Podcasts about demilitarization

Tirana, Lavrov, Armenian Un-Democracy, Demilitarization, and MoreGroong Week in Review - May 18, 2025TopicsPashinyan in TiranaRussia's Lavrov in YerevanDemocracy in JeopardyArmenia's Demilitarization by Any Other NameThe Kitchen SinkGuestHrant MikaelianHostsHovik ManucharyanAsbed BedrossianEpisode 438 | Recorded: May 21, 2025Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

This episode of Speaking Out of Place is being recorded on May 15, 2025, the 77th anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, which began the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land. We talk with Lara Elborno, Richard Falk, and Penny Green, three members of the Gaza Tribunal, which is set to convene in Saravejo in a few days.  This will set in motion the process of creating an archive of Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people with an aim to give global civil society the tools and inspiration it needs to further delegitimize Israel, end its genocidal acts, help bring about liberation for the Palestinian people.Lara Elborno is a Palestinian-American lawyer specialized in international disputes, qualified to practice in the US and France. She has worked for over 10 years as counsel acting for individuals, private entities, and States in international commercial and investment arbitrations. She dedicates a large part of her legal practice to pro-bono work including the representation of asylum seekers in France and advising clients on matters related to IHRL and the business and human rights framework. She previously taught US and UK constitutional law at the Université de Paris II - Panthéon Assas. She currently serves as a board member of ARDD-Europe and sits on the Steering Committee of the Gaza Tribunal. She has moreover appeared as a commentator on Al Jazeera, TRTWorld, DoubleDown News, and George Galloway's MOAT speaking about the Palestinian liberation struggle, offering analysis and critiques of international law.Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University (1961-2001) and Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2002 has been a Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine.Falk has advocated and written widely about ‘nations' that are captive within existing states, including Palestine, Kashmir, Western Sahara, Catalonia, Dombas.He is Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, having served for seven years as Chair of its Board. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. He is co-director of the Centre of Climate Crime, QMUL.Falk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times since 2008.His recent books include (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), Power Shift: The New Global Order (2016), Palestine Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017), Revisiting the Vietnam War (ed. Stefan Andersson, 2017), On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (ed. Stefan Andersson & Curt Dahlgren, 2019.Penny Green is Professor of Law and Globalisation at QMUL and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has published extensively on state crime theory, resistance to state violence and the Rohingya genocide, (including with Tony Ward, State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption, 2004 and State Crime and Civil Activism 2019). She has a long track record of researching in hostile environments and has conducted fieldwork in the UK, Turkey, Kurdistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Israel, Tunisia, Myanmar and Bangladesh. In 2015 she and her colleagues published ‘Countdown to Annihilation: Genocide in Myanmar' and in March 2018 

ANN Groong Week in Review - Nov 10, 2024Topics:Armenia Azerbaijan TalksDraft 2025 State BudgetArmenian Internal PoliticsGuest:Mr. Arthur Khachatryan, MP - Hayastan Dashinq/ARFHosts:Hovik Manucharyan - TW/@HovikYerevanAsbed Bedrossian - TW/@qubriqEpisode 385 | Recorded: November 13, 2024Subscribe and follow us everywhere you are: linktr.ee/groong

Charged by the United Nations General Assembly to ascertain the legality of the continued presence of Israel, as an occupying Power, in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, on July 19th, 2024, the International Court of the Justice, the highest court in the world on matters of international law, determined that “The Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the regime associated with them have been established and are being maintained in violation of international law.” It called for the end of the Occupation, the dismantling of the apartheid structure that supports and maintains it, and the removal of Israeli settlers and settlements. All member states of the United Nations are obligated to support each of these actions. Israel's response to this comprehensive and devastating report has been to dismiss it and hold itself above international law. In so doing it has sealed its reputation as a pariah state in the global community of nations.In today's special episode of Speaking Out of Place, we are honored to have eminent legal scholars Diana Buttu and Richard Falk join us to explain the significance of this historic document.Diana Buttu Haifa-based analyst, former legal advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian negotiators, and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.  She was also recently a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.After earning a law degree from Queen's University in Canada and a Masters of Law from Stanford University, Buttu moved to Palestine in 2000. Shortly after her arrival, the second Intifada began and she took a position with the Negotiations Support Unit of the PLO.Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University (1961-2001) and Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2002 has been a Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine.Falk has advocated and written widely about ‘nations' that are captive within existing states, including Palestine, Kashmir, Western Sahara, Catalonia, Dombas.He is Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, having served for seven years as Chair of its Board. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. He is co-director of the Centre of Climate Crime, QMUL.Falk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times since 2008.His recent books include (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), Power Shift: The New Global Order (2016), Palestine Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017), Revisiting the Vietnam War (ed. Stefan Andersson, 2017), On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (ed. Stefan Andersson & Curt Dahlgren, 2019.    

You can buy Kushal's book here: https://amzn.in/d/gITFdql Kushal Mehra is the host of "The Carvaka Podcast" and a commentator known for his discussions on Indian culture, politics, religion, and society. He critics issues related to Hindu philosophy, Indian politics, ideologies and cultural trends. In this episode Vinamre and Kushal talked about: - Influence of content creators in policy-making and what is Real Dharma - The Problems with new atheism and the lack of understanding of it - Difference between Nastik and Astik and what is Religious Privilege It doesn't matter you are an atheist or a believer, you can watch this podcast. Chapters: 00:00-Introduction 1:57 - Takeaways from Old School Journalists 4:56 - Problems with the Attention Economy 8:57 - Nobody Takes Content Creators Seriously 11:50 - How Policies Are Made in the UPA vs. NDA Government 15:44 - How a Voter Has More Influence on Policy Than a YouTuber 17:44 - Neutrality Is a Sham 23:46 - What Being Hindu Means 28:58 - Difference Between Aastik and Nastik 35:37 - Why Morals Keep Getting Updated 38:47- Evolution Is the Reason for Morality, Not Religion 46:38 - Problems with Lived Experiences 48:31 - Understanding Monotheism 52:12 - Abrahamisation of Dharma 1:00:20 - Dev-Ninda, Ved-Ninda vs. Blasphemy 1:05:43 - Mutual Respect vs. Tolerance 1:19:19 - Understanding Jaati and Varna 1:23:16 - Problems with New Atheists 1:27:10 - What Is Religious Privilege 1:33:15 - New Atheism Is Bad 1:39:28 - Tragedies of an Agnostic Muslim 1:52:40 - Weaponization of Atheism 1:59:17 - India Has a Sacred Geography 2:03:09 - Every Indian Is a Hindu 2:06:19 - Demilitarization of Karma 2:08:48 - Costly Signaling Theory 2:13:13 - Conclusion

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Every Israeli-Palestinian peace deal since the 1993 Oslo process began required Palestinian authorities to dismantle terrorists' infrastructure in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and the Gaza Strip, and prohibited a large-scale arms buildup, David Weinberg reminded participants in the Jewish Policy Center's January 11 webinar. Palestinian demilitarization, a myth from early in the “peace process,” […]

For review:1. US Foreign Military Sale: Flight training for Royal Saudi (Arabia) Air Force worth $1 billion.2. US retaliatory airstrikes on Kataib Hezbollah after US Troops wounded in Erbil Base (Iraq) drone attack. 3. US Guided Missile Destroyer Laboon (DDG-58) and F/A 18E/F Super Hornet warplanes from the Carrier Strike Group USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), down drones, cruise missiles, and anti-ship missiles from Yemen in the Red Sea.  4. Indian Navy deploys Destroyers, P-8 Poseidon aircraft, and MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) to counter attacks on merchant vessels.5. US-led Operation Prosperity Guardian analysis by Zoran Kusovac (Al Jazeera).6. Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Killed in Syrian Airstrike.7. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Op-Ed in Wall Street Journal, defines three requisites for peace in the region: 1. Destruction of Hamas; 2. Demilitarization of Gaza; and 3. Deradicalization of Palestinian society.8. US to have access to military installations in Finland.9. UK Leads F-16 Flight Training for Ukraine Pilots (in Denmark).10. US to have basing access in Philippines. 

