Talk World Radio: Aran Shetterly on the Greensboro Massacre
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the November 3rd 1979 Greensboro Massacre in Greensboro, North Carolina, with Aran Shetterly, the author of a brand new book on the topic, titled...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa on Israel Shooting Children in Head
This week on Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma surgeon who volunteered for two weeks in March and April at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza. He is one of 99 doctors who recently...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Robert Shetterly on Portraits of Peacemakers
This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with portrait painter Robert Shetterly whose website is americanswhotellthetruth.org. Robert’s paintings and prints are in collections all over the U.S. and...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: John Quigley on the Law and Stopping Genocide
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the illegality of the war in Gaza and the utility or lack thereof of international law. Our guest John Quigley is Professor emeritus of international...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People
This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Kevin B. Smith who is the author of the brand new book The Jailer’s Reckoning: How Mass Incarceration Is Damaging America. Smith is also the Leland and...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace
This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Tore Naerland who is the founder and since 1977 has been the president of Bike For Peace, a Norwegian-based peace organization that works to organize...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the crime of war in Palestine with Raed Jarrar, advocacy director for DAWN -- the organization founded by slain writer Jamal Khashoggi and found at...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development...
This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Emiliana Vegas, author of the new book Let’s Change the World: How to Work within International Development Organizations to Make a Difference....
View ArticleTalk World Radio: The Korean Victims of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of Japan
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the 70,000 Korean victims of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Japan. Our guest Brad Wolf is a lawyer and former prosecutor, director of Peace Action...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia
Kathy Kelly is board president of World BEYOND War. From 2022 to the present, she has co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal. Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, she has...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: The Green New Deal From Below
This week on Talk World Radio, we welcome back Jeremy Brecher whose latest book is called The Green New Deal From Below.
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Al Mytty on Acting for Peace
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about peace activism in the United States with Al Mytty who has been involved in a variety of social justice and peace programs including Pax Christi, Just...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: U.S. Government Funds Other Nations' Militaries More Than...
This week on Talk World Radio, a new analysis finds that over the past decade the U.S. government has given to foreign nations' militaries 40 times the money it has paid into the Green Climate Fund. We...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Close Guantanamo While Its Victims Are Still Alive
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Guantanamo with Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files. Worthington has worked with the United Nations and WikiLeaks, runs two websites,...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Shutting Down Military Air Shows
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about shutting down military air shows. We have two guests who are working together on this project. Taylor Smith-Hams is U.S. Senior Organizer with...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: John Paul Lederach on Facing Down a Civil War
This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with John Paul Lederach, author of The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War: Surprising ideas from everyday people who shifted the cycles of violence.
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Scott Horton on How Washington Started the New Cold War
This week on Talk World Radio we welcome back Scott Horton, whose new book is called PROVOKED: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. Scott Horton is...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Annelle Sheline on Gaza
This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with Annelle Sheline, a research fellow in the Middle East program at the Quincy Institute who was previously a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. State...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Another World Is Possible
This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Natasha Hakimi Zapata, the author of the new book Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe. Natasha Hakimi Zapata, who is...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Craig Unger on How Reagan's Election Was Stolen from Carter
This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Craig Unger. He is the New York Times bestselling author of six books on the Republican Party’s assault on democracy, including House of Bush, House...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Rehearsing for Nuclear War on the Coast of California
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about U.S. foreign policy and starting with a little test the so-called Space Force recently did that you probably heard nothing about, preparing for a...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: I Debate Gaza with AIPAC Executive Committee Member
This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Harley Lippman, an Executive Committee member on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee or AIPAC. He serves by Presidential appointment and...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on the Trumpy Media
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the corporate media with Jeff Cohen who was an associate professor of journalism at Ithaca College. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Mimi Healy on the Militarization of Movies
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about how popular culture fuels war. Our guest Mimi Healy is an Associate with the Costs of War project where she provides research assistance and editing....
View ArticleTalk World Radio: A Russian and An American Talk Peace
This week on Talk Word Radio we are speaking with Dmitry Babich in Russia about U.S.-Russian relations. Dmitry Babich is a journalist who has focused on Russian politics. He has been a senior...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Susan Polgar, Chess Grandmaster
This week on Talk World Radio, we are speaking with one of the greatest chess players ever and the author of the new book Rebel Queen: The Cold War, Misogyny, and the Making of a Grandmaster. Our...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: The Making of Busboys And Poets
This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with Andy Shallal about his new book, A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets. See https://orbooks.com/catalog/A-seat-at-the-table
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Can U.S. Military Bases Be Kept Out of Ecuador?
