This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about psychiatry. Our guest Bruce Levine's new book is A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment.

Talk World Radio: Bruce Levine on Psychiatry and Spinoza

This week on Talk World Radio we're remembering and learning new information about the IWW, the International Workers of the World or Wobblies, with Ahmed White, author of the new book Under The Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.

Talk World Radio: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers

This week on Talk World Radio we speak with Dave DeCamp, news editor for antiwar.com.

Talk World Radio: Dave DeCamp on Elliot Abrams and Warmongering

This week on Talk World Radio will be unusual. We're going to listen to a piece of music, and it's an unusual piece of music. It's a speech set to music. President John F. Kennedy's June 10, 1963 commencement address at American University is certainly the best speech ever made by a U.S. president and one that it would be hard to imagine a U.S. president giving today.

"Peace for All Time" was created by Irthlingz.

Video and full credits are here.

Excerpts are here.

Excerpts with discussion: See Part 5 of 24 Hour Peace Wave 2023.

Lyrics.

Kennedy's speech.

Talk World Radio: Kennedy's Peace Speech Set to Music

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ICBMs, Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles, possibly the very most likely thing to destroy all life on Earth, including everyone who doesn't know or care what they are or why they're so dangerous. Our guest, Peter Manos, is a retired consultation-liaison psychiatrist, a member of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the author of a number of books. On learning of the U.S. government's plans for new land-based ICBM, he decided to write a novel. The result is the fantastic book called Shadows.

Talk World Radio: Peter Manos on Choosing Between ICBMs and Humanity

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about war, peace, and nukes with Norman Solomon. Norman is Co-Founder / National Director at RootsAction.org. He 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." His recent articles discussed in this program include:

Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race?


Backing Biden for 2024, Conformist Democrats Have Been in Denial. Now They’re in a Panic.

Talk World Radio: Norman Solomon on De-Normalizing Nuclear Peril

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing whistleblowers and Julian Assange and Iran and Palestine with RootsAction Whistleblower Advocate Jeffrey Sterling.

Jeffrey Sterling is a former CIA case officer who was at the agency, including the Iran Task Force, for nearly a decade. He filed an employment discrimination suit against the CIA, but the case was dismissed as a threat to national security. He served two and a half years in prison after being convicted of violating the Espionage Act. No incriminating evidence was produced at trial and Jeffrey continues to profess his innocence. His memoir, “Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower,” was published in late 2019.

Talk World Radio: Jeffrey Sterling on Whistleblowers, Assange, and Iran

This week on Talk World Radio we listen to an event recorded on December 2nd at the Univeristy of Virginia in the former house of James Monroe who came back to life for the occasion of burying his 200-year-old doctrine.

Talk World Radio: James Monroe Helps Bury the Monroe Doctrine

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the media, what's wrong with it and what to do about it with Jeff Cohen. Jeff Cohen is Co-Founder / Policy Director at RootsAction.org. He is a media critic, columnist, documentary filmmaker, and retired journalism professor who founded the media watch group FAIR in 1986. For years, he was a regular pundit on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC discussing issues of media and politics; he is the author of "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media." See also:

Has Corporate Media Found Its Inner Peacenik? (March, 2022)
https://progressivehub.net/has-the-corporate-media-found-its-inner-peacenik/

When CNN Introduces Bernie-Bashers Only as “Former,” CNN Is Lying To You (Feb, 2020)
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/02/13/when-cnn-introduces-bernie-bashers-only-former-cnn-lying-you

Military Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV (May, 2008)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/military-propaganda-pushe_b_98925

In Iraq Crisis, Networks Are Megaphone for Official Views (March 2003)
https://fair.org/take-action/action-alerts/in-iraq-crisis-networks-are-megaphones-for-official-views/

The Panama Deception (full movie, released 1992)
https://www.c-span.org/video/?467566-1/the-panama-deception

Talk World Radio: Jeff Cohen on What's Wrong with Corporate Media and What Media Would End War

This Week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a new book called Abolishing the Military: Arguments and Alternatives, with two of the three authors, joining us from New Zealand, it being the New Zealand military in particular that they'd like to abolish. With us is Joseph Llewellyn who completed his PhD at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago. He completed a Master of Arts and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Peace and Conflict Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. Also with us is Richard Jackson who holds the Leading Thinkers Chair in Peace Studies at the University of Otago. He lectures on critical terrorism studies and critical peace studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and more than a hundred articles and book chapters on pacifism and nonviolence, conflict resolution, war and terrorism. He is the editor of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism and commentates regularly in the media on international security issues. See:
https://www.bwb.co.nz/books/abolishing-the-military

Talk World Radio: Should New Zealand Abolish its Military?

