Talk World Radio

Dec 09 2024 500 ep. 28 mins 2.2k

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Talk World Radio: Kathy Kelly on Ending Wars in Western Asia

Dec 09 2024 29 mins

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 – 2019, living with young Afghan Peac

Talk World Radio: The Korean Victims of the U.S. Nuclear Bombings of Japan

Dec 02 2024 28 mins

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 Tribunal on the 1945 Atomic Bombings for

Talk World Radio: Emiliana Vegas on Working Within International Development Organizations

Nov 26 2024 29 mins

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 at the World Bank, division chi

Talk World Radio: Raed Jarrar on the Ongoing Criminal Destruction of Palestine

Nov 18 2024 28 mins

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.

Talk World Radio: Tore Naerland on Biking for Peace

Nov 05 2024 28 mins

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 work in the struggle against nucle

Talk World Radio: Why Some States Lock Up So Many People

Nov 03 2024 28 mins

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 state, within the United States, and

Talk World Radio: John Quigley on the Law and Stopping Genocide

Oct 25 2024 29 mins

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 Press).

Talk World Radio: Robert Shetterly on Portraits of Peacemakers

Oct 21 2024 29 mins

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 the country since 2003. Venues

Talk World Radio: Feroze Sidhwa on Israel Shooting Children in Head

Oct 13 2024 28 mins

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 author of an October 9th article

Talk World Radio: Aran Shetterly on the Greensboro Massacre

Oct 08 2024 28 mins

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://worldbeyondwar.org/book-club-aran-sh