Talk World Radio

This week on Talk World Radio, our guest is Christopher Coyne, a Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow at the Independent Institute in Oakland, California. He is the author of the new book In Search of Monsters to Destroy. His website is https://ccoyne.com

This week, we speak with former Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich about the turn toward warmongering in U.S. politics.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about murdering people with flying robots, er excuse me, doing noble targeted drone strikes, except when Russia does them because then they're evil. We welcome back two guests. Nick Mottern and Kathy Kelly are co-coordinators of BanKillerDrones.org. Nick is on the board of Veterans For Peace. Kathy is President of the Board of World BEYOND War. They are also planners of Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.

https://bankillerdrones.org

https://merchantsofdeath.org

https://veteransforpeace.org

https://worldbeyondwar.org

This week we're speaking with Rashid Khalidi, who is Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and author, among other books of the fantastic book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: Settler-Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017.

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing Palestine, Israel, and what one is and is not allowed to say out loud. Our guest is Rev. Graylan S. Hagler, former chief pastor at the Plymouth Congregational United Church of Christ in Washington, D.C. and director of Faith Strategies.

This week on Talk World Radio we're discussing the upcoming COP27 UN climate meeting in Egypt, with Nancy Mancias and Cindy Piester.

Resources discussed are posted here: https://worldbeyondwar.org/cop27

Nancy Mancias is a doctoral student in Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies. She holds a MBA from Dominican University of California and BA in Drama from San Francisco State University. She has worked over 15 years in the non-profit sector, focusing on social services, social justice, and theater. She has volunteered and visited the refugee camps in Greece and Kurdistan, Iraq, and provided migrant support on the US-Mexico border. As an anti-war advocate, Mancias has been actively trying to bring the troops home from their overseas misadventures. She has also been part of the movement against torture and a proponent of closing the prison in Guantanamo.

Cindy is a lifetime activist and organizer focusing on peace, justice, human rights, and the military impacts on the climate crisis. A former cable access television alternative media producer and host, and a US war crimes documentarian, She is the surviving spouse of Vietnam veteran, John Piester, and a founding member of Veterans For Peace Climate Crisis and Militarism Project. She is a Board Member with a national Unitarian organization, a member of WILPF US’ Climate Justice + Women + Peace Project and WILPF’s International Environmental Working Group. Cindy has been calling for cutting the DoD budget and ending perpetual wars that enrich the war industry while depriving all of us the means necessary to urgently mitigate the climate crisis.

This week on Talk World Radio we're talking with two members of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. Founded in July 2020 by undergraduate students at the University of Texas at Austin, Women for Weapons Trade Transparency is a nonprofit promoting transparency of the weapons and arms trade. Their website is https://w2t2.org

Rosie Khan is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, with a quintuple-major. She hopes to eventually be a novelist and turn her solarpunk vision of the world into reality.

Lillian Mauldin is a Founding Board Member of Women for Weapons Trade Transparency. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Thematic Specialist with Amnesty International USA's Military, Security, and Police Transfers Coordination Group. Lillian hopes to continue building a career in policy advocacy.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing nuclear weapons and efforts to abolish them with two activists from the Seattle, Washington, area, Tara Villalba, who organizes with neighbor tenants and workers, and Thomas Rogers who is a former Navy submarine captain now active with the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action. I'll be joining them for a rally in Seattle on September 24 which can be found at https://abolishnuclearweapons.org

I hope we can inspire others to do the same in their towns.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're discussing peacebuilding and women's rights with Sanam Naraghi Anderlini, MBE, Founder/CEO of International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and director of the London School of Economics Centre for Women, Peace and Security who was awarded an MBE in 2020 in honor of her contributions to international peacebuilding.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about cancer clusters in heavily polluted neighborhoods in the United States, and an upcoming protest on September 29th at the EPA in Washington D.C.

September 20, 2022: https://www.safeprotestepa.org

Our guest, Susan Wind, became an environmental advocate after her daughter Taylor was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2017. Through her investigative skill set, she exposed a thyroid cancer cluster in her town along with a dirty secret - builders, contractors and landscapers used Duke Energy's coal ash (instead of soil) as structural fill in communities throughout Lake Norman, NC. This coal ash came from its neighboring coal burning plant (the Marshall Steam Station). While the health department, the state, and the politicians tried to dismiss the issues, Susan Wind continued to build alliances and connections with advocates from all over the country to address the broken system that fails people's health.