Dec 21, 2024
Rebecca Shoot heads Citizens for Global Solutions nadLawrence Wittner, a professor emeritus of history, State U of New York at Albany, is on her board. They discuss the arrest warrants issued for Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu and the gradual emergence of international law over time.
Dec 20, 2024
Shorena Lortkipanidze, Nino Chkobadze, and Nano Saralishvili, activists and scholars in Tbilisi, Georgia, have seen protests for the past three weeks in all towns of their country – reactions against the decision of a newly elected Pro-Russia party to defer entry to the European Union. Jill Carr-Harris, an expert...
Dec 9, 2024
As a Soviet scientist, Roald Sagdeev knew Yevgeny Velikhov longest. The American scientists Richard Garwin, Frank von Hippel, and Thomas Cochran worked closely with Velikhov during the Gorbachev years, mainly to demonstrate experimentally how safe it would be for both sids to disarm their nuclear weapons. For the video,...
Dec 6, 2024
Trump expresses outrage – but what is it really about? Please send Metta Spencer a video about what makes YOU seethe in daily life. Her theory: Democracy can’t hold people accountable anymore. The US election shows the hostility that most Americans feel toward urban elites, blaming us smart-ass city-slickers for...
Dec 6, 2024
Proposal: Let people appeal to panels of citizens selected by sortition for protection from unjust or unworkable digital tech and bureaucratic rigidity. Metta ranted about YouTube's deletion of years of work and important conversations about climate. Attendees from 5 countries discussed this and COP's failure at Baku....