And How Does that Decline Affect the Region. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker, senior advisor to Pacific Forum, helps us understand the apparent decline of Japan’s economy and how that decline affects and will affect its future and the economics and geopolitics of the region. […]
The Changing Battlefield in These Two Wars (Keeping the World Company)
What we Should be Learning from What is Happening. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Jean Rosenfeld and Vicky Cayetano. Our panel discusses the changes on the battlefield in the two wars that are going on, including changes in trench warfare, tunnel warfare, drones, gliders, missiles, anti-ship […]
How Are Authors Going to Beat AI (Community Matters)
And if You Can’t Beat Them, why Not Join them. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Chris Trammell. Author and life coach Chris Trammel helps us understand the ways AI is changing things, and threatening the art of writing. And that includes reading what is written, too. For that matter, […]
Reviewing the Greyhound Movie (Movies We Can Learn From)
A Remarkable Movie About an American Destroyer. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly. Shackley Raffetto and Michael Lilly, both of whom have been associated with the US Navy, review the Greyhound movie. It stars Tom Hanks, who also wrote the screenplay, and is based on […]
Millions in Foreign Payments Going to Trump (Community Matters)
For this Too, He is Not Qualified to be President. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Camron Hurt. Camron HUrt of Common Cause helps us understand the need for an investigation of the millions of dollars of foreign payments going to Trump from foreign governments. He has reportedly pocketed at […]
Cliff Slater Writes About Transit (Community Matters)
It’s Growth, Decline and Pending Demise. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Cliff Slater. Cliff Slater has followed the rail project and transit in Honolulu and around the country. He helps us understand the origins and history of transit, its current status and the challenges that will inform its prospects […]
GOP Ranks Full of Christian Nationalists (American Issues Take One)
CPAC Full of Anti-Gov Anti-Democracy Speech. The hosts for this show are Tim Apicella and Jay Fidell. Jack Posobiec spoke as a panelist at this year’s CPAC convention. He said, ‘We’re here to overthrow democracy’. To that, cheers followed. Mr. Posobiec wasn’t kidding. He also held out a crucifix to put an exclamation point on […]
Alexei Navalny and Russian History (Journeys of the Mind)
The Legacy of A. Navalny in Russian History. The hosts for this show are Carl Ackerman and Jay Fidell. While Alexei Navalny has been compared to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela and others, this program outlines others in Russian/Soviet History who were courageous enough to work against the Tsarist, Soviet, and Putin […]
What Really Happened in Putin’s Interview (Global Connections)
Let’s Look at all his Mistakes About Russian History. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Roopmati Khandekar. With thanks to Tim Snyder, history professor and Yale, we examine Vladimir Putin’s comments in his recent ‘interview’ with Tucker Carlson. Our guest Dr Roopmai Khandekar helps us understand the circumstances of the […]
How Much like a Proxy Vote is a Proxy War (Keeping the World Company)
Why Do we Have so Many of them. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Our panel discusses the proxy wars now going on in Eastern Europe and in the Middle East. What’s the difference between a proxy war, an asymmetric war and a traditional war, […]