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Welcome back to a brand-new season of Technically Human! We're thrilled to be back with new episodes of the show. We are kicking off the new season, and the new year, with an episode featuring one of my favorite thinkers, Dr. Deborah Stone, to talk about what it means to count—that is to say, what it means to measure, and what it means to matter. Dr. Deborah Stone is currently a Lecturer in Public Policy in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also an Honorary Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University in Denmark, where she occasionally teaches as a visiting professor. She has taught at Duke University in the Institute of Policy Sciences (1974-77); MIT Department of Political Science (1977-86); Brandeis University Heller School, where she held the David R. Pokross Chair of Law and Social Policy (1986-99); and Dartmouth College Government Department, where she was Research Professor of Government (1999-2014). She has taught as a visitor at Yale, Tulane, University of Bremen, Germany, and National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT. Stone is the author of Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision-Making, which has been published in multiple editions (W.W. Norton), translated into five languages, and won the Aaron Wildavsky Award from the American Political Science Association for its enduring contribution to policy studies. She has also authored three other books: The Samaritan's Dilemma (Nation Books, 2008), The Disabled State (Temple University Press 1984), and The Limits of Professional Power (University of Chicago Press, 1980). She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Health Politics, and Policy and Law (of which she was a founder); Women, Politics and Public Policy, and Critical Policy Studies. In addition to numerous articles in academic journals and book chapters, she writes for general audiences. She was the founding senior editor of The American Prospect and her articles have appeared there as well as in in Nation, New Republic, Boston Review, Civilization, Natural History, and Natural New England. Stone has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, Harvard Law School, German Marshall Fund, Open Society Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar in 2005-2006, and a Senior Fellow at Demos from 2008-2012. She has served as a consultant to the Social Security Administration, the Institute of Medicine, the Office of Technology Assessment, and the Human Genome Project. Stone is also the recipient of numerous professional awards, including, the 2013 Charles M. McCoy Career Achievement Award for a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist (American Political Science Association).

Shownotes and Transcript... George Soros is one, if not the most, dangerous person in the world. This may sound like an overstatement but our guest today will explain why.  Richard Poe is a bestselling author and respected journalist, sixteen years ago he co wrote the most comprehensive analysis of the web that Soros has spun worldwide.  Detailing the connections, control, influence and how the monster we see today was created by the British and nurtured by the Americans.  This will shine a light on one of the most secretive and powerful individuals and show how ignorance has allowed his ascent. Richard Poe is a New York Times-bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He has written widely on business, science, history and politics. His books include The Shadow Party, co-written with David Horowitz; The Einstein Factor, co-written with Win Wenger; Perfect Fear: Four Tales of Terror; Black Spark, White Fire; the WAVE series of network marketing books; and many more. Richard was formerly editor of David Horowitz's FrontPageMag, contributing editor of NewsMax, senior editor of SUCCESS magazine, reporter for the New York Post, and managing editor of the East Village Eye. Connect with Richard... WEBSITE:     https://www.richardpoe.com/ TWITTER:     https://twitter.com/RealRichardPoe?s=20 SUBSTACK:  https://richardpoe.substack.com/ 'The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party' Available in print, e-book or audio book from Amazon  https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shadow-Party-Hillary-Radicals-Democratic/dp/1595551034/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-1 Interview recorded 21.6.23 *Special thanks to Bosch Fawstin for recording our intro/outro on this podcast. Check out his art https://theboschfawstinstore.blogspot.com/ and follow him on GETTR https://gettr.com/user/BoschFawstin and Twitter https://twitter.com/TheBoschFawstin?s=20  To sign up for our weekly email, find our social media, podcasts, video, livestreaming platforms and more...  https://heartsofoak.org/connect/ Please subscribe, like and share!   Subscribe now Transcript (Hearts of Oak) Hello, Hearts of Oak, and welcome to another interview coming up with Richard Poe. He has co-written a book with David Horowitz. This was back in 2006, but still as relevant today. And that is The Shadow Party, how George Soros, Hilary Clinton and 60s radicals seize control of the Democratic Party. George Soros is a huge figure, and this is the first book that actually delves into his life and how he's been involved in color revolutions, coups all around the world. His life story, moving to the States, his involvement with the left. So much packed in. I know you will really enjoy listening to Richard unpacking delve deep into the life of George Soros. Thankful to have you with us today. Thank you so much for your time. (Richard Poe) Thank you, Peter. Great to be here. Good to be. And we are going to discuss your book. We're also going to discuss some articles, but just for the viewers. Richard Poe's probably 10, 11 different books and here are a number of them that we are going to look, Hilary's Secret War, but we're actually going to look today at The Shadow Party, How George Soros, Hilary Clinton and 60s Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party and you wrote that along with David Horowitz, who we've had the privilege of having on before. And now you're a bestselling author, a journalist, investigative reporter, and people can find at Richard Poe, @RealRichardPoe on Twitter and RichardPoe.com. And of course, Substack is there as well @RichardPoe. And I, Richard, I've actually found your your kayak video strangely entertaining, off-topic. I've enjoyed watching them. You must be a kayaker yourself.  No, I'm not. No, I am not. I just, I was intrigued. It was a whole, something completely different. So I enjoyed watching your documentary on it. Well, there is something fascinating about the kayak role. And it took me many years before I finally committed myself to learning it after, but I always used to just be mesmerized to watch people do that, whether on videos or in person, there's something magical about it. And once you actually learn it, it doesn't feel any less magical. It's, you know, of course, it's just like anything else. You learn the moves, you learn how to do it, But there's magic in it. It's something that just feels so wonderful. And I just had to make a film. A short film, five minutes, just trying to convey to people as best I could what this feels like, what it's really like to capsize in a small boat where you're jammed into a cockpit, you know, by your waist, hang upside down in the water, and then turn yourself right side up. You know it's, in a small way, I guess it's like jumping out of a plane with no parachute, and then somehow lifting yourself back onto the plane. Maybe that's too dramatic, but, that's how I like to think of it.  It's fun watching, of course, it's on your website, people can people can see it and there I mean just in The Shadow Party going to source there's so much to cover we'll we'll not do one of your marathon sessions that you do with Noor Bin Laden, those are all available for the viewers to watch you've just started doing them in video I know and that's all on substack but probably the book it's been out 2006 it came out. What led you to write it because now this is part of the conversation, the whole thing with, money, with control, with Soros. What led you to actually putting pen to paper on the book? Well I had researched Soros for many years. I first wrote about him in 1993, in my very first published book. It was called How to Profit from the Coming Russian Boom, and I had some expertise in Russia and I had been there as a business writer for Success Magazine. I had gone there a number of times in the early 90s to, cover the fall of communism and Soros was there, you know, he was part of the party, a big part of it. And at that time, I wrote very positively about Mr. Soros because I felt he was one of us, whoever us are, you know, us Westerners who are... And at that time, I believed very much in the Cold War narrative that we of the West represented freedom and democracy and all those good things. And we had to overcome communism. Communism was the great dragon. And, so Soros, I felt, was just one more person helping us to dismantle the Soviet Empire and teach the Russians how to become capitalists, quote-unquote, and become like us. It all seemed like a very noble enterprise at the time, and I wrote very positively about Mr. Soros and everything he was doing in Russia. I wasn't unaware that there was a dark side to Soros and some of his activities, but well, let's just say I wrote positively about him. And my book was quite influential. It was praised by the London Financial Times as being the first book to explain the privatization process in Russia, which was done by means of a voucher system. The government issued vouchers to every Russian citizen, every Soviet citizen, which were worth 10,000, how did it work? Each one was worth, you could be traded for 10,000 rubles, I think, 10,000 rubles worth of shares in any of the state-owned companies that were being auctioned off. And what happened, of course, is that this happened after my book came out. No one had a clue that this was going to happen. Soros and his cronies, they convinced Yeltsin to do shock therapy, as they call it, to basically de-control all prices and currency values, all at the same time, which led to immediate hyperinflation at catastrophic levels. And so these vouchers became worthless overnight and all the Westerners bought them up, and used them to acquire eventually the crown jewels of the Soviet economy. So this was one of the things that actually led, this is back in the early 90s, but it led to a lot of the ill feeling, between the Russians and the West, which we're now dealing with today, because at that time, the Russians were really.... There was an innocence about them. They were really so grateful in many ways. They wanted this kind of help from Westerners, and especially Americans. They trusted us in a very special way, in a way that they didn't trust other Westerners. And unfortunately, thanks to Mr. Soros and Jeffrey Sachs, who was working with him on this project, and a lot of people at Harvard University, almost instantaneously with the image of America as friend and savior was destroyed and we were perceived as a gang of thieves who were coming to strip the country of all its wealth. And I don't think that perception has ever left. So I was aware of that as it was happening, but as I said, that happened after my book was published. So my book was totally positive about Soros, but... Please tell me if I'm going to too many details about this, but to me it's a very interesting story because, see, Soros himself had declined my request to be interviewed for the book, but he did kindly allow me to interview some of his people, and I had some expectation that maybe, you know, Soros would like the book, it might lead to some further talks, interviews, whatever. But instead what happened is, I think it was only two years after my book came out, a very similar book came out. And this happens a lot in publishing, by the way. If they, the aesthetic of a certain book, they actually replace it with a similar book. So my book was called How to Profit from the Coming Russian Boom. This other book comes out a couple years later, I think it was from the Free Press. And it was called The Coming Russian Boom. They basically took a fragment of my title and made this other book, which also looked kind of similar, the cover design. And on the back of this replacement book, this book that was meant to replace mine, was a big plug by George Soros himself saying, if you want to read a book by real Russia insiders who really know what's going on, read this book. And just to make it clear, a known Soros operative wrote a review saying, Richard Poe's book is now totally out of date. You should now read this new book, which has an almost identical title to his and a similar colour design and which was published only two years later. So you ask, how did I first come across Mr. Soros? Well, it was that. Was I particularly upset? No, not really. I was on to other things, you know, writing other books. I just thought, Well, that's a little curious. But I think the reason they did that, I think the reason my book was disliked is one for the very reason that the Financial Times had said, because I had given such a clear, explanation of the privatization process and how it worked, and then shortly thereafter Soros and his cronies had completely corrupted the privatization process. So I think that was one thing that I did bad. And another thing I did, was I told the truth about the corruption in the Moscow city government, and I was clued in by certain people in Russia that Mayor Lushkov, who I had accused by name, was very disturbed with me, and that sales of my book in Moscow, particularly in the crucial airport bookstores where foreigners would be likely to buy it had been banned. And so, this was my very first book. You know, it got a star for excellence from Publishers Weekly, got reviewed in all the right places but obviously Mr. Soros didn't like it. He endorsed this competing book which appears to have been manufactured for the express purpose of outdating mine. So anyway, I don't mean to go into all that except just to emphasize that me and Mr. Soros go back quite a ways. I first ran across him, one might say ran afoul of him in Russia in the early 90s, as did so many people. And so then much later in 2004, I got a phone call from Chris Ruddy, the founder and editor of Newsmax. I was one of the original columnists at Newsmax. It was started in 1998, I believe, and I started in 1999. And Chris called me up. He says, look, we wanna do a big expose about George Soros and put it on the cover of Newsmax magazine. Would you like to write it? I said, sure, let's do it. And so, that led to my next encounter indirectly with Soros. I never actually have met him or communicated with him in person or directly, but it seemed every time I ran across him, something ill-omened occurred, you know, it was strange. So, I wrote this article, which seemed a perfectly legitimate exercise of free speech in the home of the free and the brave, the United States of America as working journalists. Why shouldn't we write an expose of George Soros? After all, he was coming out very publicly, speaking out on political matters, saying he was going to donate $25 million to oust President Bush from office. And that's why Newsmax wanted to write about him, all seemingly fair game, you know, and the type of thing one would normally write about. Well, so I wrote, what I wrote about was the same subject I'm writing about now, all these years later, that what Soros was actually doing, and what he was boasting that he was going to do was to go outside of the normal bounds of political electioneering in the United States. And he said, what I have done in other countries, I am now going to do in the United States. And he said, actually, he was going to do a regime change, quote unquote, to remove President Bush. So I was familiar at that point in large part because I had some experience in Russia, in Eastern Europe. I knew what a colour revolution was. Most people didn't at that time. I knew that Soros was involved in these things, and I knew he had helped overthrow a number of governments, not only in Eastern Europe, but all over the world. People think he just does this in Eastern Europe. He's done it in Africa, Asia, everywhere. But, um...When I heard Soros saying these things, I knew exactly what he meant, and I felt I need to explain this to the American people. And so my article was called George Soros' Coup, and it basically explained this guy does color revolutions, and he seems to be implying that he's going to do that here in the United States. Well, it didn't quite happen in the election of 2004, although there were some strange goings-ons from the Democrat side. But for our story right now, what is interesting is that my Newsmax cover story was a big success. I was immediately called to appear on The O'Reilly Factor with Bill O'Reilly. And I did a seven-minute spot on The O'Reilly Factor. The very next day, a completely new outfit, called Media Matters for America, which George Soros had helped to found. It was it was something he and Hilary Clinton and John Podesta and a few others had been totally involved with from the ground floor. So, they attacked me, in a way I'd never been attacked. I mean, there must have been three, four different articles all all about little old me, and basically saying that I was a liar, that I got all my facts wrong. You know, saying exactly the things that if they were true, would completely disqualify me to work as a journalist ever again. They were in fact defamatory. And... Well, can I just step back a little bit just to continue now, but colour revolution, it's something you have mentioned as a phrase, and I know there's a great article, we might get into the British aspect of it, but How the British Invented Colour Revolutions, you wrote back May 2021, and that's available on your substack, but that term colour revolutions probably will not mean anything to many people. It's still a term which isn't widespreadly used. Do you want to just touch on that to let the viewers know what you mean by a color revolution? Sure. A color revolution is basically, it's just a term that's used to describe what is basically a fake revolution. When foreign intelligence services go into a country and create a fake revolution which is meant to look like a people's uprising, a spontaneous uprising of the people, but is actually a foreign-sponsored coup, hiding behind the facade of a people's uprising. And just to give an example, not to get into my recent articles, but I recently discovered and have argued in some recent articles that the French Revolution and the Russian Revolutions were, in fact, color revolutions. It is my contention that the British Secret Services were behind both. But that's just to give an example where a revolution that most of us until now, until recently, have assumed, entailed some kind of spontaneous uprising by an aggrieved population. Yes, to some extent they were, but this, whatever discontent among the people may have manipulated by foreign intelligence services, making it a fake revolution, making it a foreign-sponsored coup, and this type of revolution has been nicknamed in recent years a color revolution. It's called that because often these revolutions use team colours to identify themselves. That for example, there was a so-called orange revolution in the Ukraine in 2004. And if you look at pictures on Google, you'll see crowds in a sea of orange banners, orange everything. And interestingly, even going back to the French and the Russian revolutions, They too had their team colors, team symbols. The French, of course, had their tricolour badges and their so-called Phrygian caps that they wore. Which were red with the tricolour badge on it. In the Bolshevik Revolution, of course, the colour was red again, red for socialism, red for communism. And they also wore a distinctive cap called the Scythian cap, which looks strangely like the Phrygian cap that the French had worn, but whatever. So even in such details as the use of these kind of evocative coloured symbols, and they weren't always colours. Sometimes they were flowers or other kinds of symbols. But they're called colour revolutions for that reason, because somebody decided to name them that. Originally, the first one that came to wide public attention was the so-called Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, during the fall of communism. And that too was, George Soros was heavily involved in that, as were many Western governments and intelligence agencies and so forth. And that was called the Velvet Revolution. It still is to this day. And that term Velvet Revolution actually caught on in Eastern Europe for quite a bit. Often these revolutions were called Velvet Revolutions, but somewhere along the line, they started calling them Colour Revolutions and that stuck. So I now use the term, it's not my favourite term, but that's what it means. A fake revolution generally orchestrated by a foreign intelligence agency or agencies, to masquerade as a popular uprising. And so George Soros has been involved in these, for many decades, funding them, being a public apologist for them, going before the press just to justify them and basically act as a propaganda voice to explain why it was necessary to do these. And the propaganda is very necessary because generally what happens in these so-called colour revolutions is that an election occurs, somebody wins, and that somebody is not the person whom the Western powers wanted to win. And so then they create an uprising saying the election was stolen, it was all fake, it doesn't match the exit polls, so let's bring all the people out into the street, often with quite a good deal of real violence. These things are often called bloodless coups, but I think they are rarely bloodless, and often they involve pretty significant violence. Certainly in 2000, when they overthrew Milosevic in Yugoslavia, there was very significant violence. They set fire to the parliament building. They had armed paramilitaries blocking all the roads around Belgrade, armed with military weapons. And... So, although they're considered bloodless, stereotypically, they're usually not. Any more than the Russian or French revolutions were. So, that's what it is. It seems like an exotic idea, but it's really not. Governments have been doing this for ages, but the British, in particular, I've learned in the last few years, have been doing this for centuries and really excel at it. It's often assumed that Americans are the ones who invented this and who are the best at doing it, but it's not true. Whatever we know, we learned from the Brits.  Let's go on Soros, because Soros, he obviously ended up in London as a refugee, then went to LSE, London School of Economics, went to the U.S. and it seemed to be that his desire was to to make money and return and something kind of happened on the way to the point where I think the midterms, I read somewhere what was a figure was a hundred and twenty eight million dollars I read and that made him the largest single donor in the midterms just past that election cycle and kind of something happened along the way for him just wanting to make money to actually being part of a mass funding campaign off the left?  Well I gave my theory on this very subject in a recent article called How the British Invented George Soros and basically the answer to your question, I think, is that Soros is not his own man. It is my contention that he was recruited as an asset of the British government, the British Foreign Office, and possibly of British intelligence agencies. The fact is that he has been from the beginning involved in activities such as regime change. In foreign countries, activities which, frankly, he would not be allowed to take part in unless, he were under the supervision of some intelligence agency or another. And it's often assumed that he works with the CIA and that he is a CIA asset, and that's generally the default position that most people take. But I believe that he is a British asset, and I made what I think is a pretty strong argument for it in my article. He came to England as a refugee from a communist Hungary when he was 17 years old. He lived in England for 9 or 10 years, during which he graduated from the London School of Economics. He started work in the city of London, learned the arbitrage trade. And during that time, it appears he was selected by a group of very powerful men who include some of the most famous names in global finance. And he was sent, I believe, to the United States to basically act as an agent for this group, this cabal, if you will, of British financiers. And one Lord William Rees-Mogg, who happens to be the father of Jacob Rees-Mogg, I have named him the man who created George Soros because he almost single-handedly created the legend or the myth of Soros as one, the greatest financial genius in the world, and two, as quote-unquote the man who broke the Bank of England. These myths, and I think both are myths, actually. Both of these myths were created and promoted by Lord Rees-Mogg and his colleagues at the Times of London. Rees-Mogg was the editor of the Times for I think 15 years and then he became a vice president of the BBC. But perhaps more importantly, he has a very unique position, or he had, he died in 2012, I call him a gateway or a bridge between worlds, because he was a man who was a very close personal friend of the British royal family, and he was also a very close personal friend of Lord Jacob Rothschild. And he was a bridge between the British aristocracy, you know, the British blue blood society, if you will, and the grubby world of City of London investment, where one had to rub shoulders with such characters as Hungarian refugees, such as George Soros. And Rees Mogg had that job. He moved between those worlds and he was a bridge between those worlds. And it's a little known fact that Soros' quantum fund, Soros actually leaked in one of his books, it was an authorized, and I think Soros actually commissioned this book, it was called George Soros, Messianic Billionaire, something like that by a guy named Kaufman. And in that book is a leak that the Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth II, was one of the investors in the Quantum Fund. Now, there's a great deal of secrecy, as you know, regarding investments by the royal family, this information is closely guarded, but quite often they leak information about where they're investing, such as famously in the mining company Rio Tinto. There were a number of quasi-official leaks about royal investments in that company. And I think they do this in order to pump the stock. I mean, I think when these leaks occur, it's because they're trying to pump the stock. And there was such a leak regarding Soros' quantum fund. So I think, and it appears to me that Soros was really an artificially created person. I don't believe at all that he was was the greatest genius in the financial world. I think he was built up into that by Lord Rees-Mogg. And for example, his greatest act of genius supposedly was breaking the Bank of England. Where in 1992, he supposedly shorted the Bank of England to such an extent that Britain was forced to devalue its currency by 20% And it was a huge catastrophe. But in reality. That story, actually, the story that Soros did it, comes from Soros himself. And it can't be proven because his operations are in the Netherlands Antilles, which is a secrecy jurisdiction, a banking haven. And there is no way to prove what he actually did in that operation. But it's come out that there were many, many players, including some of the biggest banks, biggest pension funds, biggest financial institutions in the world who were taking part in that run on the pound. And Soros was allowed by Rees-Mogg and his colleagues at the Times to take credit for it. And they actually named him in a big banner headline, the man who broke the Bank of England. But he was just one among many and by far not the largest. So, why did Rees-Mogg do this? Well, he quickly demonstrated that because Rees-Mogg's next move was then to write a series of articles explaining to the British people why Soros was a hero and that his devaluation of the pound had saved Britain from having to honour its commitment to enter the Eurozone because by devaluing the pound by 20%, Britain was no longer qualified to enter the European exchange rate mechanism and was no longer qualified to become part of the Eurozone, and that's why it still isn't to this day. And so Rees-Mogg just sang the praises of Soros, called him a hero. He said there should be a statue erected in front of the treasury of him and things like that. And other British journalists have said similar things, that he should get a knighthood and so forth and so on. So that's why I say it was all a myth. Soros himself didn't actually do it single-handedly. And moreover, far from being an attack on the British establishment, It appears to have been a British economic warfare operation which the British establishment deliberately inflicted on its own central bank for political purposes, and for which Soros was assigned to take the blame or to take the credit. So once he had done that operation, then he was very famous. He had become a celebrity overnight. The Times was doing everything it could to convince people he was a wonderful guy. And they immediately started saying what a genius and a financial prophet he was. And Rees-Mogg started saying, oh my goodness, Soros is buying gold. Let's pay attention to what he's doing because if he's buying gold, maybe we should buy gold too. So what happened was, I think this was in 1993, Soros's next assignment for this group around Rees-Mogg and Jacob Rothschild. His next assignment was to buy a large number of shares of Newmont Mining Corporation, I think was and is the largest gold mining operation in North America, and he bought them from Jacob Rothschild and Sir James Goldsmith. And so Rees-Mogg, was telling everyone from the Times, look, Soros is buying gold, but some people noticed, well, yes, but Rothschild and Goldsmith are dumping it. So what does that mean? Despite these ambiguities and puzzlements, they did succeed in hyping the price of gold. The price of gold skyrocketed. Rothschild and Goldsmith made a killing, as I think did some of their other associates in the St. James Capital Group, of which Rees-Mogg was an officer at the time. And strangely Soros himself supposedly lost money on that deal, which is very interesting because although his myth touts him as a lone wolf who only looks out for number one for himself. It really looks like he took one for the team in the great gold scam, as I call it, this gold hyping scam. It appears to have been done for the specific purpose of allowing Jacob Rothschild and Sir James Goldsmith to realize a profit on their previous purchases of Newmont Mining, which had been performing sluggishly. And so this operation appears to have been done for no other reason than to allow these two men, to make some money. And Soros took a hit on that one. He took a hit for the team. He was a team player. So based on these kinds of things, I mean it goes on and on. You could say it's kind of circumstantial evidence, but it's pretty clear that from the beginning, Soros, whatever his gifts and abilities may have been, I'm sure he's very smart, I'm sure he was selected because he was deemed to be a talented person and all that, but he certainly is not the greatest financial genius in the world, that's not how he made his money. He made his money by being adopted by this very powerful group in the city of London and serving them, being a good servant and being the public face of them and their operations. And so he went to America and the rest is history. But now today, he's presumably still alive, despite recent reports of his death, I mean, who knows anymore who's alive and dead. So true. But he has passed it over, we're told, to one of his sons. Do you think it's the end then of that era? Do you think the damage is already done? Do you think it's being passed over just to keep the financial side and it's not the political engagement? What are your thoughts as you kind of see that transfer? Well, I don't imagine that with all the investment which I will say which the British have done in building up the Open Society Institute, I can't imagine they'll simply abandon it. Obviously, it's not going to be the same without George Soros there. Alex Soros, I presume, is nothing more than a figurehead. The man who runs the Open Society Institute is its president, and he's a guy named Lord Mark Malloch Brown, a name with which you may be familiar. Malloch Brown has a similar career trajectory to Soros. He has been involved for decades in regime change operations in foreign countries, in rigging elections in places like the Philippines, and other such targets. And then in 2015, He had just, there was a British takeover of this company called Smartmatic, and by the way, Smartmatic is going around suing people for billions of dollars, so if you want me to shut up right now, I will. I won't say another word.  Feel free to give us your opinion, Richard. Well, whatever else one may or may not say about Smartmatic, what they did was sell voting, a voting system. And so in 2015, the same Lord Mark Malloch Brown, who had notoriously been doing regime change operations all over the world, obviously connected with intelligence. He was a high-level UN official under Kofi Annan. I mean, this guy was obviously, you know, had some role in the intelligence community, I would say. I would say it's obvious. But now he's running the Open Society Institute, but he was given that position right after the US election in 2020. And some people said that was his reward. I'm not gonna comment about that. But his Smartmatic machines and software became very controversial. And in 2015, he was openly trying to market his Smartmatic system to the United States. In the States, it's the state governments which purchase, you know, they each has its own policy for voting systems. So he was trying to sell these to state governments and people often say, well, he never succeeded. I mean, they have a few Smartmatic machines in LA, supposedly, and not nowhere else. All I can tell you is. And this I believe is the very subject of this multi-billion dollar lawsuit that's going on, but there were people in high places who seemed to be in the know, who were close to the Trump campaign. I believe Rudy Giuliani was one, Sidney Powell, others who were basically saying that the Smartmatic software was actually being used by other companies to run other voting machines and that in fact the Smartmatic software was the evil potion that enabled them to do all these alleged alterations of the vote. So, is any of that true? Well, I don't know. I can't prove it. And, you know, anybody who opened their mouth in public and spoke of it is now being sued. You know, defamation law is a very good thing. People should be allowed to sue for defamation. I do think it's very odd to have foreign companies providing voting software to the United States of America and then being able to sue people into silence who legitimately raise questions about the integrity of those systems. I find that very strange and disturbing. But that's what's going on. You know, back in 2000, I remember very well, there was a dispute, started by, you know, Gore. Gore challenged the election result, famously, and for weeks and weeks and weeks, the world watched in astonishment and horror as the United States seemingly descended into a third world country unable to count its own votes. But no one at that time ever suggested that people should not be allowed to have an opinion or to speak? About whether they thought that Bush or Gore had won. That would have been unthinkable. Suddenly that's the case. Suddenly that's the situation we're in. But anyway, whatever that means. So this Lord Mark Malloch Brown was right in the middle of that, right in the middle of that storm, right in the eye of the storm. And let me just remind you that he was a long-time friend and collaborator of George Soros. In fact he lived next door to Soros in a house provided by Soros in upstate New York when Malloch Brown was working as a UN official. He was some sort of aid to Kofi Annan and he was basically put up by Soros. And they're very good friends. And they've collaborated on many regime change operations throughout the world, which is not the sort of thing every normal person gets involved in. But these two, for them, that's a big part of their lives and has been for decades. So strangely, you know, this same Malloch Brown ends up as the CEO of Smartmatic. And then as soon as that operation is finished, he's appointed by Soros to be the president of the Open Society Institute. And now he's disappeared from sight. And everyone's pointing to Alex Soros saying, Alex Soros is now going to take over for George Soros, and that's fine, but I've got my eye on Malloch Brown. I mean, I doubt very much whether Alex Soros is actually running it. In fact, I remember some years ago, Soros actually tried to pass on the baton to, at that time, I think all his sons, If I remember correctly, he was trying to... He was trying to turn over Soros Fund Management, which is his investment arm, to his sons, and then he all of a sudden reneged and took it back. And people said, I thought you were going to give this to your sons, why did you take it back? And Soros, here's an interesting father figure for you. He said, well, I discovered that my sons didn't have the talent to run it. And the interviewer said, what sort of talent do you mean? He said the talent for making money. Wow.  So without going into all the Freudian or psychoanalytic aspects of it, I mean, whatever else one can say about Mr. Soros' sons, I can't imagine they're big fans of their father. Can I just finish off on the book. In 2010, Glenn Beck did a series, Puppetmaster, that was based on the shadow party on your book. I know he was cancelled soon after on Fox. I don't know whether it was linked to that, but this was probably the first book to expose sources funding off of color revolutions which we've discussed. It's not something that people are supposed to discuss and then you produce this book by a large publisher which I always find intriguing. Maybe it would be different if you redid it today but that with Glenn Beck putting that in and bringing it with Glenn Beck's reach on Fox and then getting cancelled this obviously is something that you're not supposed to discuss. Yes, at that time, it was an extremely sensitive subject. I did not realize how sensitive it was until after I put my foot into the punji steak, so to speak. But I knew I was pushing it, and that's part of the reason why I invited my then employer, David Horowitz. I actually invited him to co-write the book with me, hoping that his name would not only help promote the book, and make people take it seriously, but I thought maybe it might afford some protection for me. And I think it did all of those things to some extent. I think it would have been much worse for me if I had tried to write the book myself, I think it was a wise thing to do. But nonetheless, I was punished quite severely by the powers that be for daring to write about that, because these color revolutions, these are intelligence operations, and especially at that time when people were not writing about it, when to write about such things and to do it with a co-author of the stature of David Horowitz, and then to appear on Glenn Beck reaching you know an audience of millions, a national audience on Fox News. If you're in the national security establishment, if you're somebody who's involved with these operations and you're trying to project a certain image of their innocence and spontaneity and then someone comes along and puts out a narrative that says, oh actually this guy George Soros is pulling the strings behind these things. Well, you know, we can see now how sensitive, a lot of these intelligence people are to anyone tampering with their narrative, you know, with all the recent hysteria over misinformation and disinformation. And so forth. Well, they didn't used to speak so publicly about it, still pretending, that they weren't involved in media, that is, the intelligence community. Now they've dropped that pretence. Back then, we still were allowed to have this illusion that we are a free press, and we can say what we want and all that, but clearly I was interfering with a very important intelligence narrative. And I was doing so almost uniquely, and certainly the size of the platform that I had accessed was, and getting on national TV and all the rest, it was a challenge to the, It was a challenge to the national security establishment, whatever you want to call them, to the security forces, if you will. It was a direct challenge to them, and I was a small target, nobody else was writing about this. So it was a simple matter to silence me. And I want to say, you know, we talk a lot today about cancellation, and you know, people being cancelled and un-personed. And it's important to understand, you know, nowadays we see Tucker publicly thrown out of Fox News and we think that's what it means to be cancelled or Matt Taibi kicked out of The Intercept. And so we have this illusion that to be cancelled means that you're publicly punished for doing something good and thrown out and then everyone rallies to your rescue and you're even bigger and better than before. And supposedly that's what it means to be cancelled. But those are not real cancellations. The way cancellation is really done, and the way it's been done traditionally, and the way it's done usually, especially in free societies like ours, is very quietly, behind the scenes, very insidiously, so that nobody even knows it happened. And that's all I'm going to say about that.  Well, that's perfect end. And let's again just leave the viewers the shadow party, how George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and 60s radicals seized control of the Democrat Party. It's available. I listened to it. You can get his hardback, paperback. It is a huge subject that is relevant today, if not more relevant than it was in 2006 when you wrote it. Richard, I appreciate your time. Thank you so much for coming along, sharing your thoughts on the book. Thank you.  Thank you, Peter.

