This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Ukraine, war, and peace. Our guest Yurii Sheliazhenko is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and a board member of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection. He obtained a Master of Mediation and Conflict Management degree in 2021 and a Master of Laws degree in 2016 at KROK University. In addition to his participation in the peace movement, he is a journalist, blogger, human rights defender, and legal scholar, an author of academic publications and a lecturer on legal theory and history.

Talk World Radio: Yurii Sheliazhenko on Ukraine as Imperial Chess Board

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about how many people in the United States have been dying for no good reason. Our guest Jacob Bor is one of the authors of a new study that assesses how many U.S. deaths would be avoided every year if the U.S.'s mortality rates were equal to other wealthy peer nations. Jacob Bor is an assistant professor in the departments of global health and epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health.

PNAS Nexus Paper (2023)
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/2/6/pgad173/7185600


Coverage in The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/07/us-life-span-mortality-rates/670591/


Coverage in The NY Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/opinion/mortality-rate-pandemic.html


Lancet Commission on Health and Policy in the Trump Era (2021)
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32545-9/fulltext#seccestitle50


National Academies of Science (2021 Report)
https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/rising-midlife-mortality-rates-and-socioeconomic-disparities


National Academies of Science (2013 Report)
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/13497/us-health-in-international-perspective-shorter-lives-poorer-health

Talk World Radio: Jacob Bor on Why People Live Longer Outside the U.S.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with former Congressman / current Congressional candidate Dennis Kucinich.

Dennis Kucinich's campaign website: https://kucinich.com

Dennis Kucinich's substack blog: https://denniskucinich.substack.com

The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush by Dennis Kucinich:
https://www.amazon.com/Articles-Impeachment-Case-Prosecuting-George/dp/1932595422

Talk World Radio: Dennis Kucinich on War, Peace, and the Imperial Presidency

Campaign Nonviolence Action Days are coming up September 21 to October 2. See https://campaignnonviolence.org

World BEYOND War's #NoWar2024 is September 20 to 22. See https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2024

Rivera Sun is an author and activist whose novels include The Dandelion Insurrection and the award-winning Ari Ara Series. She is the editor of Nonviolence News and the Program Coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence. Her articles are syndicated by Peace Voice and published in hundreds of journals nationwide. Rivera Sun serves on the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War and the board of Backbone Campaign. Her website is riverasun.com

Talk World Radio: Rivera Sun on Campaign Nonviolence

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.

Talk World Radio: John Paul Lederach on Facing Down a Civil War

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 Senate confirmation as a member of the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad. He is a board member of the Yale School of Management Board of Advisors and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Columbia University’s Graduate School of International and Public Affairs.

Talk World Radio: I Debate Gaza with AIPAC Executive Committee Member

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 Policy and author of Polygraph, a newsletter on Substack, which you can find at stephensemler.com

Talk World Radio: How Your Tax Dollars Kill

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 Robert Curtius at the University of Bonn. Prior to 2021, she was a professor and head of the Department of European Politics and Democracy Studies at Danube University in Krems, Austria. Prior to 2016, she worked for around 25 years in European think tanks and at various universities in Paris, Brussels, London, Washington, New York, and Berlin. She has been a recipient of the French L'Ordre pour le Mérite and of the Paul Watzlawick Ring of Honor and of the Salzburg State Prize for Future Studies. Ulrike Guérot is the author of at least 18 books, including Why Europe Should Become a Republic, and including two new books in German, one called ZeitenWenden and one called Ulrike Guérot on Halford J. Mackinder's Heartland Theory.
See also:
https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/enemy-of-the-state-the-political
https://europeanpeaceproject.eu
https://www.europeandemocracylab.org
https://ulrike-guerot.de

Talk World Radio: Ulrike Guérot on How to Get Europe Back on Track

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 in the U.S. and other governments. We're talking with one person who is fasting, Mike Ferner, longtime member of and former President of Veterans For Peace, a former City Council Member in Toledo, Ohio, author of Inside the Red Zone: A Veteran For Peace Reports from Iraq. See:
https://veteransforpeace.org

