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CBS News‘ website featured a story about the “grim task” of planning funerals for 19 children—shot dead, along with two teachers, in a Texas elementary school on May 24—right next to a story about Oklahoma’s governor signing the country’s strictest abortion ban, the prominent sign behind him declaring “life is a human right."

Climate breakdown. Now we are in the fight of our lives. Two scientists lay it out in stark terms in The Conversation. One is Julia Steinberger from the Universities of Lausanne and Leeds. The other is our guest, Dr. James Dyke, Associate Professor in Earth System Science, at the University of Exeter.

Scott Ritter answers questions on why the US is moving away from ‘Arms control’ – particularly with Russia and China; why the US pulled out of the ABM Treaty; the INF Treaty; whether the ‘Aegis Ashore’ missile defense systems in Romania and Poland like a Cuban missile crisis in reverse for Russia? Ritter is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer. He also served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties. By definition, treaties are legally binding and become international law. The US cannot legally "withdraw" from any treaty it has signed without all other parties' consent. Yet it has done so and continues to do so, with little if any discussion of the implications. Essentially, this means that no US commitment can ever be trusted.

Nancy has been to Palestine over 20 times, often leading delegations, and we have come to depend on her reporting and analysis of the facts on the ground. We recently sat down with Nancy and recorded this reportback and conversation.

The economy as we know it is populated by gigantic corporations, behemoths that have bought up not only their competition but also the businesses supplying or otherwise supporting them. Such monopolies act as a “rival form of government,” explains Zephyr Teachout, the author of Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money. On Episode 12 of The Politics of Everything, our hosts talk with Teachout about the dangers of allowing these outsize companies to grow unchecked, and what should be done about them. This episode originally aired July 29, 2020, after which corporate consolidation and monopolization have grown even worse.

This week on Talk World Radio, we're talking about psychiatry. Our guest Bruce Levine's new book is A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment.