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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

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Matthew Hoh, who has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from 2002-8. Matthew’s writings have appeared in online and print periodicals such as the Atlanta Journal Constitution, CounterPunch, CNN, Defense News, the Guardian, the Huffington Post, Mother Jones, the Raleigh News & Observer, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. He has been a guest on hundreds of news programs on radio and television networks including the BBC, CBS, CNN, CSPAN, Fox, NBC, MSNBC, NPR, Pacifica and PBS. The Council on Foreign Relations has cited Matthew’s resignation letter from his post in Afghanistan as an Essential Document. In 2010, Matthew was named the Ridenhour Prize Recipient for Truth Telling and, in 2021, he was awarded as a Defender of Liberty by the Committee for the Republic. Matthew is a member of the Board of Directors for the Institute for Public Accuracy, an Advisory Board Member for the Committee to Defend Julian Assange and Civil Liberties, Expose Facts, North Carolina Committee to Investigate Torture, The Resistance Center for Peace and Justice, Veterans For Peace, and World Beyond War, and he is an Associate Member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He is a 100% disabled veteran and was certified by North Carolina as a Peer Support Specialist for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder. See: https://matthewhoh.substack.com

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Venezuela, sanctions, and immigration with Adrienne Pine, visiting professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies Department of Anthropology and Social Change, and co-editor of Asylum For Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with Norman Solomon about his brand new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine. Norman is cofounder of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.

This week on Talk World Radio we're remembering and learning new information about the IWW, the International Workers of the World or Wobblies, with Ahmed White, author of the new book Under The Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers.

Kathy Kelly has been President of the Board of World BEYOND War since March 2022, prior to which time she served as a member of the Advisory Board. She is based in the United States, but is often elsewhere. Kathy’s efforts to end wars have led her to living in war zones and prisons over the past 35 years.

The peace wave is at https://24hourpeacewave.org

World BEYOND War is at https://worldbeyondwar.org

International Peace Bureau is at https://ipb.org

Merchants of Death is at https://merchantsofdeath.org

Ban Killer Drones is at https://bankillerdrones.org