On today's show: In the wake of Hurricane Irma's destruction in the Caribbean, WBEZ digital producer Gabrielle Wright, whose family is from the Bahamas, shares information coming from the hardest hit parts of the country and comments from Michael Fountain, honorary consul of the Bahamas to Chicago. Archivist Nigel Colley, great-nephew of journalist Gareth Jones who reported on the rise of Nazi Germany and was publicly shunned by a biased reporter who was a Stalin confidante, discussed what he calls “the first case of fake news in modern journalism.”

On today's show:We discuss the regional implications of the U.N. Security Council's Monday vote to impose new sanctions against North Korea.We analyze the Gulf crisis after a Saudi-led group has demanded 13 conditions be met before lifting sanctions on Qatar.We turn the clock back quite a few decades for the sounds of Polish pop music from pre-World War II through the mid 1950s, and look at one of the biggest Polish pop bands from the 1960s with Morning Shift and Radio M host Tony Sarabia.

On today's show: Zero Waste Chicago co-founders join us to discuss how they build partnerships and produce events to encourage waste reduction. We speak with the artistic duo behind "White Wanderer: A Climate Change Soundtrack" — a public art installation along the Chicago River mimics a trillion-ton Antarctic iceberg. Norwegian polar explorer Borge Ousland, the first known person to cross Antarctica alone, speaks with the BBC’s Louise Hidalgo about his journey.

On today's show: Historian Juan Cole draws attention to what he believes to be a more urgent threat to the U.S. than terrorism — climate change. We talk about corruption in Guatemala after the country’s High Court approved a measure to strip immunity from President Jimmy Morales. Historian John Schmidt tells us about the inaugural meeting of the Parliament of the World's Religions. We discuss the future of free speech in Cambodia after a huge tax bill pressured a well-respected independent English newspaper, The Cambodia Daily, to close down.

Police militarization isn’t new. It’s been a trend for decades. SWAT teams have used military tactics since 1964, and police have used submachine guns and armored vehicles since the 1920s. But by 2017, chances are your neighborhood cop looks more like G.I. Joe than Andy Griffith. Peter Kraska has spent his career studying police and criminal justice militarization, and he gave Worldview a mini-history of police militarization. Here are some highlights from their conversation.

On today's show: WBEZ film contributor Milos Stehlik talks with Mark Decena — director of Not Without Us, which tracked climate change activists as they prepared for the 2015 Paris Climate negotiations. We recap the 2017 Telluride Film Festival with its founder, Tom Luddy. Global Citizen Nari Safavi talks with the organizers of Edgewater’s Ethiopia Fest happening this weekend.

On today's show: We discuss the crisis in Burma (Myanmar) as its government faces continual allegations of state-sponsored persecution of its Rohingya Muslim minority. We talk about President Trump's human rights record after the U.S. Senate foreign aid spending panel's Wednesday vote to cut $300 million in military aid to Egypt. Morton Blackwell, who was President Ronald Reagan's advisor, tells the BBC’s Dina Newman about the former president's love of anti-Soviet jokes and his determination to destroy communism.

On today's show: North Korea’s state television claimed a successful detonation of what it called a hydrogen bomb on Sunday, and we discuss the region's growing instability. We talk about the uncertain future for DREAMers after President Donald Trump on Tuesday rescinded the Obama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy. We discuss the German federal elections taking place on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 after a debate between current Chancellor Merkel and Martin Schulz, leader of the country’s center-left Social Democratic Party.

Chains from the Philippines, South Africa, and Guatemala all operate locations in the Chicago area. It’s a trend of reverse globalization that captures everything from labor issues to food security to culture and economics.

On today's show: We discuss Kenya's overturned presidential election and its turmoil with Alphonce Shiundu, an editor at Africa’s first independent fact-checking organization Africa Check. Activist Oscar Lopez Rivera and Eric LeCompte from Jubilee talk about the Financial Oversight and Management Board mandate that 30,000 government workers in Puerto Rico must be furloughed. Global Citizen, Nari Safavi, talks with directors of the play, A Persephone Pageant, and brings us some other global events to check out this weekend.