Talk World Radio

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing a recent legal settlement that will compensate family members of people killed by the Bolivian military. Our guest, Beth Stephens, is a Center for Constitutional Rights cooperating attorney and a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers Law School. The Center for Constitutional Rights is at https://ccrjustice.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace activism in a country that has more of it than perhaps any other: Italy. Our guest Sergio Bassoli is senior officer at CGIL's International Department. CGIL is the Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro -- the confederation of labor unions. He is also the Board's coordinator of the Rete Italiana Pace Disarmo or Italian Network for Peace and Disarmament. And he is a member of the national coordination of Europe for Peace. A major rally is planned in Rome on October 7th: https://retepacedisarmo.org/evento/la-via-maestra-insieme-per-la-costituzione

This week on Talk World Radio we are speaking with Nick Mottern, long-time stand-out peace activist, reporter, researcher, speaker, and prop-creator. Nick is co-coordinator of Ban Killer Drones and organizer of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal, as well as a member of the national board of Veterans For Peace. See:

https://bankillerdrones.org

https://merchantsofdeath.org

https://veteransforpeace.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about the latest developments in the prosecution and persecution of Julian Assange. Our guest Greg Barns SC is an Australian barrister speaking to us from Australia. He is a member of the Assange Committee and former President of the Australian Lawyers Alliance. He was appointed Senior Counsel in Tasmania in 2020. He is Chair of the Prisoners Legal Service in Tasmania and is a Patron of the Justice Reform Initiative.

See: https://republicchambers.com.au/barrister/greg-barns-sc

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about peace, and not in your heart, and not as "more than just the absence of war," but in fact as the absence of war, in Ukraine in particular.

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/