How Serious is the Decline of Japan’s Economy (Global Connections)
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, […]
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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 [...]