Talk World Radio: Mike Ferner on Fasting for 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 a World BEYOND War in November 2021, after attending the inspiring WBW NoWar101 training. This fledgling Canadian chapter came into being just on the cusp of the Russia-Ukraine war, Canadian government decision to purchase bombers and so much more—our members have had no shortage of actions in which to participate! Cymry is passionate about nature and the rights of nature, the environment, anti-speciesism, anti-racism and social justice. She cares deeply about the cause of peace because our ability to live in peace is the barometer by which we can judge the success of all human endeavor, and without peace it is impossible for humans or other species to flourish. Email Cymry at montreal@worldbeyondwar.org

Talk World Radio: What Happened on the March to Gaza

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 find at sgr.org.uk. He is the author of numerous reports related to the connection between militarism and environmental destruction. He is also co-author of a book on the Kyoto Protocol, and an editor of the Responsible Science journal.

See:
https://www.sgr.org.uk/publications/responsible-science

Talk World Radio: What Wars and Militaries Do to the Climate

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 movement after a stunning Democratic primary victory over a 16-year incumbent mayor of Buffalo, New York. Now a senior advisor at RootsAction, she has continued to advocate for increased civic participation and policies that prioritize the poor and working class.

Talk World Radio: India Walton on Zohran Mamdani and Freezing Out ICE

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 the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored Judge. Higdon’s popular Substack includes the bi-weekly Gaslight Gazette, which chronicles important and well-researched examples of disinformation, character assassination, and censorship in the United States. He recently co-wrote an article called "The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy."

Talk World Radio: Why Is NATO Invading Classrooms?

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 director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, where he was an associate professor of journalism. He founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986, and cofounded the online activist group RootsAction.org in 2011. His recent column is called "Colbert’s Termination Is a Corporate Assault on Dissent and a Victory for Trump," and RootsAction has a petition to media owners telling them to stop paying Trump's bribes.

See

https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/3707-colberts-termination-is-a-corporate-assault-on-dissent-and-a-victory-for-trump-


And

https://rootsaction.org/protest-colbert-cancellation-big-medias-complicity

Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on Colbert and the Corporate Media

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 about it. The book is called Our Journey from Afghanistan: A Story of Survival and Hope.

See book club:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-our-journey-from-afghanistan-a-story-of-survival-and-hope/?clear_id=true


See information on Unarmed Civilian Defense:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/UCD

Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Afghanistan and Gaza

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 anti-war, social justice and environmental movements since the late 1960s, he is the author of a dozen books including "War Made Invisible," "War Made Easy" and "Made Love, Got War."

Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on the State of the Genocide

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 University of Maryland that views itself as part of the international movement for a free Palestine, working for collective liberation, justice, and equality. Daniela was delegated by the board to work on outreach and to testify on behalf of the organization in court. On August 6, civil rights groups Palestine Legal and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced a historic $100,000 settlement agreement for their clients, University of Maryland Students for Justice in Palestine (UMD SJP), paid by the University of Maryland.

Further reading:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNBVeFpOinv
https://palestinelegal.org/news/umd-settlement
https://x.com/AnasAlSharif0/status/1954670507128914219

Talk World Radio: A Victory for Students for Justice in Palestine

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 Princeton University. Her new book is called The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs.

Talk World Radio: Gerta Keller on What Really Killed the Dinosaurs

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 BEYOND War, where I am the Executive Director.

See also:
https://armsembargonow.ca/report
https://worldbeyondwar.org/canada

Talk World Radio: Rachel Small on Stopping Arms Shipments

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 on this program regarding his co-directed six-part documentary series titled "Truth to the Powerless: An Investigation into Canada's Foreign Policy," which interviewed Canadian politicians, academics, and activists to examine Canada’s colonial history, its role in international conflicts, and the impact of its foreign policy on global communities.

See: https://neelanunsilenced.com

Talk World Radio: Neelan: Unsilenced. Tragedy and Hope in Sri Lanka.

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, the disarmament program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). They served from 2008–2024 on the steering group of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize. Ray Acheson is the author of Banning the Bomb, Smashing the Patriarchy and of Abolishing State Violence: A World Beyond Bombs, Borders, and Cages. Ray Acheson will be speaking at the online annual conference of World BEYOND War on October 24-26 which will explore various abolition movements.

