The next live episode of my podcast is this upcoming Tuesday, September 29, at 10:00am EDT with Tony Klug, senior advisor on the Middle East to the Oxford Research Group and a consultant to the Palestine Strategy Group and the Israeli Strategic Forum. He has written extensively about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since the early 1970s and was one of the first advocates of an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel in the wake of the 1967 war. For many years he worked at Amnesty International where he headed the international development program.
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Today’s podcast guest is Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building.
In this episode, we discuss the background of the current war in Sudan, both the immediate spark and the underlying history, the role of external forces in the conflict, the prospects for a resolution to this conflict, and the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe that has been fueled by this war.
Listen now; link in bio.
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Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press 2017). He is also he author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015), a full list of his publications is available below. Following a fellowship with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard (2004-06), he worked with the Social Science Research Council as Director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, and led projects on conflict and humanitarian crises in Africa (2006-09). During 2005-06, de Waal was seconded to the African Union mediation team for Darfur and from 2009-11 served as senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan, where he took on a number of roles in the negotiations leading to the independence of South Sudan. He was on the list of Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential public intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic Monthly’s 27 “brave thinkers” in 2009.
The scale, frequency, and brazenness of human rights violations around the world have not diminished, but rather have grown profoundly, raising the question of whether the very notion of “civilization” is little more than a veneer. Scores of countries spanning the globe have committed large-scale, documented abuses against their own populations and/or native groups, and against civilians in neighboring countries, and are doing so with impunity.
Today’s podcast guest is Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Between 1978 and 2003, he served at the State Department as an historian, analyst, negotiator, and advisor to Republican and Democratic secretaries of state, where he helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israel peace process, most recently as the senior advisor for Arab-Israeli negotiations.
In this episode, we discuss the current state of Israeli-Palestinian affairs and what the prospects are for peace, including regionally, what we may see from the upcoming elections in Israel, the current status of the Iran war and its implications for the region, the Gulf states’ concerns about their security in the war’s aftermath, Israel’s gains and losses from the war, and the state of US foreign policy under Trump toward the region.
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Netanyahu’s government claims to speak for Jews everywhere while committing crimes against humanity in the West Bank and Gaza. Its policies of dispossession, widespread destruction, displacement, killings, and terror against Palestinian civilians betray the moral inheritance of Judaism. They endanger Jews worldwide by creating the poisonous impression that all Jews are complicit in Israel’s atrocities and giving unprecedented rise to antisemitism. Netanyahu and his fascist government's crimes are not as colossal as what the Nazis committed against the Jews, but still, the mindset, inhumanity, and cruelty are equal to the Nazis' spirit, intention, and determination.
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Now do a report on terrorist organizations like Hamas.
Today’s podcast guest is Alex de Waal, Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building.
In this episode, we discuss the background of the current war in Sudan, both the immediate spark and the underlying history, the role of external forces in the conflict, the prospects for a resolution to this conflict, and the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe that has been fueled by this war.
Listen now: soundcloud.com/alon-ben-meir/on-the-issues-episode-167-alex-de-waal
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Alex de Waal is the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Considered one of the foremost experts on Sudan and the Horn of Africa, his scholarly work and practice has also probed humanitarian crisis and response, human rights, HIV/AIDS and governance in Africa, and conflict and peace-building. His latest book is Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Press 2017). He is also he author of The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa (Polity Press, 2015), a full list of his publications is available below. Following a fellowship with the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard (2004-06), he worked with the Social Science Research Council as Director of the program on HIV/AIDS and Social Transformation, and led projects on conflict and humanitarian crises in Africa (2006-09). During 2005-06, de Waal was seconded to the African Union mediation team for Darfur and from 2009-11 served as senior adviser to the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel for Sudan, where he took on a number of roles in the negotiations leading to the independence of South Sudan. He was on the list of Foreign Policy’s 100 most influential public intellectuals in 2008 and Atlantic Monthly’s 27 “brave thinkers” in 2009.
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Trump has plainly lost his way. With inflation persisting, mounting political setbacks, defections from his MAGA base, losing the war with Iran, adverse court rulings, and a worsening Republican electoral outlook for the mid-term election, he is increasingly unable to control the narrative—or conceal the consequences of his dismal failures. His response is familiar: lash out at the press.
