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World View covers global issues from a critical, anti-imperialist perspective. World View newscasts include a half-hour round-up of the week’s international news, followed by a 20-30 minute feature, often a speech or in-depth interview.
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Norm Stockwell and Marc Becker, World View Old Timers, take us on a tour of Latin America politics at the beginning of October 2022. They begin in Brazil, stop over in Cuba, check in on Chile, jump into Colombia and end with a whirlwind jaunt through Central America. They discuss elections, new and old leaders, […] […]
Scientist, researcher, activist, PanAfricanist, pragmatist, DJ and much more, Dr. Alhaji Njai joined us to talk about his work in his native Sierra Leone and his vision for Africa and Africans. […]
Gil Halsted and Amitabh Pal talk to Indian journalist, commentator and journalism professor Sukumar Muralidaran for WORT’s World View about India on its 75th anniversary of independence. Topics covered include democracy, diversity, economy, equity and more. […]
Sri Lankans from all walks of life and all corners of their country occupied public spaces in the capital, Colombo, despite lack of resources and transportation. All were incensed by the government’s mismanagement of every aspect of economic, political and social Sri Lankan life. Against all odds they managed to drive the incompetent and corrupt […] […]
Palestinian villagers in the Masafer Yatta area in the South Hebron Hills go to sleep in fear and wake up in fear that Israeli forces will demolish their homes, destroy their crops, kill their animals and hurt or kill them and their families. Sami Huraini from the Masafer Yatta village Sumud asks for help to […] […]
Back in January, WORT talked to staff at Radio Ada, a community radio station in the Accra region of Ghana after the station was invaded by thugs and staff members were beaten and broadcast equipment was broken. Now a Radio Ada producer has been arrested for a Facebook post he made asking why a community […] […]
Gil Halsted talks to Joan Barker who taught Afghan Air Force mechanics and technicians English in Kabul, helped some Afghans leave their country last fall, taught English and American cultural skills at Fort McCoy, WI and will now support Afghans as they move to their new communities. […]
Alhaji Njai, well known to WORT listeners as a DJ of the PanAfrica Radio Show and co-founder of Project 1808 in Sierra Leone, shares his own and fellow Africans’ joy and pride in African futbol (soccer) from his current home in Sierra Leone with Gil Halsted of World View. […]
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