See: https://worldbeyondwar.org/nowar2025

Talk World Radio: Ray Acheson on Abolition

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 served three years on the steering committee of the Democratic Socialists of America's National Electoral Commission.

Talk World Radio: Sam Rosenthal on the Occupation of DC and What's the Matter with Democrats

Kathy Kelly on Frontline Voices on WBAI Pacifica Radio

This week on Talk World Radio, we are welcoming back Alfred de Zayas, who is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a United Nations Independent Expert on International Order from 2012 to 2018. He is the author of twelve books including “Building a Just World Order”, “Countering Mainstream Narratives”, and “The Human Rights Industry”. You can find his columns at CounterPunch.org.
See also:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/09/action-by-the-80th-session-of-the-un-general-assembly-to-stop-the-genocide-of-palestinians
https://worldbeyondwar.org/one-year-after-icj-ruling-un-experts-urge-states-to-confront-inaction-over-israels-unlawful-occupation
https://worldbeyondwar.org/14-badly-needed-and-1-catastrophically-dumb-things-your-country-can-do-for-gaza
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-case-against-a-military-intervention-to-stop-the-gaza-genocide

Talk World Radio: Send Armed Troops to Gaza? Alfred de Zayas and David Swanson Disagree

This week on Talk World Radio, we're speaking with Abby Martin about her new film, Earth's Greatest Enemy. Earth’s Greatest Enemy, the second feature film project by Abby Martin, is a groundbreaking anti-imperialist environmental documentary. Exempt from international climate agreements and rarely scrutinized in mainstream reporting, the Pentagon is the world’s single largest institutional polluter—spewing carbon, contaminating water, and scarring landscapes across the globe. Combining investigative journalism, striking visuals, and stories from impacted communities, this film challenges audiences to rethink the hidden costs of a global military empire and its planetary consequences. Provocative, urgent, and eye-opening, this is a documentary that will change how you see both the military and environmentalism.

See: https://earthsgreatestenemy.com

Talk World Radio: Abby Martin on Earth's Greatest Enemy

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about opening borders with John Washington, author of a terrific book called The Case for Open Borders. John Washington is a staff writer at Arizona Luminaria, a community-focused media outlet where he writes about the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, and The Intercept.

Talk World Radio: The Case for Open Borders

This week on Talk World Radio we are talking about so-called authorizations to use force. Brett Heinz is a policy researcher and freelance writer based in Washington, DC, where his work focuses on economic justice, political inequality, corruption, and U.S. foreign policy. He is currently the Global Policy Coordinator for Economic and Climate Justice at the American Friends Service Committee. You can find his writings at brettheinz.com.

Talk World Radio: What's the Matter with Authorizations to Use Military Force?

James Crossland is Senior Lecturer in International History at Liverpool John Moores University, and a founder member of the Humanitarian Working Histories Group. He is the author of Britain and the International Committee of the Red Cross, 1939-1945, and most recently, War, Law and Humanity: The Campaign to Control Warfare, 1853-1914.

Talk Nation Radio: James Crossland on War Reformers and War Abolishers

Lisa Savage is a longtime educator from Solon, Maine, currently running for U.S. Senate. In a life dedicated to public service, Savage has worked to make Maine and the United states more equitable, more peaceful, and more aware of the looming climate crisis.

Talk Nation Radio: Lisa Savage on What Maine and the United States Could Do Better

This week on Talk Nation Radio, putting your body in front of weapons shipments and organizing for peace. Our guest is Rachel Small, Canada Organizer for World BEYOND War, an organization of which I'm the executive director. Rachel Small is a community organizer based in Toronto, Canada, on Dish with One Spoon and Treaty 13 Indigenous territory. She has organized within local and international social/environmental justice movements for over a decade, with a special focus on working in solidarity with communities harmed by Canadian extractive industry projects in Latin America. She has a background in art-based activism and has facilitated projects in community mural-making, independent publishing and media, spoken word, guerilla theatre, and communal cooking with people of all ages across Canada.

On the January 25th global day of action to end the war on Yemen one of the most dramatic actions that moved the demand for peace into the most media stories was taken by members of World BEYOND War and our allies, including Labour Against the Arms Trade in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. READ MORE: https://worldbeyondwar.org/how-we-blocked-weapons-trucks-in-canada-how-you-can-do-the-same

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