on Sailing Ships of Food to Gaza
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Ann Wright is a Member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War. She is based in Hawaii. Ann is a retired U.S. Army Reserve colonel and a 29-year veteran of the Army and Army Reserves. She was also a diplomat in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Departme…
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Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre on Congress on Neutrality
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Gabriel Aguirre is Latin America Organizer for World BEYOND War, is from Venezuela, and is currently based in Bógota, Colombia. He has been an activist and advocate for peace, social justice, international solidarity and human rights, and has more than 13 years of experience in social and community work. He is one of the planners of a Neutrality Co…
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Talk World Radio: What's Been Carefully Forgotten About Nixon and Kissinger
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This week on Talk World Radio, we are speaking with Carolyn Woods Eisenberg, the author of the new award-winning book, Fire and Rain: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Wars in Southeast Asia.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Stavroula Pabst on Investors in Death
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about investors in war profiteering. Our guest, Stavroula Pabst, is a writer, comedian, and media PhD student at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Athens, Greece. Her writing has appeared in publications including Responsible Statecraft, Reductress, Al Mayadeen, and The Grayzone. Keep …
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Talk World Radio: Julie Farnam on Domestic Darkness
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a book called DOMESTIC DARKNESS: An Insider’s Account of the January 6 Insurrection and the Future of Right-Wing Extremism by our guest, the former Director of Intelligence for the Capitol Police, Julie Farnam.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Robert Greenwald and Chesa Boudin on Beyond Bars
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This week on Talk World Radio we are discussing the documentary Beyond Bars by Brave New Films. We have two guests.Robert Greenwald is the filmmaker. He is is an award-winning producer and director of more than 60 features, television movies and miniseries. His work has garnered awards from organizations including the ACLU and Physicians for Social…
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Talk World Radio: Stephanie Luce on Seven Strategies to Change the World
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a new book called PRACTICAL RADICALS: SEVEN STRATEGIES TO CHANGE THE WORLD by Deepak Bhargava and our guest Stephanie Luce.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: U.S. Weapons Shipments to Israel Are Illegal as Well as Immoral
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about illegal weapons shipments from the United States to Israel. We're joined by two guests.Josh Paul resigned from the U.S. State Department in October, 2023, due to his disagreement with the Biden Administration's decision to rush weapons to Israel. He had previously spent over 11 years working as a D…
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Talk World Radio: The People of Pakistan Are Not Accepting the U.S. Coup
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This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about what I think can be called a U.S. coup in Pakistan. We'll see if my guest agrees. Professor Junaid Ahmad teaches Religion, Law, and Global Politics and is the Director of the Center for the Study of Islam and Decoloniality in Islamabad, Pakistan. See also:https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240202-…
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Talk World Radio: John Berger on Solving the Climate Crisis
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about solving the climate crisis with John Berger, author of Solving the Climate Crisis: Frontline Reports from the Race to Save the Earth.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Victoria Valenzuela on Exonerations of the Wrongly Convicted
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about locking up innocent people. Our guest Victoria Valenzuela is assistant publisher and investigative reporter at ScheerPost, and a graduate student at the University of Southern California focusing on investigative and social justice journalism. She has worked with The Marshall Project, the National A…
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Talk World Radio: Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum, Stephen Miles, Trita Parsi on Gaza
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This week on Talk world Radio we're talking about U.S. public opinion on Gaza with two guests in the first half. Stephen Miles is President of Win Without War. And Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum is Chief Operating Officer and former Director of Research & Analysis at ReThink Media, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports movements through media and …
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Talk World Radio: Henning Melber on Germany Backing Another Genocide
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Namibia's denunciation of Germany's support for Israel's defense against South Africa's case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Our guest, Henning Melber is Senior Adviser and Director Emeritus at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He has served as Senior Lecturer in International Relations at K…
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Talk World Radio: Sam Husseini on Prosecuting Israel for Genocide
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the prosecution of Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice. Our guest is the independent journalist Sam Husseini.You can find his writing at https://husseini.substack.comTo take action online and learn more on this topic visit https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-genocide…
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This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Timmon Wallis, author of the new book Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War. See: https://warheadstowindmills.org/bookTimmon Wallis is national coordinator of the Warheads to Windmills coalition. See: https://warheadstowindmills.org…
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Talk World Radio: Should New Zealand Abolish its Military?
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This Week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new book called Abolishing the Military: Arguments and Alternatives, with two of the three authors, joining us from New Zealand, it being the New Zealand military in particular that they'd like to abolish. With us is Joseph Llewellyn who completed his PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Confl…
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Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on What's Wrong with Corporate Media and What Media Would End War
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the media, what's wrong with it and what to do about it with Jeff Cohen. Jeff Cohen is Co-Founder / Policy Director at RootsAction.org. He is a media critic, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and retired journalism professor who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. For years, he was a regular pu…
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Talk World Radio: James Monroe Helps Bury the Monroe Doctrine
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This week on Talk World Radio we listen to an event recorded on December 2nd at the Univeristy of Virginia in the former house of James Monroe who came back to life for the occasion of burying his 200-year-old doctrine.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Jeffrey Sterling on Whistleblowers, Assange, and Iran
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing whistleblowers and Julian Assange and Iran and Palestine with RootsAction Whistleblower Advocate Jeffrey Sterling.Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer who was at the agency, including the Iran Task Force, for nearly a decade. He filed an employment discrimination suit against the CIA, but the…
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Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on De-Normalizing Nuclear Peril
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about war, peace, and nukes with Norman Solomon. Norman is Co-Founder / National Director at RootsAction.org. He founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a do…
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Talk World Radio: Peter Manos on Choosing Between ICBMs and Humanity
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ICBMs, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, possibly the very most likely thing to destroy all life on Earth, including everyone who doesn't know or care what they are or why they're so dangerous. Our guest, Peter Manos, is a retired consultation-liaison psychiatrist, a member of Washington Physic…
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Talk World Radio: Mairead Maguire on Ending the Current Wars
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about making peace in place of the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Mairead (Corrigan) Maguire is a Member of the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War. She is based in Northern Ireland. Mairead is a Nobel Peace Laureate and Co-founder of Peace People – Northern Ireland 1976. Mairead was born in 1944, into a family…
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Debate on Ukraine at University of Wisconsin
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What should be done re Ukraine?By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Brian Williams' Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about structural racism, non-structural racism, healthcare, gun violence, and politics with Dr. Brian Williams. He is the author of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. He is running for Congress in Dallas, Texas, where he became known in the…
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Talk World Radio: Ed Horgan on Why Genocide/War Continues
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about genocide. Our guest, Ed Horgan, is a Member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is based in Ireland. Ed retired from the Irish so-called Defence Forces with the rank of Commandant after 22 years service that included peacekeeping missions with the United Nations in Cyprus and the Midd…
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Talk World Radio: The Anti-Defamation League Makes Supporting Apartheid the Standard for Anti-Racism
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the Anti-Defamation League with Emmaia Gelman who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is writing a book about the Anti-Defamation League. She recently published an article in the Boston Review called "The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems."See:https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/emmaia-ge…
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Talk World Radio: U.S. Navy Poisoned Hawaiians' Drinking Water to Protect Them from What?
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about what the U.S. military is doing to drinking water in Hawaii. Our guest, Wayne Tanaka, is Director of the Sierra Club of Hawaii.Latest article by Ann Wright:https://worldbeyondwar.org/none-of-the-14-navy-officers-named-in-red-hill-toxic-fuel-spill-disaster-were-fired-suspended-had-pay-docked-or-reduc…
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Talk World Radio: Family Members Win Settlement After Military Kills Loved Ones
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This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing a recent legal settlement that will compensate family members of people killed by the Bolivian military. Our guest, Beth Stephens, is a Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School. The Center for Constitutional Rights is at https://ccrjustic…
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Talk World Radio: Why Is the Peace Movement in Italy So Strong?
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in a country that has more of it than perhaps any other: Italy. Our guest Sergio Bassoli is senior officer at CGIL's International Department. CGIL is the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro -- the confederation of labor unions. He is also the Board's coordinator of the Rete I…
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Talk World Radio: Nick Mottern on Merchants of Death
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This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones and organizer of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, as well as a member of the national board of Veterans For Peace. See:https://bankillerdrones.orghtt…
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Talk World Radio: Greg Barns on Efforts to Free Julian Assange
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the latest developments in the prosecution and persecution of Julian Assange. Our guest Greg Barns SC is an Australian barrister speaking to us from Australia. He is a member of the Assange Committee and former President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance. He was appointed Senior Counsel in Tasmania…
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace, and not in your heart, and not as "more than just the absence of war," but in fact as the absence of war, in Ukraine in particular.By David Swanson
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Talk World Radio: Dana Brown on Why the U.S. Government Should Manufacture Pharmaceuticals
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about pharmaceuticals with Dana Brown, the director of health and economy at the Democracy Collaborative, where her research focuses on health and care systems, the pharmaceutical sector, and economic transformation for health and well-being. See:https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/09/drug-shortages-public-p…
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Talk World Radio: Abdul Jabbar on U.S.-Backed Coup in Pakistan
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a U.S. supported coup in Pakistan. Our guest Abdul Jabbar is an emeritus professor at City College of San Francisco and a former visiting professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. He came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and has received two National Endowment for th…
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Talk World Radio: Jacob Bor on Why People Live Longer Outside the U.S.
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This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about how many people in the United States have been dying for no good reason. Our guest Jacob Bor is one of the authors of a new study that assesses how many U.S. deaths would be avoided every year if the U.S.'s mortality rates were equal to other wealthy peer nations. Jacob Bor is an assistant professo…
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Talk World Radio: How to Reduce Military Recruitment Even More
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This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about counter-recruitment, or discouraging people from joining a military. We have two guests. Debra Sweet is Director of World Can't Wait, and has been working to stop U.S. war on the world for almost 60 years. Hip-Hop Artivist and Educator Miles Megaciph is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps an…
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