Welcome to our upcoming show on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, airing at 4pm PST and 7pm EST. This week, we are thrilled to have Dr. Jody Armour as our guest. Dr. Jody David Armour is the Roy P. Crocker Professor of Law at the University of Southern California. A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, he studies the intersection of race, law, morality, psychology, politics, ordinary language philosophy, and the performing arts. His latest book, N*gga Theory: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law (Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020) looks at America's criminal justice system – among the deadliest and most racist in the world – through deeply interdisciplinary lenses. His latest free speech article is titled "Law, Language, and Politics," 22 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 1073 (2020). Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute's Center on Crime, Communities & Culture, and he is on the Board of Directors for LEAP (Law Enforcement Action Partnership), an international 501(c)(3) non-profit of police, prosecutors, judges, corrections officials, and other law enforcement officials advocating for criminal justice reform. We also bring you the voices of the Incarcerated, the narratives of the formerly incarcerated, and the unsung heroes out here doing good in the world that you may not always hear about.   

Pioneer of Drug Policy Reform, Ethan Nadelmann, sits down with Madison Margolin to discuss destigmatizing substances.In this episode Madison Margolin and Ethan Nadelmann ponder:Drug policy reformEthan Nadelmann's spiritual backgroundConnecting emotional and intellectual pursuitsOppression, stigmatization, and demonizationThe civil rights struggle of substance useThis podcast is sponsored by BetterHelp. Click to receive 10% off your first month with your own licensed professional therapist: betterhelp.com/beherenow“To some extent the drug users of today were like the jews or the witches or the gays, or any other despised and oppressed minority. That was the other element in which my consciousness crossed over and where I found a calling. – Ethan NadelmannAbout Ethan Nadelmann:Ethan is host of the weekly podcast,PSYCHOACTIVE, as well as founder and former executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA), the nation's leading drug policy reform organization. Described by Rolling Stone as “the point man” for drug policy reform efforts and “the real drug czar,” Ethan is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad.He was born in New York City, received his BA, MA, JD and PhD in Political Science at Harvard, taught at Princeton University (from 1987 to 1994) and then founded and directed first The Lindesmith Center (1994-2000) and then DPA (2000-2017). He also co-founded the Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development program. Ethan has authored two books on the internationalization of criminal law enforcement — Cops Across Borders and (with Peter Andreas) Policing The Globe — published extensively, and spoken publicly in roughly forty states and forty countries. His TED Talk on ending the drug war has over two million views, with translations into 28 languages.Ethan and his colleagues were at the forefront of dozens of successful campaigns to legalize marijuana, reduce the incarceration of drug law offenders, treat drug use and addiction as health, not criminal, issues, and otherwise promote alternatives to the war on drugs. He played a key role as drug policy advisor to George Soros and other prominent philanthropists as well as elected officials ranging from mayors, governors and state and federal legislators in the U.S. to presidents and cabinet ministers outside the United States.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Seminarium poświęcone prezentacji wyników badań prowadzonych przez zespół EUROREG UW w ramach grantu NCN „Terytorialne efekty polityk Unii Europejskiej w Polsce w ujęciu międzynarodowym”. Badania były prowadzone w kilku skalach przestrzennych – porównań europejskich, analiz – w tym modelowania – regionalnego, statystycznych analiz w skali powiatowej oraz ankiet gminnych wzbogaconych o 6 studiów przypadków. Wnioski dotyczą zarówno procesów różnicowania terytorialnego, jak i relacji efektów popytowych i podażowych oraz skutków rozwojowych, i „ogólnocywilizacyjnych”, powodowanych wykorzystaniem środków UE w Polsce. prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Gorzelak - profesor nauk ekonomicznych, specjalizujący się w problematyce rozwoju regionalnego i lokalnego. W latach 1996-2016 był dyrektorem Centrum Europejskich Studiów Regionalnych i Lokalnych (EUROREG) Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego. Jest twórcą i redaktorem naczelnym kwartalnika „Studia Regionalne i Lokalne”. Do roku 2017 był przewodniczącym zarządu stowarzyszenia Regional Studies Association – Sekcja Polska. Na jego dorobek składa się autorstwo i redakcja ponad 60 książek oraz ponad 260 artykułów i rozdziałów w książkach, w znacznej części opublikowanych za granicą. Współpracował z agendami rządowymi i samorządami lokalnymi i regionalnymi w Polsce i na Ukrainie oraz w wieloma instytucjami międzynarodowymi (m.in. Bank Światowy, Komisja Europejska, OECD, Open Society Institute). Był stypendystą Fulbrighta, profesorem wizytującym na University of Strathclyde, wykładał na kilku uniwersytetach zagranicznych. Koordynował wiele projektów badawczych, krajowych i międzynarodowych (w tym projekty ESPON), w latach 2012-2015 był kierownikiem projektu w ramach 7. Programu Ramowego nt. rozwoju nowych krajów członkowskich UE (GRINCOH). Obecnie - wraz zespołem EUROREG - prowadzi badania m.in. w ramach Programu HORIZON 2020 w międzynarodowym projekcie badawczym COHESIFY: The Impact of Cohesion Policy on EU Identification. Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/

Each year, the Open Society Institute selects a class of fellows, and funds their work with an disadvantaged group. How is this investment shaking out? We speak with Danielle Torain, the executive director of OSI-Baltimore, and Pamela King, the senior program manager for community fellowships. Meet the 2022 class of OSI-Baltimore Community Fellows. Plus: newly minted fellow, Jessica Smith, tells us about her project to break the stigma of mental illness in the faith community, the Mindful Ministries Collective. Learn about her other work, the Mental Health Emergency Fund.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why you smell pot everywhere you go now with the world leading drug czar Ethan Nadelmann Ethan A. Nadelmann is the founder of the Drug Policy Alliance, a New York City-based non-profit organization working to end the War on Drugs. Described by Rolling Stone as "the point man" for drug policy reform efforts and “the real drug czar,” Ethan Nadelmann is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad. He founded and directed first The Lindesmith Center (1994-2000) and then the Drug Policy Ethan was born in New York City and received his BA, JD, and PhD from Harvard, and a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. He then taught politics and public affairs at Princeton University from 1987 to 1994, where his speaking and writings on drug policy attracted international attention.  He authored two books on the internationalization of criminal law enforcement – Cops Across Borders and (with Peter Andreas) Policing The Globe – and his writings have appeared in most major media outlets in the U.S. as well as top academic journals (e.g., Science, International Organization), policy journals (Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Washington Quarterly, Public Interest) and political publications from the right (National Review) to the left (The Nation).   He is interviewed frequently by media around the world and has spoken publicly in roughly forty states and forty countries. His TED Talk on ending the drug war has over two million views, with translations into 28 languages.     Ethan co-founded the Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development (IHRD) program and has served on the advisory board of the Open Society Foundation's Global Drug Policy Project (GDPP) since its creation. He has played a key role as drug policy advisor to the Global Commission on Drug Policy and to George Soros and other prominent philanthropists as well as elected officials ranging from mayors, governors and state and federal legislators in the U.S. to presidents and cabinet ministers outside the U.S.

