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The official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that fights for the world's poor. Clint Borgen and team provide an entertaining look at global issues, politics and advocacy. Learn more at borgenproject.org.

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    • Jun 6, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Freedom Flotilla, Bill Gates Goes Big, Bono vs. Musk, Joe Rogan Trillion Dollar USAID Math and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2025 25:24


    Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. The Borgen Project Podcast seeks to give an informative and humorous look at the biggest issues facing the world. borgenproject.org

    Uyghurs 101 - Dr. Henryk Szadziewski, Director of Research at the Uyghur Human Rights Project

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2025 28:56


    Dr. Henryk Szadziewski is Director of Research at the Uyghur Human Rights Project. He lived in the People's Republic of China for five years, including a three-year period in Uyghur-populated regions. Henryk Szadziewski studied modern Chinese and Mongolian at the University of Leeds, and completed a master's degree at the University of Wales, where he specialised in Uyghur economic, social and cultural rights

    Tim Hanstad, Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation on Land Rights, Building Cultures of Integrity and Anti-Corruption Work

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 37:13


    Tim Hanstad, Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation and Co-founder of the land rights organization Landesa and Catalyst Now, the world's largest global network of social entrepreneurs and innovators. Guest BioTim Hanstad serves as the Vice-Chair of the Chandler Foundation's Board of Directors. Prior to this Tim was the Chandler Foundation's first Chief Executive Officer, a position he held for five years. Before joining the Foundation, Tim co-founded Landesa with Roy Prosterman and served as its CEO for many years, helping to grow the organisation and its impact from a two-person start-up to a Global Top Ten NGO. He launched Landesa's programs in China, the former Soviet Union, and India, where he lived for many years.Tim is a Skoll Social Entrepreneur Awardee, a World Economic Forum Outstanding Social Entrepreneur, a Leap of Reason Ambassador, and a Co-Founder of Catalyst Now, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs and innovators. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Foreign Affairs, Scientific American, and beyond. He holds two law degrees from the University of Washington, a bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University where he was Male Athlete of the Year, and has completed certificate programs at Harvard Business School and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. His greatest learning, however, has come from spending time with those on socioeconomic margins in more than 20 countries around the world. Tim is the proud spouse of Chitra and the father to four adult children from whom he draws inspiration.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa - Inside a Gaza Hospital During a Missile Attack

    Play Episode Listen Later May 14, 2025 82:48


    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discusses Gaza with Clint Borgen. Dr. Sidhaw is a Trauma Surgeon, based in California, with experience in Gaza, Ukraine, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He received his Masters in Public Health from Harvard and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Medical School.Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgGuest BioDr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is triple-board certified in general surgery, trauma/surgical critical care, and neurocritical care, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the International College of Surgeons.Feroze is also a humanitarian surgeon. He has worked most extensively in Palestine, but has also worked in Ukraine three times with the International Medical Corps and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and in Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He has helped edit books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict published by University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), O/R Books (London, UK), and the Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, DC). He is widely published in the medical literature, including in The Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Annals of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Surgical Infections, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and Journal of Laproendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, among others. Feroze has spoken on humanitarian relief work and its political implications at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, as the keynote speaker of the Stanford 31st Annual Trauma Critical Care Symposium, at UChicago Medicine Trauma Grand Rounds, at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago Law School, Johns Hopkins University and School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, MIT, Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, NYU, the Hawaii Medical Association, and the University of Hawaii A. John Burns School of Medicine. He has also spoken widely in the community, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but also with Jewish Voice for Peace Phoenix and Tucson, Massachusetts Peace Action, the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and elsewhere.Lay publications about Feroze's humanitarian surgical work and its political implications include:New York Times, October 9, 2024. “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza”Haaretz (Israel), October 17, 2024. “65 אנשי רפואה לניו יורק טיימס: אלה המחזות שראינו בעזה”Politico, July 19, 2024. “We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.”CommonDreams.org, May 23, 2024. “The Atlantic's Sloppy Reporting on UN Gaza Statistics Jeopardizes Its Credibility”CommonDreams.org, April 11, 2024. “As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel's Genocide in Gaza”Columbia Daily Spectator, January 29, 2025. “In Gaza, a ‘political' ethical problem is still an ethical problem.”Feroze is the primary author of two open letters to the Biden-Harris administration regarding the United States' role in the Israeli assault on Gaza that followed the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, as well as the appendices accompanying those letters. These letters were updated and sent to the Trump transition team on November 15, 2024.Feroze has appeared on CNN's Amanpour, PBS, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin Reports, Democracy Now!, CNN international, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, DropSite News, NPR, and the BBC World News, as well as a variety of radio programs and podcasts. He has been quoted widely in mainstream and alternative media, including on CBS Sunday Morning News, ABC News, Reuters, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the New Republic, Mainchi Newspaper (Japan), Local Call (Israel), the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, NRK (Norway), the Guardian, the Independent, Pass Blue, and Democracy Now! Dr. Sidhwa serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American College of Surgeons on global surgical topics and as an external expert reviewer for Human Rights Watch.Feroze was born in Houston, TX to Parsi parents who left Pakistan to find a better life. They moved to the UK and then in the United States. Feroze grew up in Flint, MI. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in public health he lived in Haifa, Israel for one year, working with a Palestinian-Jewish cooperative in the city. He then taught middle school in east Baltimore for one year before starting medical school at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio. During his time in medical school he also obtained a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.After finishing medical school, Feroze joined the general surgery residency program at Boston Medical Center. During his residency he completed a surgical research fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. During that time Feroze treated victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing. After finishing residency in 2018 he began his one-year trauma/surgical critical care fellowship at Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, NJ. After completing his fellowship, he moved to California where he now practices as a trauma surgeon at a county hospital and as a general surgeon in the Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System.Dr. Sidhwa critiques the United States' role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a unique lens. He is a secular American with no ethnic or religious ties to the Middle East. He has a broad knowledge of Israeli and American academic work on the conflict, and closely follows the technical humanitarian, human rights, medical, political, economic, and environmental research done on the topic by Israeli, Palestinian, and international agencies. His public health degrees afford him a broad understanding of how these different areas affect the people of the region. He has no interest in any particular political solution to the conflict. And, most importantly to him, he has seen the conflict in person, seen what it is doing to Palestinians and to Israelis, and has treated its victims with his own hands.

