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  1. Talk World Radio: The Green New Deal From Below

    19 HR. AGO

    Talk 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.

    29 min
  2. Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia

    DEC 10

    Talk 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 co-coordinated an international network to assist young Afghans forced to flee their country. She made over two dozen trips to Afghanistan from 2010 – 2019, living with young Afghan Peace Volunteers in a working-class neighborhood in Kabul. With Voices in the Wilderness companions, from 1996 – 2003, she traveled twenty-seven times to Iraq, defying the economic sanctions and remaining in Iraq throughout the Shock and Awe bombing and the initial weeks of the invasion. She joined subsequent delegations to the West Bank’s Jenin Camp in 2002 during and after Israeli attacks, to Lebanon during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah and to Gaza, in 2009, during Operation Cast Lead and following the 2013 Operation Pillar of Defense. Kathy has been an educator for most of her life, but she believes children of war and those who are victims of violence have been her most important teachers.

    29 min
  3. Talk World Radio: The Korean Victims of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of Japan

    DEC 3

    Talk 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 Network of Lancaster, PA, and co-coordinator of the Merchants Of Death War Crimes Tribunal. He is also co-coordinator of the International People's Tribunal on the 1945 Atomic Bombings for the Redress of Korean Victims. His new book on the writings of Philip Berrigan was published by Fordham University Press and is entitled “A Ministry Of Risk.” http://abombtribunal.org https://philipberrigan.com

    29 min
  4. Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

    NOV 27

    Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

    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. Emiliana Vegas has been highly recognized for her career working to inform education policy in the so-called Global South. She has been a leading economist at the World Bank, division chief of education at the Inter-American Bank, and codirector of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is currently a professor of practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

    29 min
  5. Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

    NOV 19

    Talk 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 dawnmena.org.

    29 min
  6. Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace

    NOV 6

    Talk 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 peace rides on bicycles all over the world. They collaborate with various peace organizations, schools, and universities to promote and focus on the work in the struggle against nuclear weapons. See https://bikeforpeace.no

    29 min
  7. Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People

    NOV 4

    Talk 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 Dorothy H. Olson Chair of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The book shows that incarceration rates vary dramatically by state, within the United States, and that several factors correlate significantly with variations in those rates.

    29 min
  8. Talk World Radio: John Quigley on the Law and Stopping Genocide

    OCT 26

    Talk 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 law at Ohio State University, Quigley's books include The Statehood of Palestine: International Law in the Middle East Conflict (Cambridge University Press).

    29 min
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    David Swanson
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2024
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