Episodes

  • Talk World Radio: Public Money Is Going to Private "Education"

    Talk World Radio: Public Money Is Going to Private "Education"
    May 14 2024
    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.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters

    Talk World Radio: Richard Eskow on the Big Lie Smearing Campus Protesters
    May 7 2024
    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
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    29 mins
  • Harvey Wasserman on the Drugs You Have to Take to Believe Nuclear Energy Is Climate-Friendly

    Harvey Wasserman on the Drugs You Have to Take to Believe Nuclear Energy Is Climate-Friendly
    Apr 30 2024
    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
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Ontario Teachers and Retirees Demand Divestment from Israeli War Machine

    Talk World Radio: Ontario Teachers and Retirees Demand Divestment from Israeli War Machine
    Apr 24 2024
    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
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    29 mins
  • Talkworldradio 20240417

    Talkworldradio 20240417
    Apr 16 2024
    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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    33 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Ann Wright on Sailing Ships of Food to Gaza

    Talk World Radio: Ann Wright on Sailing Ships of Food to Gaza
    Apr 8 2024
    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
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre on Congress on Neutrality

    Talk World Radio: Gabriel Aguirre on Congress on Neutrality
    Apr 1 2024
    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
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: What's Been Carefully Forgotten About Nixon and Kissinger

    Talk World Radio: What's Been Carefully Forgotten About Nixon and Kissinger
    Mar 26 2024
    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.
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    29 mins