The volatile situation in Gaza has been grossly distorted in the mainstream western press. By omission, selective editorializing, and misstatement of so-called “facts,” a particular caricature has emerged that has invisibilized the Palestinian people, the history and the nature of the Occupation, and the actual conditions of life in what many have called the world's largest open air prison. To get a better sense of all of these, we speak with two seasoned experts on Palestine.After our conversation with Diana Buttu and Richard Falk, we conclude this episode with statements of solidarity with the Palestinian people from activists, scholars, and cultural workers from around the world: the Birzeit University Union of Professors and Employees Occupied Palestine; activist and scholar Cynthia Franklin, a long-time champion for Palestinian and other Indigenous peoples' rights; renown Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation; celebrated feminist scholar, philosopher, and public intellectual Sara Ahmed; Michael Hardt, eminent political philosopher and writer; award-winning poet, scholar and long-time civil rights and anti-Zionist Hilton Obenzinger; legendary abolitionist feminist activist, writer, and scholar Angela Y. Davis.  Following Angela Davis we have a statement from the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective read by scholar Manijeh Moradian, and then a statement from the Palestine Writes Literary Festival, read by executive director and celebrated novelist, Susan Albuhawa.We then solicited statements from others, and received several immediately, with more coming in daily. We will update this podcast and add contributions as they arrive and as we can process them. We invite you to listen to them as you can, and to join in our commitment to Palestinian life, freedom, and land.Diana Buttu is a  Haifa-based analyst, former legal advisor to Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian negotiators, and Policy Advisor to Al-Shabaka: The Palestinian Policy Network.  She was also recently a fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.After earning a law degree from Queen's University in Canada and a Masters of Law from Stanford University, Buttu moved to Palestine in 2000. Shortly after her arrival, the second Intifada began and she took a position with the Negotiations Support Unit of the PLO.Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University (1961-2001) and Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2002 has been a Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine.Falk has advocated and written widely about ‘nations' that are captive within existing states, including Palestine, Kashmir, Western Sahara, Catalonia, Dombas.He is Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, having served for seven years as Chair of its Board. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. He is co-director of the Centre of Climate Crime, QMUL. Falk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times since 2008.His recent books include (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), Power Shift: The New Global Order (2016), Palestine Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017), Revisiting the Vietnam War (ed. Stefan Andersson, 2017), On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (ed. Stefan Andersson & Curt Dahlgren, 2019. 

A new report from WOLA dives deeply into the growing power and roles of Mexico's military, and what that means for human rights, democracy, and U.S.-Mexico relations. WOLA's Mexico Program published Militarized Transformation: Human Rights and Democratic Controls in a Context of Increasing Militarization in Mexico on September 6. The report voices alarm about the Mexican armed forces' growing list of civilian tasks, and civilians' diminishing ability to hold military personnel accountable for human rights abuse and other illegal behavior. In some new findings, Militarized Transformationreveals official data showing that the military isn't even reporting its arrests of civilians to civilian security authorities and oversight bodies. The report updates and group together various indicators regarding the justice system and respect for fundamental rights by the security forces, with a focus on the armed forces and the National Guard, as well as the differentiated impacts and situations faced by women. And it makes a series of short-term and long-term recommendations for needed reforms. This podcast episode features the report's principal author, Stephanie Brewer, WOLA's director for Mexico. Brewer discusses the report's main findings, conclusions, and recommendations, along with a general view of Mexico's democracy, civil-military relations, and U.S. policy. “We recognize militarization is is the reality we're currently working in,” Brewer concludes. “But while that's going on, what possible reason could there be for the country to want the armed forces not to be operating under effective civilian control or not to be transparent about things like their use of force? Or not to be fully giving information to Congress? That would have to be something that that is in everybody's interest in the short term.”

If you're interested in learning about how peace gets made and unmade and then remade, Colombia is an amazing laboratory. Guest Elizabeth Dickinson is a senior analyst with the Crisis Group in Colombia. Dickinson spends her days in discussion with communities most affected by the civil war, as well as former FARC members. She and her colleagues use information gathered in the field to make policy recommendations to the government and help facilitate dialogues. Before entering the conflict prevention field, Dickinson worked as a journalist, reporting for The Economist and Foreign Policy Magazine. In this episode Dickinson paints a picture of a country in the midst of slow and difficult reforms. In the years since the FARC and the government signed a peace accord in 2016, putting an end to 50 years of violent conflict, breakthroughs in peace continue to happen. At the same time, armed groups who have taken the place of the FARC extort communities and fight each other. Violence between the military and guerrillas has decreased in the past year, but clashes between armed groups have increased since Gustavo Petro took the presidency in August 2022. According to one analysis, violence between these groups has risen 85% since Petro was inaugurated. However in August 2023, Petro's government began a six-month ceasefire with the National Liberation Army, or ELN, an important armed group. Dickinson says the most important peacebuilding work is taking place at the community level, and she's seen it with her own eyes. For more on the evolution of peace in Colombia, check out our previous episodes: Spotlight Colombia: After demilitarization, a new narrative with journalist Daniel SalgarSpotlight Colombia: Behind the scenes of making peace with documentary filmmaker Juan Carlos BorreroLearn more about Elizabeth Dickinson:Twitter: @dickinsonbethProfile from Crisis Group: "I love understanding people. And I love listening to toads sing at night in the countryside"Recent news and analysis on peace and conflict in Colombia:Colombia's 'Total Peace' 1 Year On: Less State Violence, Stronger Criminal Groups from Insight CrimeColombian gang leaders announce talks to address urban violence from Al JazeeraThe secret to Colombia's drop in deforestation? Armed groups from Al JazeeraHow to rate and review our show:In Apple Podcasts on iPhone Tap on the show name (Making Peace Visible) to navigate to the main podcast pageScroll down to the "Ratings and Reviews" sectionTo leave a rating only, tap on the starsTo leave a review, tap "Write a Review"In Spotify(Note: Spotify ratings are currently only available on mobile.)Tap on the show name (Making Peace Visible) to navigate to the main podcast pageTap on the star icon under the podcast description to rate the showIn Podcast Addict(Note: you may need to sign in before leaving a review.)From the episode page: On the top left above the show description, click "Post review."From the main podcast pageTap "Reviews" on the top left.On the Reviews page,  tap the icon of a pen and paper in the top right corner of the screen.About usMaking Peace Visible is a project of War Stories Peace Stories. Our mission is to bring journalists and peacebuilders together to re-imagine the way the news media covers peace and conflict, and to facilitate expanded coverage of global peace and reconciliation efforts. Join the conversation on Twitter: @warstoriespeace. Making Peace Visible is hosted by Jamil Simon, and produced by Andrea Muraskin with help from Faith McClure. Special thanks to Samantha Schmidt. Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions, Doyeq, Poddington Bear, One Man Book, and Kevin MacLeod.