Democratic backsliding isn't limited to weak governments abroad.  Rachel Kleinfeld warns about the dangers facing American democracy, including the growing acceptance of intimidation and even political violence in some communities. Rachel Kleinfeld is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition.  Her work bridges comparative and U.S. democracies through her service on the National Task Force on Election Crises and as the former CEO of the Truman National Security Project.  As the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, she spent nearly a decade leading a movement of national security, political, and military leaders working to promote people and policies that strengthen security, stability, rights, and human dignity in America and around the world.  In 2011, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton appointed Kleinfeld to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advises the secretary of state quarterly, a role she served through 2014.  Kleinfeld has consulted on rule of law reform for the World Bank, the European Union, the OECD, the Open Society Institute, and other institutions, and has briefed multiple government agencies in the United States and abroad.  She is the author of “Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform,” which was chosen by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best foreign policy books of 2012.  She has also co-authored “Let There Be Light: Electrifying the Developing World with Markets and Distributed Generation.” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A lifelong animal lover, Natalie Keegan has created a life she loves by connecting her background in psychology with her passion for dogs. After witnessing firsthand, the difference that the love of a dog made in her son's life, Natalie decided to learn even more about dogs by becoming a dog trainer. Seeing the power to connect her professional work with children with her dog training skills, Natalie founded the Kids-4-K9s organization and was awarded a prestigious Open Society Institute fellowship to launch her program in schools.  Kids-4-K9s has a mission to teach compassion in everyday interactions between people and companion animals. If you have a high school-aged child in the Baltimore area, they can even learn from Natalie at the Kids-4-K9s Summer Camp at the Baltimore Humane Society. In addition to Kids-4-K9s, Natalie  also runs her own dog training business, My Creative K9, and volunteers at local animal shelters in the Baltimore area.  Natalie & her husband also welcome children into their home through Maryland's foster care system.  Find Links, Show Notes & Lots of Awesome Photos at: https://believeindogpodcast.com/episodes-1/episode44 Episode Sponsored By: Hugs & Belly Rubs Dog Health Journal: https://www.hugsandbellyrubs.com/doghealthjournal

This week we have part one in a dive on the man, myth, and legend. (G. Soros) I look at who he funds, and who he's linked with, and try to let the evidence speak for itself instead of making grandiose statements. Join me as i dare try, and crawl down that rabbit hole that so many seem to sidestep, or say the same old same without actually getting in the mud. . Don't forget to share, and thank you for taking the time to listen!   Cheers, and Blessings   Show Notes   Soros 60 Minutes
https://youtu.be/RS5a2sXL5Ic   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Society_and_Its_Enemies   I remained a socialist for several years, even after my rejection of Marxism; and if there could be such a thing as socialism combined with individual liberty, I would be a socialist still. For nothing could be better than living a modest, simple, and free life in an egalitarian society. It took some time before I recognized this as no more than a beautiful dream; that freedom is more important than equality; that the attempt to realize equality endangers freedom; and that, if freedom is lost, there will not even be equality among the unfree.
Karl R. Popper   George, & Johnathan CFR Members.
https://www.cfr.org/membership/roster   SOROS PLEDGES $100 MILLION IN CARLYLE FUND - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1993/12/08/soros-pledges-100-million-in-carlyle-fund/c679195a-cb3c-45fb-a5f2-4ba0cbf8a583/   Beck Says Ales Told Him, Play the game. Do not mention Soros!
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/09/19/glenn_beck_youre_not_allowed_to_mention_george_soros.html   ..he spearheaded the creation of the European Council on Foreign Relations..
George Soros: “I am proud of the enemies I have” – European Council on Foreign Relations   OSF Funding, and Alliances Open Society Chooses DGAP member 
Open Society Names Daniela Schwarzer as Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia - Open Society Foundations Open Society Funds Chatham House
Corporate members | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank Chatham House Is Partnered With Open Society For The Open Society University Network (OSUN) 
About OSUN Chatham House Academy Fellowships Open Society Funds Aspen Institute
Supporters - The Aspen Institute Atlantic Council Open Society Funds CNAS
CNAS Supporters | Center for a New American Security (en-US) Open Society Funds Scholarship At LSE
Establish a Forum for Civil Society Practitioners and Grassroots Community Advocates in Europe
Open Society Foundations (OSF) Open Society Hosts Meeting on NATO 
EU, NATO and the SCO: Towards Rules of Engagement? - Open Society Foundations Open Society Hosts Think Tank Strategies
Communication Strategies for Think Tanks - Open Society Foundations The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) in cooperation with the Open Society European Policy Institute (OSEPI
Voices on Values: How European Publics and Policy Actors Value an Open Society | DGAP Open Society Armenia
OSF Ford Foundation, & Open Society Team Up
Ford Foundation and Open Society Initiative for West Africa Launch New Fund to End Sexual Violence in West Africa / Ford Foundation Today the Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation, and Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support local organizations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in South Africa...
New $25 million fund for South African civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism / Ford Foundation Open Society, & UNICEF
Our partners | UNICEF Solar Radiation Management
Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative — General Support (2017) | Open Philanthropy in 2008, he donated approximately $750,000 to J Street, the American liberal Israel lobby.  https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/vice-media-250-million-debt-funding-george-soros-1203205076/ 
1994 On 17 November, Abromowitz's Carnegie Endowment publicly announces “a concerted effort to consider the launching of a new International Crisis Group” with three main functions: assessment, advice and advocacy. George Soros's Open Society Institute provides US$200,000 to finance continued planning activities.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/history George, & Alexander are on the Board of Directors  Open Society Director Lord Mark Malloch Brown is founder, & chairman emeritus 
https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board 
The International Crisis Group: Do Its Funders Control The World On Behalf Of American-and-allied Billionaires?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2104/S00096/the-international-crisis-group-do-its-funders-control-the-world-on-behalf-of-american-and-allied-billionaires.htm 
Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft   BLM
Patrisse Cullers(BLM) is the director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. This organization also receives funds from the Open Society Foundation.
One of these founders, Alicia Garza (BLM), runs an organization called the National Domestic Workers Alliance, on whose board sits Alta Starr. Starr oversees a fund at the Ford Foundation. She is also on the board of a foundation backed by billionaire George Soros, the
Open Society Foundation's Southern Initiative. A leaked document from an October 2015 board meeting of the Soros-funded US Programs/Open Society revealed that the organization provided $650,000 “to invest in technical assistance and support for the groups at the core of the burgeoning #BlackLivesMatter movement.” The document notes that the board planned to discuss the difficulty of dealing with a de-centralized movement: “What happens when you want to throw a lot of money at a moment[sic], but there isn't any place for it to go?” It was also raised that the Soros name could discredit Black Lives Matter if the public became aware of his financial support.
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Irna Hofman (Oxford) Malik Kadirov (Media Analyst, Tajikistan) Salimjon Aioubov (Director of RFE/RL's Tajik Service) round table discussion Malik Kadirov Abdumalik (Malik) started his professional career as an interpreter translator in Iraq (1978-1979) and later in Syria (1982-1987). From 1987 – 1990 he served as a journalist political analyst in Tajik State Television. Following the dismissal for his critical reports (1990) Malik joined the Democratic Party of Tajikistan and served for some time as a chairman of its Dushanbe branch. Abdumalik has spent several years investing in scientific research and development of the pharmaceutical product as a co-founder of Zand Ltd, a small Tajik pharmaceutical company. After the end of Tajikistan's civil war of 1992 – 1997 Malik joined the NGO sector as a volunteer for a local NGO, then served for several international NGOs and foundations such as Counterpart International and Open Society Institute. From 2001 – 2009 he served the US Embassy to Tajikistan as a grant manager with the overall portfolio of $700 K. From January 2011 – April 2016 Malik served as Country Director of the Tajik branch of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), a British NGO that supports journalists in the risky areas around the globe. From May 2016 until January 2021 Mr. Kadirov led an American media supporting non-profit organization Internews in Tajikistan as Country Director. Currently Malik is a Secretary General of the association of journalists Media – Alliance of Tajikistan. Malik is a member of the Union of Journalists of Tajikistan and a well – known political analyst who often provides comments on various in-country and regional sensitive socio-political topics to local, regional, and international media in Tajk, Russian, and English. Abdumalik was awarded with the US Embassy's Meritorious Honor Award for exceptional meritorious performance as a Grant Officer; European Congress of Tajik Journalists and Bloggers' Tajik Journalism Award-2020. Malik is married and is a father of four daughters. Salimjon Aioubov Salimjon Aioubov, Director of RFE/RL's Tajik Service based in Prague. Previously, he was Project Director for RFE/RL's Central Asian Newswire and the Editor-in-Chief of the first independent newspaper in Tajikistan “Charoghi Ruz”, author of several books, most recently, “A Hundred Colors: Tajiks in the 20th Century". Irna Hofman Dr Irna Hofman graduated from Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands, with a major in Environmental Sciences and minors in respectively Rural Development Sociology (B.Sc.) and Rural Sociology (M.Sc), and received her Ph.D. from Leiden University in January 2019. Her dissertation was titled “Cotton, control, and continuity in disguise: The political economy of agrarian transformation in lowland Tajikistan,” for which she conducted long-term fieldwork in rural Tajikistan. Irna has rich research experience in and on Central Asia. Before initiating her doctoral research on Tajikistan she studied the political economy of agrarian transformation in Uzbekistan, in her role as junior researcher at the Center for Development Research (Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF)), an institute of the University of Bonn.

Did you know Russia likely has more sleeper agents in America today than during the cold war? I was glad to welcome Filip Kovacevic on today's show to talk illegal KGB agents. Where are they? What is their goal? And what is life like for one of these agents? Bio: Filip Kovacevic is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Politics and International Studies. As a Montenegrin author, social justice activist, and geopolitical analyst, Prof. Kovacevic has lectured and taught across Europe, the Balkans, the former USSR, and the U.S., including two years at Smolny College, the first liberal arts college in Russia, operating under the auspices of St. Petersburg State University. He received fellowships from the Open Society Institute and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Prof. Kovacevic is a board member of the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE). Prof. Kovacevic specializes in Russian and Eurasian intelligence history and spy fiction and his current research includes the publications of Soviet and Russian intelligence authors and historians. He is also involved in the analytic study and translation of documents from the KGB archives. Blog: https://thechekistmonitor.blogspot.com/ Background: https://www.usfca.edu/faculty/filip-kovacevic Artwork by Phillip Thor - https://linktr.ee/Philipthor_art To watch the visuals with the trailer go to https://www.podcasttheway.com/trailers/ The Way Podcast - www.PodcastTheWay.com - Follow at Twitter / Instagram - @podcasttheway (Don't forget to Subscribe and Follow on streaming platforms and social media!) As always thank you Don Grant for the Intro and Outro. Check out his podcast - https://threeinterestingthings.captivate.fm Intro guitar melody copied from Aiden Ayers at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UiB9FMOP5s *The views demonstrated in this show are strictly those of The Way Podcast/Radio Show*

Una conversación sobre mujeres y ciencia en Colombia para que entre todos promovamos una nueva ética de la vida que nos ayude a pasar de la violencia del prejuicio a la comprensión y de la descalificación a la conversación argumentada. ¿Qué pierde la ciencia si de manera evidente o cifrada, e incluso cortés, invalida a las mujeres que la hacen? Un episodio de Ciencia en Bicicleta programado por el Museo de Ciencias Parque Explora con el apoyo de la Secretaría de las Mujeres de Medellín. Invitadas: Juanita León (moderadora): Fundadora y directora de La Silla Vacía, uno de los portales informativos más visitados del país. Abogada de la Universidad de los Andes, con maestría en Periodismo de la Universidad de Columbia.Trabajó en The Wall Street Journal Americas en Nueva York, El Tiempo y Semana. Después de un año en Harvard como Nieman fellow dirigió el lanzamiento de la revista Flypmedia.com en Nueva York. Con un capital semilla del Open Society Institute volvió al país y fundó La Silla Vacía. Es autora de los libros ¨No somos machos pero somos muchos, 5 crónicas de resistencia civil¨ y ¨País de plomo, crónicas de guerra¨. Verónica Botero: Primera y actual decana de la Facultad de Minas de @Unalmed. Ingeniera Civil de la Universidad EAFIT en Medellín, Colombia, con doctorado en Ciencias de la Universidad de Utrecht, Holanda y maestría en Cartografía Geológica del International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, en Enschede, Holanda. Ha participado en múltiples proyectos de investigación en temas de geoinformación para planificación urbana y rural, especialmente de recursos hídricos y gestión de riesgos en zonas continentales y costeras. Catalina López: Directora científica de @Genomecanada. Doctora en Biología Molecular de la Universidad de Lovaina, magíster en Genética Humana de la U. París VI y médica cirujana de la UPB. Fue vicepresidenta científica de Genoma Quebec y CSO de Genoma BC. Su trabajo se ha orientado al estudio de la genómica en diversas áreas (salud, biotecnología) incluyendo tecnologías como la citogenética, bioinformática, secuenciación y ecosistemas de innovación. Rosana Arizmendi: Coordinadora programa Conexión Jaguar (ISA). Doctora en Ecología, con maestría en Ciencias del mar, oceanografía y gestión del medio marino de la Universidad de Barcelona. Con formación en Ciencias Ambientales en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Ha sido profesora universitaria, investigadora, divulgadora de las ciencias en medios nacionales e internacionales. Coordinó el área Cultura ambiental de la Universidad EAFIT y de Educación Terciaria de Comfama.

This Fresh Take interview featured Jamie McDonald, CEO of UpSurge Baltimore. JB and Jamie discuss Upsurge's ‘Equitech' framework, which anchors its work in a belief that diversity of teams, leadership, and perspectives are a force multiplier for tech company growth. They will also discuss the broader need for equity and inclusivity to power innovation ecosystems across the Capital Region.Hosted by JB Holston.  Produced by Jenna Klym, Justin Matheson-Turner, Christian Rodriguez, and Nina Sharma. Edited by Christian Rodriguez. Learn from leaders doing the work across the Capital Region and beyond. These conversations will showcase innovation, as well as history and culture across our region, to bridge the gap between how we got here and where we are going.About our guest:Jamie Mcdonald is the CEO of UpSurge Baltimore. She is an experienced entrepreneur, movement builder, and speaker. Prior to joining UpSurge, she was an advisor to global entrepreneurs, social innovators, and impact-focused executives. She's been deeply involved in work on behalf of Baltimore throughout her career.Jamie has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the White House Social Innovation Blog, NTEN, The Baltimore Sun and many others. She is featured in the recently released book, Women Make Great Leaders, by bestselling author, Jill Griffin.Jamie places a high priority on civic engagement.  She has been a longtime Board member of the Center for Urban Families.  She was the founding Chair of Light City, an international festival of innovation and light, that attracted more than 470,000 people in 2017.  She continues as Chair of the Labs@LightCity, one of the country's largest and most unique urban innovation conferences. She also serves on the boards of Open Society Institute, Impact Hub Baltimore, Venture for America, Johns Hopkins Social Innovation Lab, and #MarylandGivesMore. She has previously served on the boards of The Leadership, the Family Tree, Live! Baltimore, The Fund for Educational Excellence, and the Police Athletic League (PAL), among others.  She is a past co-chair of the Tocqueville Campaign ($10,000 gifts) for the United Way of Central Maryland and sat on the national board of the Keewaydin Foundation. Jamie was named Maryland Innovator of the Year in 2012.  She is a graduate of the 1997 class of the Greater Baltimore Committee's Leadership program.  She was named one of Baltimore Business Journal's “40 under 40.” She received the SiloBreaker award from Betamore in 2016. She received the Downtown Partnership's award for impact on Baltimore in 2016. She received the William Donald Schaefer award for the City of Baltimore in 2017. She was recognized as an Activist to Watch in 2017.Jamie McDonald attended Cornell University for graduate school, focusing on International Development in a joint program between the College of Human Ecology and the Johnson Graduate School of Management.  She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Philadelphia University.

