Podcast appearances and mentions of marc eliot stein

How do we even speak about genocide and apartheid in Gaza and Palestine? Words are not enough, and are too often a substitute for action. Three members of World BEYOND War's global community, Mohammed Abunahel, Maria Santelli and Marc Eliot Stein converge to share our frustration and agony and hear an update from Mohammed about his family which has been living under violent seige in Gaza for the past year and a half.

We live in revolutionary times, whether we're ready or not. Marc Eliot Stein urges peace activists around the world to find common ground and act decisively against the rising toxicity of the international war machine. We talk about South Africa, Ireland, Mikhail Gorbachev and the shocking arrest of student protestors all over the USA in March 2025. Musical excerpt: "Broken English" by Marianne Faithfull.

Nigerian peace studies professor and writer Oseremen Irene talks to Marc Eliot Stein about antiwar movements, structural violence, wealth inequality and leadership challenges facing the world in 2025.

Let's take a fresh look at how peace movements are changing to keep up with fast-evolving cultural trends. Online communities provide one useful model of peaceful coexistence that people intuitively and immediately understand. World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein proposes a new approach to the pursuit of world peace inspired by the decentralized, peer-to-peer methods of emerging communities.

Marc Eliot Stein urges the antiwar movement to avoid complacency, dare to imagine positive sudden societal change, and answer three difficult questions about border policies, wealth inequality and the concept of national identity.

"Out demons out!" On October 21, 1967, poet, activist, singer and DIY publisher Ed Sanders led an exorcism of the Pentagon in USA's capital city to protest the disaster in Vietnam. Coincidentally on the same day 57 years later, Ed Sanders talks to Marc Eliot Stein from his home in Woodstock about nuclear madness, the deep state, the disasters in Ukraine and Gaza, the absurdities of USA's looming Harris vs. Trump election, and the antiwar inspiration of Allen Ginsberg, Dorothy Day, Phil Ochs, Abbie Hoffman, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Gregory Corso. Music: "Dover Beach" by the Fugs.

Moral injury is a trauma that occurs when we are forced to act against our moral values, World BEYOND War's organizing intern Vanessa Fox tells us. With wars raging from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to the US/Mexico border, we are all suffering from moral injury right now. This is one of many topics Vanessa Fox and Marc Eliot Stein wander through in a conversation about religion, flowerness, empowerment and community.

Gaby Kogut joins Marc Eliot Stein to take a deep psychological dive into the meaning of Mozart's masterpiece "The Magic Flute". We talk about many things: problems this opera has in 2024, the idea of "Die Zauberflote" as a time capsule of freemasonry, the male gaze, the great Ingmar Bergman movie, Carl Jung and the need for a daughter to individuate from an oppressive mother, the question of evil. Dive in with us into the cultural birdhouse knows as "The Magic Flute"!

World Beyond War's annual conference #NoWar2024 takes place in Sydney, Wanfried, Bogata, Washington DC and online next month. Introducing some of our upcoming guests, Marc Eliot Stein talks to Kazuyuki Nakazato and Katsuya Tamaki from the Okinawa Prefectural Government and Lilli Barto, an activist from Wage Peace 2 Disrupt Wars in Australia.

Robert F. Keeler's new book "Sacred Soldier: The Dangers of Worshipping Warriors" is a tough indictment of USA's inane militarism, emphasizing recruitment horrors, rampant sexual abuse and corrupt leadership in today's armed forces. Marc Eliot Stein interviews Keeler about his Catholicism, his pacifism, his award-winning career as a journalist for Newsday, and his own life as a military veteran who refuses to pretend USA's war system deserves respect.

Before becoming technology director at World BEYOND War, podcast host Marc Eliot Stein endured three mind-blowingly bad contract positions with three departments of the federal government in a row during the years of the Obama administration. Here's a personal tale of a strange journey into deep mediocrity at the Department of Labor, Postal Regulatory Commission and the Center for Disease Control, and a harsh look at a capital city still haunted by a legacy of racism.

Podcast host Marc Eliot Stein explores his own past to uncover why he once believed in American exceptionalism and thought it would be a good idea to work for weapons manufacturers, Wall Street banks and media brands like Foreign Policy magazine - all steps on the path to the realization that he doesn't need to support the USA war machine to make a living. A surprising personal tale and a plea for wisdom by our regular podcast host - Part one of two. Musical excerpt: "Dead and Gone" by T.I. and Justin Timberlake

Guy Feugap joined World BEYOND War as a volunteer, founded WBW's Cameroon chapter, and is now our organizer for the entire continent of Africa. Marc Eliot Stein interviews Guy about his beginnings as a peace activist in Cameroon, about working with fellow organizers in Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Burundi, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Togo, Zimbabwe and more, and the outlook for the movement all over Africa and the world. Music: "No To War" by Blaze Weka.

What does the antiwar movement recognize when a bridge collapses in Baltimore? Why have container ships replaced the Titanic as the world's biggest metaphor, and what does the new "BDS the US" movement think we should do about it? We dive into all of these questions, plus a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke, as World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein ponders various big questions.

This special episode honors World BEYOND War's 10 years of global antiwar organizing and action. Guest host Maria Santelli takes us inside WBW's day-to-day operations as we talk to founder and executive director David Swanson, education director Phil Gittins, technology director Marc Eliot Stein, Latin America organizer Gabriel Aguirre, Canada organizer Rachel Small, and Africa organizer Guy Feugap. End music: "Cyclone/Candles in the Rain" by Melanie.

Two and a half months of brutal and senseless slaughter in Gaza have shattered souls all over the world. This month's episode of the World BEYOND War podcast is a free-flowing, no-agenda conversation between Jamelah Vincent, a Yemeni-American in Michigan, and Marc Eliot Stein, our Jewish-American host in New York. We talk about social media, cognitive dissonance, rampant ethnic prejudices in our own troubled country, Martin Luther King, how islamophobia and antisemitism are exploited by war profiteers, and finally about our mutual lost friend Judih Weinstein Haggai, who stands today as a symbol of peace-loving humanity destroyed by inhumane war. Music excerpt: "Blackbird" by Sarah McLachlan.

There's nothing like singing in an opera chorus. Marc Eliot Stein and Ted Shulman talk about their participation in Regina Opera's production of Verdi's "Rigoletto" in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the special ways a chorus can illuminate or enliven a classic opera. We chat about "Nabucco", "Turandot", "Parsifal", "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", "Orfeo ed Euridice", "HMS Pinafore" and "Aida", and the conversation also turns to amateur singing, drinking songs, offensive operas, gender of choruses, teamwork, the disastrous 2023 Israel/Gaza war, Lance Loud, reality TV, New York City's 1970s CBGBs punk scene and a mostly (but not completely) forgotten punk band called The Mumps.

World Beyond War is a non-profit organization dedicated to ending war and violence.  Marc Eliot Stein first volunteered for World Beyond War in 2017 and has since become the Technology Director, managing websites, podcast and other technological aspects of promoting … More ... The post Marc Eliot Stein – World Beyond War appeared first on Paradigms Podcast.

Poet, teacher, mother, grandmother and pacifist Judih Weinstein Haggai has been missing since the attack on her kibbutz near Gaza on October 7, 2023. Her two friends Anemone Achtnich in Germany and Marc Eliot Stein in New York City talk about Judih's life and her ideals, and express their hope for a safe return of all hostages, and for ceasefire, peace, diplomacy, negotiation, compromise and eventual healing between the people of Israel and Palestine and Gaza and many other tragic war zones around the world.

Mohammed Abunahel, World Beyond War's researcher and expert on military bases, tells Marc Eliot Stein the incredible story of the efforts he had to go through to gain a higher education and build a meaningful life with his family from his beginnings in Gaza City. Music: "Dammi Falestani" by Mohammed Assaf.

Randy Janzen and Rachelle Friesen join Rachel Small and Marc Eliot Stein to talk about unarmed resistance, a broad nonviolent practice that is being used in war zones all over the world today. Nonviolent resistance is the theme of #NoWar2023, World BEYOND War's upcoming annual virtual gathering of peace activists from all over the world. In this conference preview, we talk about the work of organizations like Unarmed Civilian Protection, Community Peacemaker Teams and Nonviolent Peaceforce who have been quietly discovering new paths and routes to conflict resolution in a meaningful grasp for hope as the world burns. Music: "Hummingbird" by Dinah Thorpe.

What are antiwar activists saying about artificial intelligence? A whole lot. World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein walks through the political, economic, moral and philosophical questions that popular new AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT raise. We also talk about Marshall McLuhan, "Oppenheimer" and the history of neural networks. Musical excerpt: "The Healing Room" by Sinead O'Connor.

What are antiwar activists saying about artificial intelligence? A whole lot. World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein walks through the political, economic, moral and philosophical questions that popular new AI tools like DALL-E and ChatGPT raise. We also talk about Marshall McLuhan, "Oppenheimer" and the history of neural networks. (Music removed.)