This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing efforts to prevent the United States from putting military bases back into Ecuador. Our guest Bosco Vera Delgado, speaking to us from Ecuador, was...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: No Cop City, No Cop World
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about Cop City with two organizers of the movement to prevent it and co-editors of the new book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement. You...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: The Revolving Door Project
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the Revolving Door Project with Assistant Director Andrea Beaty. The Revolving Door Project tracks corporate influence in politics with a focus on the...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: No, the U.S. Never Meant Well
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about a new book by Noam Chomsky and our guest Nathan J. Robinson titled The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World.
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Palestine and Conscience
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Palestine with Kathy Kelly who is board president of World BEYOND War. From 2022 to 2024, she co-coordinated the Merchants of Death War Crimes...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: How Your Tax Dollars Kill
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the single biggest and least mentioned place that U.S. tax dollars are going. Our guest Stephen Semler is a senior fellow at Center for International...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Ulrike Guérot on How to Get Europe Back on Track
This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about the past and future and design of Europe. Our guest Ulrike Guérot is Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the European Center Ernst...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Mike Ferner on Fasting for Gaza
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about people in the United States who are fasting in solidarity with the people of Gaza who are being starved by the government of Israel and its supporters...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Ann Wright on Gaza Flotilla
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about the Gaza Flotilla with Ann Wright who has spent 22 years as a leader in the peace movement.
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Poems for Gaza
This week on Talk World Radio we are hearing and discussing poetry about Gaza. Our guest, Anita Barrows, is a poet, novelist, and translator from French, German and Italian. She has eighteen published...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: What Happened on the March to Gaza
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about peace activism and Gaza, and the recent global march to Gaza. Our Guest, Cymry Gomery, is a community organizer and activist who founded Montréal for...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: What Wars and Militaries Do to the Climate
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about the climate destruction done by wars and militaries. Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility, which you can...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: India Walton on Zohran Mamdani and Freezing Out ICE
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about Zohran Mamdani and other topics with India Walton, a longtime community activist who emerged in 2021 as a powerful presence in the progressive...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Why Is NATO Invading Classrooms?
This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about NATO invading classrooms. Our guest Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on Colbert and the Corporate Media
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Paramount cancelling Stephen Colbert's show, and the corporate media cartel generally bowing to Trump. Our guest, media critic Jeff Cohen was founding...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan and Gaza
This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Kathy Kelly, President of World BEYOND War, about a new book and an upcoming online book club, and about the latest developments in Gaza and what to do...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the State of the Genocide
This week on Talk World Radio we welcome back RootsAction Co-Founder / National Director Norman Solomon, who founded the Institute for Public Accuracy in 1997 and is its executive director. Immersed in...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: A Victory for Students for Justice in Palestine
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about a successful lawsuit and impactful campus activism against genocide. Daniela Colombi is with Students for Justice in Palestine, an organization at the...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Gerta Keller on What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about what actually killed the dinosaurs. Our guest, Gerta Keller, is Professor of Paleontology and Geology Emeritus in the Geosciences Department of...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Rachel Small on Stopping Arms Shipments
This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about working to stop weapons shipments, in particular to Israel, and in particular from Canada. Our guest, Rachel Small, is the Canada Organizer for World...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Neelan: Unsilenced. Tragedy and Hope in Sri Lanka.
This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about a new film called Neelan: Unsilenced. Our guest, Pitasanna Shanmugathas, is the director, writer, and producer. Shanmugathas was previously a guest...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Ray Acheson on Abolition
This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about abolition -- of all things in need of it. Our guest, Ray Acheson is an organizer, activist, and writer. They are Director of Reaching Critical Will,...
View ArticleTalk World Radio: Sam Rosenthal on the Occupation of DC and What's the Matter...
This week on Talk World Radio, we are talking about war, peace, and politics with RootsAction's Political Director Sam Rosenthal. Sam is an organizer and researcher based in Washington, DC. He recently...
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