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World BEYOND War: a new podcast

World Beyond War

Welcome to the new podcast from World BEYOND War, a global grassroots network of antiwar activists. Please listen and also get involved!

news & politics

All Episodes

01:24:27

Blood in the Method: Debating Ukraine

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/10/30

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.

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00:57:55

Abolition in 2025 with Tabitha Lean

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/09/28

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!

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01:28:09

Ideals and Reality: A Conversation with Tommaso Delfanti

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/08/28

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.

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01:32:38

War Abolishers of 2025: Roger Waters, Francesca...

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/07/27

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

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00:31:22

Becoming Anational

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/06/28

It’s more clear than ever that outdated concepts of governance are failing the people, with horrifying results. Let’s embrace a new concept of anationality (which rejects nationalism as atheism rejects religion) and search for a more humane ethics of attention, empathy and unselfing, such as can be found in the philosophy of Iris Murdoch.

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00:39:50

A Talk With CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/05/22

We talk to CODEPINK's National Co-Director Danaka Katovich about recent events including a drone attack on the Freedom Flotilla for Gaza in the Mediterranean Sea and slanderous attacks on peace activists by corrupt US Senators opposed to CODEPINK's "China Is Not Our Enemy" campaign. Musical excerpt: "Sirens of Titan" by Al Stewart.

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01:20:34

Speechless About Gaza

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/04/29

How do we even speak about genocide and apartheid in Gaza and Palestine? Words are not enough, and are too often a substitute for action. Three members of World BEYOND War's global community, Mohammed Abunahel, Maria Santelli and Marc Eliot Stein converge to share our frustration and agony and hear an update from Mohammed about his family which has been living under violent seige in Gaza for the past year and a half.

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00:33:46

How To Unplug An Empire

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/03/29

We live in revolutionary times, whether we're ready or not. Marc Eliot Stein urges peace activists around the world to find common ground and act decisively against the rising toxicity of the international war machine. We talk about South Africa, Ireland, Mikhail Gorbachev and the shocking arrest of student protestors all over the USA in March 2025. Musical excerpt: "Broken English" by Marianne Faithfull.

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00:52:55

Fetch the Bolt Cutters: Brian Terrell on Military Bases

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/02/20

Brian Terrell speaks about the Global Day of Action to Close Bases, his life of protest and his upcoming imprisonment in Germany.

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00:56:08

Blessed Are The Peacemakers: A Talk With Oseremen Irene

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2025/01/28

Nigerian peace studies professor and writer Oseremen Irene talks to Marc Eliot Stein about antiwar movements, structural violence, wealth inequality and leadership challenges facing the world in 2025.

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00:41:39

A Relational Model For World Peace

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/12/29

Let's take a fresh look at how peace movements are changing to keep up with fast-evolving cultural trends. Online communities provide one useful model of peaceful coexistence that people intuitively and immediately understand. World BEYOND War's technology director Marc Eliot Stein proposes a new approach to the pursuit of world peace inspired by the decentralized, peer-to-peer methods of emerging communities.

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00:51:51

Three Questions for Antiwar Activists

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/11/27

Marc Eliot Stein urges the antiwar movement to avoid complacency, dare to imagine positive sudden societal change, and answer three difficult questions about border policies, wealth inequality and the concept of national identity.

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01:08:19

A Levitation with Ed Sanders

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/10/27

"Out demons out!" On October 21, 1967, poet, activist, singer and DIY publisher Ed Sanders led an exorcism of the Pentagon in USA's capital city to protest the disaster in Vietnam. Coincidentally on the same day 57 years later, Ed Sanders talks to Marc Eliot Stein from his home in Woodstock about nuclear madness, the deep state, the disasters in Ukraine and Gaza, the absurdities of USA's looming Harris vs. Trump election, and the antiwar inspiration of Allen Ginsberg, Dorothy Day, Phil Ochs, Abbie

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01:09:45

Vanessa Fox: Understanding Moral Injury

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/09/27

Moral injury is a trauma that occurs when we are forced to act against our moral values, World BEYOND War’s organizing intern Vanessa Fox tells us. With wars raging from Gaza to Ukraine to Sudan to the US/Mexico border, we are all suffering from moral injury right now. This is one of many topics Vanessa Fox and Marc Eliot Stein wander through in a conversation about religion, flowerness, empowerment and community.

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01:23:59

NoWar2024 From Okinawa to Sydney

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/08/30

World Beyond War’s annual conference #NoWar2024 takes place in Sydney, Wanfried, Bogata, Washington DC and online next month. Introducing some of our upcoming guests, Marc Eliot Stein talks to Kazuyuki Nakazato and Katsuya Tamaki from the Okinawa Prefectural Government and Lilli Barto, an activist from Wage Peace 2 Disrupt Wars in Australia.

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01:26:45

Thank You For Your Awareness: A Talk With Robert F....

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/07/28

Robert F. Keeler's new book "Sacred Soldier: The Dangers of Worshipping Warriors" is a tough indictment of USA's inane militarism, emphasizing recruitment horrors, rampant sexual abuse and corrupt leadership in today's armed forces. Marc Eliot Stein interviews Keeler about his Catholicism, his pacifism, his award-winning career as a journalist for Newsday, and his own life as a military veteran who refuses to pretend USA's war system deserves respect.

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00:56:10

How Six Years in Washington DC Changed Me

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/06/28

Before becoming technology director at World BEYOND War, podcast host Marc Eliot Stein endured three mind-blowingly bad contract positions with three departments of the federal government in a row during the years of the Obama administration. Here's a personal tale of a strange journey into deep mediocrity at the Department of Labor, Postal Regulatory Commission and the Center for Disease Control, and a harsh look at a capital city still haunted by a legacy of racism.

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00:45:49

A Long Road to Peace Activism

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/05/31

Podcast host Marc Eliot Stein explores his own past to uncover why he once believed in American exceptionalism and thought it would be a good idea to work for weapons manufacturers, Wall Street banks and media brands like Foreign Policy magazine - all steps on the path to the realization that he doesn't need to support the USA war machine to make a living. A surprising personal tale and a plea for wisdom by our regular podcast host - Part one of two. Musical excerpt: "Dead and Gone" by T.I. and

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01:14:03

The Palaver Tree: Peacebuilding in Africa

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/04/29

Guy Feugap joined World BEYOND War as a volunteer, founded WBW's Cameroon chapter, and is now our organizer for the entire continent of Africa. Marc Eliot Stein interviews Guy about his beginnings as a peace activist in Cameroon, about working with fellow organizers in Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, Burundi, Kenya, Burkina Faso, Togo, Zimbabwe and more, and the outlook for the movement all over Africa and the world. Music: "No To War" by Blaze Weka.

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00:54:25

Bridges and Boycotts

World BEYOND War: a new podcast ·

2024/03/31

What does the antiwar movement recognize when a bridge collapses in Baltimore? Why have container ships replaced the Titanic as the world’s biggest metaphor, and what does the new "BDS the US" movement think we should do about it? We dive into all of these questions, plus a poem from Rainer Maria Rilke, as World BEYOND War’s technology director Marc Eliot Stein ponders various big questions.

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