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Global Connections Television Podcast — 203 episodes
WILLIAM “BILL” COSTANZA, former CIA, ‘Treason, Terrorism and Betrayal”
Sonali Kolhatkar, “Rising Up with Sonali”
Steve Schlesinger, “UN Is Vital To Americans”
Jonathan Granoff, Global Security Institute, “Nuclear Weapons Update”
Dr. Michael Cairo, Update on Gaza/Israel and Iran
Rebecca Shoot, International Lawyer and Governance Practitioner
Jerry Glenn, Executive Director, Millennium Project
Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: “Trump Withdraws US from World Leadership”
John Seager, President and CEO of Population Connection
Chuck Collins: “Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Ae Ruining Our Lives and Planet”
Dr. Jean Krasno, Selecting a Woman UN Secretary General
Robert L. Dilenschneider, “Character: Life Lessons in Courage, Integrity, and Leadership”
Mark Wentling, Decimation of Foreign Aid (USAID)
Dr. Enrique Dussel Peters, Author “Latin America, China & Great Power Competition”
Beyond Borders: How the UN Holds the World Together
David Swanson, Executive Director, World Beyond War
Dr. Francisco Javier Bonilla: Historian, Latin America and Panama Canal
Dr. Joe Young, Director of the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce: Israel and Gaza, Ukraine and US abdication of world leadership
Irene S. Wu, Ph.D., “Measuring Soft Power in International Relations.”
Steve Schlesinger, Foreign Policy Expert on “80th Anniversary of the United Nations”
Mike Tidwell, Author, “The Lost Trees of Willow Avenue: A story of Climate and Hope on One American Street .“
Dr. Benjamin Houghton, “China's Strategy in the Gulf: Navigating Conflicts and Rivalries”
Charles Glass, “Syria: Civil War to Holy War”
Dr. Susan Sturm , “What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions”
Ward Wilson, Author, “It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons”
John R. Wilmoth, Director, DESA’s Population Division, United Nations
Dr. Robert Farley,” Waging War with Gold: National Security and the Finance Domain Across the Ages”
Dr. Desmond Dinan:” A Concise History of the European Union”
Jerry Glenn, Executive Director, Millennium Project
Podcast: Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce it.”
Mark D. Walker: “The Guatemala Reader: Extraordinary Lives & Amazing Stories”
Dr Phil Williams: “The Mediterranean Connection: Criminal Networks and Illicit Economies in North Africa”
Michael Albertus: “Land Power: Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies”
Morten Bøås (PhD), “Resisting Radicalization: Exploring the Non-Occurrence of Violent Extremism”
Podcast: Dr. Tony Payan, “U.S.-Mexico Relations: Structuring Alternative Futures”
Felix Dodds, Expert, UN Sustainable Development--2025 copyright
Dr. Michael Cairo, “Israeli-Hamas War”
Dr. William Marcy, “Narcostates”
Steve Schlesinger, "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations"
Dr. Frank N. von Hippel, “Ending the Nuclear Arms Race – A physicist’s quest.”
Michelle Gladieux, “Communicate with Courage: Taking Risks to Overcome the Four Hidden Challenges“
Skyler Badenoch, Executive Director, Hope for Haiti
Craig Storti, Author, “Why Travel Matters”
Dr. Justin Olmstead, Sandia National Laboratories
Pramila Patten, UN USG on Sexual Violence in Conflict
Thom Hartmann, American radio personality and author “The Hidden History of the American Dream?”
Jerry Glenn, Executive Director, Millennium Project
Dr. John Barkdull, “Confronting Climate Change”
Kevin Cassidy, iC One Global, Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Barry Scott Zellen, “Arctic Exceptionalism: Cooperation in a Contested World”
Podcast: Glenn Blumhorst, Peace Corps Foundation
Mark D. Walker, President, Million Mile Walker
Dr. Joe Young, Director, University of Kentucky, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce
Rebecca Shoot, Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions
Felix Dodds: Expert on the United Nations and Environmental Conferences
Dr Gardner Thompson, Author, books on Israel and Southern Rhodesia
Stephen Schlesinger, Foreign Policy Expert United Nations and International Issues
Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce It”
Podcast: Professor Abiodun Williams, “Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations”
Dr. Shao-cheng (Michael) Sun: “Hedging China Threat: US-Taiwan Relations Since 1949“
Somaya Faruqi, Afghan Refugee, Captain Girls Robotics Team
Rachel Pittman, CEO, United Nations Association of the USA
David Swanson: “NATO: What You Need to Know”
Professor Thomas Just: “Combating Antisemitism in Germany and Poland: Strategies Since 1990”
Charles Moxley: “Nuclear Weapons and International Law”
Paula Caballero: “Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Dr. Winston Langley: "Abolishing War"
Dr. Margaret P. Karns: Global Governance and the UN
Peter Yeo: President of the Better World Campaign
Kathleen Mogelgaard, President and CEO of the Population Institute
Norman Solomon: “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine”
Laura Hagg: International City County Management Association
Dr. Dale C. Copeland: “A World Safe for Commerce”
Dr. Peter Layton: “Warfare in the Robotic Age”
Jonahan Granoff, President, Global Security Institute
John Feffer: author of Splinterlands and director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
Dr. Augusto Lopez-Claros, Executive Director, Global Governance Forum
Dr. Robert Farley, Expert on Security and Diplomacy
David Betz, Professor of War Studies and Author: “The Guarded Age: Fortification in the 21st Century.”
