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Talk World Radio: Julie Farnam on Domestic Darkness
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.
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Talk World Radio: Robert Greenwald and Chesa Boudin on Beyond Bars
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 Responsibility, in addition to an Office of the Americas Activist in the Trenches award, a Liberty Hill Upton Sinclair Award, the Robert Wood Johnson Award, and a Peacemaker Award from The Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.
Chesa Boudin is the subject of the film. He was District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8, 2020 to July 8, 2022, and is now the founding executive director of the Criminal Law & Justice Center at University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Boudin was born in 1980 to Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and Dvid Gilbert who were convicted of murder and went to prison when Chesa Boudin was 14-months old.
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Talk World Radio: Stephanie Luce on Seven Strategies to Change the World
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.
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Talk World Radio: U.S. Weapons Shipments to Israel Are Illegal as Well as Immoral
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 Director in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs. He is a Non-Resident Fellow at the organization Democracy Now for the Arab World (DAWN) and a recipient of the 2023 Callaway Award for Civic Courage.
Mike Ferner is current Director and a previous President of Veterans For Peace, a former City Council Member in Toledo, Ohio, and the author of Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq. -
Talk World Radio: The People of Pakistan Are Not Accepting the U.S. Coup
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-bidens-generals-in-pakistan
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Talk World Radio: John Berger on Solving the Climate Crisis
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.