Dr. Hayes interviews Dr. Breitbart on his research addressing psychiatric, psychological and existential adjustment as well as symptom control in advanced cancer.   TRANSCRIPT SPEAKER: The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content, and offering enriching insights into the world of cancer care. You can find all of their shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. We have a special treat today in our podcast series in that I have the opportunity to interview Dr. William Breitbart. Dr. Breitbart is the Jimmie Holland Chair of Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering and the Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College. And as far as I can see, Dr. Breitbart, you've never left New York City. But I will get the background. And you can tell us if you took a vacation or something one time outside the city. Dr. Breitbart grew up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. He went to Brooklyn College, graduated in 1973, then medical school at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. And then he did his residency in internal medicine at the Bronx Hospital and trained basically at Memorial Sloan Kettering. Joined the faculty there, and has been on the faculty ever since. He has a number of accomplishments, too many for me to really review it carefully. But he's been president of the International Psycho-Oncology Society and received their Sutherland Lifetime Achievement Award. He's been president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine and received their Hackett Lifetime Achievement Award. And on a personal basis, my brother was also the president of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. So I'm very proud of my brother and equally proud of Dr. Breitbart. He really is responsible for a number of enormous steps forward in our field, including psychotherapeutic approaches for palliative care of patients with terminal illnesses, especially cancer. He has been involved with what I saw you call, Dr. Breitbart, "hastened to death." I had learned it as assisted suicide. I'm going to ask you a question about that. I'm interested in your comments. And more recently, meaning-centered psychotherapy for the terminally ill And we'll talk more about that, too. So in addition, I have asked Dr. Breitbart if he would also give us insights into Dr. Jimmie Holland's life and her career. Sadly, she passed away before we had an opportunity to chat with her. She was one of my favorite people in the whole world. And I think everybody that knew here said the same thing. So we'll get some insights for those of you who didn't know Dr. Holland from this call as well. Before we start, Dr. Breitbart wants to declare that he's received honoraria from Novartis and has a consulting or advisory role with Novartis. Dr. Breitbart, welcome to our program today. WILLIAM BREITBART: Thank you Dr. Hayes, pleasure to be here. Can I make just one slight correction? I actually trained in both internal medicine and psychiatry at the Bronx Municipal Hospital, which is the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation's Public Hospital. So I trained in both psychiatry and internal medicine, jumping back and forth between the two, out of a state of confusion. And then I landed in Dr. Holland's fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering for a variety of reasons. The main reason was though that I had developed a thyroid cancer when I was a medical resident in the middle of my training. And then I went back to finish up more of my psychiatry residency training, I became the liaison to the Oncology Clinic at Jacobi Hospital, the Bronx Municipal Hospital. I did consultations for cancer patients. I ran groups for cancer patients and also ran groups for the oncologists and oncology nurses. And I was trying to educate myself on the subject of psycho-oncology or psychiatric oncology. It actually hadn't been named yet in those days. And the only literature I could find were papers written in oncology journals by Dr. Julie Holland. And so that's where I knew where I needed to go to become more expert in this area. That's the most superficial version of how I ended up at Memorial Sloan Kettering. I could tell you the more interesting version if you're interested. DANIEL HAYES: Well, actually, what you just covered was my first question. I was going to say this is about you, not about me. But my brother also did training in internal medicine and decided to go in psychiatry, and ended up in psychiatry liaison. And I think that's what makes you two, and others like you, powerful, is that if you go to France and you don't speak French, you're not going to be listened to. And if you come to a bunch of oncologists, and you don't speak internal medicine or oncology, we're not going to listen to you. And I think clearly to me, Jimmie Holland always knew what I did. And I think you have the same strength. I'd love to hear how you actually got involved with her. Yes. Please begin. WILLIAM BREITBART: I agree with you actually about that comment. It's very helpful to have had the training in both medicine and psychiatry. And, in fact, we've trained a few fellows who've done oncology fellowships and then done our-- and a psychiatry residency and then done our psycho-oncology fellowship as well. But the real story of how I ended up in this field starts in childhood, where a lot of stories start. But my parents were both Holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe, from Poland in particular. When the war broke out, my mother was 14 years old and my father was 17 years old. And my father's family were all killed. But he ended up surviving, hiding in the woods. And he became-- Polish forest-- and he became part of a partisan fighter group, lived in the Polish forest. And one day he went looking for food and broke into this farmhouse. And as it turned out, my mother and her parents were being hidden by a Catholic woman, who hid them in a hole underneath the stove in her barn. And my father broke into this farmhouse and discovered my mother and my maternal grandparents. It turned out they were related. They were second cousins. My father said, you can't stay here. It's not safe. You should come into the woods with me and 150 other people. My grandparents were too afraid to go. But they let my mother go. So at the tender age of 14 and 17, my parents were hiding in the Polish forest, where they lived for about three years, hiding from the Nazis, and then Ukrainians, and all sorts of people who were interested in killing Jews. And they finally, after the war, crossed over to Germany. They actually found my grandparents alive. And they crossed over the border to Germany, went into this displaced persons' camp outside of Munich and got married there. And then came to the Lower East Side in late 1949, early 1950. And I was born several years later. And I grew up in this home on the Lower East Side, as you pointed out. And I grew up in a home where the Holocaust also lived. I lived in this home where the Holocaust was in every room-- didn't have a room of its own. It was in all the rooms, on all the walls-- and all the pictures that had been saved of my family, that had perished, on all the religious articles that might have been saved, et cetera. So I grew up in this environment where I understood at a very early age, maybe four or five years old, that death and suffering were very real. And that we all lived in this space between life and death. My mother would ask me every morning-- when she gave me breakfast, she would ask me the question, why am I here? And the full question really was, why am I here and everyone else is dead? Basically, what evolved out of this was the transmission of this responsibility or I guess a burden-- for me, it was an inspiration-- for me to accomplish something of such significance and impact-- in the world of suffering in particular-- in the arena of people who suffer in the face of death. And it's going to be up to me to achieve something of such significance that my parents would be able to-- my mother would be able to turn around and say, well you see we had to survive because if I hadn't survived, there wouldn't be Bill Breitbart in the world. [LAUGHTER] So that was the mission. That was the burden. That was the inspiration. And I wasn't fully cognizant of it. But I was traveling this journey-- this route that took me through college, and loving science and poetry, ending up in medical school, thinking I'd be a psychiatrist, but then falling in love with medicine. Loving both psychiatry and medicine. What I realized what fascinated-- what fascinated me was how a human being can live a mortal, finite life. How do you-- as a person who develops a life-threatening illness, how do you continue to live? How do you have the strength, the courage, to keep on living? And what gives you purpose and meaning? And so I got myself to Sloan Kettering by reading the work of Dr. Jimmie Holland and Dr. Massie. And I found myself at Memorial. I put myself in a place, with a mentor-- a group of mentors-- a place where I would breathe the same air of my patients, who were breathing the air of a human being confronting death, confronting the real prospect death being closer than-- closer than it was farther away. So that's how I ended up at Memorial. That's the real story. And I went to Sloan Kettering to do a fellowship, just to become a good clinician. I wanted to be a clinician. I never had the expectation of being a clinical researcher or an academician. I never had the ambition or aspiration to be an academic, a teacher, an advocate; never thought to be a professor of anything. I never thought I'd write books, or scientific articles, or become president of organizations, et cetera. All that happened because of my exposure to Jimmie. And my interest in research ended up being a result of one conversation that I had as a fellow. Dr. Holland, who was supposed to be my supervisor-- she's deceased now-- she was my inpatient supervisor-- my outpatient, inpatient supervisor. So we made rounds one day, which was very rare. But we made rounds one day. And I was the liaison. I was very fortunate enough to be the liaison to the Neuro-Oncology Unit and to the Pain Service at Memorial, which were both within the Department of Neurology. When Dr. Holland was recruited to Memorial Sloan Kettering in 1977, it was by the chair of the Department of Neurology, Dr. Jerome Posner-- Jerry Posner-- who recruited both Jimmie to be the Chief of the Psychiatry Service and he recruited Kathy Foley to be the Chief of the Pain Service. So I basically held on to these two meteoroids. Jimmie Holland and Kathy Foley, those are the two people who helped-- helped pull me along the road. So on the Neuro-Oncology Unit, I had done a consult on patient with brain tumors, on high-dose steroids. And he had a severe psychosis. And I asked Dr. Holland, why is it that these patients on steroids develop these neuropsychiatric syndromes? They develop depressions. And they can get delirious, and psychotic, and manic. And this was the advice that my mentor gave me-- Dr. Holland gave me-- which turned me into a scientist. And her response was, well, gee, Bill-- in her Texas twang-- well, gee, Bill, I really don't know. I really don't know. I guess you'll just have to go figure that one out yourself. [LAUGHTER] And that's what I ended up doing. I then pursued figuring it out myself. And that's what I did for the next 30 years, trying to figure out clinical problems-- when the AIDS epidemic exploded. My first research study was to study looking at patients with epidural spinal cord compression, those who had high grade versus lower grade compression. One group got high-dose steroids, the other didn't. And I did a comparison study of psychiatric syndromes in both populations. I was at Memorial when the AIDS epidemic exploded. And so I started to do studies of delirium. I did the first double-blind randomized controlled trial of neuroleptics for the treatment of delirium in the AIDS population because they all got demented and delirious. I did the first studies of pain in HIV. I did the first studies of desire for hastened death in patients with advanced AIDS and in patients with advanced cancer. And then I started to do a lot more work in inflammation and depression in pancreatic cancer patients. And eventually, everything kind of culminated. As I evolved from being a psychiatric oncologist to a psychiatric oncologist and palliative care clinician, that kind of bridged the two worlds of psychopharmacology and palliative care. And I started really looking at issues of desire for hastened death and the loss of meaning. And then developed interventions for meaning, which we call meaning-centered psychotherapy, which has been a real advance I think in our field. DANIEL HAYES: You must have been Dr. Holland's first trainee at Memorial. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, her story-- basically, she was this young country girl in Nevada, Texas. She grew up on a farm, a cotton farm apparently. She was most influenced by the country doctor who would visit when people were ill. And when he passed away, he gave her a set of medical books, which inspired her. And she told her family, I think I want to be a doctor. And they said, well, gee, that sounds unreasonable, Jimmie. But whatever you feel like doing, go ahead. She ended up going to Baylor. And I think she was one of only three women in medical school class at Baylor. She started her residency I think at Baylor as well. And then eventually, she got married. Her first husband died tragically. I believe it was a suicide, which I think got interested in psychiatry. She ended up, I think, doing her residency at-- finishing her residency at MGH, along with Tom Hackett, people like that. And somewhere along that route, that's where she met James Holland. So James and Jimmie were, as you say, a power couple. James told me that Jimmie was his secret weapon, his secret power. But Jimmie told me the exact same thing about James. I think they fed off each other in terms of creativity and ideas. So when James moved to Roswell Park, I guess, Jimmie started a special clinic. And she called it "special" because nobody would come to a psychiatry clinic. But they would come to a place that was special because it made them feel special. And I guess it was around that time that James started collaborators-- CALGB. On the drive to work one day, Jimmie said, you ask patients every kind of question, like how many bowel movement does he have? You're very invasive in your questions. But you never ask them how they feel. And so she insisted that James do something about that. And so in order I guess to not get nagged on the car ride every day, he started a quality of life committee in CALGB. And Jimmie chaired that for quite a while. Eventually, I think James went to Mount Sinai. And Jimmie came along. And she worked at Albert Einstein-- College Hospital-- at Boston College of Medicine. And she was there with actually a bunch of pioneers of psychosomatic medicine. There was a guy named Herb Weiner, and Sig Ackerman, and Jim Strain, and Myron Hofer. These are very important names in our field of psychosomatic medicine. Jerry Posner at Memorial, Department of Neurology, was looking to bring psychiatry into-- consultative service to Sloan Kettering. And Jimmie often says they couldn't get Ned Cassem from MGH. So they picked her in second tier. And in 1977, she came there, along with a resident who graduated from Einstein, Mary Jane Massem. And the two of them had an office, with a card table-- as she described-- and a stack of index cards with the patients on them. And they set about starting a consult service. So in '77, she was the chief of the psychiatry service. And then about '78 or '9, a clinical fellowship was established. The NIMH had an initiative at that point to develop consultation liaisons, psychosomatic medicine fellowships around the country. And so she benefited from that initiative, and started a fellowship. That continued through '78 or so. And there are a couple of classes of fellows before me. I came to do the fellowship 1984 to '86. And it was during my fellowship, I think, that Jimmie and a woman named Julia Rowland, a psychologist, who's at the Smith Center now-- but was around the NCI's survivorship program for a long time. DANIEL HAYES: I actually worked with Julia at Georgetown for five years. WILLIAM BREITBART: At Georgetown, exactly. So she and Julia wrote the first-- edited the first textbook of psycho-oncology. It was called the Handbook of Psychooncology. And that's the first time I think the term "psychooncology" was used. I think it might have been 19-- late 1980s. It might have been 1989 or so that book came out. And the term psychooncology was not hyphenated at that point. There was no hyphen between the two O's. Jimmie asked me to write about six chapters. I knew a lot about delirium. I wrote that chapter. I knew a lot about suicide and cancer, which was an early interest of mine. And I knew a lot about neuropsychiatric issues and AIDS. But I didn't know very much about neuroendocrine phenomena that caused neuropsychiatric syndromes or the psychiatric aspects of head and neck cancer. I said to Jimmie, I don't know anything about these subjects, Jimmie. Do you think I'm the person to write this chapter? And she said to me, well, Bill, there are no experts in the world in this field. [LAUGHTER] So after you write the chapter, you will be the expert. So that was the philosophy. And so as a mentor, I would basically say the greatest thing about her as a mentor was that she gave you the confidence that you could achieve whatever you wanted-- whatever you were driven to achieve. She had that faith in you. The idea was that the only person who really had to believe in what you were doing was you. And if it was important to you to find the answer to that question, that you would be able to do it. She had a knack for finding people who were very driven, who joined this mission. It was really a mission. It was a calling to provide the human side of cancer care, to provide whole person care, to take care of the person who had cancer while they were going through all the cancer treatments. And the combination therapies that James Holland had come up with. DANIEL HAYES: Two stories about Jim, who I had more association than with Jimmie. Although Jimmie told me the thing she tell you, which is you got to figure out what you want to do. And then you'll be great at it, because I wasn't sure. But with Jim Holland, two things. I was the very young guy in a field to be. And I was named chair one of the committees. And he was sitting in the back. And I was talking about, well, we need a statistical plan, and that sort of thing. And in the back of the room, as only he could do without a microphone, "Well, Hayes, if you need a statistician, it's probably not worth doing." And other is, I once asked him, between you and Dr. Frye, who was my boss, Dr. Frye White-- the three guys, who actually came up with the idea of combinational therapy? And I might as well have let a fuse to a bomb because he was-- "Well, I did. I was there before they did. They came in. They were in the minority." And he sent me the protocol. That was David. So to be sure I understood that he had written it before those guys got there. He was quite a character. And I have to say, your comments about Jimmie, and being married to Jim, were like oil and water. It's unbelievable to me that they actually had a very loving, long-term relationship. She had five children with him, who are all accomplished in their own right. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yes, they are. DANIEL HAYES: And they just they just managed to make it work because he could be hard to deal with. But everybody loved him because of it. WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. I think the secret ingredient there is dedication. They were both people of great dedication and commitment. And they were committed to two things. They were committed to the work they did. And they were committed to each other and their family. And so I think that was the secret-- the secret ingredient. DANIEL HAYES: There are a number of things in your own career that struck me as I was going through it. That one of my own interests would be your work with hastened death. And again, I actually wrote a little sort of term paper kind of thing on this. And it was called assisted suicide. And I think we're talking about the same thing. Talk more about that, and what you've been involved with, and where you think that's going. WILLIAM BREITBART: Right. Well, my interest in that all started during the AIDS crisis, the AIDS epidemic, in the mid-'80s to mid-'90s or so. And I was right in the thick of it, in Manhattan, in New York City. And Sloan Kettering had a large population of AIDS patients, because of their interest in Kaposi's sarcoma and lymphomas. And they ended up taking care of a lot of patients. And I saw a lot of patients. And I was that age-- I was often the age of the patients-- many of the patients who I was treating. It was very difficult work, but very inspiring work. You really felt like you were doing important work, obviously. And because of many of the patients were younger men, men in their 30s, who I could relate to in many ways-- like you, I'm sure there are many patients that you treat. There are some that you feel closer to, you identify a lot more with, right. And these were-- that was the case here. And at the time, I was treating patients with AIDS. And there was no treat-- there was no therapy at all. And people were dying very difficult deaths. And I had many, many patients who asked me if I could help them die, if I could assist them in the suicide, could I prescribe their medicine, could I somehow hasten their death? And so for me, it was a clinical problem. What do I do? How do I understand this? What drives this desire to hasten your death? I knew it came out of a sense of despair. I knew it came out of a distress and a sense of despair. But at the time that this was happening, clinically there was also a big debate in our society about legalization of assisted suicide. And, in fact, I think that was the Supreme Court case of Vacco versus Quill, which was also being adjudicated at that time. And states, like Oregon, were starting to have a referendum about whether to legalize these things. So I thought, does one create policies based on popular opinion, or whatever, or a public opinion? Or do you create policies by understanding of the problem and that's informed by research? So I thought I needed to understand this. If I was going to be helpful as a psychiatrist, in this kind of a setting. And it came up occasionally with cancer patients, too. But it was just so dramatic. And it confronted me for the first time, mainly during the AIDS crisis. I felt I needed to understand it more, so that I could know how to be helpful or useful. Was I going to be able to eliminate the suffering? Or was my only option to eliminate the sufferer? And so we set about doing a set of studies, both in terminally ill AIDS patients and terminally ill cancer patients. And I actually developed and validated a scale that measured desire for hastened death. It's called the Schedule of Attitudes towards Hastened Death. Up until that point, people didn't really have a way of measuring it. They just asked the patient, yes or no, do you have-- or they might qualify it on a 0 to 4 scale or something. And so what was really interesting-- and one of my early fellows, my first fellow, the first surgeon attending from oncology, Chasnoff, who went back to Canada-- Winnipeg. And he starts to do a study. He did studies around the same time. But he didn't have a validated measure. But we ended up finding very similar things. As it turned out, about 40%-- 45% of folks who had high desire for hastened death, had a depression. About 17% of patients that had cancer-- we'll stick to the cancer data. About 17% of cancer patients have a high desire for phase. These are patients with advanced cancer, in a palliative care unit, or a hospice, whatever. And about 45% of those patients have a depression that was undiagnosed, untreated. The other factors that seem to contribute to desire for hastened death were things like lack of social support, uncontrolled pain, and severe physical debilitation. So I said, well, we can treat pain. We can increase social support. I gave a presentation one day at-- Kathy Foley had worked with George Soros and the Open Society Institute, to develop something called Project on Death in America. And I gave a talk to the board of the Project on Death in America. I was in the class of the first faculty scholars of Project on Death in America. It included a lot of people who are at the forefront of palliative care these days. But I gave a talk on this, on patient death. And one of the ethicists in the room, a famous ethicist, asked me, well, what happens to desire for hastened death if you treat the depression? And before answering that question, I said to myself, make a mental note. That's your next ROI grant, Bill. And so what I did after that, is I wrote several grants and did two studies looking at what treating depression in patients with high desire for hastened death. And I did both in AIDS and cancer patients, terminal cancer patients, two different studies. As it turns out, if you treat-- if someone who has high desire for hastened death and they have a depression, and you treat the depression, 90% of those patients, when their depression remits, the desire for hastened death remits. But there was still this segment of population of advanced cancer patients, were not depressed, did not have uncontrolled pain, or lack of social support. There were about a 40%-- 35%, 40% of the group, I didn't have the element, the factor that contributed to this desire for hastened death. So I figured there's something there that I haven't found. So we went back and did further studies. And we looked at other variables, like anxiety, hopelessness, loss of meaning. And what we discovered was that hope of hopelessness and loss of meaning were independent and synergistic factors that contributed to the desire for hastened death, and made up an additional 30% of the so-called variance. So between depression and hopelessness, independent of depression, and loss of meaning independent of depression, you could account for about 85%, 90% of the reasons why patients wanted to desire for hastened death. Based on my research and the research of others, there's still about a 10% group who are probably not in great despair. But the issue for them is, I live my life in a pretty authentic way. I've been able to control how I live my life. I should be able to. And I want to control the circumstances of my death. And they're not impaired by depression or anything like that. But when we had the findings of hopelessness and loss of meaning, I said to myself, OK, now I've got to find an intervention for loss of meaning and hopelessness. And I was looking for a drug. I went through every page of the PDR. And there was no drug for loss of meaning or loss of hope. So I had to turn to psychotherapy. Our CL psychiatrist-- you know, psychosomatic medicine psychiatrists, we like to give drugs. If there's a drug solution, we've got it. I'm your guy. So I had to force myself to turn towards psychotherapy rather later in my career, after doing all of these stimulant trials for fatigue and things like that, and other pharmacological trials for pain-- neuropathic pain, et cetera, delirium trials. There I was, starting to figure out what kind of psychotherapy can I develop to help enhance sense of meaning and hope? And that's when I turned to, ironically, a Holocaust survivor named Victor Frankl-- and turned to the work of Victor Frank, who wrote the book, Man's Search for Meaning. His big idea was that meaning is a primary motivating force for human behavior, similar to the idea of libido, and instinctual drive, and things like that. He thought meeting was another important drive. "Better" instinctual, he called it. And he thought that there were predictable sources of meaning that one could tap into. And so we basically developed-- just sat down in a room with a couple of my fellows. And we hacked out a seven-- or at the beginning, it was group intervention. So it was an eight-session intervention. And then we developed an individual format, seven sessions. And we basically developed this brief, structured psychotherapy that involved teaching patients the importance of meaning, both didactically and experientially; teaching them the various sources of meaning; and relating it to their cancer experience and living with cancer. And the whole purpose was to be able to get through cancer, and even facing death, by sustaining a sense of meaning for as long as you possibly could. And that's what we called meaning-centered psychotherapy. I ended up doing four randomized-- NIH-funded, randomized controlled trials of both individual and a group format. And now we have a-- we're in the seventh year of an R25 training grant. We're training a national and international cohort of clinicians to provide meaningful psychotherapy in the manuals and textbooks that are published. DANIEL HAYES: I'd like to segue this-- WILLIAM BREITBART: [INAUDIBLE], I designated it as a evidence-based intervention for palliative care. DANIEL HAYES: Well, I'd like to segue, that as you were talking, most of people listening to this are probably medical oncologists. And my impression is, we don't get a lot of this training that you're talking about. And the people you're training, they're probably a psychiatrist, not a medical oncologist. How have you translated that over to our world? WILLIAM BREITBART: Now, so actually the people we're training-- a few psychiatrists, not too many. We train psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, oncology nurse practitioners, oncology nurses, oncologists, chaplains, palliative care docs. We're expanding the training. And it's quite simple. And it's actually-- but we're working with a group to develop this into a digital app. It might be able to be prescribed by oncologists so that you don't even need a therapist. DANIEL HAYES: Are you in the weeds with the medical oncologists at Memorial, at Sloan. I mean, do you make rounds with them and help train them? WILLIAM BREITBART: Yeah. Jimmie started out with one psychiatrist. By the time the Psychiatry Service became a department in 1996, I think there were 12 psychiatrists and psychologists. And as of last count, I think we have 43 faculty, 25 psychiatrists and the rest psychologists, and around 200 staff, including research staff, and research faculty, and psychiatry services. So I took over as chief when Jimmie became the first chair in the Behavioral Sciences Service. And we had a cancer disparities in the Immigrant Health Service. So it's grown quite a bit. And all of us, we work in a sort of a disease management embedded model. So I originally was the psychiatrist for the Neuropsychology and Pain Service, and moved to the hepato-pancreato-biliary disease management team. But all of my psychiatrists and psychologists are embedded in the Breast Center, and in the GI group, hepato-pancreato-biliary groups, and hepato-neck, and thoracic, and all that. So we're all interacting there. DANIEL HAYES: How do you translate that outside of Memorial in New York? I mean, most oncologists don't have access to those kinds of resources. And you've got to have thought about that. WILLIAM BREITBART: About 1996, the National Cancer Center Network, the NCCN, got established and started developing guidelines. And so they asked Jimmie to head up of their guidelines for distress. And I was part of that group, and still am. And what came out of that was screening for distress, using a distress screening tool. DANIEL HAYES: The distress thermometer-- the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: The distress thermometer, that's exactly right. And that came out of the pain work. The pain guys had the 0 to 10 scale. We didn't want to rip them off too badly. So we didn't want to do the 0 to 10 visual analog scale. So we had to come up with a different metaphor. So we called it "pain throughout." So the Distress Screening Commission on Cancer, I think, accredits cancer centers through either the Academy of Surgery-- Surgical Oncology or something like that. They mandated that for a cancer center to get accredited, you have to have a distress screening program. And if you have a distress screening program, then you have to have people who respond to these algorithms that get developed for people who they identify with high distress. So as a result of that one move, that one move of establishing distress stress as the sixth vital sign, which was Jimmie's idea, and developing distress screening, you now have-- every designated NCI-designated cancer center has to have a psychology program of some sort. Now, a lot of them aren't as big as ours. Some of them basically involve a half-time psychiatrist, a chaplain, a psych nurse practitioner, and a couple of social workers. But every cancer center has psycho-oncology present in it now as a result of that. DANIEL HAYES: I was having dinner one time with Jim and Jimmie. And she said, you two know the blood pressure, the temperature, the weight, pulse. But you have no idea, she said, how they feel. So it wasn't the last time she asked Jim on that question. And I went, what do you mean? She goes, you need a distress thermometer. She'd already published it. Of course, I didn't know that-- and pulled it out of her purse. And so she had to show the distress thermometer. WILLIAM BREITBART: That's correct. That's correct. That's correct. One of the big problems is when Jimmie started-- and you can attest to this-- that in the beginnings of oncology, it wasn't always the case that patients were told exactly what they had. Cancer was very stigmatized. The only thing that's more stigmatized than an illness like cancer is mental health, right. God forbid, you should have a problem with depression, or coping, or panic, or something. DANIEL HAYES: It's a sign of weakness. WILLIAM BREITBART: A weakness, moral weakness. Actually, we've come a long way in terms of truth telling and being transparent. And my patients now know exactly all the genetic mutations of about the tumor and stuff like that. They know everything. And they even know how their tumor is-- mutations are evolving and changing over time. But cancer was-- the idea of needing psychosocial counseling-- psychiatric help, psychological help, it was very stigmatized. So even the word "distress" was chosen out of a concern to not stigmatize patients. DANIEL HAYES: I will tell you that when-- I was at the Dana Farber. And there was a push for the Dana Farber to develop its own hospice program. And Dr. Frye, who was physician-in-chief, absolutely drew a line, and said no way because that means we've given up on those patients. We're not going to have a hospice program at Dana Farber because we don't want patients to think they're coming here to die. And I remember thinking that some of them do. And it would be very helpful if we had a way to help them figure it out. And I have to say, in preparing for this podcast, I've read several your papers. And thought, God, I wish you'd been at the Dana Farber when I was there. Or I wish I'd been at Memorial to get to work with you. But you can see I'm kind of tying things up here. Because I could listen to you for hours,but But we only have 20 or 30 minutes. And this has been terrific. WILLIAM BREITBART: I appreciate the opportunity. DANIEL HAYES: I'm sure our listeners will say, maybe-- I wonder how we can get him to come speak to our program. But I already wrote down here, we're going to invite you to Michigan. WILLIAM BREITBART: Well, in this era of Zoom-- in this era of Zoom, I'm a very cheap date because all you have to do is just connect me by Zoom. You don't have to pay for the air fare or anything. I go everywhere. DANIEL HAYES: I want to thank you for lots of reasons. One is for filling our listeners in-- many of them are young-- about who Dr. Holland was and what she did. Because we all owe her an enormous debt of gratitude for the contributions she made-- and you personally, as well. So thank you for taking your time to speak with us. And we really appreciate it. And I hope our paths cross again in the near future. Thanks a lot. WILLIAM BREITBART: Absolutely. Thank you so much. It was my pleasure. Appreciate it. [MUSIC PLAYING] DANIEL HAYES: Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or a review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories-- The Art of Oncology podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. You can find all the shows at podcast.asco.org. [MUSIC PLAYING]

