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 […]
The Global Demise of Civil Society (Keeping the World Company)
What Can we Do About it. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Jean Rosenfeld. Did you Erasure of Civil Society around the world to what extent is it happening and how does it affect us we see the erosion of governmental and non-governmental institutions Civil Society eroding […]
How Can America Make Peace in the Middle-East (Global Connections)
Developing American Policy in a Chaotic Framework. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Baker. Carl Baker, Senior Advisor of Pacific Forum, and a career expert in American Foreign Policy, helps us analyze the challenges and the national and global risks of developing and implementing Foreign Policy to address the […]
Understanding Those who Support Hamas (Global Connections)
How Can Israel Change Their Perceptions. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guests are Seymour Kazimirski and Daphne Desser. Seymour Kazimirski helps us understand the protests that have been taking place in favor of Hamas in the Middle East, Europe and in the United States and particularly college compuses in the US, […]
How Putin Does his Propaganda (Global Connections)
What Are his Techniques, and Are They Effective. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Federico Thofern. Federico Thofern of Transitional Justice helps us understand how Putin does mind control on the Russian public; how he runs the media and especially state TV; what techniques he uses in spinning lies and […]
What’s Going on with Russia (History is Here to Help)
How Come it’s Failing in Ukraine. The host for this show is Jay Fidell. The guest is Carl Ackerman. Putin’s strategies don’t seem to be so effective anymore. But why? We look into why Russia seems to be losing its war against Ukraine, what historical, cultural, social, military and economic factors are in play, and […]
Yearning to Breathe Free (American Issues Take Two)
Comparing Today with Hitler’s Rise. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guest is Stephanie Dalton. Our panel discusses the Ken Burns excellent three part series on the Holocaust (see PBS.org), and what it can teach us on Hitler’s rise to power, his use of propaganda and lies, racism, hatred […]
Big Tech, Corporate Media and the ‘News’ (Thinking Things Through)
Critical Thinking, Critical Media Literacy. The host for this show is Michael Sukhov. The guest is Mickey Huff. In the third installment of our series on ‘Project Censored,’ we discuss what ‘news’ is, what distinguishes it from opinion and junk food news; how junk food news operates, and what its effects are on the viewing/listening […]
Will the Jan 6 Findings Reach the Country (American Issues Take Two)
What Can be Done to Reach the Electorate. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Jeff Portnoy. Our panel will discuss the effectiveness of the media during the Trump administration, and how it has done after Trump and in and after the Insurrection. Are the […]
What Else Can America Do for Ukraine (American Issues Take Two)
What Can the Government and What Can You Do. The hosts for this show are Jay Fidell and Tim Apicella. The guests are Stephanie Dalton and Shackley Raffetto. Our panel, including retired judge Shackley Raffetto, examines what the United States has done and is doing to build the European coalition and help Ukraine defend itself; […]