After the peace agreement their leaders signed with the Colombian government in September 2016, members of the FARC guerilla group began turning in their weapons to the UN. In exchange, rank-and-file members received amnesty for acts of violence they committed during the country's long civil war. They could leave their jungle encampments and rejoin society – go to work or school like any other citizen. The FARC ceased to be a group of guerilla fighters and became a political party, with members even serving in congress. But many Colombians saw the FARC as enemies, and were not ready to integrate them into society so quickly. Just over half of voters rejected the agreement in a referendum. Some ex-combatants were killed.  And in 2018, the country elected Iván Duque, a vocal opponent of the peace accord. But peace takes time. And our guest Daniel Salgar says that over time, more Colombians, including many journalists, have begun to accept former guerillas as members of society, rather than enemies. The election of President Gustavo Petro in 2022, who ran on the peace agreement, reflects that mindset shift.Salgar counts himself among a generation of journalists who spent most of their careers covering peace efforts. When we spoke with him last year, he was wrapping up a job as an editor for the Colombia Truth Commission Report, which shed light on decades of atrocities and human rights violations that were committed during the civil war. Before working for the Truth Commission, he was a reporter and editor at the newspaper El Espectador, where he oversaw a project on peacebuilding called Colombia 2020. Salgar also served as editor and director of the Spanish news service for Anadalou, a Turkish international news agency. Now working in communications for ACNUR Colombia/ UNHCR, Salgar says he continues to be optimistic about the implementation of the 2016 agreement and the possibility of peace with other guerilla groups in his country. The original version of this episode was published in September 2022. Follow Daniel Salgar on Twitter: @DanielSalgar1View the Colombia Truth Commission Report (in Spanish) Read Daniel Salgar's interview with former FARC leader Timochenco (in English)Read Daniel's analysis piece on drug policy in Colombia (in Spanish) Explore the peacebuilding journalism project Colombia 2020 (Now Colombia +20) (in Spanish)Making Peace Visible is a project of War Stories Peace Stories. Our mission is to bring journalists and peacebuilders together to re-imagine the way the news media covers peace and conflict, and to facilitate expanded coverage of global peace and reconciliation efforts. Join the conversation on Twitter: @warstoriespeace. Visit our website: warstoriespeacestories.orgMaking Peace Visible is hosted by Jamil Simon, and produced by Andrea Muraskin.Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions, Phil Larson, Meavy Boy, Podington Bear, Pianobook, and Kevin Mac Leod

June is Pride Month, and while it is celebrated worldwide, the increasing anti-trans and LGBTQ+ hate continues to be a concern. In this episode, we will explore the intersection of queer liberation and anti-militarism. I will be joined by my co-organizer at CODEPINK, Tim Biondo, and we will listen to a clip from a Seattle town hall called Queer Anti-Militarism: Trans Liberation, Not U.S. Invasion at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. If you're in Washington D.C., join CODEPINK and partners as we march in the Capitol Pride Parade on June 10th. If you're not, bring anti-militarism messaging to a Pride Month event happening near you!

It's time for more Star Wars Questions!! Was Mon Mothma's demilitarization wrong? Why don't the Jedi have shields? Did Luke tap into the dark side on the Death Star? Why did the residents of Coruscant rise up against the First Order during the Battle of Exegol? Joseph Scrimshaw and Ken Napzok talk all this news and more in the 544th edition of ForceCenter!From the minds of Ken Napzok (comedian, host of The Napzok Files), Joseph Scrimshaw (comedian, writer, host of the Obsessed podcast), and Jennifer Landa (actress, YouTuber, crafter, contributor on StarWars.com) comes the ForceCenter Podcast Feed. Here you will find a series of shows exploring, discussing, and celebrating everything about Star Wars. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts. Listen on TuneIn, Stitcher, Spotify, and more!Follow ForceCenter!Watch on YouTube!Support us on PatreonForceCenter merch!All from ForceCenter: https://linktr.ee/ForceCenter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In our Center for Eurasian Studies (AVİM) analysis of last year concerning the developments in the Black Sea region titled “Black Sea, a Potential Friction Venue Between Russia and The West: Turkey Holds the Key to the Region” we stated that the Black Sea region forms the key intersection linking Russia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and Central Asia and stressed that access to and from Black Sea is vital for all littoral states and their neighbors. We also pointed to the fact that Russia had endeavored to establish exclusive control of the Black Sea more than two centuries and waged numerous wars to control the Bosporus Straits and the Dardanelles ... Link : https://avim.org.tr/en/Yorum/RUSSIA-S-REACTION-AGAINST-GREECE-S-HOSTILE-BEHAVIORS-AND-VIOLATIONS-OF-THE-DEMILITARIZATION-PROVISIONS-OF-THE-1947-PARIS-TREATY Web page: https://avim.org.tr/en Telegram Channel: https://t.me/s/avimorgtr Twitter: https://avim.org.tr/en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/avimorgtr/ VKontakte: https://vk.com/public202374482 Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcIfEGNM3308QoLbCDJIFuw Dailmotion: https://www.dailymotion.com/dm_0ea263f63bb5aee7d8770d1ec13cfe8b Instgram: https://www.instagram.com/avimorgtr/IntroductionIntroduction

In today's show I speak with Richard Falk about his recent autobiography—Public Intellectual:  The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University (1961-2001) and Chair of Global Law, Faculty of Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2002 has been a Research Fellow at the Orfalea Center of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Between 2008 and 2014 he served as UN Special Rapporteur on Israeli Violations of Human Rights in Occupied Palestine.Falk has advocated and written widely about ‘nations' that are captive within existing states, including Palestine, Kashmir, Western Sahara, Catalonia, Dombas.He is Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, having served for seven years as Chair of its Board. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. He is co-director of the Centre of Climate Crime, QMUL.Falk has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize several times since 2008.His recent books include (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), Power Shift: The New Global Order (2016), Palestine Horizon: Toward a Just Peace (2017), Revisiting the Vietnam War (ed. Stefan Andersson, 2017), On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (ed. Stefan Andersson & Curt Dahlgren, 2019.Praise for his autobiography include:“This intimate and penetrating account of a remarkable life is rich in insights about topping ranging from the academic world to global affairs to prospects for livable society. A gripping story, with many lessons for a troubled world.”--Noam Chomsky“Richard Falk is one of the few great public intellectuals and citizen pilgrims who has preserved his integrity and consistency in our dark and deep content times period this wise and powerful memoir is a gift that bestows us with a tear-soaked truth and blood-stained hope.” --Cornel West “Richard Falk recounts a life well spent trying to bend the arc of international law toward global justice. A Don Quixote tilting nobly at real dragons. His culminating vision of a better and even livable future--a necessary utopia--evokes with urgent the slogan of Paris May 1968: ‘Be realistic: Demand the impossible'”--Daniel EllsbergWhile a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Falk wrote his prescient 1972 book, This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival.    