Ricardo Antonio Soberon Garrido and Gabriel Aguirre join Marc Eliot Stein for a virtual conversation about the urgent governmental legitimacy crisis in Peru, the problematic rise to power of Dina Boluarte, and USA's plans to exploit the country's crisis, ignore the needs of a diverse population struggling with climate change, and further divide Peru for its own geopolitical advantage with military displays like Resolute Sentinel. Musical excerpt: Dame Pa' Matala.

In Gilbert and Sullivan's fairy opera “Iolanthe” empowered magical women crash into toxic privileged masculinity in 19th century London. Marc Eliot Stein interviews New York City singer and actress Casey Keeler about her role as the powerful Fairy Queen in a recent Village Light Opera Group "Iolanthe". We also talk about “Utopia, Limited”, community theater, and how New York City's post-COVID opera subculture is staying together through hard times.

In an impassioned plea for greater public resistance to rotten governments, Marc Eliot Stein talks about an empowering tweet by Caitlin Johnstone, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, the hopes for a popular move towards decentralized and human-scaled governance, and the urgent need for peaceful revolutionary change in USA and around the world today. (Music removed.)

In an impassioned plea for greater public resistance to rotten governments, Marc Eliot Stein talks about an empowering tweet by Caitlin Johnstone, a play by Jean-Paul Sartre, the hopes for a popular move towards decentralized and human-scaled governance, and the urgent need for peaceful revolutionary change in USA and around the world today.

Montreal-based activist and student organizer Maya Garfinkel spent 2022 working with World BEYOND War while completing her college degree at McGill University. As they prepare for the next steps in a life dedicated to the struggle against war, exploitation, extractivism and injustice, Maya spoke to Marc Eliot Stein about Canada's expanding militarism, Montreal's activist culture, protesting for climate justice alongside indigenous nations, queer identity and how the Jewish faith and heritage has informed her own awareness of social justice. Song excerpts: "The War Racket" by Buffy Sainte-Marie and "Train Comes Through" by Ezra Furman.

Antiwar activist John Reuwer joined a peace mission in Romania in 2022 with the goal of organizing nonviolent resistance to the raging war that began in February of this year. Visiting refugees outside Ukraine and working with pacifists in Kyiv and elsewhere, John found the best hope for healing in the cooperative movement to prevent nuclear meltdown in Zaporizhzhia. An extensive interview about a month in war-ravaged Europe with podcast host Marc Eliot Stein.

In this episode, writer, website developer and podcaster Marc Eliot Stein discuss John O'Hara, Lorenz Hart, and Richard Rodgers's 1940 musical Pal Joey, pondering the enigma of this ever-changing show. We also talk about the songs "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" from Pal Joey. You can write to scenetosong@gmail.com with a comment or question about an episode or about musical theater, or if you'd like to be a podcast guest. Follow on Instagram at @ScenetoSong, on Twitter at @SceneSong, and on Facebook at “Scene to Song with Shoshana Greenberg Podcast.” And be sure to sign up for the new monthly e-newsletter at scenetosong.substack.com. Contribute to the new Patreon. The theme music is by Julia Meinwald. Music played in this episode: "Zip" from Pal Joey "I Could Write a Book" from Pal Joey "In Our Little Den of Iniquity" from Pal Joey "Take Him" from Pal Joey "Plant You Now, Dig You Later" from Pal Joey "You Mustn't Kick It Around" from Pal Joey "That Terrific Rainbow" from Pal Joey "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered" from Pal Joey

Robert Fantina's new book “Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir” breaks down the massive human rights violations in two regions where populations are manipulated to remove people from their longtime homes, or to make life unlivable in their homes. Marc Eliot Stein talks to Robert Fantina about Kashmir's unique crisis, about Hindutva and Modi, and about his beginnings as a peace activist.

Robert Fantina's new book “Settler-Colonialism in Palestine and Kashmir” breaks down the massive human rights violations in two regions where populations are manipulated to remove people from their longtime homes, or to make life unlivable in their homes. Marc Eliot Stein talks to Robert Fantina about Kashmir's unique crisis, about Hindutva and Modi, and about his beginnings as a peace activist. (Music removed.)

Podcast host Marc Eliot Stein talks about his path to antiwar activism, the Holocaust, his grandmother's family and the awareness of generational collective trauma that eventually led him to work for a global grassroots peace organization. Also featuring Marc's blog post welcoming songwriter/activist Roger Waters to a webinar in August 2022 and discussing the deep connections to social justice activism in Pink Floyd's long musical legacy.

