If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

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Martin Sieff

This week on If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott delves into conversation with Martin Sieff, Chief Global Analyst for the daily online magazine, The Globalist. For the past decade, Sieff has been chief news analyst for United Press International and is its former Managing Editor for International Affairs. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for international reporting. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Sieff was Chief Foreign Correspondent for The Washington Times. He was the paper’s Soviet and East European correspondent covering the collapse of communism for six years from 1986 to 1992 and for the next two years he was its State (more…)

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Arnie Gundersen

This week, Dr. Caldicott has an in-depth conversation with Arnold Gundersen, energy advisor with Fairewinds Associates Inc. and a former nuclear engineer. They discuss the present situation in Fukushima, where three nuclear power plants have melted down, and the continuing effects of the disaster on Japan and the rest of the world. For background, read the June 16 article, Fukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think: Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public, in which Gundersen states that (more…)

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Chris Hedges

This week, we play for the third time Dr. Caldicott’s
August 9, 2010 interview with American journalist, author, and war correspondent Chris Hedges about military culture and the consequences of combat. Hedges, a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute, specializes in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies, and his most recent book is The World As It Is (2011). He is also the author of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning and American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. In 2002, Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He currently writes a weekly column for Truthdig.com. Read his latest columns and his earlier work here. Read his May 30, 2011 article The Sky Really is Falling about global warming. Particularly relevant to this program is Hedges’s January 4, 2010 piece The Pictures of War You are Not Supposed to See. At the close of the interview, Dr. Caldicott says that in the future, she will interview Hedges in depth about Empire of Illusion.

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Dr. Vini Khurana

This week, we hear for the third time Dr. Caldicott’s October 2008 interview with Dr. Vini Khurana about the dangers of cell phones and electromagnetic radiation. In May, a new report was released indicating a connection between cell phone use and cancer. Read the May 31, 2011 article Cell Phones May Cause Brain Cancer, WHO Experts Say. Dr. Khurana is a senior staff specialist neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital in Australia, and Associate Professor of Neurosurgery at the Australian National University Medical School. He has exhaustively studied the medical research on electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. See his webpage about cell phone dangers which includes his report Mobile Phones and Brain Tumors – A Public Health Concern. A joint U.S.-Korean team reviewed 13 past studies on cell phone radiation (more…)