Finding a Way Forward in a Time of Danger. The host for this show is Michael Sukhov. The guest is Pete Doktor. Our guest describes a) his journey from combat medic in the U.S. military to becoming a a peace advocate and proponent of demilitarization; b) his family background and upbringing and how they how shaped his views about war, peace, and his own personal values related to these issues; and c) among other things, how he sees the role of education in the development of an informed citizenry in the U.S. as well as here in Hawai'i that can critically evaluate the issues we face today and make a difference on these issues. The ThinkTech YouTube Playlist for this show is https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkwcNJny6mfbvbH9PaDqTKng_XaNdhs Please visit our ThinkTech website at https://thinktechhawaii.com and see our Think Tech Advisories at https://thinktechadvisories.blogspot.com.

Episode 151: Queer Liberation Means Decriminalization, Demilitarization, Decolonization.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information, published by Zvi on March 21, 2022 on LessWrong. Rather than attempt a synthesis this time around, I'm going to experiment with the opposite. Over the course of the last three weeks, I kept adding to a long list of sources and interesting things the same way I do for Covid-19 posts, but without an overall update type of post there was nowhere for them to go. Thus, while this in no way pretends to be complete or to provide a proper synthesis, this is the article form of that giant link bank and associated thoughts, organized in logical fashion. When going through the list, many of the links from February were no longer relevant, as they concerned things like whether we would give aid, or whether we would impose sanctions and how many and how Russia would react, or whether firms would divest, and other things like that. Then there was a phase shift when it became clear we would sanction and provide aid and the military situation got bogged down, after which new info mostly stayed more relevant. If I had to summarize the overall picture, I'd say something like this, note that even the summary contains a ton of stuff because there's a ton of stuff to cover. Russia's military campaign has culminated. It is going to be very difficult or impossible for Russia to progress further. Russia has huge, potentially fatal, logistical problems. Russia is out of deployable resources, seems unable to meaningfully further mobilize. Sanctions are hurting but a quick total collapse will not happen. Ukraine will still find it difficult for now to make progress rolling back Russia's gains, but that slowly should change as Russia's army degrades further. Russia is a deeply dysfunctional mafioso state. Russians are largely buying into not only the invasion but future ones too. Russia does a good job preventing rebellion, but at cost of everything else. Western approach to solving the problems of Russian Oil and Gas are non-zero but mostly not serious or of sufficient magnitude or physical-world-orientation. The coming food crisis is mostly not being addressed at all. If we did want to solve such issues, expensive but realistic solutions exist. A lot of very large ‘pure wins' also exist that we are not using either. Western coalition's core has become much stronger and more united. Our game theory seems aggressive and less than ideal, but much better than that which the public would favor, which would be kind of totally nuts. Escalation risks definitely exist on both sides, remains unclear what Putin will do if he realizes how badly he is losing and we've given NATO countries a green light to send troops into Ukraine (but won't do it ourselves.) No one takes nuclear safety or issues seriously, so they take nothing seriously. West is creating a very big ‘penalty for being late' problem, where any deviation from our agenda, or in some cases even from a very left-wing agenda, results in massive punishments. This causes those who cannot accept the totality of the system out of the system, weakening its position and strengthening the opposition. China is trying to be in opposition without provoking the response, so far this is working, but internal propaganda there seems very pro-Putin and anti-USA. Those in opposition then tend to both cooperate with each other and to converge on a set of models, beliefs and rhetoric that includes many quite false and/or awful things, an anti-pattern demonstrating opposition. Peace talks may or may not be ‘fake' on either side especially the Russian one. If they are real there are three issues: Territory, demilitarization and ‘denazification.' Any peace soon likely involves some territorial concessions, unclear if a possible deal exists here yet. Demilitarization will potentially be a Sweden/Austria model. Includes a no-NATO ...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Ukraine Post #5: Bits of Information, published by Zvi on March 21, 2022 on LessWrong. Rather than attempt a synthesis this time around, I'm going to experiment with the opposite. Over the course of the last three weeks, I kept adding to a long list of sources and interesting things the same way I do for Covid-19 posts, but without an overall update type of post there was nowhere for them to go. Thus, while this in no way pretends to be complete or to provide a proper synthesis, this is the article form of that giant link bank and associated thoughts, organized in logical fashion. When going through the list, many of the links from February were no longer relevant, as they concerned things like whether we would give aid, or whether we would impose sanctions and how many and how Russia would react, or whether firms would divest, and other things like that. Then there was a phase shift when it became clear we would sanction and provide aid and the military situation got bogged down, after which new info mostly stayed more relevant. If I had to summarize the overall picture, I'd say something like this, note that even the summary contains a ton of stuff because there's a ton of stuff to cover. Russia's military campaign has culminated. It is going to be very difficult or impossible for Russia to progress further. Russia has huge, potentially fatal, logistical problems. Russia is out of deployable resources, seems unable to meaningfully further mobilize. Sanctions are hurting but a quick total collapse will not happen. Ukraine will still find it difficult for now to make progress rolling back Russia's gains, but that slowly should change as Russia's army degrades further. Russia is a deeply dysfunctional mafioso state. Russians are largely buying into not only the invasion but future ones too. Russia does a good job preventing rebellion, but at cost of everything else. Western approach to solving the problems of Russian Oil and Gas are non-zero but mostly not serious or of sufficient magnitude or physical-world-orientation. The coming food crisis is mostly not being addressed at all. If we did want to solve such issues, expensive but realistic solutions exist. A lot of very large ‘pure wins' also exist that we are not using either. Western coalition's core has become much stronger and more united. Our game theory seems aggressive and less than ideal, but much better than that which the public would favor, which would be kind of totally nuts. Escalation risks definitely exist on both sides, remains unclear what Putin will do if he realizes how badly he is losing and we've given NATO countries a green light to send troops into Ukraine (but won't do it ourselves.) No one takes nuclear safety or issues seriously, so they take nothing seriously. West is creating a very big ‘penalty for being late' problem, where any deviation from our agenda, or in some cases even from a very left-wing agenda, results in massive punishments. This causes those who cannot accept the totality of the system out of the system, weakening its position and strengthening the opposition. China is trying to be in opposition without provoking the response, so far this is working, but internal propaganda there seems very pro-Putin and anti-USA. Those in opposition then tend to both cooperate with each other and to converge on a set of models, beliefs and rhetoric that includes many quite false and/or awful things, an anti-pattern demonstrating opposition. Peace talks may or may not be ‘fake' on either side especially the Russian one. If they are real there are three issues: Territory, demilitarization and ‘denazification.' Any peace soon likely involves some territorial concessions, unclear if a possible deal exists here yet. Demilitarization will potentially be a Sweden/Austria model. Includes a no-NATO ...

