What Can the US Learn from How Canada Does it. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Dr. Ken Rogers, retired Canadian businessman, helps us understand Canadian immigration policy and how it differs from American immigration policy and what we can learn from how things are done in Canada. […]
The Dissolution of International Borders (Keeping the World Company)
How Does this Affect our World. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Borders have been dissolving for a long time. See what has happened in Western Europe – you can often go from one country to another without being inspected. And migrants can come from […]
What will Trump Do when He’s Reelected (View from the North)
You Won’t like it at all. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. Ken Rogers helps us examine what Trump will do when he’s elected (truly or by trick) next November. This examination includes the following categories of presidential action: (a) appoint a new and completely loyal cabinet, (b) […]
The Devolution of the Coup in Niger (Keeping the World Company)
Why so Many Coups in the Sahel Belt. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Gerald Gahima. Our panel discusses the status and implications of the recent coup in Niger, the proliferation of coup events across the Sahel belt of Sub-Saharan Africa, the presence of Russia and the […]
Teaching Transitional Justice (Transitional Justice)
Advocating for the Future Advocates. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Nicole Christine Rangel. Teaching human rights and global conflict resolution during a time of extreme global conflict and chaos means that some days the hardest thing to work into Nicole’s lesson plan is optimism. She is an advocate for […]
Nationalism, Isolationism and Immigration (Keeping the World Company)
Comparing our Southern Border with Europe. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Jeff Portnoy. Our panel takes a look at the remarkable events in Latin America and on the border with Mexico, and how our politics, foreign policy and national policy on immigration and […]
Give Me Your Tired Huddled Masses (View from the North)
Comparing Canada and the United States. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Ken Rogers. We discuss comparative immigration and migration policies in Canada in the United States, particularly in view of the Trump’s effects to build the wall, child separation, the current migrant policies in Europe, Abbott and Desantis shipping […]
The Immigrant and Refugee Debate 2021 (The Middle Way)
Déjà Vu all over Again. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Chang Wang, Paul Anderson and Alexander H.E. Morawa. In 1958, then U.S. Senator JFK published “A Nation of Immigrants.” JFK proposed liberalizing immigration law based on his argument that the United States is a country whose population is predominantly […]
The Challenges now faced by the EU (Global Connections)
ThinkTech is a Hawaii 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Please support us by making a donation. http://www.thinktechhawaii.com First, the economies, the migrant issues, then Brexit, now Covid. Gauri Khandekar, who teaches at Brussels University, will help us understand the challenges of the European Union these days, including the economic difficulties of its members, the migrant issues, Brexit and […]
Migration: A Turkish Perspective with Russell Kekoa Koehler
Host Jay Fidell speaks with Hawaiian Pacific University graduate Russel Kekoa Koehler about the Turkish perspective on the refugee crisis, the political complexities of the region and what we need to know to better understand about this part of the Middle East. The host for this episode was Jay Fidell. The host for this episode […]