Ward Wilson, Founder and CEO, RealistRevolt, Author “It Is Possible: A Future Without Nuclear Weapons”
Kris Kimel, Founder, Humanity in Deep Space
Professor Rolf Schwarz: NATO and the Middle East: In Search of a Strategy
Yasmine Sherif, Director of the Education Cannot Wait Program
Ken Heydon: “The Trade Weapon: How Weaponizing Trade Threatens Growth, Public Health and the Climate Transition”
Harlan Russell Green, former Peace Corps Volunteer and author: “Building Community: Answering Kennedy’s Call.”
Felix Dodds, UN COP 28 Attendee and Environmental Author “Heroes in Environmental Diplomacy: Profiles in Courage”
Xiao Yin Zhao, Executive Director, World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana
Dr. Michael Cairo: “American Presidents and Israeli Settlements since 1967.”
Dr. John Casey: “The Nonprofit World: Civil Society and the Rise of the Nonprofit Sector”
Dr. Ivana Nikolić Hughes, President, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
Mark Walker: President of Million Mile Walker
Dr. Gilles Guiheux: book “Contemporary China: 1949 to the Present ”
Dr. Antonello Provenzale: “History of Climate Change: From the Earth's Origins to the Anthropocene”
John Cavanagh: Update on El Salvador and “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed.
Dr. Bernie Strenecky: Play Ball Puerto Rico
Joe Lurie: “Perception and Deception: A Mind-Opening Journey Across Cultures”
Steve Schlesinger “Update on UN’s 78th General Assembly
Dr. Jean Krasno, Author “United Nations: Policy and Practice”
Professor Hussein Solomon: “African Security in the Anthropocene,”
Judge Thomas G. Moukawsher: “The Common Flaw: Needless Complexity in the Courts and 50 Ways to Reduce it.”
Aaron Williams, Former Director, US Peace Corps
Dr. Robert Zuber, Director, Global Action to Prevent War and Armed Conflict
Thom Hartmann: Progressive Political Commentator
Elizabeth Graham, Author “From Democracy to Democrazy”
Norman Solomon: “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine.”
John Seager, President and CEO, Population Connection
Dr. Gregory O. Hall: “Examining US-China-Russia Foreign Relations: Great Power Politics in a Post-Obama Era.”
Kevin Cassidy, United Nations International Labour Organization
Dr. Frank Costigliola: “Kennan: A Life Between Worlds.”
Claire Marie Regan: 106th president of the Society of Professional Journalists
William Shields, Executive Director for the American Society for Public Administration
Jeff Hardy: "The Care for Peace Manifesto: A Global Mandate to Secure the Second Human Evolution in Perpetuity"
Paula DiPerna, Author, “Pricing the Priceless: The Financial Transformation to Value the Planet, Solve the climate Crisis, and Protect Our Most Precious Assets”
Dr. Bob Flax, Past Executive Director, Citizens for Global Solutions
Craig Mokhiber, Director, New York UN Office for High Commissioner for Human Rights
Johanna Chao Kreilick: President of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Brenden Varma: Deputy Director, United Nations Information Center
Jerry Glenn: Executive Director, The Millennium Project
Chuck Collins: Director, Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies
Steve Schlesinger: "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations,"
Kerri Murray, President: ShelterBox USA
Mark Oettinger,: Attorney and World Court of Human Rights Design Team Leader
Steve Killelea, Executive Chairman of the Charitable Foundation and the Institute for Economics and Peace
Jack Sim: World Toilet Organization
Jared Yates Sexton: "THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis.”
John Feffer: Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
Chic Dambach, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and Author
Suzanne Nossel, CEO, PEN America: Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All.
Professor Lynn Levine Greenky: “When Freedom Speaks: The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of our First Amendment Right”
John R. Wilmoth, United Nations: “World Social Report 2023: Leaving No One Behind in an Ageing World”
Dr. Chuck Powell: Daisy Alliance-Reduction of Nuclear Weapons
Olga Tokariuk: Ukrainian Journalist
Mark Walker: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and Author of “My Saddest Pleasures”
Dr. David Marchick: The Peaceful Transfer of Power: An Oral History of America’s Presidential Transitions
Liz Karan: Protecting Ocean Life on the High Seas
Robert Bilott: Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont?
