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“Beyond Borders” is the theme of World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2026 online conference next month, where Khawaja Hammad Akbar will be leading a panel on case studies of militarized borders and demilitarized zones with speakers from Korea, Gaza and the US/Mexico border. Khawaja joins us in this episode to talk about the themes of the upcoming conference. Music excerpt by Penboy.

World BEYOND War’s Marc Eliot Stein talks about the huge manufactured lies and slanders that progressives and peace activists constantly struggle to expose. The art of manufacturing a vicious lie was satirized by a song in the popular 1815 Italian opera “The Barber of Seville” that provides some historical perspective to the agonies we face today.

Jhay de Jesus, World BEYOND War's organizer for Asia, talks to Marc Eliot Stein about the political, social and activist environment in the Philippines, his background in university politics in Manila, and his current work interacting with peace groups and activists all over Asia.

Annachiara Canetta talks to Marc Eliot Stein about her experiences as an activist for food sovereignty, climate and Palestine, and her work as World BEYOND War's organizer for Europe.

A pacifist meditation on battlefields and a walk through Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where a decision was made in the middle of the 19th century to obliterate the hills that held the ghosts of the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27 1776, one of the worst days in George Washington's life. Marc Eliot Stein talks about city living, ethnic neighborhoods, "Little Caribbean", the legacy of white flight and more.

Daniel Che is a pacifist who left his home in Kyiv to live in Portugal and build Peaceful World, an online peace education project illuminated by Walt Whitman, Lev Tolstoy, the Woodstock Generation and Jainism. He joins World BEYOND War's Marc Eliot Stein for a wide-ranging conversation about counterculture, anekantavada, karma and ahimsa - and also US/Israel's war with Iran, military sadism, anger, revolution and evolution.

Dr. Sahar Khan joins the World BEYOND War podcast to talk about the US/Israel/Iran war, the No Bases movement, the status of US bases in the Persian gulf, whether political think tanks are good or evil, the view from South Asia, and the work of geopolitical experts in times of global crisis.

World BEYOND War President Kathy Kelly joins Marc Eliot Stein for a wide-ranging exchange about the fundamental philosophies behind peace work, current corcerns about artificial intelligence, the relationship of anarchism to pacifism and the need for local-based small community governance structures to replace dysfunctional mass militarized governments.

Alicia Cabezudo, peace studies professor in Rosario, Argentina, talks with Marc Eliot Stein about the origins of academic peace studies, the purpose of pedagogy, the current generation of Latin American leaders including Lula, Petro and Sheinbaum, USA’s shocking recent attack on Venezuela, the emerging realities of drone assassinations and leadership decapitation as normal procedure in war, and the action-oriented nature of antiwar activism and the need to disarm our brains.

World BEYOND War hosted an Africa Peace Conference in November 2025 with representatives from many countries. Sellah King'oro joins our podcast to talk about emerging peace movements all over the continent, the philosophy of Ubuntu, Africa's legacy of neo-colonialism and corrupt leadership and her own experiences as a community peacebuilder in Kenya.

Gabriel Aguirre, World BEYOND War's Latin America organizer, joins us to talk about alarming attacks on Venezuela, lies that are often repeated about Latin America, and hopeful signs of rising unity and activism throughout the region

Marc Eliot Stein and Tommaso Delfanti examine various controversies about why the war between Russia and Ukraine began, and how the disaster can be possibly ended.

World BEYOND War's annual peace conference #NoWar2025 explores the essential intersection between abolition and antiwar movements. Tabitha Lean joins us from Adelaide to talk about resisting the carceral state and building borderless spaces, and tells us about he panel of global indigenous activists she'll be leading at next month's #NoWar2025 conference - join us!

Tommaso Delfanti joins Marc Eliot Stein from Italy to compare and contrast European and American points of view about governmental corruption, capitalism and the horrifying wars currently ragin in Ukraine, Gaza and Sudan. We also talk about ethical philosophy, Ayn Rand, Elinor Ostrom, Rene Girard, Cory Doctorow, Giovannino Guareschi in the context of contemporary politics and conflict. Musical excerpt: "Giovani Wannabe" by Pinguini Tattici Nucleari.

Roger Waters and Ralph Nader speak at World Beyond War's 2025 War Abolisher Awards joined by Bob Fantina, David Swanson, Ed Horgan and Hanieh Jodat speaking about Francesca Albanese