    Deadliest Creatures, Boko Haram Resurfaces, Nigeria Tries to Offset Cuts to Health Funding

    Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 22:03


    Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest humanitarian developments.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Director Laura Warner on Traveling to 100 Countries and Her Ukraine War Documentary, The Cranes Call

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2025 52:32


    Director Laura Warner discusses her Ukraine War documentary, The Cranes Call and what she's learned traveling to over 100 countries. Warner has covered Libya, Iraq and many of the hardest hit places in the world. Her latest documentary, The Cranes Call follows war crimes investigators from the Clooney Foundation (Anya Neistat and Solomiia Stasiv) who interview survivors and document human rights abuses. The film is backed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton's production company, Hidden Light.Links:- Watch The Cranes Call- Laura Warner

    China in Africa

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2025 50:40


    Africa is a major focus of Chinese foreign policy. Yun Sun, Director of the China Program at the Stimson Center discusses what to expect now that the U.S. is cutting humanitarian aid to Africa.

    Philippines, USAID, CIVICUS

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 25:59


    Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest developments.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    8 Strategies for Ending Global Poverty and Update on Ukraine

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2025 29:21


    Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the latest developments in Ukraine and eight strategies for ending poverty.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Elon Musk Attacks the World's Poorest, U.S. Army Vets Approach to Activism

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2025 36:56


    Josephine Guilbeau, a former U.S. Army Intel Analyst discusses her approach to activism. Elon Musk and DOGE attack USAID.Take Action: Urge Congress to Protect USAIDUrge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in GazaOfficial podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Dr. Ayesha Khan Back from Gaza and D.C.

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 31:07


    Dr. Ayesha Khan recently worked in Gaza and was on Capitol Hill with The Borgen Project. Dr. Khan specializes in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine.Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    USAID Under Attack, Borgen Project on Capitol Hill with Gaza Doctors

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 22:46


    White House locks USAID employees out and shuts down the U.S. agency that handles aid to world's poorest. The Borgen Project back from DC.Take Action: Urge Congress to Protect USAIDUrge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in GazaOfficial podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    From Syrian Prison to D.C. Think Tank: Mid-East Expert Qutaiba Idlbi

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 49:48


    Qutaiba Idlbi discusses Syria and his personal journey. Qutaiba Idlbi is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Middle East Programs where he leads the Council's work on Syria.