Medea Benjamin is one of the most dynamic and dedicated antiwar activists in the world today. In this interview with World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein, Medea talks about recent progressive wins in Colombia and all over Latin America, the tragedy of the brutal but profitable proxy war in Ukraine and the many ways peacebuilders and hardworking organizations are keeping the international struggle for a livable, humane planet alive. Musical excerpt: Emma's Revolution.

Alison Broinowski is an author, diplomat and global peace activist with an amazing career calling attention to the corruption and dysfunction motivating Australia's past military leadership. This month, in May 2022, Alison is bringing good news to the world as Australia mobilizes woman power to turn an election. Alison talks about this and more - including Australia's risky brinksmanship against China - in a freewheeling conversation with Marc Eliot Stein. Also featuring Greta Zarro with a preview of this year's upcoming World BEYOND War conference #NoWar2022.

Jacques Offenbach's masterpiece “Les Contes d'Hoffmann” is an existential psychological comic opera, a morality tale about an aesthete who destroys himself over a fanciful love of three women. In the last episode of Season 3, Marc Eliot Stein talks about Jewish composers in Paris, “Faust”, drinking songs, Mozart, Gilbert and Sullivan, Zarzuela, sex dolls, synaesthesia and the opera novels of late New York City writer Richard P. Brickner.

Stakes are high for activists and advocates for a humane world to catch on to the shockingly rapid pace of change in the field of advanced technology. What is blockchain, and how can it help protect our freedom of speech? How do we monitor military spending in an age when bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies defy monitoring? What about artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the hands of monopolistic, US-centric tech giants? And is the world's cooperative open source software community staying healthy through all these paradigm shifts? Tech innovator and artist Robert Douglass joins Marc Eliot Stein for an in-depth discussion of futuristic topics that are already changing the landscape of progressive activist movements.

Peace activist Kathy Kelly has crossed borders into dangerous war zones and been arrested more than 80 times to help refugees and victims and gain an understanding of the true nature of war, sanctions, structural violence, imprisonment and injustice. In episode 34 of the World BEYOND War podcast, Anni Carracedo and Marc Eliot Stein talk to Kathy Kelly about her life of fearless activism and welcome her into the new role of Board President for this organization. Musical excerpt: "Para la guerra nada" by Marta Gomez.

Sam Goldman interviews Marc Eliot Stein with World Beyond War about Russia's attack on Ukraine and what comes next. Follow Marc on Twitter at @asheresque and listen to the World Beyond War podcast here: worldbeyondwar.org/podcast. Recommended reading: A Hellish War in Ukraine: Where the Hell Did This Come From? Then, we share voices from the abortion rights speakout Feb. 27th in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City hosted by RiseUp4AbortionRights.org, calling on people to take to the streets for International Women's Day on March 8. Find a protest near you. Right now: help organize for mobilizations this spring to demand abortion rights at riseup4abortionrights.org. Refuse Fascism is more than just a podcast! You can get involved at RefuseFascism.org. Send your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or @SamBGoldman. Connect with the movement at RefuseFascism.org and support: · Venmo: @Refuse-Fascism · Cashapp: @RefuseFascism · paypal.me/refusefascism · donate.refusefascism.org Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/refuse-fascism/message

What should we do with Mozart's problematic masterpiece “Don Giovanni” in the 21st century? Vicki Zunitch joins Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the moral situations portrayed in the famous story of a sociopathic charmer and rapist brought to justice by a stone statue, with a focus on all the characters caught in his web: Anna, Elvira, Zerlina, Masetto, Ottavio, the Commendatore and the eternal wingman, Leporello. We also talk about Soren Kierkegaard's “Either/Or”, Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in "It Happened in Brooklyn", Tirso de Molina's “The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest”, Moliere's “Dom Juan”, the idea of "Carmen" as a reverse gender "Don Giovanni" and a stunningly surreal new version of this opera directed by Romeo Castellucci and choreographed by Cindy Van Acker that premiered in 2021 in Salzburg, Austria.

Peace activist Koohan Paik-Mander joins Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the crisis of military escalation in Europe and the specter of superpower proxy wars in Ukraine, Taiwan, Iran, Venezuela. Koohan talks about her life's work as an environmental and antiwar activist, and how a significant protest movement to stop the construction of a US military base in Korea's Jeju Island revealed to her the deep power of solidarity. We also talk about biodeiversity, anarcho-pacifism, white nationalism in US military and police forces, Xi Jinping's appearance at Davos, massive whale deaths in the Pacific ocean from military actions, the place of technology and social media in the lives of activists, the parallels between today's Ukraine/Russia buildup and Europe's collapse into the first world war in 1914, and what must be remembered from Barbara Tuchman's history book “The Guns of August”. Musical excerpt: Youn Sun Nah.

