World BEYOND War: a new podcast

World BEYOND War: a new podcast episodes:

• 06.28.2024

  How Six Years in Washington DC Changed Me

  Before becoming technology director at World BEYOND War, podcast host Marc Eliot Stein endured three mind-blowingly bad contract positions with three departments of the federal government in a row during the years of the Obama administration. Here's a personal tale...

  
• 05.31.2024

  A Long Road to Peace Activism

  Podcast host Marc Eliot Stein explores his own past to uncover why he once believed in American exceptionalism and thought it would be a good idea to work for weapons manufacturers, Wall Street banks and media brands like Foreign Policy...

  
• 04.29.2024

  The Palaver Tree: Peacebuilding in Africa

  Guy Feugap joined World BEYOND War as a volunteer, founded WBW's Cameroon chapter, and is now our organizer for the entire continent of Africa. Marc Eliot Stein interviews Guy about his beginnings as a peace activist in Cameroon, about working...

  
• 03.31.2024

  Bridges and Boycotts

  What does the antiwar movement recognize when a bridge collapses in Baltimore? Why have container ships replaced the Titanic as the world’s biggest metaphor, and what does the new "BDS the US" movement think we should do about it? We...

  
• 02.22.2024

  Peace Fighter: A Talk With Crystal Zevon

  Crystal Zevon travelled from Vermont to Washington DC to join protestors from Code Pink and elsewhere in confronting cowering politicians and diplomats in Washington DC about Israel's ongoing genocide in Gaza. We talked to Crystal about her unique life story,...

  
• 01.29.2024

  WBW at 10: A Look Inside

  This special episode honors World BEYOND War's 10 years of global antiwar organizing and action. Guest host Maria Santelli takes us inside WBW's day-to-day operations as we talk to founder and executive director David Swanson, education director Phil Gittins, technology...

  
• 12.30.2023

  Just Human: A Conversation With Jamelah Vincent

  Two and a half months of brutal and senseless slaughter in Gaza have shattered souls all over the world. This month’s episode of the World BEYOND War podcast is a free-flowing, no-agenda conversation between Jamelah Vincent, a Yemeni-American in Michigan,...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Call to Conscience: Maria Santelli and Kathy Kelly

  As the world roils with war from Gaza to Ukraine, organizations built around idealistic foundations are doing great work in every part of the world. In this roundtable chat, Maria Santelli of the Center on Conscience and War talks about...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Hostages to Trauma: A Letter to Judih Weinstein Haggai

  Poet, teacher, mother, grandmother and pacifist Judih Weinstein Haggai has been missing since the attack on her kibbutz near Gaza on October 7, 2023. Her two friends Anemone Achtnich in Germany and Marc Eliot Stein in New York City talk...

  
• 09.29.2023

  A Journey From Gaza City

  Mohammed Abunahel, World Beyond War's researcher and expert on military bases, tells Marc Eliot Stein the incredible story of the efforts he had to go through to gain a higher education and build a meaningful life with his family from...

  
• 08.29.2023

  Unarmed Resistance at NoWar2023

  Randy Janzen and Rachelle Friesen join Rachel Small and Marc Eliot Stein to talk about unarmed resistance, a broad nonviolent practice that is being used in war zones all over the world today. Nonviolent resistance is the theme of #NoWar2023,...

  
• 07.29.2023

  When Bots Can't Handle The Truth

  What are antiwar activists saying about artificial intelligence? A whole lot. World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein walks through the political, economic, moral and philosophical questions that popular new AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT raise. We also...

  
• 06.29.2023

  Crisis in Peru

  Ricardo Antonio Soberon Garrido and Gabriel Aguirre join Marc Eliot Stein for a virtual conversation about the urgent governmental legitimacy crisis in Peru, the problematic rise to power of Dina Boluarte, and USA's plans to exploit the country's crisis, ignore...

  
• 05.30.2023

  Nazir Ahmad Yosufi: War is a Darkness

  Educator and peacebuilder Nazir Ahmad Yosufi was born in 1985 in Afghanistan, and has persisted through decades of Soviet war, civil war and US war to devote his life to helping people see a better way. Along with his academic...

  
• 04.28.2023

  Buried Giants in Japan: A Talk with Joseph Essertier

  Joseph Essertier is a peace activist who has lived and organized in Japan for 30 years, and is World BEYOND War’s chapter coordinator in Japan. We talk about Japan’s remilitarization, G7 in Hiroshima, Japan’s military partnership with USA, military bases...

  
• 03.31.2023

  No Exit

  In an impassioned plea for greater public resistance to rotten governments, Marc Eliot Stein talks about an empowering tweet by Caitlin Johnstone, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, the hopes for a popular move towards decentralized and human-scaled governance, and the...

  
• 02.26.2023

  A Peacekeeper in Limerick

  Edward Horgan began his determined life of peacekeeping as a member of the Irish Defense Forces, serving with the United Nations in conflict zones in Cyprus, the Sinai peninsula and the Middle East. Today, he works to recognize the names...