    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa - Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 48:56


    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discusses Gaza with Clint Borgen. Dr. Sidhaw is a Trauma Surgeon, based in California, with experience in Gaza, Ukraine, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He received his Masters in Public Health from Harvard and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Medical School.Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa - Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 12, 2025 46:29


    Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discusses Gaza with Clint Borgen. Dr. Sidhaw is a Trauma Surgeon, based in California, with experience in Gaza, Ukraine, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He received his Masters in Public Health from Harvard and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Medical School.Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    CEO of Hope for Ukraine, Yuriy Boyechko

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 29:29


    CEO Hope for Ukraine, Yuriy Boyechko discusses the situation in Ukraine.

    Recap from Interviews with Genocide Experts

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 31:03


    Clips from earlier interview with Ambassador David Scheffer and Professor Omer Bartov. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Mental Health in War with Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 59:43


    Mohsin Mohi-Ud-Din, the Founder of #MeWeIn discusses how stories shape our lives.Watch the video of Alan Shebaro that went viralRead the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official Podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Iraq Special Forces Veteran Alan Shebaro on Gaza and the West Bank

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 4, 2024 47:31


    Iraq Special Forces Veteran Alan Shebaro Discusses Gaza and the West Bank with Clint Borgen. Watch the video of Alan Shebaro that went viralRead the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official Podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Authors of Daybreak in Gaza Reveal an Extraordinary Place and People

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2024 46:25


    Juliette Touma, Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller discuss their new book Daybreak in Gaza with Clint Borgen. Jayyab Abusafia is also coauthor of Daybreak in Gaza but wasn't able to attend this interview. Book Description:"This was Gaza. A place of humanity and creativity, rich in culture and industry. A place now pulverised and devastated, its entire population displaced by a seemingly endless onslaught. Today, as its heritage is being destroyed, Gaza's survivors preserve their culture through literature, music, stories and memories. Daybreak in Gaza is a record of that heritage, revealing an extraordinary place and people. Vignettes of artists, acrobats, doctors, students, shopkeepers and teachers across the generations offer stories of love, life, loss and survival. They display the wealth of Gaza's cultural landscape and the breadth of its history. This remarkable book humanises the people dismissed as mere statistics and portrays lives full of joy and meaning. Daybreak in Gaza stands as a mark of resistance to the destruction, and as a testament to the people of Gaza."Purchase Daybreak in GazaEmail Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Jonathan Fowler of UNRWA + Founders of Kinder Relief Discuss Evacuating Injured Kids

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2024 51:26


    Jonathan Fowler provides an update on UNRWA. Nadia Ali and Alisa Kireeva of Kinder Relief discuss the challenges of evacuating injured children from Gaza.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Borgen Back from the West Bank

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 46:33


    Just back from the West Bank, Clint Borgen shares what he saw in the region. Borgen visited refugee camps, schools and medical clinics operated by UNRWA.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Traveling War Nurse, Nina Ng

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2024 37:27


    Nina Ng was born and raised in New York City and after working in many warzones, she launched Help Me Live USA to assist people impacted by war.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Interview with U.S. Doctors Back from Gaza: Dr. Mimi Syed and Dr. Myles Dickason

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 19, 2024 64:11


    Back from Gaza, Dr. Mimi Syed and Dr. Myles Dickason discuss what they witnessed and the wars horrible impact on civilians.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Zimbabwe Kills Elephants to Feed Hungry, Hope in Afghanistan, More Safe Zones Bombed in Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 18, 2024 34:20


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues.In this episode...Polling shows Afghanistan men believe human rights for women is key to Afghanistan's future.Does your name determine your political views?Zimbabwe government kills elephants to address famine.Israel continues to bomb safe zones.Polio vaccination underway in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    U.S. Army Combat Surgeon Discusses Working Inside Gaza's Hospitals - Dr. Adam Hamawy Interview

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 8, 2024 32:43


    Dr. Adam Hamawy, a retired Lt. Colonel who served in Iraq, discusses what it's like working in Gaza's hosptials. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, who lost both of her legs in Iraq when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the helicopter she was piloting has credited Dr. Adam Hamawy with saving her life. Hamawy points out in normal warfare the patients are predominantly soldiers, but in Gaza it's overwhelmingly civilians and children being shot, bombed and injured.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    American Doctors in Gaza Tell All

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 30:24


    Chief of Staff Lynsey Alexander joins Clint Borgen to discuss Gaza. American doctors serving in Gaza are calling on the White House to stop providing weapons to Israel. The doctors cite the injuries they see daily aren't normal warfare, but the deliberate targeting of children and civilians.Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Emailing Congress in support of a ceasefire in Gaza.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    NATO 101, Africa's Mine Sniffing Rats, U.S. Sending More Big Bombs to Man Facing Charges for Starving People!?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2024 49:00


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues.In this episode...NATO 101Rats being used in Africa to detect landmines.Israeli Prime Minister Netanyau has been criminally charged by the ICC for starving millions of people and committing crimes against humanity in Gaza... so naturally the White House has decided to send him more 500 pound bombs to drop on the people of GazaOfficial podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgLearn more about Apopo's efforts to train rates for mine detection.