Marc Eliot Stein talks to Matthew Petti, an up-and-coming journalist studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan. The wide-ranging conversation covers the politics of water, the credibility of journalism, the status of refugee communities in Jordan from Palestine, Syria, Yemen and Iraq, the outlook for peace in an age of imperial decline, empires from USA to Russia to China to Iran to France, "middle east" vs. "west asia" vs "holy lands", Saddam Hussein nostalgia and much more. Musical excerpt: "Yas Salam" by Autostrad.

Verdi's “Il Trovatore” is one of the most popular operas of all time, and also one of the hardest to follow. What is going on with this crazy plot? There's a lot under the surface, and it's all spelled out in this explainer by Marc Eliot Stein, who shows how a thrilling but nakedly horrible storyline became an entertainment fit for 19th century operagoers. This fascinating episode ends with a look at the Marx Brothers “A Night at the Opera”, which joyously tears Verdi's masterpiece to shreds.

Jodie Evans learned about civil disobedience from Jane Fonda as a teenage activist in the late 1960s, and is still being arrested with Jane Fonda in 2021. Along the way, she worked on the disruptive presidential campaign of Jerry Brown, co-founded CODE PINK with Medea Benjamin, and travelled on peace delegations to North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. Today she is leading “China is Not Our Enemy”, with an urgent message of cross-cultural bridge-building as a remedy for insane hyper-militarism. For the 28th episode of the World Beyond War podcast, Marc Eliot Stein interviews Jodie Evans about her remarkable life of peace activism. Musical excerpt: George Harrison.

Jodie Evans learned about civil disobedience from Jane Fonda as a teenage activist in the late 1960s, and is still being arrested with Jane Fonda in 2021. Along the way, she worked on the disruptive presidential campaign of Jerry Brown, co-founded CODE PINK with Medea Benjamin, and travelled on peace delegations to North Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Cuba and Venezuela. Today she is leading “China is Not Our Enemy”, with an urgent message of cross-cultural bridge-building as a remedy for insane hyper-militarism. For the 28th episode of the World Beyond War podcast, Marc Eliot Stein interviews Jodie Evans about her remarkable life of peace activism. (Music removed.)

USA's investment in high-tech weapons and military artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating, as Microsoft and Amazon enter the top ranks of corrupt military profiteers. The people are completely left out of the conversation as our governments devote billions of dollars to the grotesque science of mass murder, and our familiar tech giants betray our trust. Jan Weinberg of Show Up America joins Marc Eliot Stein to talk about Project JEDI, Joint All-Domain Command and Control (JADC2), killer robots, “Black Mirror”, facial recognition, surveillance clouds, autonomous nuclear weapons triggers, the Senate Armed Services committee and the need for greater investigative journalism on this topic. Musical excerpt: “American Idiot” by Green Day.

Hammam Farah of Palestine House in Toronto and Ariel Gold of CODEPINK join Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the crucial role the antiwar movement can and must play in Israel, Palestine and Gaza. Our in-depth conversation ranges from the experience of apartheid and urban bombardment in Gaza to the rising influence of Kahanism in Israel to the history of Hamas. An overview of a region in crisis, and of a global antiwar movement that must help find the path to peace.

Two of our guests, Vanessa Lanteigne and Dr. Brendan Martin, are on day 12 of a fast to protest Canada’s purchase of 88 fighter jets. We’re also joined by World BEYOND War’s Canada organizer Rachel Small to talk about commitment to difficult protest actions, Canada’s growing militarism, Gandhi, Ursula LeGuin and more. Hosted by Marc Eliot Stein. Musical excerpt “We can do it” by Amai Kuda et les Bois.

World BEYOND War's chapter leaders build regional movements to address a global problem. In this episode, Guy Feugap of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Helen Peacock of South Georgian Bay, Canada and Heinrich Buecker of Berlin, Germany join Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the activist chapters they run and the shared hopes and motivations behind the work they do. We talk about peace education and violence indoctrination, Erica Chenoweth, Defender21 and the right-wing resurgence in Europe. (Music removed.)

World BEYOND War's chapter leaders build regional movements to address a global problem. In this episode, Guy Feugap of Yaoundé, Cameroon, Helen Peacock of South Georgian Bay, Canada and Heinrich Buecker of Berlin, Germany join Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the activist chapters they run and the shared hopes and motivations behind the work they do. We talk about peace education and violence indoctrination, Erica Chenoweth, Defender21 and the right-wing resurgence in Europe. Musical excerpt: "Pigs" by Roger Waters.

