Talk World Radio 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 Managing Founder of a consultancy firm focused on Financial Modeling and Business Valuation. Read more here:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/debt-dollars-the-unused-leverage

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 program at Yale University and the Prison Education Program at Boston College. She is the author or co-author of two previous books, and of the forthcoming The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual.

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 more than 20 countries; a songwriter; and a musician. He is the host of The Zero Hour found at https://ThisIsTheZeroHour.com and his articles can be found at https://ZeroHourReport.com

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 State Community College, and Hampshire College. He has authored or co-authored 20 books, countless articles and speeches, two films, and a Grammy-winnning song, and hosts two radio shows, California Solartopia and the Green Power & Wellness Show. Harvey helped coined the phrase “No Nukes” in 1973, and his recent article at Counterpunch is called Nuclear Power’s Lethal, Larcenous End Game.

See also: https://solartopia.org

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 in Georgina.  Retired, he still is engaged with union work and acts as a professional parliamentarian for union locals and the Chamber of Commerce.  Along with political involvement, Dave serves on the Executive of a Retired Teachers organization and Catholics for Justice and Peace in the Holy Land.  Most recently, he has been host of a bi-weekly public affairs show on Rogers TV, Politically Speaking: Insights and Issues.

See: https://worldbeyondwar.org/otpp

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 named, along with two other corporate whistleblowers, as TIME Magazine’s 2002 Persons of the Year. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian and Huffington Post, along with other publications.

See:
https://freedomflotilla.org
https://usboatstogaza.org