    Ewan Watson of UN's Refugee Agency Discusses the Crisis in Sudan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 24, 2024 25:22


    Ewan Watson, Head of Global Communications for the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) discusses Sudan and South Sudan.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Blood Bananas - Jury Finds Chiquita Liable for Killings by Paramilitary Group

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2024 39:07


    Marissa Vahlsing of EarthRights International discusses their big victory in efforts to bring justice for victims of banna killings. This month a jury in Florida found Chiquita liable for killings between 1997 and 2004 by a Colombian paramilitary group that the company provided millions of dollars to. The paramilitary group was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State.Learn more about EarthRights InternationalBBC article about the case.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    The Beautiful Side of "Awful" Places

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 40:50


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. In this episode...A different perspective on impoverished and war-torn countries. There's much more to poor countries then meets the eye. The stats are in... the college protests in support of Gaza were overwhelmingly peaceful. Why did Congress invite Israeli Prime Minister Netanyau to speak to a Joint Session of Congress? An honor that's been given to Winston Churchill and Nelson Mandela is now going to someone facing war crimes charges. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    United Nations 101 - Overview of the Coolest Entity that Most People Know Nothing About

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 11, 2024 34:07


    What is the United Nations? Clint Borgen and Lynsey Alexander discuss the coolest organization that most people know very little about. From humanitarian assistances to prosecuting war crimes, the U.N. is instrumental in righting some of the world's biggest wrongs. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Military Expert Josh Paul Discusses Resigning Over Arms Transfers to Israel

    Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2024 42:53


    Josh Paul was a Director at the State Department for 12-years and involved with sending weapons to foreign countries. In October of 2023, Paul publicly resigned citing concerns the U.S. wasn't following its own laws and procedures when it came to supplying weapons to Israel. Paul noted that Israel was requesting a "variety of weapons that have no applicability to the current conflict.”Read Paul's Op Ed in the Washington PostEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Jonathan Fowler of UNRWA Discusses the Crises in Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 42:18


    Jonathan Fowler of UNRWA joins the podcast. UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.) is unique in terms of its long-standing commitment to one group of refugees. It has contributed to the welfare and human development of four generations of Palestine refugees. Email Congressional leaders in support of a ceasefire in GazaOfficial podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty. Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Genocide Expert and Former Israeli Soldier Omer Bartov Discusses Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2024 38:38


    Professor Omer Bartov is considered one of the world's leading specialists on the subject of genocide. He is the Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown University.Born in Israel and educated at Tel Aviv University and St. Antony's College, Oxford, Omer Bartov's early research concerned the Nazi indoctrination of the Wehrmacht and the crimes it committed in World War II, analyzed in his books, The Eastern Front, 1941-1945, and Hitler's Army. He then turned to the links between total war and genocide, discussed in his books Murder in Our Midst, Mirrors of Destruction, and Germany's War and the Holocaust. Bartov's interest in representation also led to his study, The "Jew" in Cinema, which examines the recycling of antisemitic stereotypes in film. His more recent work has focused on interethnic relations in the borderlands of Eastern Europe. Recent publications include Erased: Vanishing Traces of Jewish Galicia in Present-Day Ukraine (2007), Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz (2018), winner of the National Jewish Book Award, and Tales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician Past (2022). His many edited volumes include Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands (2013), Voices on War and Genocide: Three Accounts of the World Wars in a Galician Town (2020), and Israel-Palestine: Lands and Peoples (2021). Bartov's novel, The Butterfly and the Axe, will be published in 2023.Check out these books by Omer BartovGenocide, the Holocaust, and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of CrisisThe Butterfly and the Axe. A NovelTales from the Borderlands: Making and Unmaking the Galician PastAnatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

    Kenya's Major Boost in Electricity, Malaria Nets 2.0, War Protests

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 29:31


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    The Arithmetic of Compassion with Dr. Paul Slovic

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2024 49:17


    Clint Borgen interviews Dr. Paul Slovic. Dr. Paul Slovic is President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon. He is an expert in human judgment, decision making, risk perception and the go-to guy when trying to understand human perception toward the world's most urgent problems, like war, genocides, nuclear weapons and pandemics. (arithmeticofcompassion.org)Learn more about Dr. Slovic's work:arithmeticofcompassion.orgUniversity of Oregon, Department of Psychology Decision Research--Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.org

