If You Love This Planet, Dr. Helen Caldicott

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Natalie Wasley (indymedia)

This week, we hear a repeat of Dr. Caldicott’s 2010 interview with Australian Natalie Wasley, coordinator of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative based at the Arid Lands Environment Center in the Northern Territory of Australia. Wasley has travelled extensively over the last 10 years, meeting with communities in Australia and overseas who have been impacted by every stage of the nuclear chain, from uranium exploration and mining through to nuclear weapons. The current focus of the Beyond Nuclear Initiative project is working with Aboriginal Traditional Owners who are opposed to the Australian federal government plan to force a radioactive waste dump on their traditional country. (more…)

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Prof. Wittner

This week’s guest is Professor Lawrence S. Wittner, an award-winning American historian, writer, and activist for peace and social justice. Prof. Wittner is the author or editor of a dozen books including Confronting the Bomb: A Short History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement and his recently published autobiography Working for Peace and Justice: Memoirs of an Activist Intellectual. He is also the writer of over 250 published articles and book reviews, mostly on issues of peace, war, and international relations. Prof. Wittner is a former editor of Peace & Change: A Journal of Peace Research. Currently, he is a national board member of Peace Action and the executive secretary of the Albany County Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO. Read Prof. Wittner’s March 2012 Huffington Post article How I Happened to Write My Memoirs. Check out other articles by Wittner on huffingtonpost.com.

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Dr. Flowers

This week’s guest is Margaret Flowers, a pediatrician and mother of 3 teenagers from Baltimore, M.D. Dr. Flowers left medical practice in 2007 to advocate full-time for single-payer health care. She served as Congressional Fellow for Physicians for a National Health Program and is on the board of Healthcare-Now. Dr. Flowers has organized and participated in protests for health care, peace and economic justice which have included arrests for non-violent resistance. She was an initial organizer of the October 2011 Occupy Washington, DC. protests. She is co-director of It’s Our Economy. Also be sure to watch Dr. Flowers’s interview on Bill Moyers’s program, Medicare for All.

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Broinowski

In this episode, Dr. Caldicott talks with academic and author, Richard Broinowski, adjunct professor in media and communications at the University of Sydney. Broinowski, Dr. Caldicott’s brother, is also a retired Australian diplomat. After junior postings in Tokyo, Rangoon and Tehran, he was deputy chief of mission in the Australian Embassy, Manila. He has held positions as the Australian Ambassador to Vietnam (1983-85), Republic of Korea (1987-89), and to Mexico, the Central American Republics and Cuba (1994-97). Broinowski is the author of three books, with a fourth due to appear this October, on the nuclear disaster at Fukushima and its implications for Japan and the international nuclear industry. In this timely discussion, Broinowski describes his travels throughout the regions of Japan most affected by the Fukushima disaster as well as Tokyo, and how the Japanese people and government are responding to the nuclear crisis in different ways. He also touches on the U.S. relationship with North Korea toward the end of the hour.

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Michel Chossudovsky

Dr. Caldicott interviews Michel Chossudovsky, the Founder and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization in Montreal, and Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the University of Ottawa. Professor Chossudovsky’s new e-book is entitled Towards a World War III Scenario: The Dangers of Nuclear War (2011). He has taught as Visiting Professor at universities in Western Europe, South East Asia and Latin America, acted as an adviser to governments of developing countries and as a consultant for several international organizations. In this discussion,
Prof. Chossudovsky gives his perspective on America’s war on Libya, its willingness to use nuclear weapons preemptively on various nations, its aggressive stance toward Iran which could lead to another war in the name of oil, and how multiple Mideast wars could ignite a larger nuclear conflict involving major world powers. Read Prof. Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham’s March 2012 article War Plan Iran: Dispelling the Lies, Telling the Truth about Western Aggression in the Persian Gulf. Also read his December 2011 article Preparing to Attack Iran with Nuclear Weapons: “No Option can be taken off the Table.”. Don’t miss hearing this vitally important program.