Fiction writers are accustomed to seeing the layers of motivation and conflict that drive the plots around us. In this special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, we welcome two novelists, Vanessa Veselka ("The Great Offshore Grounds", "Zazen") and Rivera Sun ("The Way Between", "The Dandelion Insurrection") who each have unique backgrounds in activism and organizing. We talk about the hero's journey, the way protest actions can change our lives, labor unions, anger, nonviolence and sexual violence, leadership, Sharon Blackie, Leo Tolstoy and the problem of conquest activism. Hosted by Marc Eliot Stein. Musical excerpt: "Wonderous Stories" by Yes.

Suman Khanna Aggarwal, Gandhian scholar and President of the Shanti Sahyog center for nonviolence and conflict resolution in New Delhi, India talks to Marc Eliot Stein about her organization's work and her own journey towards an understanding of Gandhian nonviolence, the science of peace and the discipline of conflict resolution. We also talk about global peace movements, Richard Attenborough's movie, spirituality, Tolstoy, Socrates and controversial aspects of Mahatma Gandhi's life. (Music removed.)

Suman Khanna Aggarwal, Gandhian scholar and President of the Shanti Sahyog center for nonviolence and conflict resolution in New Delhi, India talks to Marc Eliot Stein about her organization’s work and her own journey towards an understanding of Gandhian nonviolence, the science of peace and the discipline of conflict resolution. We also talk about global peace movements, Richard Attenborough's movie, spirituality, Tolstoy, Socrates and controversial aspects of Mahatma Gandhi's life. Musical excerpt: "Satyagraha" by Philip Glass.

Where is the USA headed? Following the 2020 election, six American peace activists and board members of World BEYOND War talk about this large, troubled North American country's place on the planet and trajectory in times of climate crisis, health crisis, racial crisis, economic crisis and constitutional crisis. Donnal Walter, Odile Hugonot Haber, Gar Smith, John Reuwer and Alice Slater join Marc Eliot Stein for an open conversation. Musical excerpts: Childish Gambino, Bruce Springsteen.

Roundtable discussion with five young emerging activists in five continents: Alejandra Rodriguez in Colombia, Laiba Khan in India, Mélina Villeneuve in UK, Christine Odera in Kenya, Sayako Aizeki-Nevins in USA. We talk about cross-generational activism, education and history curriculums, legacies of war, poverty, racism and colonialism, the impact of climate change and the current pandemic on activist movements, and what motivates each of us in the work we do. Hosted by Marc Eliot Stein and World BEYOND War’s education director Phill Gittins. Musical excerpt: Shawn Mendes.

Vicki Zunitch joins Marc Eliot Stein for a fresh in-depth examination of Puccini's great opera "La Boheme". We talk about the existential choices the characters make, the original comic stories by Henri Murger, the lifestyle of starving artists in 19th Century Paris and today, morning music at the Gate of Hell, affordable healthcare, and what the movie "Moonstruck" starring Cher and Nicolas Cage has to do with it all.

A roundtable tribute to lifelong activist and Popular Resistance co-founder Kevin Zeese with Margaret Flowers and World BEYOND War's David Swanson, Leah Bolger, Pat Elder and Marc Eliot Stein. Music by Traveling Wilburys.

A roundtable tribute to lifelong activist and Popular Resistance co-founder Kevin Zeese with Margaret Flowers and World BEYOND War's David Swanson, Leah Bolger, Pat Elder and Marc Eliot Stein. (Music removed.)

Nicholson Baker's important new book "Baseless" is about the US military and CIA's past secret experiments with biological warfare, and about the author and historian's attempts to get the information about these disturbing secrets that he is legally entitled to. Part one of Marc Eliot Stein's in-depth two-part conversation with antiwar activist, novelist and historian Nicholson Baker ranges over topics including permasecrets, cultural archives, Joseph Pulitzer, the Korean War, bat vector bombs, psychological warfare, gaslighting and police brutality videos. We also check in with World BEYOND War's president Leah Bolger and new social media manager Alessandra Granelli about the organization's latest activities. (Music removed.)

