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Pitasanna Shanmugathas has produced a series of videos exposing the little-known horrors of Canadian foreign policy. See https://www.truthtothepowerless.com

Pitasanna Shanmugathas holds a master’s degree in global affairs from the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs—he has worked in multiple organizations advocating for peace and disarmament such as Save the Children, Science for Peace, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and STAND Canada. While completing his post-graduate education at the University of Toronto, Pitasanna decided to embark on a three year documentary journey starting in 2019 to explore the role of Canada's foreign policy in the international arena.

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Historians on Call with Margaret Power, who is co-chair of Historians for Peace and Democracy. See historiansforpeace.org She is a professor of history emeritus from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author or co-editor of seven books including Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964-1973 and Solidarity across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Antiimperialism.  See: https://www.historiansforpeace.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race."

The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing how the weapons business is making dramatic use of the war in Ukraine. Our guest, Niamh Ni Bhriain, is the War and Pacification Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The Transnational Institute and Stop Wapenhandel have a new report out called "Smoke Screen: How States Are Using the War in Ukraine to Drive a New Arms Race."

The report is available here: https://www.tni.org/en/publication/smoke-screen

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Professor Ilan Pappe is the Director of the European Center for Palestine Studies and a senior fellow of the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. Pappe is the author of 20 books his two most recent ones are Our Vision for Liberation, with Ramzy Baroud and The Historical Dictionary of Palestine with Johnny Mansour. His most known work is the 2006 book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and he also co-authored two books with Noam Chomsky.

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing U.S. resisters to World War II with Daniel Akst, author of the brand new book War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Honduras. Our guest Allison Lira is the Director of the Honduras Program for the Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective. Allison Lira holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.Phil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation from Trinity College Dublin.

See https://solidaritycollective.org

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing Ukraine with Medea Benjamin. Her latest book is "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict," co-authored with Nicolas J.S. Davies. See: https://peaceinukraine.org and https://codepink.org

This week on Talk World Radio we're speaking with the author of Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality. Dr. Ian Lustick holds the Bess W. Heyman Chair (Emeritus) in the Political Science Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He has published widely in the fields of Middle East politics, comparative politics, social science methodology, U.S. foreign and national security policy, and social science-based computer simulation.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about how nuclear war is nothing to worry about and if you just go indoors you'll be fine -- NO, we're not! We're talking sensibly about nukes with someone who knows what she's talking about. Our guest, Jackie Cabasso, has been involved in nuclear disarmament, peace, environmental, and social justice advocacy at the local, national, and international levels for more than 40 years. She has served as Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation since 1984. In 1995 she was a “founding mother” of the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons, where she continues to serve on its Coordinating Committee. She also serves as North American coordinator of Mayors for Peace and as a National Co-Convener of United for Peace and Justice. Jackie was the 2008 recipient of the International Peace Bureau's Sean MacBride Peace Award.