    Life Inside Kharkiv Ukraine

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2024 23:16


    Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine and it's only 25-miles from the border with Russia. Needless to say, it has been heavily targeted. Clint Borgen interviews Lina Sadovnycha from the Ukrainian based humanitarian organization Peaceful Heaven of Kharkiv.Learn more about Peaceful Heaven of Kharkiv--Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Pulling Water Out of Thin Air, Raising Fish on Land and Other Creative Ways People are Solving Big Problems

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2024 33:19


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonateMentioned in the episode: Hima Seafods, Source Water, 

    Global News Update

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2024 15:59


    Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Top Myths About Immigration with Alex Nowrasteh

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 25, 2024 44:37


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. In today's episode, Alex Nowrasteh, Vice President of Economic and Social Policy Studies at the CATO Institute discusses the top myths about immigration.Read the Full Immigrations Myths Report--The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.

    Mount Everest Garbage, Gaza, Volcano Donkey's and Child Survival Rates Improving

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 35:02


    Actress Michelle Twarowska and Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project discuss the latest global issues. Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Gaza, Haiti, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 27:54


    Clint Borgen, the President of The Borgen Project is joined by Chief of Staff Lynsey Alexander to discuss Gaza, Haiti, Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Beautiful Answers to Your Darkest Questions About Poverty, Hunger and Homelessness

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 34:18


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and Actress Michelle Twarowska discuss global issues. In today's episode, they answer FAQ's about poverty, hunger and homelessness.The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgSend questions to podcast@borgenproject.org.Email Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Gaza 101 with Dr. Mona Jebril

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 28, 2024 46:32


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and co-host Actress Michelle Twarowska discuss life in Gaza with Dr. Mona Jebril.Dr. Mona Jebril is a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge where she received her PHD. She also holds a degree from the University of Oxford. Dr. Jebril is a Palestinian who lived in the Gaza Strip for more than 22 years. borgenproject.org

    Kosovo with Ali Misimi from People in Need

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 26:15


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project is joined by Ali Misimi from People in Need to discuss Kosovo.People in Need was established in 1992 by a group of Czech war correspondents who were no longer satisfied with merely relaying information about ongoing conflicts and began sending out aid. It gradually became established as a professional humanitarian organization striving to provide aid in troubled regions and support adherence to human rights around the world.The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Gadgets Helping the World's Poor - Part 2!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2024 47:43


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and co-host Michelle Twarowska discuss gadgets, gizmos and inventions helping the world's poor.The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Cool Gadgets Helping the World's Poor

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2024 25:22


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and co-host Michelle Twarowska discuss gadgets, gizmos and inventions helping the world's poor.The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Artificial Intelligence in Global Health, UNRWA and Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2024 30:45


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project and co-host Michelle Twarowska discuss Gaza, UNRWA and how AI is being used to address global health. The Borgen Project is an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Chief of Staff Lynsey Alexander Talks Global Education

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 26, 2024 15:54


    The Borgen Project's Chief of Staff, Lynsey Alexander, talks Global Education and the READ Reauthoraization Act.Send your podcast questions to podcast@borgenproject.orgThe Borgen Project is an international advocacy organization that improves living conditions for people living in extreme poverty. borgenproject.orgTake ActionEmail Congress in support of poverty-reduction legislationRemote volunteer ops at The Borgen ProjectDonate

    Ambassador David Scheffer - Insight Into War Crimes and Genocide

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 19, 2024 48:02


    Clint Borgen, President of The Borgen Project talks with David Scheffer, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Amb. Scheffer was the first U.S. Ambassador at Large for Crimes Issues, serving during the second term of the Clinton Administration.Bio: Amb. David J. Scheffer is senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, with a focus on international law and international criminal justice. Scheffer was the Mayer Brown/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law (2006-2020) and is Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He is Professor of Practice at Arizona State University (Washington offices). He was Vice-President of the American Society of International Law (2020-2022) and held the International Francqui Professorship at KU Leuven in Belgium in 2022. From 2012 to 2018 he was the UN Secretary-General's Special Expert on UN Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, and he was the Tom A. Bernstein Genocide Prevention Fellow working with the Ferencz International Justice Initiative at the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (2019-2021). Amb. Scheffer book All the Missing SoulsCouncil on Foreign RelationsArizona State University School of Politics and Global Studies

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