  
• 01.29.2023

  We Shall Overcome Was Not Just Words: A Talk with David Hartsough

  David Hartsough began his amazing life of determined activism as a teenager joining the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama alongside Martin Luther King and Ralph Abernathy, and kept up the struggle through more than 50 years of protest, organized...

  
• 12.28.2022

  Faith Comes Through: An Interview with Maya Garfinkel

  Montreal-based activist and student organizer Maya Garfinkel spent 2022 working with World BEYOND War while completing her college degree at McGill University. As they prepare for the next steps in a life dedicated to the struggle against war, exploitation, extractivism...

  
• 11.29.2022

  A Peace Mission in Romania and Ukraine

  Antiwar activist John Reuwer joined a peace mission in Romania in 2022 with the goal of organizing nonviolent resistance to the raging war that began in February of this year. Visiting refugees outside Ukraine and working with pacifists in Kyiv...

  
• 10.30.2022

  Art, Healing and Truth in Colombia

  Did you know that Colombia has a truth commission working in rural areas to heal the proud country after 75 years of brutal civil war? This truth commission is only one of many far ranging topics we talk about with...

  
• 09.30.2022

  Human Beings Without Rights

  Robert Fantina’s new book “Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir” breaks down the massive human rights violations in two regions where populations are manipulated to remove people from their longtime homes, or to make life unlivable in their homes. Marc Eliot...

  
• 08.29.2022

  Timi Barabas: Hungary to Aotearoa to New York for Peace

  At the age of 16, Hungarian-born Timi Barabas heard a song that inspired her to become an activist. Today, at the age of 20, she has founded organizations for climate awareness, anti-bullying, suicide prevention and poverty relief, and with her...

  
• 08.01.2022

  The Lines on the Map

  Podcast host Marc Eliot Stein talks about his path to antiwar activism, the Holocaust, his grandmother’s family and the awareness of generational collective trauma that eventually led him to work for a global grassroots peace organization. Also featuring Marc’s blog...

  
• 06.29.2022

  Medea Benjamin Never Gives Up

  Medea Benjamin is one of the most dynamic and dedicated antiwar activists in the world today. In this interview with World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein, Medea talks about recent progressive wins in Colombia and all over Latin America, the...

  
• 05.30.2022

  Alison Broinowski: From Diplomat to Activist in Australia

  Alison Broinowski is an author, diplomat and global peace activist with an amazing career calling attention to the corruption and dysfunction motivating Australia's past military leadership. This month, in May 2022, Alison is bringing good news to the world as...

  
• 04.30.2022

  Future Technology for Today's Activists

  Stakes are high for activists and advocates for a humane world to catch on to the shockingly rapid pace of change in the field of advanced technology. What is blockchain, and how can it help protect our freedom of speech?...

  
• 03.26.2022

  Kathy Kelly and the Courage for Peace

  Peace activist Kathy Kelly has crossed borders into dangerous war zones and been arrested more than 80 times to help refugees and victims and gain an understanding of the true nature of war, sanctions, structural violence, imprisonment and injustice. In...

  
• 02.23.2022

  Peace Education and Action for Impact

  We’re joined by four peace students on four continents: Iryna Bushmina of Ukraine, Stephanie Effevottu of Nigeria, Brittney Woodrum of USA and Anniela Carracedo of Venezuela. These students led creative projects as part of the new Peace Education and Action...

  
• 01.28.2022

  Escalation in Europe: The Guns of January

  Peace activist Koohan Paik-Mander joins Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the crisis of military escalation in Europe and the specter of superpower proxy wars in Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, Venezuela. Koohan talks about her life's work as an environmental and...

  
• 12.22.2021

  Dispatches From Amman

  Marc Eliot Stein talks to Matthew Petti, an up-and-coming journalist studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan. The wide-ranging conversation covers the politics of water, the credibility of journalism, the status of refugee communities in Jordan from Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Iraq,...

  
• 11.24.2021

  Glasgow and the Carbon Bootprint

  An interview about the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow with Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War’s chapter organizer in Spain. Tim joined a coalition to protest COP26’s weak stance on the “carbon bootprint”, the disastrous abuse of fossil fuels...

  
• 10.15.2021

  War Abolishers of 2021: Yoshioka Tatsuya, Mel Duncan, Petra Glomazic, Milan Sekulovic

  On October 6, 2021, World BEYOND War presented the first War Abolisher awards to Peace Boat, Mel Duncan and Save Sinjajevina. This episode brings us into the ceremony where Peace Boat founder Yoshioka Tatsuya, nonviolent defense pioneer Mel Duncan and...

  
• 08.30.2021

  The Life of Activism with Jodie Evans

  Jodie Evans learned about civil disobedience from Jane Fonda as a teenage activist in the late 1960s, and is still being arrested with Jane Fonda in 2021. Along the way, she worked on the disruptive presidential campaign of Jerry Brown,...

  
• 07.31.2021

  High Tech Weapons and Artificial Intelligence

  USA’s investment in high-tech weapons and military artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating, as Microsoft and Amazon enter the top ranks of corrupt military profiteers. The people are completely left out of the conversation as our governments devote billions of dollars...

  
• 06.30.2021

  A Virtual Antiwar Gathering

  We cover the #NoWar2021 global peace gathering in real time, featuring on-the-spot interviews with antiwar activists Julie Watkins, John Reuwer, Bart Bolger, Kate Jones, Margaret Rao, Noel Marshall, Donnal Walter, Scott Oates, Jean Cushman, Pauline Mary Lally, Terri Sleeva, Paul...

  
• 05.30.2021

  What Can The Antiwar Movement Do For Palestine and Gaza?

  Hammam Farah of Palestine House in Toronto and Ariel Gold of CODEPINK join Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the crucial role the antiwar movement can and must play in Israel, Palestine and Gaza. Our in-depth conversation ranges from the...

  
• 04.23.2021

  Fasting for Peace in Canada

  Two of our guests, Vanessa Lanteigne and Dr. Brendan Martin, are on day 12 of a fast to protest Canada’s purchase of 88 fighter jets. We’re also joined by World BEYOND War’s Canada organizer Rachel Small to talk about commitment...

  
• 03.28.2021

  Chapter Leaders in Cameroon, Canada and Germany

  World BEYOND War's chapter leaders build regional movements to address a global problem. In this episode, Guy Feugap of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Helen Peacock of South Georgian Bay, Canada and Heinrich Buecker of Berlin, Germany join Marc Eliot Stein to talk...

  
• 02.27.2021

  Activism and the Imagination with Vanessa Veselka and Rivera Sun

  Fiction writers are accustomed to seeing the layers of motivation and conflict that drive the plots around us. In this special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, we welcome two novelists, Vanessa Veselka ("The Great Offshore Grounds", "Zazen") and...

  
• 01.30.2021

  Gandhi's Science of Peace with Suman Khanna Aggarwal

  Suman Khanna Aggarwal, Gandhian scholar and President of the Shanti Sahyog center for nonviolence and conflict resolution in New Delhi, India talks to Marc Eliot Stein about her organization’s work and her own journey towards an understanding of Gandhian nonviolence,...

  
• 12.17.2020

  This Is America

  Where is the USA headed? Following the 2020 election, six American peace activists and board members of World BEYOND War talk about this large, troubled North American country's place on the planet and trajectory in times of climate crisis, health...

  
• 11.02.2020

  Emerging Activists on Five Continents

  Roundtable discussion with five young emerging activists in five continents: Alejandra Rodriguez in Colombia, Laiba Khan in India, Mélina Villeneuve in UK, Christine Odera in Kenya, Sayako Aizeki-Nevins in USA. We talk about cross-generational activism, education and history curriculums, legacies...

  
• 09.30.2020

  A Celebration of Kevin Zeese with Margaret Flowers

  A roundtable tribute to lifelong activist and Popular Resistance co-founder Kevin Zeese with Margaret Flowers and World BEYOND War's David Swanson, Leah Bolger, Pat Elder and Marc Eliot Stein. Music by Traveling Wilburys.

  
• 08.30.2020

  Digging Deeper With Nicholson Baker, And A Song By Margin Zheng

  Part Two with Nicholson Baker, author of "Baseless: My Search For Secrets In The Ruins Of The Information Act", talking about the CIA's unethical past, the Korean War, today's antiwar movements, psychological warfare against historians, gaslighting, Obama, Trump, the effectiveness...

  
• 07.21.2020

  Digging Up Permasecrets: A Talk With Nicholson Baker (Part One)

  Nicholson Baker's important new book "Baseless" is about the US military and CIA's past secret experiments with biological warfare, and about the author and historian's attempts to get the information about these disturbing secrets that he is legally entitled to....

  
• 06.19.2020

  Miles Megaciph: From US Marine to Hiphop Artist and Peace Activist

  Miles Megaciph talks to World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein about his life journey from a US Marine stationed near Guantanamo Bay to a life of peace activism, hiphop performance and protest from Okinawa to USA. We talk about poverty,...

  
• 05.05.2020

  A Global Look at the Pandemic

  From Milan to Caracas to Tehran to Brooklyn and everywhere else, peace activists around the world are experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic in vastly different ways. We speak with Jeannie Toschi Marazzani Visconti, who was organizing a global peace gathering in...

  
• 03.26.2020

  Visual Voices with Piril Torgut

  Piril Torgut is a young Cypriot artist who paints and sculpts visceral images of a marine world. Visual Voices is a global organization that supports artists who can help heal the troubled real world. In this episode of the World...

  
• 02.27.2020

  Intersections in Ottawa

  The upcoming #NoWar2020 antiwar conference in Ottawa, Canada will be a convergence of indigenous rights movements, urgency for climate change awareness, protest against military profiteering at the CANSEC weapons bazaar, and, as always, the core principle behind everything we do...