Ephesians 6:11  11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.Friends, the devil's war plan is to demilitarize you and me from using weapons of the Most High in defeating him. Do not give up. No matter how heated and fierce the battle is. Victory is ours in the name of Yeshua Hamashiach!Proclaim GospelP.O. Box 336Road TownTortolaVirgin IslandsVG 1110Telephone: 1-284-547-4601Email: : proclaimgospelvi@gmail.com

*Episode originally posted November 2020* Krystal Two Bulls is a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota anti-war veteran and organizer. For Veterans' Day, she joins us to discuss the militarization of Indian Country, and how to end it. Resources: https://aboutfaceveterans.org  https://landback.org  Support: https://www.patreon.com/therednation

How can we understand the rise of global military spending prior and during the COVID-19 pandemic? What is the military economic cycle and why is the State the biggest customer of the military industry? In the calls for demilitarization, how can feminist and peace movements help decentralize militaristic values as the only way for "security"? An interview with Chloé Meulewaeter, Global Campaign on Military Spending Officer, Executive Director at Alianza Iberoamericana por la Paz and collaborator at Centre Delás for Peace Studies. Join us in this exploration, listen to the episode, subscribe to our newsletter here and support our community in Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/womanhoodir Save the dates! Upcoming workshops: Perspectivas Feministas a la Agenda Mujeres, Paz y Seguridad Starts July 14th (Español) Feminist Approaches to Women, Peace and Security Starts July 22nd (English) Open Call for Women + Peace Short Docs Virtual Fest - Deadline August 15th Listen to related episodes: 36. ACLED: An Interview With Dr. Roudabeh Kishi 42. Nuclear Ban Treaty Begins: Gender & Postcolonial Perspectives 44. Denormalizing the Concept of "Statesman": A First Look Into Masculinities in IR 73. Akhila Kolisetty on Gender, Militarism and Climate Justice 74. The Masculine/Feminine National Cultures Index Recommended links to this episode: Global Campaign on Military Spending Campaign: https://demilitarize.org Centre Delàs for Peace Studies: http://centredelas.org/?lang=en II World Peace Congress: https://www.ipb2021.barcelona "The main goal of the Second IPB World Congress is to provide a space for gathering and sharing experiences for all involved in international peace and justice movements. A place where we can foster synergies between organizations and individuals, and between interconnected social movements fighting for global justice: peace and disarmament advocates, feminist and LGBTQIA+ campaigners , ecologists and climate activists , antiracists and indigenous people, human rights defenders and trade unionists. We want to promote the inclusion of a peace perspective within these movements, in order to better confront the global challenges of our time: climate change and environmental collapse, gender, racial and economic inequality, the Covid-19 pandemic, mass migrations, refugee crisis, humanitarian emergencies caused by war and repression, and more. This Congress is an opportunity for diverse people, groups and causes to share strategies and to articulate alternatives together. A space to create and renovate tools and discourse, to mobilize citizens from all across the globe in favor of peace and disarmament. A place where we can (re) imagine our world, and take action for peace and justice. We invite you to join us at the Second World Peace Congress in Barcelona, organized by the International Peace Bureau".

This week on Talk World Radio, our guest is Richard Falk. Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and currently Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014). He has written several books. (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. Among his earlier writings are Legal Order in a Violent World and This Endangered Planet: Prospects and Proposals for Human Survival. His most recent publications are Power Shift (2017); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament (2019). Since 2009 Falk has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in February 2021. His website is https://richardfalk.org

Community Policing The future of public safety is community police partnership. Stamper suggests a plebiscite in which neighborhoods elect representatives to work side by side with the police department. These citizens would be involved in every single aspect of modern policing from setting policy, crafting procedures, selecting new police officers, developing the curriculum for police academy training, and partnering with those best equipped to deal with substance abuse, homelessness, and mental illness. Cop Culture The structure of American policing is top-down, paramilitary, bureaucratic, and antagonistic to democratic values. Patterns of behavior are institutionalized through interactions in locker rooms, patrol cars, and other unmonitored places. The paramilitary structure of police forces leads to an “us-vs-them” mentality, which results in a toxic culture of distrusting civilians. Undoing this culture begins with undoing the existing structure of the organization and reshaping it to meet the needs of civilians, municipalities, and communities. The War on Drugs The War on Drugs is actually a War on Americans. Most drug dealers and users swept up in the War on Drugs are low-level offenders who are addicts, mentally ill, or chronically poor. They need medical and financial help. Instead, police treat them as enemy combatants, resulting in death and destruction for many Americans, including police officers. Ending the War on Drugs would make it possible to repurpose some police funding for rehabilitation and mental health services. Demilitarization is also a critical factor to creating a safer America. Find out more: Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, the last six (1994-2000) as Seattle’s Chief of Police. He earned his Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior, and is the author of two books: To Protect and Serve: How to Fix America’s Police (2016) and Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Exposé of the Dark Side of American Policing (2005). He recently finished a novel and is at work on another. Throughout his career and into “retirement,” Norm has served as a trainer, consultant, expert witness, and keynote speaker. His commitment to police reform and social justice has shaped an agenda that calls for an end to the drug war; abolition of the death penalty; vanquishment of domestic violence from our society; a concerted effort to drive bigotry and brutality out of the criminal justice system; development of broad respect and support for the nation’s police officers; a campaign to make every school, every workplace, every neighborhood and home a place of safety, particularly for our children; rejection of mass incarceration; and a fully-fledged dedication to our civil liberties and constitutional guarantees. Norm lives in the San Juan Islands off Washington State, and is a proud and humble father, father-in-law, grandfather, uncle, brother, and friend. We've started a referral program! Refer us to your friends to get a free button or Moleskine notebook. Please use this link to get your personal referral code: https://refer.glow.fm/future-hindsight, which you can then forward to your friends.

Krystal Two Bulls is a Northern Cheyenne and Oglala Lakota anti-war veteran and organizer. For Veterans' Day, she joins us to discuss the militarization of Indian Country, and how to end it. Resources: https://aboutfaceveterans.org  https://landback.org  Support: https://www.patreon.com/therednation

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2020), Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.” The supposed blurring of colorline through military desegregation and multilateral, multi-racial alliances hid fortification of the US empire as necropolitical war target broadened through indistinction of civilian, women, and children as possible enemies. The US counterinsurgency eroded democratizing, decolonizing movements abroad based on color lines, and rhetorical racial equality at home was accompanied by increased policing of “high-crime” areas where minorities resided. Hong theorizes a range of struggles such as Black freedom, Asian liberation, and decolonization as “homologous responses to unchecked US war and police power at home and abroad… [The] alignment, participation, and complicity with the US military… blurred the color line, giving a redemptive liberal veneer to US war politics in Asia and the Pacific” (8-9). Through rich analyses of literary texts of Ralph Ellison, Carlos Bulosan, and James Baldwin, Hong examines how POC authors contested the promise of liberal democracy while military-industrial complex and colonial violence sought to erase decolonizing struggles. Hong further draws attention to commercialization of hibakusha’s bodies as well as photographs of Miné Okubo to critique the construction of peace as American property. Hong’s groundbreaking work spans Asian American studies, critical Asian studies, and critical empire studies, challenging us to question the modernity that had been presented to us through seeming homogeneity of American liberal democratic ideals. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. She is also a board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, a coordinating committee member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently organizing a teaching initiative to end the Korean War. Da In Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include reproductive justice movement, care labor and migration, affect theory, citizenship, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2020), Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.” The supposed blurring of colorline through military desegregation and multilateral, multi-racial alliances hid fortification of the US empire as necropolitical war target broadened through indistinction of civilian, women, and children as possible enemies. The US counterinsurgency eroded democratizing, decolonizing movements abroad based on color lines, and rhetorical racial equality at home was accompanied by increased policing of “high-crime” areas where minorities resided. Hong theorizes a range of struggles such as Black freedom, Asian liberation, and decolonization as “homologous responses to unchecked US war and police power at home and abroad… [The] alignment, participation, and complicity with the US military… blurred the color line, giving a redemptive liberal veneer to US war politics in Asia and the Pacific” (8-9). Through rich analyses of literary texts of Ralph Ellison, Carlos Bulosan, and James Baldwin, Hong examines how POC authors contested the promise of liberal democracy while military-industrial complex and colonial violence sought to erase decolonizing struggles. Hong further draws attention to commercialization of hibakusha’s bodies as well as photographs of Miné Okubo to critique the construction of peace as American property. Hong’s groundbreaking work spans Asian American studies, critical Asian studies, and critical empire studies, challenging us to question the modernity that had been presented to us through seeming homogeneity of American liberal democratic ideals. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. She is also a board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, a coordinating committee member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently organizing a teaching initiative to end the Korean War. Da In Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include reproductive justice movement, care labor and migration, affect theory, citizenship, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2020), Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.” The supposed blurring of colorline through military desegregation and multilateral, multi-racial alliances hid fortification of the US empire as necropolitical war target broadened through indistinction of civilian, women, and children as possible enemies. The US counterinsurgency eroded democratizing, decolonizing movements abroad based on color lines, and rhetorical racial equality at home was accompanied by increased policing of “high-crime” areas where minorities resided. Hong theorizes a range of struggles such as Black freedom, Asian liberation, and decolonization as “homologous responses to unchecked US war and police power at home and abroad… [The] alignment, participation, and complicity with the US military… blurred the color line, giving a redemptive liberal veneer to US war politics in Asia and the Pacific” (8-9). Through rich analyses of literary texts of Ralph Ellison, Carlos Bulosan, and James Baldwin, Hong examines how POC authors contested the promise of liberal democracy while military-industrial complex and colonial violence sought to erase decolonizing struggles. Hong further draws attention to commercialization of hibakusha’s bodies as well as photographs of Miné Okubo to critique the construction of peace as American property. Hong’s groundbreaking work spans Asian American studies, critical Asian studies, and critical empire studies, challenging us to question the modernity that had been presented to us through seeming homogeneity of American liberal democratic ideals. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. She is also a board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, a coordinating committee member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently organizing a teaching initiative to end the Korean War. Da In Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include reproductive justice movement, care labor and migration, affect theory, citizenship, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2020), Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.” The supposed blurring of colorline through military desegregation and multilateral, multi-racial alliances hid fortification of the US empire as necropolitical war target broadened through indistinction of civilian, women, and children as possible enemies. The US counterinsurgency eroded democratizing, decolonizing movements abroad based on color lines, and rhetorical racial equality at home was accompanied by increased policing of “high-crime” areas where minorities resided. Hong theorizes a range of struggles such as Black freedom, Asian liberation, and decolonization as “homologous responses to unchecked US war and police power at home and abroad… [The] alignment, participation, and complicity with the US military… blurred the color line, giving a redemptive liberal veneer to US war politics in Asia and the Pacific” (8-9). Through rich analyses of literary texts of Ralph Ellison, Carlos Bulosan, and James Baldwin, Hong examines how POC authors contested the promise of liberal democracy while military-industrial complex and colonial violence sought to erase decolonizing struggles. Hong further draws attention to commercialization of hibakusha’s bodies as well as photographs of Miné Okubo to critique the construction of peace as American property. Hong’s groundbreaking work spans Asian American studies, critical Asian studies, and critical empire studies, challenging us to question the modernity that had been presented to us through seeming homogeneity of American liberal democratic ideals. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. She is also a board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, a coordinating committee member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently organizing a teaching initiative to end the Korean War. Da In Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include reproductive justice movement, care labor and migration, affect theory, citizenship, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The image of the US as leading a good war to establish liberal democracy and move towards racial equality dominate the discourses of the Cold War. In her work, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific (Stanford University Press, 2020), Christine Hong attempts to debunk the idea of good war and warfare-welfare state that allowed women and racial minorities to participate in national politics by showing how the US government was able to launch total war that blurred the boundaries of home and abroad through the “principle of indistinction.” The supposed blurring of colorline through military desegregation and multilateral, multi-racial alliances hid fortification of the US empire as necropolitical war target broadened through indistinction of civilian, women, and children as possible enemies. The US counterinsurgency eroded democratizing, decolonizing movements abroad based on color lines, and rhetorical racial equality at home was accompanied by increased policing of “high-crime” areas where minorities resided. Hong theorizes a range of struggles such as Black freedom, Asian liberation, and decolonization as “homologous responses to unchecked US war and police power at home and abroad… [The] alignment, participation, and complicity with the US military… blurred the color line, giving a redemptive liberal veneer to US war politics in Asia and the Pacific” (8-9). Through rich analyses of literary texts of Ralph Ellison, Carlos Bulosan, and James Baldwin, Hong examines how POC authors contested the promise of liberal democracy while military-industrial complex and colonial violence sought to erase decolonizing struggles. Hong further draws attention to commercialization of hibakusha’s bodies as well as photographs of Miné Okubo to critique the construction of peace as American property. Hong’s groundbreaking work spans Asian American studies, critical Asian studies, and critical empire studies, challenging us to question the modernity that had been presented to us through seeming homogeneity of American liberal democratic ideals. Christine Hong is Associate Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research interests include transnational Asian American, Korean diaspora, U.S. war and empire, and comparative ethnic studies. She is also a board member of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association, an executive board member of the Korea Policy Institute, a coordinating committee member of the National Campaign to End the Korean War, and a member of the Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific. She is currently organizing a teaching initiative to end the Korean War. Da In Choi is a PhD student at UCLA in the Gender Studies department. Her research interests include reproductive justice movement, care labor and migration, affect theory, citizenship, and critical empire studies. She can be reached at dainachoi@g.ucla.edu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Jamie and his father (a former police officer and police reform advocate) discuss the militarization of the police in the United States, why it happened, and what we can do to put an end to it. Please remember to rate five stars and subscribe! If you found any value in this episode please recommend and share with your fellow liberty lovers. Be sure to check out www.LibertyUninterrupted.com and subscribe to our future newsletter. #WETHEPEOPLERUNTHIS

CONTENT WARNING: The following episode involves discussion of crime, police brutality and bigotry, including physical violence, sexual assault, murder, racism, Islamophobia, homophobia and transphobia. Listener discretion is advised. In the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police, and the resulting Black Lives Matter uprisings and protests, there has been an ongoing national conversation regarding police brutality and race. In the final part of a two-episode series, Jaye discusses developments in policing that have increased the danger police pose to society, including the infiltration of police departments by white supremacists and police militarization. She also outlines some possible solutions that are intended to make all communities safer, from police reforms such as increased accountability and demilitarization, to police restructuring such as defunding the police and abolishing police. Why is even incremental change so difficult, and what does it truly mean to "defund" and "abolish" police? Twitter: @potstirrercast IG: @potstirrerpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potstirrerpodcast/ Website: PotstirrerPodcast.com Source List Music: Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/ http://jonathanbiegen.com Winter Embrace composed by Silent Partner Traffic Traffic composed by Silent Partner Arms Dealer composed by Anno Domini Beats Dana composed by Vibe Tracks The Contractor General composed by Silent Partner Scratching Teeth composed by JHS Pedals