Join TNS Host Steve Heilig in conversation with “the point man” for drug policy reform efforts, Ethan Nadelmann. They'll talk about a wide range of drug policy issues, concerning both illegal and legal substances, what has worked and what has failed, and where to go from here. Ethan Nadelmann Described by Rolling Stone as “the point man” for drug policy reform efforts and “the real drug czar,” Ethan Nadelmann was long widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad. Ethan began his advocacy in the late 1980s while teaching at Princeton; he then founded first The Lindesmith Center and then the Drug Policy Alliance, the world's leading drug policy reform organization, which he directed until 2017. He also co-founded the Open Society Institute's International Harm Reduction Development program. Ethan has authored two books on the internationalization of criminal law enforcement (Cops Across Borders and, with Peter Andreas, Policing The Globe), and spoken publicly in roughly forty states and forty countries. His TED Talk on ending the drug war has over two million views. Ethan and his colleagues were at the forefront of dozens of successful campaigns to legalize marijuana, reduce the incarceration of drug law offenders, treat drug use and addiction as health, not criminal, issues, and otherwise promote alternatives to punitive prohibitionist policies. He recently started a podcast about all things drugs called PSYCHOACTIVE. And he has become increasingly engaged in the debate over tobacco harm reduction. Host Steve Heilig Steve is a longtime senior research associate with Commonweal, a co-founding director of the Commonweal Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a host of dialogues for the New School, and in other programs originating at or founded at Commonweal. Trained at five University of California campuses in public health, medical ethics, addiction medicine, economics, environmental sciences, and other disciplines, his other work includes positions at the San Francisco Medical Society, California Pacific Medical Center, and as co-editor of the Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. He has served on many nonprofit boards and appointed commissions, and is a trained hospice worker. He is a widely published essayist and book and music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, Huffington Post, and many other publications.

My next guest is Ava Pipitone. Ava is an entrepreneur, adviser, and futurist. They assemble teams and design infrastructure to operationalize emergent intelligence, as our world integrates millions of new minds via technology. Currently a general partner with Permanence Capital and CEO of Suyana Technologies; following a life in public policy and government technology. Their expertise in business design, inner technology, and social equity has established them as a speaker, investor, and public intellectual throughout the Open Society Institute, Summit Series, TEDx, and other private ecosystems. *We talked about:* ** * Their purpose - building that infrastructure for emergent consciousness to stabilize on our planet. * Their mental model of honoring their purpose and making them fully alive and ecstatic * The importance of having someone doing exactly what they want to do and doing it in such a way that feels resonant * The importance of having mentors to affirm their decisions and the path they are on * Their autodidactic, following of their joy, finding their center and finding out a way to stabilize that. * The importance of cultivating the feeling of ecstasis and how that sense of playful contribution is what most people yearn for * How the heart is a quantum computer and the mind is a linear computer and listening to the expansiveness of the heart allows for constructive decisions * We discussed the latest inner technologies she found to productize our wetware and train our body to calibrate our nervous system for healthy interaction, with larger data sets. * Lastly, we talked about her spiritual disciplines to induce neuroplasticity and within the right container heal trauma. Please enjoy my conversation with Ava Pipitone, the CEO of Suyana Technologies.

Carolyn Drake (Vallejo, CA), grew up in Maryland and studied Media/Culture and History at Brown University. Following her graduation in 1994, Drake moved to New York where she worked as an interactive designer for many years before departing to engage with the physical world through photography. She worked on projects in Turkey, Ukraine, and Central Asia for many years before moving back to the US in 2013. Drake’s work seeks to interrogate dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them. Her practice embraces collaboration and has in recent years melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She has published four books: Two Rivers (2013), Wild Pigeon (2014), Internat (2017), and most recently Knit Club (2020), which was shortlisted for the Paris Photo / Aperture Book of the Year and Lucie Photo Book Awards. Her latest work, Isolation Therapy, is currently on view in SFMOMA’s show Close to Home: Creativity in Crisis. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim fellowship, the Anamorphosis book prize, the Peter S Reed Foundation, Lightwork, the Lange Taylor Prize, and a Fulbright fellowship and is in the collections of SFMOMA, Kadist, the Open Society Institute, and the Library of Congress. She is also a member of Magnum Photos. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/opencurtain/support

Freedom of choice lies at the heart of American society. Every day, individuals decide what to eat, which doctors to see, who to connect with online, and where to educate their children. Yet, many Americans don’t realize that these choices are illusory at best. By the start of the 21st century, every major industrial sector in the global economy was controlled by no more than five transnational corporations, and in about a third of these sectors, a single company accounted for more than 40 percent of global sales. So, why does this matter? Public health expert Dr. Nicholas Freudenberg believes it matters a great deal. In his book At What Cost: Modern Capitalism and the Future of Health, he confronts how globalization, financial speculation, monopolies, and control of science and technology have led to free consumer choice being all but gone, and with it, the personal protections guarding our collective health. He joined us in conversation with global food culture expert Mark Bittman to argue that the world created by 21st-century capitalism is simply not fit to solve our most serious public health problems, from climate change to opioid addiction. With an incisive investigation and impeccably detailed research, Dr. Freudenberg looked toward a better future, arming ordinary citizens with the knowledge of our current state of being—and insight for what we can do to ensure a healthier collective future. Nicholas Freudenberg, DrPH, MPH, is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, and Founder of Corporations and Health Watch, a website that monitors the impact of corporations on health. He is the author or co-author of five other books and more than 100 scientific articles. His work has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Open Society Institute. Mark Bittman has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. His first cookbook was Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, and he has since written or co-written thirty others, including the How to Cook Everything series. His writing has been seen in The New York Times and The New York Times Magazine, and he was a Today show regular, as well as appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NPR’s All Things Considered, among others. He has hosted or been featured in four television series, including Years of Living Dangerously on Showtime and On the Road Again with Gwyneth Paltrow. Buy the Books: https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9780190078621  https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9781328974624  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation click here. 

Today we meet two Open Society Institute fellows working to make Baltimore healthier and safer in 2021.  Troy Staton is leveraging the trust between barbers and clients, and creating a network of hair salons that will bring health care screenings and other resources to their neighborhoods. And attorney EV Yost is recruiting L-G-B-T-Q volunteers to staff a hotline and mobile team to respond when members of the queer community experience a crisis. This interview originally aired on January 27, 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Open Society Institute tackles many inequities for Baltimore City residents -- from making fresh food available or healthcare accessible ... to housing rights and more. Each year its community fellows bring game-changing ideas. We hear from two —James Henderson helps young people in the city find paths toward college and entrepreneurship:“Education and owning businesses is the cornerstone of creating generational wealth.” And Bree Jones creates homebuyer collectives to transform abandoned neighborhoods, a whole city block at a time:“They want to live in historically Black spaces as a means of social justice and as a means of wealth building.Links: Parity Homes, College Tours and Entrepreneurship, Capital Campaign/College Tours and Entrepreneurship. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We meet two Open Society Institute fellows working to make Baltimore healthier and safer in 2021. Troy Staton is leveraging the trust between barbers and clients, and creating a network of hair salons that will bring health care screenings and other resources to their neighborhoods. And attorney E.V. Yost is recruiting LGBTQ volunteers to staff a hotline and mobile team to respond when members of the queer community experience a crisis. Find this project on Twitter at @qcru_baltimore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Behind the Deep State, host Alex Newman explains how the Deep State's money men loot the public, then stash their dishonest gains in “tax-exempt” foundations to wage war on America. Alex goes through the Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller foundations, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Foundations, George Soros' Open Society Institute, and more. Congress has investigated these shady schemes and what they found will blow your mind. Norman Dodd, who served as chief investigator for the Congressional Select Committee investigating the foundations, said their goal was to merge the United States with the Soviet Union. They must be stopped! ▶️ More Videos: Swamp Monsters in the Bureaucracy  https://youtu.be/bcvP3pDmsgc Deep State Insider Spills the Beans! https://youtu.be/gwMmPwwA8RM What Would WWIII do to America? https://youtu.be/izJ_CLYBwr4

100 – Ukraine Welcome Topics - Ukraine – A history lesson 866-988-8311 info@republickeeper.com Ukraine Ukraine was once Keivan Rus and it was the most powerful state in Europe Why is the location so strategic and the opportunity for corruption so great. There has always been struggle over Ukraine. To control it or to maintain control even when briefly independent. Odessa in the South is like Portland Or. In the West - Kiev is like Everett WA or call North Seattle, Vancouver Canada is the northern border. In the Midwest – Fargo is Odessa, Northern border is Winnipeg East Coasters – Odessa is Montreal, Quebec City is Kiev and then go north for a couple of hundred km to Belarus Gained independence in 1991 Officially Neutral – 1994 – Partnered with NATO In 2004 they had the “Orange Revolution” Yanukovych then PM, was declared winner of the Presidential elections. The elections were rigged, as determined by their supreme court The opposition guy was poisoned with dioxin, probably by Russia. So we stirred the pot – From Wikipedia “Activists of the Orange Revolution were funded and trained in tactics of political organisation and nonviolent resistance by Western pollsters[clarification needed] and professional consultants[who?] who were partly funded by Western government and non-government agencies but received most of their funding from domestic sources.[nb 1][155] According to The Guardian, the foreign donors included the U.S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute.[156]” Yanokovych kicked out be re-elected in 2010 Monopolies are dangerous but they existed in a number of arenas, media, energy, rail, etc. After In 2013 Yanukovich decided to suspend the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement and seek closer economic ties with Russia, a several-months-long wave of demonstrations and protests known as the Euromaidan began, which later escalated into the 2014 Ukrainian revolution that led to the overthrow of Yanukovych and the establishment of a new government. These events formed the background for the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, and the War in Donbass in April 2014. Just recently - June 24th, 2020 Yanukovych was charged with treason along with his defense minister for using the military on behalf of Russia instead of Ukraine. It’s the same folks who trained these guys who trained the PKK and the KPG we were talking about, they pulled down the statue of Lenin. 12/9 - Monday - LENIN CLIP 12/11 – Wednesday - UKRAINE POLICE PULL OUT 12/11- Nuland - Food 12/13/2013 Friday – Nuland While Ukrainian riot police have reportedly left Kiev's Independence Square, one of the United States' top diplomats says she has told President Viktor Yanukovych that "what happened last night, what has been happening in security terms here, is absolutely impermissible in a European state, in a democratic state." Nuland was in Kiev on Wednesday. She reported that she "spent more than two hours with President Yanukovych. It was a tough conversation, but it was a realistic one. I made it absolutely clear to him that what happened last night, what has been happening in security terms here, is absolutely impermissible in a European state, in a democratic state." But, Nuland added, "we also made clear that we believe there is a way out for Ukraine, that it is still possible to save Ukraine's European future and that is what we want to see the president lead. But that is going to require immediate security steps and getting back into a conversation with Europe and with the International Monetary Fund, and bringing justice and dignity to the people of Ukraine. I have no doubt after our meeting that President Yanukovych knows what he needs to do. The whole world is watching. We want to see a better future for Ukraine." https://www.publicradiotulsa.org/post/world-watching-us-diplomat-tells-ukraine 12/16/2013 – Monday – Senator McCain Audio 12/25/2013 - Anti-government journalist Tetyana Chornovol beaten up in Ukraine 1/15/2014 – Wednesday NULAND Nuland – European Future Nuland – Integrity of the process Sometime in Q1 – Victor Pinchuks company hires Norm Coleman, former MN senator at Hogan & Hartson for $230 – it was the 1st lobbyist in a decade. Continues through now, same firm, different lobbyist. Coleman – was a lib. Bit part of anti war movement, sit ins, etc, 1993 - I am a lifelong Democrat. Some accuse me of being the fiscal conservative in this race—I plead guilty! I'm not afraid to be tight with your tax dollars. Yet, my fiscal conservatism does not mean I am any less progressive in my Democratic ideals. From Bobby Kennedy to George McGovern to Warren Spannaus to Hubert Humphrey to Walter Mondale—my commitment to the great values of our party has remained solid. In 1996 he chaired Paul Wellstone’s re-election campaign. Pivoted to the RNC in Dec 1996. In 2010 he was considered for RNC Chairman. In 2011 he joins the firm and So FF and here’s Normy, now lobbyist for them and Saudi Arabia,   1/24 Friday Protest Riots Spread across Ukraine 1/28/2014 -Tuesday - Parliament votes to annul protest law and President Yanukovych accepts resignation of PM and cabinet 1/29/2014 – Wednesday - Parliament passes amnesty law for detained protesters, under the condition occupied buildings are vacated 2/4/2014 – Tuesday NULAND – PYATT CALL LEAKS 2/6/2014 - Thursday 'This is what you cook for Ukraine?' State Dept Psaki grilled over leaked tape 2/7/2014 – Friday – Fiona Hill Feb 28 2014 – Friday – Russian Troops invade Crimea – CNN Report – Features Chuck Hagel Support request Pray Subscribe & Share Donate

Jimmie Briggs is a documentary storyteller, writer and advocate for racial and gender equity. A member of the New York City Mayor’s Gender Equity Commission, he is also an adjunct professor in social change journalism at the International Center of Photography in New York. He was a co-founder of Man Up Campaign, a globally-focused organisation to activate youth to stop violence against women and girls. This led to his selection as the winner of the 2010 GQ Magazine “Better Men Better World” search, and as one of the Women’s eNews ‘21 Leaders for the 21st Century’. Jimmie has served as an adjunct professor of investigative journalism at the New School for Social Research, and was a George A Miller Visiting Professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies at the University of Illinois: Champaign-Urbana. Jimmie is a National Magazine Award finalist and recipient of honors from the Open Society Institute, National Association of Black Journalists and the Carter Center for Mental Health Journalism. His 2005 book Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War took readers into the lives of war-affected children around the world. His next book project is an oral history of Ferguson, Missouri in the wake of Michael Brown’s death in 2014. Currently, he works as a Principal for the Skoll Foundation and connects with Lou Diamond to have a much needed conversation. *** CONNECT TO LOU DIAMOND: www.loudiamond.net SUBSCRIBE TO THRIVE LOUD: www.thriveloud.com/podcast    

With the world literally at a standstill, now more than ever it’s important to check in with our friends and community. How are you coping in these unprecedented times? Need a little pick me up? A real-talk session? We got you! Join Risikat “Kat” Okedeyi and her special guests as they talk through ups and downs of quarantine life, the little joys, the real-world observations, and the tips that keep them on track throughout it all. Featured Guest: Toni Blackman, a highly respected artist, and social entrepreneur is the first Hip Hop artist selected to work as a cultural ambassador with the US Department of State. She is currently an artist with the Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute and a fellow in the Echoing Green Foundation’s Thought Leadership Cohort. Creator of Freestyle Union Cipher Workshop and Rhyme Like A Girl, for which she was awarded a prestigious Open Society Institute fellowship (Soros Foundation), Toni is one of the world’s foremost HipHop activists. Follow Toni on IG/Twitter: @ToniBlackman FB: ToniBlackman4 and MissBlackman1. Donations can be made via CashApp: $MissBlackman VENMO: Toni-Blackman PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/ToniBlackman --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/katskorner/message

When Kweisi Mfume resigned from Congress in 1996, a four-term Maryland Delegate named Elijah Cummings won a crowded special primary and special election to complete Mfume’s term. Cummings, who went on to become one of the most respected leaders in the Democratic Party, died in October. Last night, Mfume won a crowded special primary to succeed Cummings in MD’s 7th District. He will face-off in a special general election against first-time Republican candidate Kimberly Klacik, an occasional commentator on Fox News from Middle River. She has promised to move to the district if she is elected. Joining Tom with analysis of the election is WBAL-TV’s lead investigative reporter, Jayne Miller. In other election news: The Open Society Institute is holding a Mayoral Forum tonight at 7pm at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History and Culture. It is sponsored by the Open Society Institute, and 24 of the 32 candidates running for Mayor of Baltimore are set to attend. Tom Hall will serve as moderator of that event with Lisa Snowden McCray of the Baltimore Beat and the Real News Network. Click here for more information.

We hear from two Open Society Institute community fellows on a mission to restore dignity to those living in or returning home from prison. Kanav Kathuria will work with local farmers to add fresh fruits and vegetables to the menu at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women. And Elysha Aseltine, who teaches criminal justice at Towson University, will establish a center to support students with criminal records as they pursue their education.

Neighborhood food pantries in Park Heights allow families to take what they need. A composting effort in south Baltimore turns food scraps into rich garden soil. Today, two Open Society Institute fellows share fresh ideas to improve city life. Mariah Pratt Bonkowski founded “Pantries of Peace” to remove obstacles that make typical food pantries hard to access. And Marvin Hayes, founder of the “Baltimore Compost Collective,” describes how composting can create jobs, clean the air, and make food more secure.

Some of the most powerful support comes from peers who have survived the same challenges. We meet two Open Society Institute fellows whose service grows from their personal experience. First, Janet Glover Kerkvliet tells us how she came to lead the ‘Baltimore Job Hunters Support Group.’ It offers emotional counseling and practical training to older job seekers. Then Damien Haussling describes his project to help people who were homeless ... find the furnishings they need to make their new house ... a home.

Open Society Institute’s Baltimore field office works to improve city life by offering start-up funding to social entrepreneurs. We get a behind the scenes view of how OSI community fellows are selected with Pamela King, who oversees the program, and 2016 fellow Gianna Rodriguez, who heads Baltimore Youth Arts. Then, we kick off our profiles of this year’s fellows with Alphonso Mayo. He was working as a football coach when he saw the gap a mentor could fill. Mayo’s project - Mentors Mentoring - will bring middle, high school, and college students together to build a chain of mentoring.

This video cast topic is an update on the roots of mass incarceration and the Broken Justice system. Slavery I know that our viewers understand that the first enslaved people were sold in Jamestown, in 1619. This started centuries of oppression of people at the margins. And you know that America and the White House were built by slaves. And that white Americans profited from forced Black labor. Jim Crow In 1865, slavery ended, but oppression did not. Enter the so called “Jim Crow” era which effectively legalized segregation in all aspects of American life, for the next 100 years and brought terror against Black people, intended to maintain the status quo. It wasn’t until the 1960s, with the passage of the Voting Rights and Fair Housing acts that the Jim Crow era officially ended. In the housing boom of the 1950s, as white America began building wealth in the suburbs, Black people, were deliberately and systematically shut out, a method called “redlining”.While the law made redlining illegal, racism in the mortgage industry didn’t go away. Similarly, the end of slavery didn’t stop former slaveholders from thinking of Black people as slaves. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, but left a loophole known as “except as punishment for crime.” States throughout the former Confederacy immediately began drafting laws guaranteed to lead to the arrest of Black people. The roots of today’s mass incarceration are in those laws. There’s a direct line from slavery to the fact that the average Black family has only 10 % for every dollar held by the average white family. And, while blacks are only 13% of the overall population, they make up 40% of the prison population Slavery’s impact is felt every single day by African Americans. The results of a national research by the Open Society Institute,, say that most Americans believe the country’s criminal justice system comprises an ineffective, purely punitive approach to crime. Mass Incarceration Americans want to attack the causes of crime rather than the symptoms; A shift has primarily come in the attitudes of those groups that traditionally favored a punitive approach to criminal justice. (remember the War on Drugs?).Today, a solid majority of every demographic group—including men, whites, and people with less than a college degree—support an approach dealing with the causes of crime. Budget Shortfalls and Prison Spending 42 of the 50 states are running budget deficits. Given a choice of six budget areas that could be reduced to help states balance the budget, the public places spending on prisons at the top of their list, tied with transportation. Americans would take the budget ax to prisons much more quickly than to childcare for working families, security against terrorism, education and job training, or healthcare. Hispanics and blue-collar workers are among the strongest supporters of cutbacks in prison spending The War on Drugs Many nonviolent offenders are receiving prison sentences that are counterproductive and unduly harsh. Americans describe drug abuse as a medical problem that should be handled mainly through counseling and treatment. According to the research, Americans believe that today’s prisons are no more than "warehouses," providing little or no rehabilitation or reentry programs, that instead simply store criminals for a period of time and then dump them back on the street, no different than when they were first incarcerated. Changing Views on Mandatory Sentencing The public has now turned against previously popular mandatory sentences, such as "three strikes" provisions. Prevention is Nation’s #1 Criminal Justice Goal Americans see prevention as the most important function of the criminal justice system, and also the function that is most sorely lacking. Several groups rank after-school activities ahead of values education as the best way to prevent crime. The preventive measure perceived to be most effective at reducing crime is character education—teaching young pe...

This video cast topic is an update on the roots of mass incarceration and the Broken Justice system. Slavery I know that our viewers understand that the first enslaved people were sold in Jamestown, in 1619. This started centuries of oppression of people at the margins. And you know that America and the White House were built by slaves. And that white Americans profited from forced Black labor. Jim Crow In 1865, slavery ended, but oppression did not. Enter the so called “Jim Crow” era which effectively legalized segregation in all aspects of American life, for the next 100 years and brought terror against Black people, intended to maintain the status quo. It wasn’t until the 1960s, with the passage of the Voting Rights and Fair Housing acts that the Jim Crow era officially ended. In the housing boom of the 1950s, as white America began building wealth in the suburbs, Black people, were deliberately and systematically shut out, a method called “redlining”.While the law made redlining illegal, racism in the mortgage industry didn’t go away. Similarly, the end of slavery didn’t stop former slaveholders from thinking of Black people as slaves. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery, but left a loophole known as “except as punishment for crime.” States throughout the former Confederacy immediately began drafting laws guaranteed to lead to the arrest of Black people. The roots of today’s mass incarceration are in those laws. There’s a direct line from slavery to the fact that the average Black family has only 10 % for every dollar held by the average white family. And, while blacks are only 13% of the overall population, they make up 40% of the prison population Slavery’s impact is felt every single day by African Americans. The results of a national research by the Open Society Institute,, say that most Americans believe the country’s criminal justice system comprises an ineffective, purely punitive approach to crime. Mass Incarceration Americans want to attack the causes of crime rather than the symptoms; A shift has primarily come in the attitudes of those groups that traditionally favored a punitive approach to criminal justice. (remember the War on Drugs?).Today, a solid majority of every demographic group—including men, whites, and people with less than a college degree—support an approach dealing with the causes of crime. Budget Shortfalls and Prison Spending 42 of the 50 states are running budget deficits. Given a choice of six budget areas that could be reduced to help states balance the budget, the public places spending on prisons at the top of their list, tied with transportation. Americans would take the budget ax to prisons much more quickly than to childcare for working families, security against terrorism, education and job training, or healthcare. Hispanics and blue-collar workers are among the strongest supporters of cutbacks in prison spending The War on Drugs Many nonviolent offenders are receiving prison sentences that are counterproductive and unduly harsh. Americans describe drug abuse as a medical problem that should be handled mainly through counseling and treatment. According to the research, Americans believe that today’s prisons are no more than "warehouses," providing little or no rehabilitation or reentry programs, that instead simply store criminals for a period of time and then dump them back on the street, no different than when they were first incarcerated. Changing Views on Mandatory Sentencing The public has now turned against previously popular mandatory sentences, such as "three strikes" provisions. Prevention is Nation’s #1 Criminal Justice Goal Americans see prevention as the most important function of the criminal justice system, and also the function that is most sorely lacking. Several groups rank after-school activities ahead of values education as the best way to prevent crime. The preventive measure perceived to be most effective at reducing crime is character education—teaching young pe...

BENJAMIN LAGERSTROM-IRISH, candidate for U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic 2017, American writer and producer speaks to corrupt Democrats pushing a socialist / communist agenda while undermining U.S. embassies for the purpose of monetizing crime for personal enrichment. Lagerstrom-Irish names names! Moreover, hear how Dr. Fiona Hill, celebrated by Democrats following her testimony at the impeachment hearings, was actually a member of hard core, Leftist Progressive, George Soros's Open Society Institute, also the Brookings Institute and admitted to having worked with Christopher Steele, author of the "dossier" commissioned by Fusion GPS and paid for by the Clinton Foundation and the Democratic National Committee deep state actors.

In this Global Thought Podcast episode, host Vishakha N. Desai, Vice Chair of the Committee on Global Thought interviews Kian Tajbakhsh ,a professor of Urban Planning and Urban Studies at Columbia University, Senior Program Manager at Columbia Global Centers and Development, and Fellow of Committee on Global Thought. Tajbakhsh describes his experience of returning to Iran and dissects competing paradigms of understanding world order. Tajbakhsh discusses his features published this summer in the New York Review of Books telling the story of how his work on the Open Society Institute in Iran led to his interrogation and imprisonment in Iran, his subsequent trial and place in the negotiations with the US-Iranian Nuclear Deal, and this intersection of his personal and professional life as they relate to geopolitics and world order. He contemplates whether there could be a convergence internationally of universal norms or values, or if there are other ways to frame the world such as multipolarity, binary, or parallel universes.

Dr. Robert A Williams Jr. (Lumbee Nation), is the E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Chair of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program. Professor Williams received his B.A. from Loyola College (1977) and his J.D. from Harvard Law School (1980). He was named the first Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (2003-2004), having previously served there as Bennet Boskey Distinguished Visiting Lecturer of Law. He is the author of The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: The Discourses of Conquest (1990), which received the Gustavus Meyers Human Rights Center Award as one of the outstanding books published in 1990 on the subject of prejudice in the United States. He has also written Linking Arms Together: American Indian Treaty Visions of Law and Peace, 1600-1800 (1997) and Like a Loaded Weapon: The Rehnquist Court, Indian Rights and the Legal History of Racism in America (2005). He is co-author of Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed., with David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Matthew Fletcher, 2011). His latest book is Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization (Palgrave Macmillan 2012). The 2006 recipient of the University of Arizona Koffler Prize for Outstanding Accomplishments in Public Service, Professor Williams has received major grants and awards from the Soros Senior Justice Fellowship Program of the Open Society Institute, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the National Institute of Justice. He has been interviewed by Bill Moyers and quoted on the front page of the New York Times. He has represented tribal groups and members before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Peoples, the United States Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Williams served as Chief Justice for the Court of Appeals, Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation, and as Justice for the Court of Appeals and trial judge pro tem for the Tohono O'odham Nation. He was named one of 2011's "Heroes on the Hill" by Indian Country Today for his human rights advocacy work as Lead Counsel for the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group of Canada before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He lives and works in Tucson, Arizona. https://law.arizona.edu/robert-williams-jr Tonight's broadcast is from a 2013 presentation on why the United States initially voted against the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION & AMERICAN LEGAL PRACTICE An Open Dialogue between David Robb and Maya Wiley Many Americans are experiencing a growing concern for the present and future of our democracy, as we witness the continuing unprecedented assaults by our President and his administration on several pillars of our democratic traditions. These include freedom of the press, separation of and mutual respect among the three major decision-making powers of government, long-standing legal traditions and precedents, and the integrity of our entire legal system and its institutions. Join us and a distinguished guest for a deeper inquiry into what is happening now and its probable long-term consequences for American democracy and its influence in the world. Maya Wiley currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Social Justice and the Henry Cohen Professor of Public and Urban Policy at The New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment. Maya is also a Legal Analyst for NBC News and MSNBC and a frequent contributor to leading news outlets including Time Magazine, The Guardian, and Essence.com. Before joining the faculty and administration of the New School, in 2014 she served as Chair of the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board, an independent agency for oversight of the New York Police Department, and as Counsel to New York City Mayor, Bill deBlasio. A long time activist on behalf of racial justice and equity, Ms. Wiley has been a litigator and lobbyist, and was the founder and former President of the Center for Social Inclusion, a policy strategy organization that developed programs to transform structural racism in the United States and South Africa. She has also worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Open Society Institute. She also served as the Mayor's liaison to the Mayor's Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. Ms. Wiley holds a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and a B.A in psychology from Dartmouth College.

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Arien Mack and Kian Tajbakhsh.  Mack is a professor of psychology at the New School. She founded the New University in Exile Consortium, described as an expanding group of universities and colleges publicly committed to the belief that academic community has both the responsibility and capacity to assist persecuted and endangered scholars everywhere and to protect the intellectual capital that is jeopardized when universities and scholars are under assault.One of those scholars in exile is Kian Tajbakhsh, professor of urban planning at Columbia University. He has taught at both American and Iranian institutions. Tajbakhsh's academic research spans theoretical and policy projects related to the culture of urbanism as well as the governance of cities and metropolitan regions. In 2007 he was one of more than 100 people charged with fomenting the post-June 12 election unrest in a mass show trial before a revolutionary court in Tehran. He was convicted, up to 15 years. He served nearly five years and was released on the implementation day of the Iranian Nuclear Accord.

Hip hop artist and writer Toni Blackman talks about living without regrets, overcoming fear, and connecting with others through music, meditation, and rhyme. Summary: Today’s podcast features Toni Blackman, who shares some highlights from her career, lessons she’s learned, and how fear, self-confidence, and living without regrets has shaped her life choices and artistic path. She jumps right in by talking about fear, a major obstacle to overcome for any artist, and how it has shown up in her life and music. “This whole belief that you're supposed to be fearless, that stops a lot of people. But there’s a lot that we can get done and complete while fear is still here,” she says. Overcoming that fear, and living her life without regret, is one of Toni’s strongest motivators. As a freshman in college she heard a speaker talking about how no one wants turn 50 years old, and wonder what would be different had they taken “what if” chances throughout their lives. “It resonated with me so deeply that so much of what I do comes from, ‘I’m going to do this ‘cause part of me wants to do it, and instead of overthinking myself out of doing it, I’m just going to do it,’” she says. Toni also shares how, if her circumstances had been just a little different, she might not have become an artist. Although most of her family members were accomplished athletes, Toni suffered from asthma and allergies, and at times couldn’t even go outside. Since she couldn’t play sports, she began writing poetry instead. With the help of her aunt, who was an English teacher and published author, Toni self-published her first poetry book at the tender age of 8. “It gave me an identity,” she says. “My aunt gave me the gift of writing. She put a pen in my hand.” Toni is known for her self-confidence and fearlessness, but she says that wasn’t always the case. In fact, she was shy as a child until she began dancing regularly. And although she projected self-confidence, it wasn’t until she had to push herself through a challenging Speech and Debate tournament in college that she finally began to connect with her self-confidence on a deeper level. Since then, she’s made it a career goal to help other people connect with their authentic confidence through workshops, practices, and other activities. She and Mauren also discuss the upcoming release and inspiration behind Toni’s “Hip Hop meditations,” a project that has its roots in work that Toni was doing in the early 90s, but has finally come to fruition in her “Meditation Mixtape Series,” soon to be released through Independent Ear and the Brooklyn Sound Lab. Toni offers advice to other creative women, saying that while it is important to do your inner work and heal your hurts, waiting until you’re “done” to start seriously creating is a mistake. “Perfectionism is just a form of fear. Needing anything to be perfect is a form of fear… it’s a disguise for fear,” she says. “For women it’s really important to do what you’re supposed to do. Part of that is committing to healing your wounds so you can enjoy it when it’s completed.” About our guest: Toni Blackman, a highly respected artist and social entrepreneur, is the first Hip Hop artist selected to work as a Cultural Ambassador with the US Department of State. This visionary artist leads freestyle masterclasses, rap cyphers, has developed innovative approaches to using the cypher as a concept for community building, leadership development, and healing, and is on the working committee for Harry Belafonte’s Sankofa.org. She is also the creator of Freestyle Union Cypher Workshop and Rhyme Like A Girl, for which she was awarded a prestigious Open Society Institute fellowship. Website https://www.toniblackmanpresents.com Links

In this episode of the Science Salon Podcast, Michael Shermer speaks with Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition. As the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, she spent nearly a decade leading a movement of national security, political, and military leaders working to promote people and policies that strengthen security, stability, rights, and human dignity in America and around the world. In 2011, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton appointed Kleinfeld to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advises the secretary of state quarterly, a role she served through 2014. Dr. Kleinfeld has consulted on rule of law reform for the World Bank, the European Union, the OECD, the Open Society Institute, and other institutions, and has briefed multiple government agencies in the United States and abroad. She is the author of Advancing the Rule of Law Abroad: Next Generation Reform (Carnegie, 2012), which was chosen by Foreign Affairs magazine as one of the best foreign policy books of 2012. Named one of the top 40 Under 40 Political Leaders in America by Time magazine in 2010, Kleinfeld has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and other national television, radio, and print media. Her new book is A Savage Order: How the World’s Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security. In this conversation we discuss her new book, specifically: What it says about human nature that people so easily turn to violence when there is not central authority. What she learned about law and order growing up in libertarian Alaska, and how she got interested in studying violence in failed states around the world. Why studying history and reading the classics (like Thucydides) was the best preparation she had for her job. Lessons from The Godfather on what happens when governments become corrupt—strong men promising security and protection from corruption rise up. Pace the Godfather, what happened in the Republic of Georgia after the fall of the Soviet Union, and why violence spiked and then declined. Why dictators like Saddam Hussein do not actually keep violence down in their countries because state-sponsored violence goes unrecorded. Her experiences living and working in Russia and other countries undergoing turmoil. Putin and Russian today and what they want. Columbia as a model of a failed state and what the U.S. did there to help turn things around. How the Wild West of the United States was tamed. Why violence is higher in the Southern United States, and why lynching and other hate crimes were driven more by political power and expediency than by racial hatred (data shows that such crimes peaked before elections). How the 21st century is so different from the 20th century’s battle of “isms”: communism, socialism, Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, liberalism, individualism, idealism, humanism, etc. We’re living in a different world today. We’re about to colonize Mars and establish a new society there. What parts of government should we take with us there, and what parts should we leave behind? That is, what have we learned over the millennia in terms of good vs. bad governance. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud. This remote Science Salon was recorded on January 4, 2019.  

Open Society Institute’s Baltimore field office works to improve city life by offering start-up funding to a group of social entrepreneurs--a new cohort of community fellows every year for the past twenty years. We hear about their legacy and future. Then, we kick off our profiles of the 2018 crop of OSI community fellows with Eric Fishel, whose project aims to help neighborhoods connect with nature by developing greenspace and tracking local birds:

Filmmaker Bashi Rose talks about his groundbreaking films. Dial 347.884.8997 to ask a question!   Bashi's artist profile Bashi Rose, founder of Nommo Theatre/film, is a theatre artist and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and was nurtured, inspired and trained in is his craft by the Baltimore arts community. His works have been produced in numerous venues and is often community based. In 2007 he began facilitating a prison theatre program, Direct Responses Alleviate Misdirected Aggression (D.R.A.M.A.) at the Maryland Correctional Training Center in Hagerstown, MD. In 2012 he was awarded an Open Society Institute fellowship to expand D.R.A.M.A. He also works with a cultural youth program, Dancing Many Drums (DMD), that uses the arts to study and explore the African Diaspora. DMD youth have traveled to and studied Jamaica, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, London, Paris, and New Orleans. He is currently a video editor at The Real News Network.

Creative problem solving is a valuable skill to have in work and in life. Open Society Institute fellow Jackie Bello is dedicated to that concept. She talks about her program, “Bet on Baltimore,” where she teaches young people to think like designers to solve problems.

I couldn't think of a better person to start 2018 with here on Revision Path than Jermaine Bell. The Baltimore-based visual designer, photographer, and social designer embodies what it means to work within a supportive creative community. Jermaine started off by talking about his childhood growing up in Baltimore, and we followed his design journey through high school and college. He also gave us the lowdown on the ups and downs of fellowships, his first foray into retail, and discussed what it means to him to "make it" as a designer. Keep an eye out for Jermaine -- he's doing big things! Jermaine Bell's Website Jermaine Bell's Etsy Store Jermaine Bell on Instagram Help support Revision Path by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon! For just $5 per month, you’ll receive behind-the-scenes access to Revision Path, including special patron-only updates, early access to future episodes, and a lot more! Join today! We're on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher as well! Visit http://revisionpath.com/iTunes or http://revisionpath.com/stitcher, subscribe, and leave us a 5-star rating and a review! Thanks so much to all of you who have already rated and reviewed us! Revision Path is brought to you by Facebook Design, Glitch, Google Design, MailChimp, and SiteGround. Get 60% off all hosting plans at SiteGround by visiting siteground.com/revisionpath! Follow Revision Path on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram!

Ryan Flanigan is a 2017 Open Society Institute community fellow. He will be working to establish the Remington Community Land Trust. Terrell Askew is a resident of Remington and a member of the Greater Remington Improvement Association.

My guest in this episode is Gara LaMarche who is one of the world’s leading voices on funding and philanthropy for social justice. Originally from Rhode island, Gara was the first in his family to go to college and he became the youngest person ever to serve on an ACLU policy committee. During his college years at Colombia he says he was a reluctant student and spent much of his time teaching at a nursery school in Harlem which he credits as being one of the most formative experiences of his distinguished career. As a former CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies, a former director of U.S programs for the Open Society Institute, and now the President of the Democracy Alliance, Gara has overseen the investment of tens of millions of dollars into social justice programs around the world. He has also worked with Pen America and Human Rights Watch, and is currently the chair of StoryCorps. I first met Gara several years ago when he was visiting Dublin as part of his work with Atlantic Philanthropies and it was great to catch-up with him again during my recent trip to New York where I interviewed him in the StoryCorp offices in Brooklyn. ........ ........... About the podcast The Love and Courage podcast features interviews with inspirational people who are making a real difference in the world today. Guests are typically people passionate about social justice, and who have demonstrated courage and conviction in their lives. Host Ruairí McKiernan is leading Irish social innovator, campaigner, writer and public speaker. He is the founder of the pioneering SpunOut.ie youth organization, and helped set-up the Uplift and the A Lust For Life non-profits. In 2012 the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins appointed Ruairí to the Council of State, a national constitutional advisory body whose members include all current and former leaders of the country. Ruairí is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Fulbright fellowship, and he contributes regularly to the media on youth, health, community and social justice issues. ................. Subscribe, download, rate and review via iTunes, Stitcher, SoundCloud, YouTube and please spread the word. If you are new to podcasts and have an iPhone, simply use the podcast app on your phone. On Android phones, using the Google Play App download an podcast app such as Podcast Republic and search for 'Love and Courage' and then click subscribe. Download each episode individually, subscribe for updates and sign-up for email announcements about new guests and episodes.   ................. Web:         www.loveandcourage.org Twitter:     @loveandcourage  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin:    www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate:     https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg   ................. Join the Love and Courage community This is independent community supported media. Once off and monthly patron support is hugely appreciated. Donate https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html. Funds help pay for production, post-production, transcribing, hosting, equipment upgrades, publicity, venue rental, and support for Ruairí's ongoing community, campaign and youth mentoring work. ​ Once off supporters of €10 or over get names on the website and a Love and Courage badge. ​(Anonymous support is also possible).  Once off supporters of €50 or more (or at least €5 per month) will get a Love and Courage t-shirt and badge, discounts on workshops and events, your photo and special credits online and on the podcast.  Monthly patrons of €20 per month or more will get the above as well as a mention on the podcast credits (if you want). Patrons of €40 per month or more will get all of the above as well as quarterly phone call updates and invitations to special community gatherings.   Bigger sponsorship opportunities may also be available. Monthly patrons also get extra info and personal email updates with behind the scenes news and insights. Questions: podcast@loveandcourage.org   ..................   Web:         www.loveandcourage.org Twitter:     @loveandcourage  Facebook:  www.facebook.com/hopehitching Instagram: ww.instagram.com/ruairimc/ Linkedin:    www.linkedin.com/in/ruairimckiernanDonate:     https://www.ifundraise.ie/998_ruairi-mckiernan---social-innovations.html Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/loveandcourage Youtube:     https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1gCuceQXG7rmwRY9PAzBgg    

A native New Orleanian, Ralph Adamo is a poet, papa, and a professor at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is also editor of Xavier Review http://www.xula.edu/english/publications/review.html . Ralph has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Ever: Poems 2000-2014. He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing in 2003, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1998, and the first Marble Faun award in poetry from the Faulkner Society in 1997. Recent reviews of his work can be found in The Hollins Critic (April 2015), Rain Taxi (August 2015) and in Today’s Book of Poetry. In 2006, the Open Society Institute awarded him a Katrina Media Fellowship to pursue investigative journalism on the state of public education in the city. Before coming to Xavier, where he has encountered amazing students and brilliant colleagues, he taught creative writing at Tulane, LSU and Loyola (where he also edited New Orleans Review for five years), as well as journalism at UNO. He and his wife Kay have two children, Jack and Lily. Find Ralph Adamo on Facebook and at http://www.lavenderink.org/content/authors/276

This month, we are pleased to have with us Dr. Charles Temple. Charlie Temple is Kinghorn Professor of Global Education at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where he teaches courses in literacy education, children's literature, storytelling, comparative education, and writing for children. He is a co-founder of the Open Society Institute's Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking project, that promotes pedagogy for active learning and critical thinking in primary and secondary schools and universities in forty countries on five continents.  With the Canadian international literacy organization CODE, Temple works on teams that produce children's books in Tanzania, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and trains teachers to use the books to encourage thoughtful discussions.  In the US, Temple is active in the International Literacy Association, the Comparative and International Education Society, and the National Storytelling Network. He has authored textbooks in literacy education and children's literature, and also books for children.  Temple has a B.A. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in literacy education from the University of Virginia.  Join us for what will be an enlightening conversation on Wednesday, March 29 at 2pm EDT.

Known for her intense and sensitive work, Lynn Johnson has been capturing the subtleties of the human condition for 35 years. A regular contributor to publications such as National Geographic, Johnson brings a fresh perspective to fearsome issues—the scourge of landmines, the erosion of threatened languages, rape in the US military ranks, the daily challenge for African women of carrying water or the dangers of global zoonotic disease. Her compassionate photographs honor everyday people and their stories. A teacher as well as a photographer, Johnson hopes to promote dialogue and ameliorate prejudice. Her Master’s thesis as a Knight Fellow at Ohio University, Hate Kills, chronicles the toll of hate crimes on American society. She works with National Geographic Photo Camps, using her medium to help at-risk youth around the world share their own voices. At Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications, Johnson is developing a mentoring program for graduate students in the Multimedia, Photography and Design department. Her work has been honored by World Press Photo, the Open Society Institute and the RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights, among others, as well as by her fellow photographers at The Photo Society.   Resources:   Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Click here to download for   Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button.

This multi-disciplinary symposium brings together leading scholars who will share their research and engage in conversation about the role of religion in addressing rising income inequality—an issue that impacts millions of people. During the 1960s and 1970s, 9-10% of total income went to the top one-percent of Americans. By 2007, this share had risen to 23.5%. Even before 2008 and the so-called Great Recession, the wages of the average worker in the U.S., adjusted for inflation, had been stagnant for three decades. How are the religions contributing to the complex mix of factors responsible for this state of affairs? Part I includes the Introduction and a presentation by Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Associate Professor and Director of the Poverty and Inequality Program, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Evelyn Z. Brodkin's research interests include welfare state politics and policies at the level of the state and the level of the street, with a focus on political-organizational responses to poverty, inequality, and marginalization. She is one of the leading scholars of street-level organizations, the agencies at the frontlines of public policy delivery. She has published widely in books and journals, including her recent book Work and the Welfare State: Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics (2013, co-edited with G. Marston). Her work has been recognized by the American Political Science Association (Herbert Kaufman Award), the American Public Administration Association (Burchfield Award), and the Open Society Institute, where she was named a Fellow. Brodkin has served on the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the board of directors of the Chicago Jobs Council. On leave this year, Brodkin is Moses Distinguished Visiting Professor at Hunter College. Sponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.

