This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the war in Sudan. Our guest is Omia Mustafa who goes by Zeirra on social media. She is a 21-year-old with an international relations degree. You can find her at:Instagram: zzeirraTwitter : KushiteDictatorTiktok: zeirra7A petition to sign:https://worldbeyondwar.org/hand-off-sudan…

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 is WBW’s second Board President, taking over for Leah Bolger. Kathy’s efforts to end wars have led her to living in war zones and prisons…

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the somehow ever-worsening livestreamed genocide in Gaza. Our guest, Jennifer Loewenstein, is former Associate Director of Middle Eastern Studies and Senior Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has lived and reported from Gaza and Beirut. She highlights a series of critical recent re…

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about working for peace in Africa. Our guest Brenda Wanjiru is based in Ghana where she works on peace education, peace activism, aiding children and refugees impacted by war, and rehabilitating child soldiers. We'll talk about all these topics. Find Brenda on Linked In athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brend…

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in Romania and worldwide with Maria Cernat who is the co-organizer and co-founder of World BEYOND War Romania, a chapter of World BEYOND War of which I'm the executive director. Maria Cernat is also the host of a new podcast called Pacifist Barricades. She is also an Associate Profess…

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days are coming up September 21 to October 2. See https://campaignnonviolence.orgWorld BEYOND War's #NoWar2024 is September 20 to 22. See https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2024Rivera Sun is an author and activist whose novels include The Dandelion Insurrection and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She is the editor of Nonv…

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about how incredibly hot it is outside and why that might be and what might be done about it. Our guest Dr. Alec Feinberg has a Ph.D. from Northeastern University in Physics. He currently does volunteer climate modeling to help out on the climate crisis. His climate work has focused on urbanization heat …

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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, …

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

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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

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 …

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

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…

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

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…

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-…

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

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

What should be done re Ukraine?By David Swanson

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…