World BEYOND War: a new podcast

Bridget Conley, Research Director at the World Peace Foundation, joins Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the condition of our militarized planet in 2026, the profit motive for endless war, the legacy of genocide and atrocity studies in the peace movement and more. Musical excerpt: "Department of War" by Jesse Welles.

“Beyond Borders” is the theme of World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2026 online conference next month, where Khawaja Hammad Akbar will be leading a panel on case studies of militarized borders and demilitarized zones with speakers from Korea, Gaza and the US/Mexico border. Khawaja joins us in this episode to talk about the themes of the upcoming conference. Music excerpt by Penboy.

World BEYOND War’s Marc Eliot Stein talks about the huge manufactured lies and slanders that progressives and peace activists constantly struggle to expose. The art of manufacturing a vicious lie was satirized by a song in the popular 1815 Italian opera “The Barber of Seville” that provides some historical perspective to the agonies we face today.

Jhay de Jesus, World BEYOND War's organizer for Asia, talks to Marc Eliot Stein about the political, social and activist environment in the Philippines, his background in university politics in Manila, and his current work interacting with peace groups and activists all over Asia.

Annachiara Canetta talks to Marc Eliot Stein about her experiences as an activist for food sovereignty, climate and Palestine, and her work as World BEYOND War's organizer for Europe.

A pacifist meditation on battlefields and a walk through Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where a decision was made in the middle of the 19th century to obliterate the hills that held the ghosts of the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27 1776, one of the worst days in George Washington's life. Marc Eliot Stein talks about city living, ethnic neighborhoods, "Little Caribbean", the legacy of white flight and more.

Daniel Che is a pacifist who left his home in Kyiv to live in Portugal and build Peaceful World, an online peace education project illuminated by Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy, the Woodstock Generation and Jainism. He joins World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein for a wide-ranging conversation about counterculture, anekantavada, karma and ahimsa - and also US/Israel's war with Iran, military sadism, anger, revolution and evolution.

Dr. Sahar Khan joins the World BEYOND War podcast to talk about the US/Israel/Iran war, the No Bases movement, the status of US bases in the Persian gulf, whether political think tanks are good or evil, the view from South Asia, and the work of geopolitical experts in times of global crisis.

World BEYOND War President Kathy Kelly joins Marc Eliot Stein for a wide-ranging exchange about the fundamental philosophies behind peace work, current corcerns about artificial intelligence, the relationship of anarchism to pacifism and the need for local-based small community governance structures to replace dysfunctional mass militarized governments.

Alicia Cabezudo, peace studies professor in Rosario, Argentina, talks with Marc Eliot Stein about the origins of academic peace studies, the purpose of pedagogy, the current generation of Latin American leaders including Lula, Petro and Sheinbaum, USA’s shocking recent attack on Venezuela, the emerging realities of drone assassinations and leadership decapitation as normal procedure in war, and the action-oriented nature of antiwar activism and the need to disarm our brains.