Professor Mark Stoll: “Profit: An Environmental History”
Philip Lymbery: CEO, Compassion in World Farming
Izumi Nakamitsu: Director of the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Professor Andrew Koppelman: “Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed.”
Patrick Sciarratta: President of the Global NGO Executive Committee
Kevin Cassidy: UN International Labour Organization: Clean Energy
Thom Hartmann: “The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness?”
Jonathan Granoff, Director, Global Security Institute--Nuclear Weapons Expert
Dr. Thomas G. Weiss: Would the World Be Better Without the UN
Dr. James M. Van Nostrand: THE COAL TRAP: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution
Dr. Daniel Fiorino: Clean Energy Transition: Policies and Politics for A Zero-Carbon World
Robert Skinner: UN SDGs and Communicating with the World
Sir Mark Lowcock, former United Nations Under‑Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Relief Chief: A Manifesto for Saving Lives in Dire Times.
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Foreign Policy Expert and and Editor of The Nation Magazine
Dr. Chantal Line Carpentier: UN Conference on Trade and Development
Dr. Alice Mah: “Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It”
Brigadier General Peter B. Zwack: “Swimming the Volga”
Yasmine Sherif: Director, United Nations Education Cannot Wait Program
Dr. Kevin Gallagher: “The Case for a New Bretton Woods: Reforming Global Economic Governance for Prosperity and the Planet”
Ambassador Carey Cavanaugh: “State of World Update Re: Conflict Resolution, Nuclear Arms, Ukraine and the United Nations”
Andrew Hudson: UN Development Program on Water and Oceans
Dr. Daniel J. Pesut: “Role of Nursing in Creating a Better World”
--Aaron S. Williams: Author: “ A Life Unimagined”: The Rewards of Mission-Driven Service in the Peace Corps and Beyond”
Paula Caballero, Author: “Redefining Development: The Extraordinary Genesis of the Sustainable Development Goals”
Louis Charbonneau: United Nations Director at Human Rights Watch
Dr. John B. Cobb Jr: American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist
Steve Schlesinger, author: "Act of Creation: Founding of the United Nations”
Dr. Gregory O. Hall: “Examining US-China-Russia Foreign Relations: Great Power Politics in a Post-Obama Era“
Dr. C. Fred Bergsten, Author: “The United States vs. China”
Dr. Elizabeth Economy, author: “The World According to China”
Eric Protzer, Author: “Reclaiming Populism: How Economic Fairness Can Win Back Disenchanted Voters”
Dr. Jonathan Gosling: Author of “Deep Adaptation: Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos”
Dr. Ashok Gangadean: Philosopher and Director of the Global Dialogue Institute
Carol Bellamy: former Director of the U.S. Peace Corps and past Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)
John Seager: President and CEO of Population Connection
Dr. Marie Pascale: “Living on the Edge: When Hard Times Become a Way of Life”
Tom Osborne: “The Politics of War: My Ten-Year Journey with Peter Jennings”
Dr. Raphie Kaplinsky: “Sustainable Futures: An Agenda for Action”
John Hewko and Carol Spahn: Rotary and Peace Corps Peace Week
Dr. John Arquilla: "Bitskrieg: The Challenge of Cyberwarfare”
Jennifer Jones: President Elect of Rotary International-2022
Dr. Dot Maver: UN’s International Day of Peace
Dr. Michael Butter: Nature of Conspiracy Theories
Dr. Tom Tuttle: Economic Development and Attacks on US Democracy
William Shields: How Well-Trained Public Administrators are Critical to Every Society
Tim Jackson: Director of the Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity
Nathan Bomey: USA Today Reporter and Author of "Bridge Builders: Bringing People Together in a Polarized Age"
John Cavanagh: Author of “The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed"
Dr. Andrei Tsygankov: "Russia and America: The Asymmetric Rivalry"
John Feffer: Author of Splinterlands and Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies
Ian Williams: President of the Foreign Press Association
Chuck Collins: Wealth Hoarders and ”Wealth Defense Industry”
Xiao Yin Zhao: World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana
Tom Blatner: President of JANUS Solutions and the Family Success Institute
Dr. Gerald Friedman: The Case Of Medicare For All
Katrin Kohl: Modern Languages: Why It Matters
Dr. Magdalena de la Teja: Confront Interdependent and Complex World
Ruben Nelson: Director of Foresight Canada
Stewart Levine: Resolutionary/Author, “Agreements for Results
Professor Felix Dodds: Stakeholder Democracy/climate crisis
Carrie Hessler-Radelet: UN Sustainable Development Goals & Peace Corps
David Swanson: Why War is Immoral, Costly & Destructive
Alana DeJoseph: Importance of US Peace Corps
Rachel Pittman: How UN Benefits Americans
John Hewko: Partnership with Rotary/UN Polioplus Program
Dr. Jane Goodall: Climate Change and Loss of Biodiversity
Dr. Michael Cairo: Analysis of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict