Talk World Radio: Eli Clifton: Weapons Funding in Government
This week on Talk World Radio: Who funds so-called foreign relations experts and why?
This week on Talk World Radio: Who funds so-called foreign relations experts and why?
India’s capital New Delhi burned in the last week of February 2020 as US President Donald Trump pivoted to India. Visiting the world’s largest and increasingly tattered ‘democracy’, Trump sold among other things, over USD 3 billion worth of weaponry to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief.
A report produced by the No Fighter Jets Coalition estimates that the real cost of the planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets by the Canadian government will total $77 billion.
The February meeting of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) Defense Ministers, the first since President Biden took power, revealed an antiquated, 75-year-old alliance that, despite its military failures in Afghanistan and Libya, is now turning its military madness toward two more formidable, nuclear-armed enemies: Russia and China.
Huge military budgets will not protect us from extinction. Nations must redirect spending towards human security and peacekeeping now.
This week’s conversation with Suad Aldarra and Yaser Alashqar looks at militarism and human displacement.
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with peace activist David Swanson about the US wars coming home: from the prolonged military occupation of Washington, DC to the “liberal interventionist” hawks in the Joe Biden administration, including Antony Blinken, Samantha Power, Lloyd Austin, and Avril Haines.
The latest World BEYOND War podcast episode is something different: a deep dive into the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and their relevance for peace activists today. I spoke to Dr. Suman Khanna Aggarwal, the founder and President of Shanti Sahyog in New Delhi, India.