Join us for a wide ranging conversation with Clare Bayard where we discuss her 20+ years of organizing in grassroots multiracial struggles for collective liberation, and the role of somatic healing work and the importance of mentorship for intergenerational movements of resistance. Content warning: interview includes mention of sexual trauma and white nationalism. Topics we discuss include: The space between impact and intention. Healing for the sake of being able to show up in work for collective liberation. How anti-racist work has evolved over the years. The role of mentorship in movement building. Mentorship as a bidirectional relationship. Community safety work - alternatives to police, transformative justice, grassroots neighborhood organizing. Concrete suggestions on how we prepare for the wave of increased state repression that is coming. Security as solidarity. About Clare Bayard: Clare Bayard has organized for over 20 years in grassroots multiracial movements for collective liberation, and co-founded Catalyst Project, a movement building center supporting white anti-racist organizing. Clare is an organizer and a parent, a direct action trainer with The Ruckus Society, a writer, and a somatic healing practitioner who focuses on working with survivors of sexual assault and war. Clare's training comes from coalition and campaign work in many movement sectors, particularly in migrant rights, global justice, housing rights and anti-displacement, Palestinian liberation, anti-imperialist struggles against US wars and G.I. resistance, post-Katrina Gulf Coast Reconstruction, and climate justice. Demilitarization and connecting struggles against US empire at home and abroad are at the heart of Clare’s political work. Clare is active in the War Resisters International Network, served in board and staff positions at the War Resisters League for over a decade, and has worked closely with About Face (formerly known as Iraq Veterans Against the War) since soon after its founding.Clare’s writing has been published widely including the Guardian UK, Z Magazine, Alternet, Common Dreams, The Hill, and the recent anthology We Have Not Been Moved: Resisting Racism and Militarism in 21st century America.   Find Clare online: Catalyst Project: collectiveliberation.org Clare’s writing: https://healingandjustice.wordpress.com/ Links to relevant resources: War at Home book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/927659.War_at_Home A Troublemaker’s Guide: Principles for Racial Justice Activists in the Face of State Repression: https://tinyurl.com/y9kxhom4 Catalyst Project: www.collectiveliberation.org GI Rights hotline: https://girightshotline.org/ About Face’s Open Letter from Veterans to Recently Activated National Guard: https://medium.com/@VetsAboutFace/minnesota-national-guard-stand-down-for-black-lives-7596e1f0493b Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ): https://www.showingupforracialjustice.org/ Anti Police-Terror Project: https://www.antipoliceterrorproject.org/ Ruckus Society: www.ruckus.org Bay Area Solidarity Statement: https://couragetoresist.org/solidarity2020/   Links to So Many Wings’ social media and website On the web: https://somanywings.org On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somanywingspodcast On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/somanywingspodcast On Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/somanywingspodcast

Rob, Jeff, and Jonathan talk about the militarization of police forces in recent decades, the goals of community leaders who call for “defunding the police,” and the cancellation of the “COPS” television series after nearly 30 years on the air.

Table of Contents: POLICE TRUCK CAUGHT DELIVERING BRICKS FOR PROTESTERS TO THROW AT PRIVATE PROPERTY! SHAKEUP IN NYPD: POLICE COMMISSIONER OUT–NUMEROUS CHIEFS MOVED Minneapolis City Council Announces Intent to DISBAND POLICE DEPARTMENT Red Alert! We Are Rapidly Coming Down to ‘General vs. General’ and the Demilitarization of America! RED ALERT! DISARMING AMERICA SHOCKING: WHY ARE…

At the top of today’s show, Adam talks about his conversation with Dr. Drew and the ridiculous policies still being instigated at the beach. Dr. Drew then joins the show and shares his perspective on the massive demonstrations, the ridiculousness of still not being allowed to go to the beach, and people misunderstanding the way money works. Adam also takes listener calls about looting, demilitarizing the police, and the general stupidity of the public. PLEASE SUPPORT TODAY’S SPONSORS! Geico.com BetOnline enter PODCASTONE MethodMen.com enter ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM

Jeff Cesario joins the show and gives this week’s Sports Update with Chet Waterhouse. They also talk more about the recent looting, and everyone plays a round of the Rotten Tomatoes Game. Gina then begins the news with more headlines about civil unrest, extended curfews, and President Trump going underground. They also watch a video about Denzel Washington being a good Samaritan. As the show wraps up, Gina reads a strange new quarantine restriction happening in the UK. PLEASE SUPPORT TODAY’S SPONSORS! Geico.com BetOnline enter PODCASTONE MethodMen.com enter ADAM Lifelock.com enter ADAM

Dr. Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua (she/her) is a Kanaka Maoli from O‘ahu, Hawaiʻi. She is professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she teaches Hawaiian and Indigenous politics. Noe has published articles and books on Hawaiian social movements, Indigenous education and decolonial future-making, including The Seeds We Planted: Portraits of a Native Hawaiian Charter School (2013), A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty (2014), The Value of Hawaiʻi, 2: Ancestral Roots, Oceanic Visions (2014), and Nā Wāhine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization (2019). She is a co-founder of Hālau Kū Māna public charter school and an active board member for the Kānehūnāmoku Voyaging Academy and Hui o Kuapā Keawanui, both of which use Native Hawaiian ocean-based technologies and practices to help create resilient Indigenous futures. Her academic and activist work are part of a lifetime commitment to aloha ‘aina. Her most treasured role is being a mom to her three children. In this interview, Priya Prabhakar and Dr. Goodyear-Kaʻōpua talk about Dr. Goodyear-Kaʻōpua’s ancestral lineage of Hawai’ian freedom fighters that caused her to do what she does today, Indigenous futurisms and inspirations from Afrofuturisms and Octavia Butler, the struggle against the building of the TMT telescope on the sacred mountain of Mauna a Wākea, her various books that focus on the struggle for Hawai’ian sovereignty, and the Indigenous concept of “ea."

How might the world be transformed by honoring Pacific experiences? What can communal storytelling teach us about decolonial ways of knowing? How can poetry be a powerful force for social justice activism? In episode 76 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach talks with Chamoru poet and professor Craig Santos Perez about how creation stories, Spam, and the birth of his daughter inspired his most recent book of poetry; why poetry is such a powerful way into social justice activism; the future of Pacific Islander publishing; and how communal storytelling is one way Craig contributes to a decolonial and demilitarized Pacific. TRANSCRIPT & SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/76-craig-santos-perez

#049 - Demilitarization & Preserving Cultural Sites by Independent Guahan Task Force

Militarization is the process by which a society organizes itself for military conflict and violence. ••• For many penis owning people, everything about the penis is about conflict. It's hard to be human in sex when we are focused on a body part that we are continuously told has a biological, almost uncontrollably animalistic nature and the pain it can afflict on a sex partner. When dick is "getting some" it's almost always fucking, pounding, banging, running trains on and/or beating the pussy up. ••• Sacred sex coaching can help you heal your sex through the demilitarization of your dick. On this episode I talk a bit about removing the conflict and violence from your dick, on becoming a multi orgasmic man and the myth of "blue balls"Support the show (http://patreon.com/atltantra)

