By David Swanson, Labour Hub, November 9, 2021
I’m not sure what we should have expected from a 26th UN climate meeting after 25 previous meetings had generated the opposite of the purportedly intended result. What we got was a festival of greenwashing that included in the meetings more fossil fuel lobbyists than the delegates from any one actual government,
COPOUT 26 Left Out the Topics and People It Needed Read More »
By Chris Nelson, People Powered Radio KZFR, November 9, 2021
First segment: tekchico.org Chico Traditional Ecological Stewardship Program.
Second segment: www.marjoriecohn.com, www.assangedefense.org
Third segment: www.worldbeyondwar.org, www.cop26.info for the petition to demand militaries be included in the climate agreement.
Music:
Leave It in the Ground by The Bushwackers on The
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Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm (except when it doesn’t work, and then Zoom is used). Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re going to hold a bit of a respectful and civil debate. I’m going to take the position that we should be focused on preventing wars and defunding militaries even at the expense of working to reform wars. My guest, Leonard Rubenstein’s position includes support
Talk World Radio Debate: Reform War or Abolish It? Read More »
By Rotary Club of Fort Collins, November 4, 2021
David Swanson spoke on November 3, 2021, with the Rotary Club of Fort Collins. The views he expressed were his, obviously, and not those of the Rotary Club of Fort Collins. But they could be yours. That’s up to you.
Video: Militaries As Global Health Threat Read More »
Image from Mapping Militarism.
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 2, 2021
U.S. presidential election campaigns have been known to focus on the slogan “It’s the economy, stupid.”
Efforts to explain the behavior of the U.S. government ought to put a little more focus on a different slogan, found in the headline above.
Andrew Cockburn’s fantastic new book, The Spoils of War: Power, Profit, and the American War Machine, builds a case that U.S. foreign policy
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By Sputnik, November 2, 2021
Climate and Capitalism’s Death Drive, Biden Sells Out Working and Poor People, Military Drives Climate Crisis
In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Don Debar host of the Weekday World show on Radio Justice LA to discuss the gutting of the budget reconciliation bill and the selling out of working and poor people, Joe Biden and the Democrats’ capitulation to Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and
The Climate Crisis Presents a Stark Choice Between Capitalism and Survival Read More »
By World Federalist Movement, Institute for Global Policy, November 2, 2021
Speakers:
Mr. Keith Best, Executive Chair, WFM/IGP
Mr. Vijay Mehta, Chair, Uniting for Peace
Mr. David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Mr. Stephen Hockman QC, Barrister at Six Pump Court Chambers
Ms. Jennifer Trahan, Professor, New York University’s Center for Global Affairs and Director of Concentration in International Law and Human Rights
Ms. Marjolijn Snippe, Executive
By David Swanson, World BEYOND War, November 1, 2021
When the New York Times is paying Thomas Friedman many thousands of dollars to wonder whether Russia or China would help the United States if space aliens attack it, a few conclusions can be drawn.
The ludicrousness of the UFO propaganda coming out of a U.S. military establishment unable to gin up a credible enemy on Earth to justify weapons production is invisible to its own proponents.
The eagerness of Russia and China to ban weapons from space
Save Tom Friedman’s Mind: Restore Armistice Day Read More »
By Peace Action Maine, October 31, 2021
Devon Grayson-Wallace, Peace Action Maine, facilitator
Lisa Savage, Maine Natural Guard
Janet Weil, Veterans For Peace, CCMP
David Swanson, World BEYOND War
VIDEO: How the Pentagon Fuels Climate Chaos Read More »
Talk World Radio is recorded as audio and video on Riverside.fm. Here is this week’s video and all the videos on Youtube.
Stuart Parkinson is Executive Director of Scientists for Global Responsibility. He has been an expert reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and provided advice to UK negotiators to the UN climate change convention. He then spent a year working for Friends of The Earth, co-ordinating research and policy work highlighting the link between environmental
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