Nicholson Baker's important new book "Baseless" is about the US military and CIA's past secret experiments with biological warfare, and about the author and historian's attempts to get the information about these disturbing secrets that he is legally entitled to. Part one of Marc Eliot Stein's in-depth two-part conversation with antiwar activist, novelist and historian Nicholson Baker ranges over topics including permasecrets, cultural archives, Joseph Pulitzer, the Korean War, bat vector bombs, psychological warfare, gaslighting and police brutality videos. We also check in with World BEYOND War's president Leah Bolger and new social media manager Alessandra Granelli about the organization's latest activities. Music: Rage Against The Machine.

Jules Massenet is best known for "Manon" and "Werther", and his "Don Quichotte" hasn't played at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for nearly a hundred years. Why not, and was it actually killed in 1926 by a single bad review? Marc Eliot Stein rediscovers this forgotten classic and finds a beautiful surprise. We also talk about "Man of La Mancha", "Sturm und Drung", Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Wagner's "Der Fliegende Hollander", Mozart's "Cosi Fan Tutte" and the final two shows that played at the Met before it shut down due to the pandemic of 2020.

We continue our look at the two great Figaro operas with a deep dive into Mozart's dark sexual comedy "Le Nozze di Figaro". We talk about Soren Kierkegaard, "Either/Or", trouser roles, gender ambiguity, castratos, Peter Pan, Harpo Marx, Prince's "Purple Rain", Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Rossini, Strauss, "Der Rosenkavalier", "La Mere Coupable", "Porkys", and Marc Eliot Stein's theory that a Stephen Foster folk song and Leadbelly blues song are inspired by Mozart's operatic masterpiece.

Piril Torgut is a young Cypriot artist who paints and sculpts visceral images of a marine world. Visual Voices is a global organization that supports artists who can help heal the troubled real world. In this episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, Piril Torgut and Alden Jacobs and Marina Neophytou of Visual Voices join Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro for an unrestrained conversation about art, violence, the Greek/Turkish conflict in Cyprus, and our methods of finding hope through art. Music: "What The Water Gave Me" by Florence + the Machine.

The upcoming #NoWar2020 antiwar conference in Ottawa, Canada will be a convergence of indigenous rights movements, urgency for climate change awareness, protest against military profiteering at the CANSEC weapons bazaar, and, as always, the core principle behind everything we do at World Beyond War: the goal to end all war, everywhere. In this podcast, we hear from four people who will be at #NoWar2020 in Ottawa: organizer Katie Perfitt, longtime resister Colin Stuart, and podcast hosts Marc Eliot Stein and Alex McAdams. Musical interlude: Joni Mitchell.

The upcoming #NoWar2020 antiwar conference in Ottawa, Canada will be a convergence of indigenous rights movements, urgency for climate change awareness, protest against military profiteering at the CANSEC weapons bazaar, and, as always, the core principle behind everything we do at World Beyond War: the goal to end all war, everywhere. In this podcast, we hear from four people who will be at #NoWar2020 in Ottawa: organizer Katie Perfitt, longtime resister Colin Stuart, and podcast hosts Marc Eliot Stein and Alex McAdams. (Music removed.)

Shahrzad Khayatian and Foad Izadi are part of the World BEYOND War community in Tehran. Shahrzad has written articles on the effects of sanctions on human lives in Iran, and Foad was a featured speaker at our #NoWar2019 conference in Limerick, Ireland. Following the sudden escalation between USA and Iran in January 2020, Shahrzad and Foad spoke with podcast hosts Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro in the USA about the situation we are all in together. Musical excerpt: "Price of Freedom" by Salome MC.

Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and economist Ivan Velaszquz of Universidad Mayor San Andres and Konrad Adenauer Foundation in La Paz join Marc Eliot Stein and David Swanson to talk about the current crisis in Bolivia, with special attention to the indigenous rights movement, the question of electoral validity and the problem of external influence on Bolivian politics. (Music removed.)

Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and economist Ivan Velaszquz of Universidad Mayor San Andres and Konrad Adenauer Foundation in La Paz join Marc Eliot Stein and David Swanson to talk about the current crisis in Bolivia, with special attention to the indigenous rights movement, the question of electoral validity and the problem of external influence on Bolivian politics. Featuring a musical excerpt from Los Kjarkas.

What is peace education? Tony Jenkins, Patrick Hiller, and Kozue Akibayashi use teaching and academic research to illuminate their activities against war. These three educators also contributed to "A Global Security System", the book that describes World BEYOND War's platform. These three educators join Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro to talk about conflict resolution, peace science, feminism and the ways in which personal relationships can reflect and project violence. (Music removed.)

What is peace education? Tony Jenkins, Patrick Hiller, and Kozue Akibayashi use teaching and academic research to illuminate their activities against war. These three educators also contributed to "A Global Security System", the book that describes World BEYOND War's platform. These three educators join Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro to talk about conflict resolution, peace science, feminism and the ways in which personal relationships can reflect and project violence.

