John Washington is a journalist who specializes in immigration issues, which he believes have been made into a "political football" by politicians who misiform people about the dangers that the newcomers bring. In fat, they are an economic asset. For the video, audio podcast and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-651-asylum

Thomas Hedberg heads, and his old friend Thomas De Laoughry belongs to, an organization promoting the spread of accurate medical information. But they are perturbed to recognize the power of organizations that are devoted to undermining reality and promoting falsehood. For the video, audio podcast, and commnets: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-650-since-goebbels.

Anuradha Shankar, Hemakumara Gunasekara, Rohan Savarimuttu, and Thayaparan discuss with Jill Carr-Harris and Rajagopal the prospects for reconciliation between Sinhala and Tamil people in Sri Lanka, in view of the election of a new government. For the video, audio podcast and comments see https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-649-sri-lankan-reconciliation.

David Harries gave a talk recently about accountability and Metta Spencer found the concept helps explain the puzzles about why voters around the world are angry and ousting incumbent politicians. So they talk about how acountability is harder nowadays and needs to be fixed – but how? For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-648-whos-accountable.

Rebecca Shoot heads Citizens for Global Solutions nadLawrence Wittner, a professor emeritus of history, State U of New York at Albany, is on her board. They discuss the arrest warrants issued for Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu and the gradual emergence of international law over time.

Shorena Lortkipanidze, Nino Chkobadze, and Nano Saralishvili, activists and scholars in Tbilisi, Georgia, have seen protests for the past three weeks in all towns of their country – reactions against the decision of a newly elected Pro-Russia party to defer entry to the European Union. Jill Carr-Harris, an expert on nonviolent protest, leads this exploration of the crisis. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca'episode-6 45-georgian-women-talk-democracy.

As a Soviet scientist, Roald Sagdeev knew Yevgeny Velikhov longest. The American scientists Richard Garwin, Frank von Hippel, and Thomas Cochran worked closely with Velikhov during the Gorbachev years, mainly to demonstrate experimentally how safe it would be for both sids to disarm their nuclear weapons. For the video, audio podcast, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-644-velikhovs-friends

Trump expresses outrage – but what is it really about? Please send Metta Spencer a video about what makes YOU seethe in daily life. Her theory: Democracy can't hold people accountable anymore. The US election shows the hostility that most Americans feel toward urban elites, blaming us smart-ass city-slickers for making their lives miserable by running unaccountable corporations, bureaucratic government, big science, and big media with high-tech and digital inventions. The Democrats should have asked Americans what really infuriates them. It's not about money. It's about the humiliating inability even to manage one's own daily life anymore. For the video and audio: https:/tosavetheworld.ca/episode-641-why-trump-won

Proposal: Let people appeal to panels of citizens selected by sortition for protection from unjust or unworkable digital tech and bureaucratic rigidity. Metta ranted about YouTube's deletion of years of work and important conversations about climate. Attendees from 5 countries discussed this and COP's failure at Baku. We hope to have the video back on our website in a couple of weeks, but you can watch it sooner on Substack or listen on Libsyn.For the video, audio podcast, comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-642-global-town-hall-nov-2024

Irakli Kakabadze and Shorena Lortkipanidze are in Tbilisi, watching the uprising being suppressed in the streets, while Konstantin Samoilov describes the situation in Uzbekistan for those opposing Russian political influence. For the video, audio, and comments: https://tosavetheworld.ca/episode-643-georgian-resistance