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Audio recorded by Carolyn Coe Bruce Gagnon on the “US Pivot to the Asia-Pacific” and ties with BIW here in Maine Bruce Gagnon is well known in Maine as the co-founder of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space, and as an active member of Veterans for Peace. He is also a senior fellow at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute and a member of the “Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific” and has traveled extensively in the area. He spoke in Deer Isle on August 3rd at an event sponsored by Island Peace and Justice, Peninsula Peace and Justice and Americas Who Tell the Truth. The topic was the “Pivot to the Asia-Pacific”. Gagnon talked about the U.S. military presence in the region, U.S. relations with N. Korea, S. Korea, Japan, China, and Russia, and ties with Bath Iron Works here in Maine Note: An excerpt from this talk aired on a previous edition of Maine Currents Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, every Tuesday at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org The post Maine Currents 9/5/17 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Contributing producers: Carolyn Coe, Denis Howard Segment 1: Bruce Gagnon on Korea, BIW and the US “Pivot to the Asia-Pacific” Maine-based peace activist Bruce Gagnon spoke in Deer Isle on August 3rd about what's being called the US “Pivot to the Asia-Pacific”. Gagnon has traveled to South Korea and worked with peace activists there and elsewhere in the region who oppose US military bases in their countries. He has also made the connection with the destroyers being built here in Maine at Bath Iron Works and has been arrested for civil disobedience at BIW. Although he spoke before President Trump’s recent comments about “fire and fury” in North Korea, Gagnon's views on the region provide insight not heard in the mainstream media. He is a senior fellow at the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, and is a member of the “Working Group for Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific” a consortium of acclaimed scholars sharing a focus on the region. (Recorded by Carolyn Coe, edited by Amy Browne) UPDATE: We contacted Bruce Gagnon this week for a comment following the escalation of tensions in the region after he spoke in Deer Isle. Here is his response: “In a new report, published by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, missile experts (including Ted Postol from MIT) write that North Korea does not have the rocket capability that Washington and the corporate media are claiming. They state, “The Hwasong-14 does not currently constitute a nuclear threat to the lower 48 states of the United States. The flight tests on July 4 and 28 were a carefully choreographed deception by North Korea to create a false impression that the Hwasong-14 is a near-ICBM that poses a nuclear threat to the continental US. The Hwasong-14 tested on July 4 and 28 may not even be able to deliver a North Korean atomic bomb to Anchorage, Alaska.” The US to this day refuses to sign a peace treaty with North Korea – thus the war legally continues. On July 27, 1953 the US signed an Armistice (ceasefire) with North Korea but that is it. Thus the continuous US-South Korean war games right along the North Korean border must make Pyongyang wonder – is this the real thing? Did the Pentagon decide to invade us for real this time like they have done in Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Granada, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Yemen? Embedded deep beneath North Korea's mountainous zones are some 200 varieties of minerals, including gold, iron, copper, zinc, magnesite, limestone, tungsten, and graphite. Some of these stockpiles are among the largest in the world, and North Korea, a tiny and cash-strapped nation, frequently uses them to bring in additional revenue — no matter the laws against doing so. The total value of these minerals lies somewhere between $6 trillion and $10 trillion. Could much of this war hype be a plan to grab their resources? In the end I think it important to say that North Korea is really a foil – the US does not fear NK which only has 4 nuclear warheads while the US has 6,800 of them. Clearly the demonization and scare campaign around NK is intended to justify the US military ‘pivot' of 60% of Pentagon forces into the Asia-Pacific to be aimed at China and Russia – the real prizes that Washington has on the regime change list.” Segment 2: WERU’s Denis Howard talks with Peter Alexander about his new rock opera “One Way Trip To Mars” — opening at the Waterville Opera House on August 24th. Tune in to hear what went into creating the project and get a sneak preview of the music! Maine Currents- independent local news, views and culture, every Tuesday at 4pm on WERU-FM and weru.org The post Maine Currents 8/15/17 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Tonight we welcome a new voice to APEX, Sierra Lee who daylights at the Center for Asian American Media. Salima Hamarani talks with Hyun Lee with Working Group on Peace and Demilitarization in Asia and the Pacific and Arnie Saiki with the Moana Nui Action Alliance speaking about the potential impact of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System on US-East Asia relations. We talk with artist Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik about her upcoming exhibit Estamos contra el muro: We Are Against the Wall at Southern Exposure where you can pummel a wall of piñatas that represents Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico. And we flashback to 2006 when local punk band La Plebe was embarking on its biggest tour yet–to Eastern Europe. Community Calendar Estamos contra el muro: We Are Against the Wall  Opening Sept 9th | Talk Sept 22nd | Community Demolition Oct 15th La Plebe's final shows are this Friday in Watsonville, Saturday at Gilman, October 14 at Bottom of the Hill, and October 15 at El Rio. On Saturday, at 7 p.m. spend your evening with the indie, action, Filipino vampire film, Vampiriah! It screens at San Francisco Chinatown's Historic Great Star Theater at 7 p.m. And next Thursday, don't miss out! Mass Bass is playing at 12:30 at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival! You thought they broke up, you thought that frontman Kiwi left the country! Be there on August 8. It may be your last chance to catch this seven-piece radical hip-hop soul collective from Oakland. Next Thursday after 5 p.m. is “Kristina Night” at the Asian Art Museum! Comedian Kristina Wong joins filmmaker Jeff Adachi, performer Khmera Rouge, and other local artists and museum docents to reinterpret famous pieces of performance art from Yoko Ono, Shia Lebeouf and more. You won't want to miss this hilarious, one-night only takeover. The post We Are Against the Wall, Goodbye to La Plebe, and Resistance to THAAD appeared first on KPFA.

According to Professor Thurman, the only effective institutional opposition to militarism in the history of humanity has been monasticism. He argues that monastic institutions enable the inversion of warriors. The militancy of the warrior is introverted, so that the monk or nun battles with his or her own inner demons of selfishness, anger, greed, and so on. In this podcast Professor Thurman suggests that dharma practitioners can win the inner battle, and when they constitute a large community, create something like a “peace army” for the society. This episode is an excerpt from the lecture “Tibetan Buddhism: Historical and Philosophical Developments,” given at Nalanda Institute in New York City, on October 1, 2015. Universal Militarism Versus Demilitarized Society – Ep. 53 of the Bob Thurman Podcast Photo by Frank Holleman on Unsplash. Listen to more archive recordings from from past Robert A.F. Thurman teachings + public events please consider becoming a Tibet House US member. To learn about the benefits of Tibet House US Membership please visit: www.tibethouse.us. The songs “Trance Tibet” & ‘Dancing Ling’ by Tenzin Choegyal from the album ‘Heart Sutra‘ (2004) by Ethno Super Lounge is used on the Bob Thurman Podcast with artist’s permission, all rights reserved.

The Regional Approach to Stockpile Reduction (RASR) initiative encourages nine affected South-east European governments to develop a pro-active, coordinated, regional approach to secure and destroy excess stockpiles. The RASR initiative's aim is to prevent disastrous explosions and misuse of conventional weapons and munitions. The Small Arms Survey has provided support to its activities since its creation, by maintaining the RASR website, participating in workshops, and carrying out essential research. In this podcast the Small Arms Survey's Jovana Carapic and Pierre Gobinet explain the policy-relevant link between Survey research related to the RASR initiative and a recent study on the ammunition demilitarization industry.

NATO is currently conducting a project in Ukraine with the aim of destroying weapons and ammunition inherited by Ukraine following the break-up of the Soviet Union. The population and local industries are playing a part in this program. Includes interview with Vasyl Lytvynchuk, NAMSA Project Supervisor in Ukraine; Lubov Borita; Galina Sobatchinski; Serhiy Brul, Director of Department for the Demilitarization, Ukraine; Anatoliy Yuschchyshen, Head of Demilitarization Center of Hrechany; Pertro Kravchuc, Chief of Engineering; and Rashid Saifulin, Chief of SAWL Demilitarization Center. Also available in high definition.