Episodes

  • Talk World Radio: Is Opposing Genocide a Crime in the UK?

    Talk World Radio: Is Opposing Genocide a Crime in the UK?
    Jun 30 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about whether opposing genocide in the UK is now a serious criminal offense and perhaps terrorism. Our guest, Tony Greenstein, is a leading Jewish anti-Zionist in Britain and founding member of Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods. His books include Zionism During the Holocaust and A History of Fighting Fascism in Brighton and the South Coast. He has written for numerous outlets, including a recent article in Al Jazeera called "The anti-Semitism smear that ruined Corbyn’s Labour now targets the Greens".
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: U.S. Military Spending Is About Double What They Tell Us

    Talk World Radio: U.S. Military Spending Is About Double What They Tell Us
    Jun 21 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about U.S. military spending. Greg Williams is the director of the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight. The Project on Government Oversight has worked with a number of friends of this program to put out a report called The True Total U.S. Military Budget. See: https://www.pogo.org/reports/the-true-total-u-s-military-budget
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: What Could Hawaii Be Without the U.S. Military?

    Talk World Radio: What Could Hawaii Be Without the U.S. Military?
    Jun 16 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about what the U.S. military does to Hawaii and what Hawaii could be without a massive military occupation. Our guest, Christine Ahn, is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. She is the Founder and former Executive Director of Women Cross DMZ, a global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War and ensure women’s leadership in peace building. In 2015, she led 30 international women peacemakers across the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) from North Korea, which was the subject of the award-winning 2023 PBS documentary, Crossings. IPS and a number of partners have released a new report called "The True Cost Of The U.S. Military In Hawaiʻi: A Comprehensive Analysis of the Economic, Environmental, Strategic, and Social Impacts of the U.S. Military Presence in Hawai'i." See: https://www.ips-dc.org/report-true-cost-of-u-s-military-bases-in-hawaii
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Francis Burns on Campus Activism

    Talk World Radio: Francis Burns on Campus Activism
    Jun 6 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about campus activism. Our guest, Francis Burns, is a student organizer at Cornell University and a native of Ithaca, New York. He grew up in a family of Catholic Workers who were deeply involved in the anti-war movement throughout the early 2000s. His father was one of the Saint Patrick’s Four. At Cornell, he is vice president of the Cornell progressives and students for justice in Palestine, which are focused on direct action and education surrounding Palestine and other leftist causes on campus. He is currently working on Graham Platner's campaign in Maine for the U.S. Senate.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don't Sit Back and Take It

    Talk World Radio: Bolivia and People Who Don't Sit Back and Take It
    Jun 2 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about Bolivia and people who refuse to put up with outrages that people in the United States sit back and accept. Our guest Kathryn Ledebur is director of the Andean Information Network which is online at https://ain-bolivia.org/about/
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran

    Talk World Radio: Stephen Zunes on Iran
    May 25 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about Iran and how we got to this point. Our guest Stephen Zunes is a professor of politics and program director for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police

    Talk World Radio: Abolish the Police
    May 19 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio we're talking about abolishing the police. Our guest, brian bean, is the author of Their End Is Our Beginning: Cops, Capitalism, and Abolition, which I've just read and highly recommend. brian bean is a Chicago-based socialist organizer, writer, and agitator originally from North Carolina. They are one of the founding editors of Rampant magazine. Their work has been published in Truthout, Jacobin, Tempest, Spectre, Red Flag, New Politics, Socialist Worker, International Viewpoint, and more. They coedited and contributed to the book Palestine: A Socialist Introduction.
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    29 mins
  • Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty

    Talk World Radio: Scott Langley on Abolishing the Death Penalty
    May 11 2026
    This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about ending the death penalty with Scott Langley, co-founder of Death Penalty Action. See: https://deathpenaltyaction.org https://abolition.org https://forwhomthebelltolls.org
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    29 mins