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 of Saud; House of Trump, House of Putin; and now Den of Spies, a real life political thriller about how master spy William Casey put together a treaso…

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 joining us from London, is an award-winning journalist, university lecturer, and literary translator. Her work has appeared in The Nation, Los Angele…

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 Department, where she worked on human rights in the Middle East but resigned over the genocide in Gaza. Her most recent work for Quincy has focused on…

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 director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and po…

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.By David Swanson

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 350.org, a global climate justice organization, and Gary Butterfield is Treasurer with San Diego Veterans For Peace. He is a Vietnam-era draftee veteran, a …

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, andyworthington.co.uk and closeguantanamo.org and also has a band, The Four Fathers, playing protest music: https://thefourfathers.bandcamp.comWhat's ha…

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 have two guests from the Institute for Policy Studies. Aspen Coriz-Romero is the 2024-25 IPS New Mexico Fellow. And Hanna Homestead is a Research An…

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 Faith, Veterans For Peace, and World BEYOND War. He has been an active supporter of World BEYOND War since 2015 and now serves as the Co-Coordinator …

This week on Talk World Radio, we welcome back Jeremy Brecher whose latest book is called The Green New Deal From Below.By David Swanson

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 – 201…

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 Tribun…

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…

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.By David Swanson

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 …

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 stat…

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…

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 Europe. For more than 20 years he has been painting the series of portraits Americans Who Tell the Truth. These portraits have been traveling around…

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 signed an open letter to President Biden and Vice President Harris that estimated Palestinian war deaths in Gaza at no less than 118,908. He is also the…

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 MORNINGSIDE: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul.To join an online bookclub with Aran Shetterly, go to:https://world…

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about a new book called WE THE POISONED: Exposing the Flint Water Crisis Coverup and the Poisoning of 100,000 Americans. Our guest is the author Jordan Chariton. The book, with a foreword by Erin Brokovitch, is devastating and not just about one town in Michigan but about the United States and beyond, an…

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about poverty with Karen Dolan who is Project Director of the Criminalization of Race and Poverty Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. Karen has been on before but it's been a long time. We're happy to welcome her back.See https://ips-dc.org/project/criminalization-of-race-and-poverty…

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Norman Solomon about his book, newly out in paperback: WAR MADE INVISIBLE: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine -- with a new afterword on the Gaza War.By David Swanson

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about war and the Civilian Agenda. Our guest, Ousman Noor, is Co-Director of The Civilian Agenda. The website ishttps://thecivilianagenda.orgBy David Swanson

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