This month, we take a change in direction from previous episodes in reviewing the 2010 documentary film 'Exit Through The Gift Shop', which chronicles the misadventures of UK street-artist 'Banksy'.  Both serious and satirical, the film follows eccentric cameraman Thierry Guetta as he haphazardly makes inroads into the underground street-art scene, eventually taking on the role of Banksy's Documentarian and Personal Assistant. After a high-profile U.S exhibition brings him overnight fame and fortune, Banksy instructs Thierry to start compiling his documentary footage so that the real story behind the media sensation can be told; though he soon learns that Thierry posesses neither creativity nor competence as a filmmaker.  As Banksy takes over the editing himself, he instructs Thierry to go forth and pursue his own artistic visions on the street, only to find that Thierry has bigger plans in mind, and has hired a large staff of artists to start mass-producing his plagiarised pop-art concepts. After conducting a savvy and elaborate public relations campaign as ‘Mr Brainwash’, Thierry opens his new gallery to public applause and highly lucrative profits, much to the chagrin of Banksy and his colleagues.  We discuss the synergistic relationship between the world of modern art and public relations, where the currency of an artist is determined by publicity and networking, and the content of the artwork is less important than its perceived social context. The film appears to be critiquing this paradigm in ‘mockumentary’ style, while still advocating the exploitation of these principals - begging the question as to what sentiment is actually being communicated? We also touch on the history of establishment influences in countercultural art movements, exploring questions of artistic integrity versus commercial opportunity; ultimately interpreting the entire film itself as a cynical exercise in guerrilla marketing. By both exposing and exploiting the frivolous nature of the art world, the film employs a masterful blend of satire, controversy and contradiction to create mystique around the artist.  Is Banksy really a single individual, or simply the brand name used by an underground clique of artists and spin doctors? Was Thierry Guetta a lucky entrepreneur, or was he the cynical face of an elaborate and lucrative publicity stunt? Topics discussed include: Banksy, Shepherd Fairey, Obey, Andre the Giant, Art, PR, Public Relations, Thierry Guetta, Mr Brainwash, Street Art, Pop-Art, Andy Warhol, Mockumentary, Hoax, Space Invader, Disneyland, LA, Cynicism, Publicity, Gallery, Exhibition, CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Cold War, International Operations Division, George Soros, Open Society Institute, Tides Foundation, Adbusters, Occupy, Saatchi, Tate, Modern Art, Shock Value, Context, Rockefeller, Brangelina, Counterculture, Celebrity, Barely Legal, Prank, Occult, Alchemical, Secret Society, Initiation, Neophyte, Ritual, Drama, Promotion, Marketing, Publicity Stunt, Funding, Grants, Leftist Critiques, Anti-Establishment, Capitalism, Exploitation, Satire, Punk, Stencils, Installations, Staff, Crew, Guerrilla Marketing, Perception, Meaning, Hidden Clues, Themes, Memes, Contradictions, Profits, Commercialisation, London, Bristol, Logistics, Jackson Pollock, Post-Modernism, Rip-Offs, Production, Branding, Mystery, Subculture, Social Statements, Secrecy, Resources, Compromise, Group Projects. 

Here on this broadcast we will taking a look at the money man behind the movement call Black Lives Matter.    Billionaire financier George Soros “the single most destructive leftist demagogue in the country.”   1.  Gives billions to left-wing causes:  Soros started the Open Society Institute in 1993 as a way to spread his wealth to progressive causes.  Using Open Society as a conduit, Soros has given more than $7 billion to a who's who of left-wing groups.  This partial list of recipients of Soros' money says it all: ACORN, Apollo Alliance, National Council of La Raza, Tides Foundation, Huffington Post,Southern Poverty Law Center, Soujourners, People for the American Way, Planned Parenthood, and the National Organization for Women. http://humanevents.com/2011/04/02/top-10-reasons-george-soros-is-dangerous/

Jorge Reina Schement became Rutgers Vice President of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion on July 1, 2013.  Previously he was Dean of the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University from 2008 to 2013.   He is also Professor II in the Bloustein School of Public Policy, and in the Department of Latino-Hispanic Caribbean Studies. A Ph.D. from the Institute for Communication Research at Stanford University, and M.S. from the School of Commerce at the University of Illinois, he is author of over 200 papers and articles, with book credits including, Global Networks (1999/2002), Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age (1997), Toward an Information Bill of Rights and Responsibilities (1995), Between Communication and Information (1993), Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society (1988), The International Flow of Television Programs (1984),   Telecommunications Policy Handbook (1982), and Spanish-Language Radio in the Southwestern United States (1979). A Latino from South Texas, his research focuses on the social and policy consequences of the production and consumption of information, especially as they relate to ethnic minorities. His research has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Markle Foundation, Rainbow Coalition, Port Authority of NY/NJ, Federal Aviation Administration, Federal Communications Commission, National Science Foundation, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Verizon, Lockheed-Martin.   He has received awards for his policy scholarship from the International Communication Association, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Pace University, the University of Kentucky, UCLA, and Penn State.   Schement has served on the editorial boards of twelve academic journals, and has edited the Annual Review of Technology for the Aspen Institute.   He is editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Communication and Information. His research contributed to a Supreme Court decision in Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. F.C.C. et al. In 1994, he directed the F.C.C.'s Information Policy Project and conducted the original research that led to recognition of the Digital Divide. In 2008, he advised the F.C.C. Transition Team for the Obama administration. He introduced the idea of Universal Service as an evolving concept, a view adopted in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The movement to integrate community museums, libraries, and public broadcasting as Partners in Public Service began in a project he co-directed. He conducted the first study of the impact of minority ownership in broadcasting, and authored the telecommunications policy agenda for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.   He co-founded the Institute for Information Policy at Penn State Univ. Schement has served on advisory boards for the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Office of Technology Assessment, United States Commission on Civil Rights, Centers for Disease Control, Governor of California, Media Access Project, Libraries for the Future, Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, Center for Media Education, Internet Policy Institute, American Library Association, Minority Media Telecommunications Council, New Millennium Research Council, Open Society Institute, Advertising Council, Benton Foundation, Aspen Institute, MCI, Verizon, and Pew Project on Internet and American   Life.   He chaired the board of directors of TPRC Inc. He is listed in, 2007, Hispanic Business' “100 Most Influential Hispanics.” His interest in the history of printing led him to discover a discrepancy in chapter and line numbers between the 1667 and 1674 editions of Paradise Lost, as cited in the Oxford English Dictionary.   He reads histories.   In this episode we discussed: Jorge's survival tactics in Texas in the 1960s How to avoid feeling "pigeon-holed" in your policy career What a private breakfast at the White House with President Bill Clinton was like Key topics in diversity and inclusion at the intersection of telecommunications policy Resources Rutgers University Gary Cross, Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity (Columbia University Press, 2013) 

Joe Brewster, M.D., a graduate of Stanford University and a Harvard Medical School trained psychiatrist, uses his training as a foundation for approaching the social issues he tackles as a producer and director.Brewster wrote and directed THE KEEPER; which was an official selection in the dramatic narrative competition section of the 1996 Sundance Film. Brewster’s work has appeared on PBS, Showtime, MTV, and other broadcast, cable and digital outlets. He is a recipient of Sundance, Tribeca-All Access, Tribeca New Media and BAVC fellowships and numerous honors and awards for his direction and production, including an Independent Spirit Award nomination, the Sundance Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Filmmaking, the African American Film Critics' Association Award, the New York Film Festival Main Slate Selection, Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, ABFF; and the Diversity Award, at the SilverDocs International Documentary Film Festival.His most recent film AMERICAN PROMISE made with his wife and directing and producing partner, Michele Stephenson, was nominated for three Emmy’s including Best Documentary, and won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Achievement in Filmmaking as well as the 2013 African-American Critics Association Award for Best Documentary. Their transmedia work has been supported by Kellogg, Open Society Institute and the Blank Foundation has received awards for outreach and audience engagement including a Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and Digital Media and recent nominations for a 2014 Media Impact Award nomination and 2014 Revere Award by the American Publishers Association

Join host Alice Backer of www.kiskeacity.com as she welcomes Katleen Félix of HHTARG, Cassandre Théano of Open Society Institute,  Fabrice Armand of Haiti Chérie Pride Love and Commitment and as yet unconfirmed guests to discuss what the appropriate Haitian response should be to the latest wave of attacks on Haitians and their descendants  in the DR.   

Vidhya Ramalingam, The Institute for Strategic Dialogue, gives a talk for the COMPAS Breakfast Briefing series. Western Europe has in recent decades grappled with the challenges of building cohesive and equal societies in the face of increasing diversity and new flows of migration. Various models for integration have been tried and tested across Western Europe, and though the investment of time and money has been significant, the results have been mixed, with inequality remaining rife and hostility to immigration on the rise. What little has been done to evaluate such initiatives has mostly been limited to basic studies to fulfill funder reporting requirements, focusing on monies spent, activities conducted, processes and outputs rather than on whether projects, programmes or policies have delivered their broad intended outcomes. In this briefing, ISD presents the results of a one-year project (supported by the Open Society Institute, Brussels) setting out a new framework for understanding and measuring what works in integration projects and initiatives. As part of this project, ISD has undertaken research in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden to identify best practices, lessons learnt, and the tools and resources required for successful integration programmes. Drawing on these case studies, the briefing will set out key elements for success in integration and recommendations for governments to achieve these ends

What's it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison?  Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it's born?  On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons.  What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next generation of America's kids?   Special Thanks to segment producers: intern Shaunnah Ray, and freelancer Shannon Heffernan. Heffernan's  Time on the Outside project is produced with support from the Soros Justice Media Fellowships Program of the Open Society Institute.   Featuring:  Michelle Alexander, Author of “The New Jim Crow.  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness'; Hukee, Prison Doula Project Birth Attendant Program Coordinator; Simon Conrad, Marin Fahey, Sarelle Caicedo, Doulas; Teresa Correll & Genisis, Women who gave Birth at the Washington Correctional Center For Women; Casey & AJ, Mothers at Decatur Prison; Susan Creek, Decatur Prison Warden   For More Information: The Rebecca Project for Human Rights http://www.rebeccaproject.org/ Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance http://www.womenandprison.org/   The Birth Attendants Prison Doula Project http://www.birthattendants.com/   Illinois Department of Corrections: http://www.idoc.state.il.us/ Bureau of Justice Statistics: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=823   Washington Corrections Center for Women http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/prison/wccw/default.asp Legal Services for Prisoners With Children The Center For Young Women's Development National Advocates For Pregnant Women   Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos: For more photos of the nursery at Decatur prison: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery Pregnant Behind Bars: The Prison Doula Project http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/08/02/pregnant-behind-bars-the-prison-doula-project The post Making Contact – The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars (encore) appeared first on KPFA.

Writes frequently on public health for various publications, including The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Magazine . She has conducted extensive research on public health in developing countries for Human Rights Watch, the Open Society Institute, the Rockefeller Foundation and other organizations. She is a scientist, research scholar, consultant and writer having completed her doctorate at Cambridge University and post doctorate work at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of California, Davis. Her book, The Invisible Cure, has been referred to as “traveling into remote and hard-to-comprehend territory with an unblinking and sure-footed guide.” It's the product of more than a decade of research resulting in a book that the New York Times called “enlightening and troubling”.

What's it like to give birth or raise an infant, inside the walls of a prison?  Or even worse, have to give up your child the day it's born?  On this edition, a look at pregnancy, and motherhood, inside Americas jails and prisons.  What does the huge number of incarcerated women in prison foretell for the next generation of America's kids? Special Thanks to segment producers: intern Shaunnah Ray, and freelancer Shannon Heffernan. Heffernan's  Time on the Outside project is produced with support from the Soros Justice Media Fellowships Program of the Open Society Institute.   Featuring:  Michelle Alexander, Author of “The New Jim Crow.  Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness'; Hukee, Prison Doula Project Birth Attendant Program Coordinator; Simon Conrad, Marin Fahey, Sarelle Caicedo, Doulas; Teresa Correll & Genisis, Women who gave Birth at the Washington Correctional Center For Women; Casey & AJ, Mothers at Decatur Prison; Susan Creek, Decatur Prison Warden   Producer/Host: Andrew Stelzer Producers: Kyung Jin Lee, Esther Manilla Executive Director: Lisa Rudman Associate Director: Khanh Pham Production Intern:  Shaunnah Ray, Lisa Bartfai Web Intern: Irene Flores Organizational Volunteers: Judy Huang, Dan Turner, Ron Rucker, Alfonso Hooker & Alton Byrd   For More Information: The Rebecca Project for Human Rights http://www.rebeccaproject.org/ Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance http://www.womenandprison.org/   The Birth Attendants Prison Doula Project http://www.birthattendants.com/   Illinois Department of Corrections: http://www.idoc.state.il.us/ Bureau of Justice Statistics: Parents in Prison and Their Minor Children: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=823   Washington Corrections Center for Women http://www.doc.wa.gov/facilities/prison/wccw/default.asp   Articles, Blogs, Reports and Videos:   For more photos of the nursery at Decatur prison: http://www.timeontheoutside.com/prison-nursery   Pregnant Behind Bars: The Prison Doula Project http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2007/08/02/pregnant-behind-bars-the-prison-doula-project The post Making Contact – The Light Inside: Giving Birth Behind Bars appeared first on KPFA.

Aired 01/23/11 MARK HERTSGAARD, a fellow of The Open Society Institute, The Nation's environment correspondent, covers climate change for Vanity Fair, Time and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines. He is the author of the highly acclaimed study of the media during the Reagan years, On Bended Knee, as well as Earth Odyssey; A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles; The Eagle's Shadow, and his newest, HOT: Living Through the Next 50 Years on Earth. http://www.markhertsgaard.com/

Maureen Aung-Thwin of the Burma Project at the Open Society Institute and Aung Moe Win of Burma Global Action Network on the web and the dictatorship. Plus: gay couples facing deportation, and the Bowery Boys podcast NYC history.

Featured at this Open Society Institute event is Carlos Castresana, the Spanish prosecutor who currently leads the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), an unprecedented entity that seeks to assist Guatemalan institutions in investigating and ultimately dismantling domestic illegal security apparatuses and clandestine security organizations. Speakers: Carlos Castresana, Roberto Alejos, Rigoberta Menchu, Peter Lamport, Aryeh Neier, Robert Varenik. (Recorded: April 20, 2010)

At this Open Society Institute event, Soros Justice Fellow Robert Perkinson and other experts discuss the life and times of America's largest and roughest penal system. Speakers: Robert Perkinson, Nicole D. Porter, Ana Yáñez-Correa, Ann Beeson, Leonard Noisette. (Recorded: April 14, 2010)

At this Open Society Institute screening and discussion, Sam Gregory of WITNESS, profiled in the film, and others address how to turn information into action. Speakers: Melissa Gira Grant, Sam Gregory, Tessa Lewin, Elizabeth Eagen. (Recorded: March 1, 2010)

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University. Turning his attention to the future in this lecture, George Soros focuses on the increasingly important role that China is likely to play on the world stage. (Recorded: October 2009)

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University. In this lecture, Soros uses contemporary economic and political examples to challenge market fundamentalism while presenting ideas for protecting the public good more effectively. (Recorded: October 2009)

Aired 12/20/09 A fellow of The Open Society Institute and The Nation's environment correspondent, MARK HERTSGAARD also covers climate change for Vanity Fair, TIME and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines. He is the author of the highly acclaimed study of the media during the Reagan years, On Bended Knee, as well as Earth Odyssey; A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles; The Eagle's Shadow; and the forthcoming Generation Hot: Living Through the Storm of Climate Change. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20100104/hertsgaard

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University. In this lecture, Soros discusses the concept of open society, which guides his philanthropy and is central to his political and social thinking. (Recorded: October 2009)

Speakers at this Open Society Institute event discuss the trials of Yevgeniy Zhovtis and Ramazan Yesergepov, and the policy implications for Western governments as Kazakhstan approaches its year at the helm of the OSCE. Speakers: Vera Tkachenko, Tamara Kaleeva, Ninel Fokina, Iva Dobichina, Anna Alexandrova. (Recorded: November 20, 2009)

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University. In this lecture, Soros discusses bubbles and the recent financial crisis in detail, testing his theory of reflexivity against major financial events. (Recorded: October 2009)

Open Society Institute chairman and founder George Soros shares his latest thinking on economics and politics in a five-part lecture series recorded at Central European University. In this lecture, Soros presents the fundamentals of his guiding philosophy, beginning with historical understandings of objective reality, scientific inquiry, and the limits of human perception. (Recorded: October 2009)

Cosponsored by the Open Society Institute and WITNESS, this discussion examines the role of the Southern African Development Community in ending violence against women in the region. Speakers: Marianne Mollmann, Kelli Muddell, Bukeni Waruzi, Kudakwashe Chitsike, Zaynab Nawaz. (Recorded: November 9, 2009)

Interview with Marguerite Robinson on the role of savings in microfinance.Dr. Robinson has worked extensively in Asia, in rural and tribal areas and among the urban poor. She served for many years as adviser to the Indonesian Ministry of Finance and to Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) on the development of BRI's microbanking system-now the largest financially self-sufficient microfinance system in the world. She also works in other countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, advising governments, banks, donors, and others, and is the author of many papers and books on development and microfinance. Her most recent books are the first two volumes of a multi-volume book, The Microfinance Revolution, published by the World Bank and Open Society Institute; two additional volumes are in progress. These volumes explore and analyze the demand for microfinance and the history, theories, controversies, practices, and future of the emerging commercial microfinance industry in countries and institutions around the world.

At this Open Society Institute event, Central European University professor Wiktor Osiatynski discusses how to balance human rights with democracy and other values. Speakers: Aryeh Neier, Wiktor Osiatynski, Richard A. Wilson. (Recorded: October 15, 2009)

Cosponsored by the Open Society Institute and the American Civil Liberties Union, this forum discusses The Least of These, the acclaimed documentary about the T. Don Hutto immigrant family detention center in Texas. Speakers: Vanita Gupta, Barbara Hines, Michelle Brane, Marcy Garriott, Maria Teresa Rojas. (Recorded: September 23, 2009)

The Open Society Institute held a screening of The Reckoning, followed by a discussion with the film’s director and producer. Speakers: Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis, James Goldston. (Recorded: August 3, 2009)

Afghan and international experts discuss human rights, media, and political perspectives on the 2009 elections at this panel cohosted by the Open Society Institute and Asia Society. Speakers: Craig Jenness, Jahid Mohseni, Nader Nadery, Jamie Metzl. (Recorded: June 29, 2009)

The Open Society Institute, together with The Nation magazine, hosted a conversation on the politics of South Africa following that country’s presidential elections. (Recorded: May 27, 2009)

The Open Society Institute hosted a screening and discussion of the documentary Bring Your "A" Game, which seeks to reverse the trend of poor educational outcomes for black men and boys. (Recorded: May 18, 2009)

Herb Sturz–the subject of a new book, A Kind of Genius, by New York Times reporter Sam Roberts–talks about innovation, the power of private-public collaborations, the founding of the Midtown Community Court, and his current work at the Open Society Institute. ROBERT V. WOLF: Hi. This is Rob Wolf, director of communications at the Center … Continue reading Herb Sturz Works Behind the Scenes to Spark Innovation →

Experts from Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch assessed the health crisis in Zimbabwe, at this Open Society Institute panel discussion. (Recorded: January 21, 2009)

The Open Society Institute hosted a forum on changing U.S. policy in the Middle East with Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and author of Sowing Crisis: The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East. (Recorded: April 15, 2009)