This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about pharmaceuticals with Dana Brown, the director of health and economy at the Democracy Collaborative, where her research focuses on health and care systems, the pharmaceutical sector, and economic transformation for health and well-being. See:

https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/09/drug-shortages-public-pharma-option/

https://democracypolicy.network/agenda/strong-people/strong-bodies/public-pharmaceuticals

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about a U.S. supported coup in Pakistan. Our guest Abdul Jabbar is an emeritus professor at City College of San Francisco and a former visiting professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. He came to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship and has received two National Endowment for the Humanities awards. His books are: Reading and Writing with Multicultural Literature: In Search of Reconciliation and Peace; and Not of an Age, But for All Time: Revolutionary Humanism in Iqbal, Manto, and Faiz; and The Promise, Reality, and Potential of America’s Cultural Diversity.

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

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about counter-recruitment, or discouraging people from joining a military. We have two guests. Debra Sweet is Director of World Can't Wait, and has been working to stop U.S. war on the world for almost 60 years. Hip-Hop Artivist and Educator Miles Megaciph is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps and an advocate for peace. They have both been working on a project called We Are Not Your Soldiers:

https://www.wearenotyoursoldiers.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Yemen with Arwa Mokdad, a peace advocate at Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation.

https://YemenFoundation.org

and a MPhil candidate at the University of Oxford researching conflict mediation within Yemen.

Recent articles by Arwa Mokdad:

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/yemen-blockade-medical-care/

https://dawnmena.org/what-many-western-experts-keep-getting-wrong-about-yemen/

https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/war-childhood-yemen

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/03/28/when-will-the-war-in-yemen-end/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/06/14/what-the-uae-takeover-of-yemens-islands-really-means/

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/03/12/what-about-the-saudi-blockade-strangling-yemen/

Article by David Swanson that he quotes from:

https://davidswanson.org/every-single-member-of-congress-is-willing-to-let-yemeni-children-die/

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.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing global broiling -- "warming" doesn't seem to cover it -- and what's being done and by whom to increase or lessen it. Our guest Helena Cobban is a writer on, and analyst of, international affairs. For two decades she contributed regular columns on global affairs to, respectively, the Christian Science Monitor and Al-Hayat (London). Of her seven books, four deal with Middle Eastern issues and the remainder with other international issues. In 2010, she founded Just World Books LLC, which has published 40 titles on Middle Eastern and global issues. Since 2015, she has been Executive Director of the Just World Educational Foundation. Ms. Cobban blogs at Globalities.org.

This week on Talk World Radio we speak with Sean Conner. He was appointed Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (see IPB.org) in October 2022. He holds a Bachelors in Intercultural and Critical Communication Studies from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a Masters in Intercultural Conflict Management from the Alice Salomon Hochschule. Prior to joining the IPB team in Berlin he worked for the Centre for Cross-Cultural Study in the U.S. and in community development with the non-profit Enlace Project in Nicaragua. He has been with IPB since 2020, first as Assistant Coordinator, then Coordinator for the 2021 World Peace Congress in Barcelona, and as Deputy Executive Director, and now Executive Director.

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

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking nuclear danger and antinuclear action with Ivana Nikolić Hughes, president of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a senior lecturer in chemistry at Columbia University. See https://wagingpeace.org