By excluding CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from White House access because of reporting he considers unfavorable, Trump has triggered a much broader confrontation with the American press. In a significant show of unity, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, and NBC have suspended their shared White House television pool coverage after CNN was prevented from carrying out its scheduled assignment. CNN, MS NOW, and Politico have also challenged the administration in court, arguing that the restrictions violate their First Amendment rights. What began as an effort to exclude several news organizations has now brought some of the country’s largest competing media outlets together to defend press access and independent journalism.
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Thank you press for sticking together and defending free speech! If only our corporate leaders, our Supreme Court, universities, lawyers and judges would stand up to him and his administration!
BREAKING: Fox News just cut away from JD Vance's own speech, essentially telling their audience it wasn't worth watching unless he actually said something newsworthy. Fox News was carrying live coverage of Vance speaking at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, a battleground state ahead of the midterms. Then, mid-speech, they cut away entirely. A Fox News host explained the decision on air, telling viewers, "We will bring you back to this rally if he starts to make news." Read that again.
I love it when fake news has a temper tantrum
Awesome 👏
Dear Sane America, He pulled the passes. Cry fucking harder. We do not care. Those were not newsrooms getting evicted from a temple of democracy. Those were TDS stations, an arm of the left, that spent years refusing to put President Trump’s speeches on the air unless the clip came pre-butchered by four panelists explaining why you should hate it. A president addresses the country and they cut away. Talk over it. Replace it. Then they have the gall to lecture anyone about “the public’s right to know.” When the platforms erased him from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and the rest, these same fuckwads did not defend speech. They sold the purge as hygiene. Private companies. Privilege, not a right. He can talk somewhere else. Protecting democracy. Then back to the only move they have ever had: attack the man, pathologize the man, make the man the entire story so nobody notices they just endorsed censorship and called it journalism. Now the badge is gone and they want a constitutional crisis over a chair. No. A White House pass is not in the Bill of Rights. It is a courtesy, and courtesy is not owed to a political operation that already decided the audience should not hear him live. They can still publish. They can still stand on the sidewalk. They can still run the same deranged monologue. What they lost is free housing for the tantrum. You set the rule. Access is a privilege. Speak from somewhere else. The man is the problem. You cheered when the mute button hit him. You do not get to rediscover “authoritarianism” the second it hits your preferred studios. Sit down. The passes are gone. Cry fucking harder. Nobody who watched you mute him twice is impressed. Someone who is done pretending your breakdown is a news story. Glenn Reib
The first thing shitler did was silencing the press, so his Evil regime could begin the KILLING. America has our own shitler, don’t we?
You mean, the worst liars.
That is because they won't report the truth and nothing but the truth. Deep State operatives used to brainwash the sheep.
Keep dreaming, hadji.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is warning that ordinary Iranians are being crushed between war, economic hardship, sanctions, and repression at home, which she has experienced personally. The human rights activist says she was severely beaten during her latest arrest, spent two months in solitary confinement, and eventually lost consciousness before being hospitalized. She has received prison sentences totaling 44 years and remains at risk of returning to prison. Yet she says resistance inside Iran is growing, particularly among a younger generation determined to defend its rights. Behind every war and every crackdown are ordinary people paying the price. Their voices must not be forgotten.
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Terrible,she is brave
Prayers may God protect and save thise brave woman.
How my heart breaks for the ordinary Iranian people....May God be close to all the brokenhearted 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Why not crane 🏗️
💔 💔 💔 💔 God keep your people safe in your care. Save your loved ones from murder and hate for freedom and love they deserve. End the Genocide please dear Lord. Amen! 🙏 🤲 ✌️ ☮️ ❤️
King David Cyrus is watching and Im against wickedness
They are definitely in their own tribulation period . So difficult 😥
Their freedoms will only come from resistance within their own people to the regime. Other countries can show their disapproval of a regime by imposing sanctions, travel restrictions, financial aid etc, but only the men and women within that regime will bring it down and change it.
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May she be free soon the regime be ended.
well at least they didnt give it to Trump this year
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