If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

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This week, Craig Eisendrath, Ph.D., author and former diplomat in the U.S. Department of State, joins Dr. Caldicott to discuss the weaponization of space.

Dr. Caldicott and Dr. Eisendrath collaborated on the book War in Heaven: The Arms Race in Outer Space, published by The New Press in 2007.

Co-founder of the U.S. Constitution Center, where he was a senior fellow for International Policy, Dr. Eisendrath co-wrote the 1966 United Nations Outer Space Treaty, and has been a strong voice against the militarization of space for many years since. He is currently Chairman of the Project for Nuclear Awareness.

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What influence do pharmaceutical companies have on medical professionals and the health industry in the U.S.?

This is the topic addressed by author
Dr. Marcia Angell in her book The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It, published in 2004 by Random House.

Dr. Angell is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at Harvard Medical School. In this important interview with Dr. Caldicott, she explains how drug companies propagate the myth that they are “educational institutions,” and explores the topics of medical ethics, health policy and the relationship between industry and academic medicine.

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Jonathan Schell has been writing and speaking out about the global nuclear situation for more than 20 years. Schell is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute, and the Peace and Disarmament Correspondent for The Nation magazine. His bestselling reflective work on the nuclear question titled The Fate of the Earth (1982) was hailed by The New York Times as “an event of profound historical moment.”

In this interview, he discusses with Dr. Caldicott the five areas he believes the new U.S. administration needs to focus on: the economic crisis; the shortage of natural resources; the spread of nuclear arms; the ecological threat of global warming; the failure of the American bid for global empire and the consequent decline of American influence abroad.

While Schell welcomes President Obama’s plan to negotiate with Russia about reducing their nuclear arsenals from three to six thousand down to just one thousand, he labels this goal as a ‘modest reduction in flat out insanity’. [The detonation of under 1,000 nuclear warheads would likely induce nuclear winter and the end of all life on earth.]

Schell’s most recent book is The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of the Nuclear Danger (2007). The New York Times says Schell’s book reveals how “[t]he prospect of serial proliferation could be returning us to an era of nuclear dread, much like the years of the cold war.” He is also the author of The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001).

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Australian author Antony Loewenstein joins Dr. Caldicott on the program to discuss the delicate situation in the Middle East, and the volatile relationship between Israelis and Palestinians. His book My Israel Question was published by Melbourne University Press in 2006. Loewenstein mentions the January 26 segment of CBS’s 60 Minutes program (“Is Peace Out of Reach?”) about the two-state issue.