The Global Intelligence Community (Global Connections)
What Role Does it Play in Geopolitics. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. Dr. Roopmati Khandekar, geopolitical strategist, helps us understand the role of national intelligence agencies and their methodologies for gathering, vetting and interpreting intelligence for strategic planning, and the dissemination and collaboration of intelligence among national […]
How US Aid will Change Things in Ukraine (Keeping the World Company)
Will it be Delivered Soon Enough. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Jean Rosenfeld and Manfred Henningsen. Our panel discusses the tortuous route of the bill for aid to Ukraine through the machinations and delays in Congress, and what that aid will finally look like and what […]
Review of Cinema Paradiso (Movies We Can Learn From)
A Boy’s Relationship with Film. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Shackley Raffetto. Our panel reviews Cinema Paradiso, an award winning 1988 Italian film about a boy’s relationship with film. Young Salvatore Di Vita (Salvatore Cascio) discovers the perfect escape from life in his war-torn Sicilian village: the Cinema Paradiso […]
Speaker Johnson Does Right Thing for Ukraine (American Issues Take One)
House Speaker Johnson Allows Vote to Fund. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair. House Speaker Mike Johnson took the time to listen. He listened to CIA Director William Burns about what Putin will do to the other Baltic states once, not if, Russia takes […]
How the Iran Israel Exchange Has Changed Things (Global Connections)
Lessons About Their Weapons and Capabilities. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. Dr. Roopmati Khandekar, geopolitical analyst, helps us understand the exchange of weapons by Iran against Israel and then Israel’s response a few days later. What they have shown about their weapons, capabilities, strategies and intentions, and […]
To Respond or Not to Respond to Iran’s Attack (Keeping the World Company)
That is the Question for Israel and Netanyahu. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Jean Rosenfeld and Manfred Henningsen. Our panel examines the strategical options and implications of responding or not responding to Iran’s recent attack on Israel, the considerations and risks attendant to each of those […]
Biden Walk Tightrope with Israel and Iran (American Issues Take One)
Supporting Israel Means Losing Votes. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. The guest is Cynthia Lee Sinclair. President Biden stated at the onset of the Israeli Gaza War that the USA will be a trusted, stable ally. That was prior to a casualty rate count of 34k people in Gaza […]
New Weapons Emerging in Multiple Wars (Global Connections)
How will They Change Wars in the Future. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker, senior advisor to Pacific Forum, helps us understand the new weapons and battlefield techniques that have been used or developed in the Russia-Ukraine War and the Israel-Hamas war, and now the war […]
Comparing Indian Issues in the US and Canada (View from the North)
What Can we Do to Make Life Better for them. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Dr. Ken Rogers, retired Canadian businessman living in British Columbia, helps us understand how the Indian tribes are doing in Canada. We compare how they are doing with how American Indians are […]
How Does the ‘Social Safety Net’ Work in Canada (View from the North)
Does it Work the Same or Better than the One in the US. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Dr. Ken Rogers, retired Canadian businessman, helps us understand the bundle of benefits that are in the Canadian Social Safety Net. We compare them with the benefits that are […]
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The president’s move to protect strategic manufacturing sectors from low-cost competition aims to increase jobs, but consumers might not like the costs. [...]
Protectionist trade policies are popular on both the left and right. But some economists say they’re likely to backfire. [...]
Even in the president’s favorite political stomping ground, his standing has slipped with Democrats who will be vital to a repeat victory, interviews with nearly two dozen Black voters showed. [...]
His narrow win there in 2020 was seen as a sign of Georgia’s emergence as a battleground state. But in 2024, President Biden faces a changed landscape there. [...]
Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past. [...]
Moscow continues to make military gains in the Kharkiv region as Ukraine struggles with resources. [...]
South West Water says about 2,500 homes will have to keep boiling water due to a parasite. [...]
Leonid Volkov says his fight against Vladimir Putin will never end. [...]
One claimant unknowingly overpaid Carer's Allowance said the debts she incurred have brought 'considerable financial strain'. [...]
Forecasters have warned some areas could see up to 50mm (2in) of rain and flooding on Saturday. [...]
Cologne needed a minor miracle to survive going into the last game of the season, with no guarantee that a win would be enough to save them. Instead, they collapsed [...]
President Salome Zourabichvili had earlier told DW that she would reject the contentious legislation as a "symbol." The veto, however, can be overridden by another vote in parliament. [...]
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has pledged federal "solidarity" after the western state of Saarland was hit by flash flooding and landslides. He toured some of the affected areas with the [...]
Germany's Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank had been expected to provide guarantees for the construction of a gas-processing plant that was to be operated by Gazprom. [...]
Premier Robert Fico is in a stable but serious condition after a shooting attack, Slovakia's health minister says. The suspected shooter is reported by media to be a 71-year-old former [...]
A helium leak pushed back a planned launch to May 25. Boeing's program that would shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station has been plagued with problems. [...]
McCloskey's story has both deep roots and burgeoning relevance. He died this month at 96 and had long been out of the limelight, but the issues he had been willing [...]
Dabney Coleman, the mustachioed character actor who specialized in smarmy villains like the chauvinist boss in "9 to 5" and the nasty TV director in "Tootsie," has died. [...]
Higher education officials in Ohio are reviewing race-based scholarships after last year's Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action. [...]
Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the U.S. and we need all the protection we can get. So why is it so hard to get newer, more effective [...]
Canadian police used DNA testing to link Gary Allen Srery, who died in 2011, to the killing of two girls and two women in the 1970s. They say there may [...]
Andriy Yermak, a former lawyer and film producer who runs Volodymyr Zelensky’s wartime presidential office, is arguably the most powerful chief of staff in Ukraine’s history. [...]
Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]
Parents had no idea their children were being given the sleep aid at a home day care in New Hampshire, police said. [...]
League champion Bayer Leverkusen has become the first team to complete a Bundesliga season unbeaten [...]