Antiwar activists and environmental activists need to work together. Why doesn't this happen more often? In this episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, Ashik Siddique of the National Priorities Project and Alex Beauchamp of Food & Water Watch join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the research and advocacy work they do every day, and how we can build bridges between two movements dedicated to the same urgent cause: saving our planet and all the lives that depend on it.

Two notable literary novelists, Roxana Robinson ("Sparta", "Dawson's Fall") and Dawn Tripp ("Georgia", "Game of Secrets") join regular hosts Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro for a unique discussion of the ways both fiction writers and antiwar activists try to use words to connect with strangers on urgent and heartfelt topics. We discuss USA in 2019, modern tribalism, the Quaker community, the legacy of slavery, gender and intersectionality and much more.

How is the antiwar movement staying focused and unified as shocking provocations and unconscionable moral threats demand our attention, from USA to Iran to Venezuela to Gaza? In this special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, WBW's board president Leah Bolger and executive director David Swanson join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein for an honest and realistic look at the challenges, concerns and hopes that are on the minds of all antiwar activists in these urgent times.

We're talking about how art can amplify activism, elevate messages, grow movements and influence change. For episode 4 of the World BEYOND War podcast, Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy Project and Hanoi/DC-based activist Vy Vu join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein and talk about their experiences with creative activism, intersectionality, identity and where the antiwar movement is today.

Marc Eliot Stein and Bud Parr, two software developers and literary bloggers from New York City, sat through all 18.5 hours of Richard Wagner's "Ring des Nibuleng" cycle at the Metropolitan Opera this year, and lived to tell the tale. Actually, we were both very impressed. In our latest exploration of opera's often misunderstood literary side, we focus on the dramatic and mythical aspects of Wagner's masterpiece, and also talk about feral children, Fellini movies, #MeToo (Wagner has problems here), Johnny Cash, anti-semitism, the wonderful soprano Christine Goerke who kills it as Brunnhilde, red Mustangs and much more.

Marc Eliot Stein is a member of World BEYOND War's Board of Directors. I'm the Executive Director of World BEYOND War. Marc has been a web developer since the 1990s, and over the years has built sites for Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, the international literary site Words Without Borders, the Allen Ginsberg estate, Time Warner, A&E Network/History Channel, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Center for Disease Control, and Meredith Digital Publishing. He is also a writer, and for years he maintained a popular literary blog called Literary Kicks using the pen name Levi Asher (he still runs the blog, but has ditched the pen name). Marc has begun creating a new podcast for World BEYOND War ( https://worldbeyondwar.org/podcast ), as well as helping World BEYOND War with social media, website issues, and the antiwar movement within the Information Technology world.

Opera was born during the Renaissance as an attempt to recreate the experience of an ancient Greek play as it would have been performed in the Theater of Dionysus in Athens. In this episode, Marc Eliot Stein and Lisa Geraghty talk about the greatest of several operas about one particular Greek myth: "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, which tells the story of the musician Orpheus's descent into the Underworld to retrieve his beloved wife Eurydice back from the dead. We also talk about Charlie Daniels Band, Arcade Fire, "Black Orpheus", Rainer Maria Rilke and Jacques Offenbach's wild satire "Orphee aux Enfers", a French comic opera that twisted Gluck's masterpiece into something entirely different. A refreshing descent into the joys of early classical opera!

World BEYOND War's #NoToNATO rally and peace festival will "unwelcome" NATO, the world's most powerful military alliance, to Washington DC in April 2019. What is #NoToNATO all about? We've gathered four determined peace activists to share their own thoughts and perspectives on this often controversial and difficult topic: Shabbir Lakha from London, Liz Remmerswaal Hughes from New Zealand, Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro from USA. More info about the Washington DC event at https://notonato.org.

On the fifth anniversary of the founding of World Beyond War, Marc Eliot Stein interviewed three of the founders, David Hartsough, David Swanson and Leah Bolger, to discuss five years of World Beyond War.

An exciting new podcast by Marc Eliot Stein of Literary Kicks. Why is opera relevant in 2019? This sometimes-lost art form hides a fascinating, vibrant world. In our first episode, we discuss whether Verdi's Otello is better than Shakespeare's Othello, whether Othello had PTSD, and what it means that Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro is an Italian opera by a German Austrian and a Venetian Jew based on a French play that takes place in Spain. Welcome to the first episode of Lost Music: Exploring Literary Opera!