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing the prosecution of Israel for genocide at the International Court of Justice. Our guest is the independent journalist Sam Husseini.

You can find his writing at https://husseini.substack.com


To take action online and learn more on this topic visit https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-genocide

Talk World Radio: Sam Husseini on Prosecuting Israel for Genocide

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Namibia's denunciation of Germany's support for Israel's defense against South Africa's case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Our guest, Henning Melber is Senior Adviser and Director Emeritus at the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation. He has served as Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Kassel University, was Director of the Namibian Economic Policy Research Unit in Windhoek, and Research Director of the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. Henning is an Extraordinary Professor at the University of Pretoria and at the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies of the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein and a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Commonwealth Studies/University of London. He directed the Foundation from 2006 to 2012. He holds a PhD in Political Sciences and a Habilitation in Development Studies. In 2017 he was elected President of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI). See also:

https://www.daghammarskjold.se

https://nai.uu.se

https://www.namibian.com.na/namibia-germany-and-israel-the-pitfalls-of-selective-remorse-and-trauma

Talk World Radio: Henning Melber on Germany Backing Another Genocide

This week on Talk world Radio we're talking about U.S. public opinion on Gaza with two guests in the first half. Stephen Miles is President of Win Without War. And Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum is Chief Operating Officer and former Director of Research & Analysis at ReThink Media, a nonprofit advocacy organization that supports movements through media and communications.

See the polling we discuss:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hVYMXTLrnthiza1hWAHi2FTxcoM5TBXD/view


In the second half, we turn to Trita Parsi who is an award-winning author and the 2010 recipient of the Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. He is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and an expert on US-Iranian relation.

To take action online and learn more on this topic visit https://worldbeyondwar.org/gaza-genocide

Talk World Radio: Eva Galanes-Rosenbaum, Stephen Miles, Trita Parsi on Gaza

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about locking up innocent people. Our guest Victoria Valenzuela is assistant publisher and investigative reporter at ScheerPost, and a graduate student at the University of Southern California focusing on investigative and social justice journalism. She has worked with The Marshall Project, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, BuzzFeed News, ProPublica, and LA Taco. She is the social media manager for Renewing American Democracy and a fellow with the Law and Justice Journalism Project.
The Innocence Project is at
https://innocenceproject.org

Talk World Radio: Victoria Valenzuela on Exonerations of the Wrongly Convicted

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.

Talk World Radio: John Berger on Solving the Climate Crisis

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

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240213-khan-v-the-generals

Talk World Radio: The People of Pakistan Are Not Accepting the U.S. Coup

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: U.S. Weapons Shipments to Israel Are Illegal as Well as Immoral

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.

Talk World Radio: Stephanie Luce on Seven Strategies to Change the World

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.

Watch Beyond Bars here: https://form.123formbuilder.com/6591824/beyondbars

Talk World Radio: Robert Greenwald and Chesa Boudin on Beyond Bars

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.

Talk World Radio: Julie Farnam on Domestic Darkness

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 up with her work by subscribing to her Substack at stavroulapabst.substack.com


See also these articles:
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/venture-capital-defense-companies/
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2023/10/investigative-reports/how-peter-thiel-linked-tech-is-fueling-the-ukraine-war/

Talk World Radio: Stavroula Pabst on Investors in Death

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.

Talk World Radio: What's Been Carefully Forgotten About Nixon and Kissinger

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 Congress planned for April 4-7 in Bogota and online in Spanish and English. People can sign up to attend in-person or online at
https://worldbeyondwar.org/congress-on-neutrality-a-strategy-for-global-stabilization

Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre on Congress on Neutrality

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 Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the civil war in Sierra Leone. She resigned from the Department of State on March 19, 2003, in opposition to the Iraq war. She is the co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience and appeared in the documentary “Uncovered”. See:
https://freedomflotilla.org

Talk World Radio: Ann Wright on Sailing Ships of Food to Gaza

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

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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

Talk World Radio: Ontario Teachers and Retirees Demand Divestment from Israeli War Machine

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

Harvey Wasserman on the Drugs You Have to Take to Believe Nuclear Energy Is Climate-Friendly

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

Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters

Johan Galtung is the founder of the discipline of peace studies. He founded the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo in 1959 and the Journal of Peace Research in 1964, and has helped found dozens of peace centers. He has taught peace studies at universities all over the world, and mediated hundreds of conflicts. He is author or coauthor of over 160 books, and is cited and discussed in many thousands. He is the founder of Transcend Peace University and Transcend International. See http://transcend.org 

Talk Nation Radio: Johan Galtung on ISIS and Alternative to War

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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