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Notes from the World“This is just the latest symbol of a much larger Florida story.”Last month, in Florida’s Manatee County along the state’s western Gulf Coast, the Seattle-based marine terminal services company SSA Marine Inc. announced that it intended to partner with a Tampa, Florida-based holding company, Slip Knott LLC, to build an enormous new cruise port adjacent to the county’s Sunshine Skyway Bridge. The patch of land in question is lushly festooned with seagrass coverage and mangroves, and is home to oysters, clams, reddish, pelicans and other fauna. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the plan has met with fierce local opposition, the latest chapter in the long struggle between those who seek to protec...
2026-02-1337 min
Notes from the WorldRwanda "has been putting in place a proxy state" in eastern DR CongoA constitutional lawyer by training, Filip Reyntjens first set foot in Rwanda in July 1976 to help run a project at the Law School at the National University in Butare. Over the last 50 years, he has provided observers of the Great Lakes Region of Africa with thought-provoking observations and analysis of the region and especially of Rwanda itself, one of its most significant countries. The author of a number of well-regarded books, including Rwanda: trois jours qui ont fait basculer l’histoire, The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, Political Governance in Post-Genocide Rwanda.and Le génocide des Tutsi au...
2026-01-2756 min
Notes from the World“Venezuela is a country that everybody wants to use as a rhetorical tool in the United States but not a country that a lot of people are interested in actually knowing.”In the early morning hours, of 3 January, a United States military operation spirited Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores out of Caracas following an assault that left dozens dead, including at least 32 Cubans that the Cuban government later said were members of the Cuban armed forces and intelligence agencies.
According to the Venezuelan government’s own tally sheets and conclusions of nongovernmental organizations such as the Carter Center, Maduro lost the July 2024 presidential election to former diplomat Edmundo González, who served as Venezuela’s ambassador to Argentina under the presidency of Hugo Chávez, who ruled V...
2026-01-0755 min
Notes from the World"If You Don’t Tell Your Own Story, Somebody Else Is Going to Tell It for You."Michaël Brun is a Haitian DJ and record producer known for blending electronic music with traditional Haitian styles of song. His debut EP, Gravity, was released in 2013. Since then he has released two full length albums, Lokal on the Kid Coconut label and Fami Vol. 1 with Astralwerks. He became the first Haitian to play Miami’s Ultra Music Festival in 2014, and created, along with J Balvin, the single “Positivo” w which became Telemundo’s theme song for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. In recent years, he has put on an annual Haitian block party-style tour called Bayo. For our last episode o...
2025-12-2434 min
Notes from the WorldMarseille: "We're all losers, so we're all winners in a way."Philippe Pujol is a French journalist and writer based in Marseille. After starting out in science journalism, he eventually covered crime for the daily newspaper La Marseillaise. In 2014, he won the Albert Londres Prize for his series of articles “Quartiers Shit,” about the northern districts of Marseille. He is the author of several books, including French deconnection : au cœur des trafics, La fabrique du monstre : 10 ans d’immersion dans les quartiers nord de Marseille, Mon cousin, le fasciste (about his cousin, the far-right activist Yvan Benedetti) et Cramés : Les enfants du Monstre. We sat down for a conversation about fo...
2025-12-2049 min
Noam Chomsky - Audio BiographyBiography Flash: Noam Chomsky Silent Since 2023 Stroke as Epstein Emails and 97th Birthday Tributes Reshape LegacyNoam Chomsky Biography Flash a weekly Biography.Noam Chomsky has been largely absent from direct public life since a serious stroke in June 2023, and that silence remains the defining fact of the past few days. The Nation and ZNetwork both underscore that he has not spoken in public or to the press since that stroke, meaning any fresh quotes or surprise appearances you may have seen rumored on social media are, at this point, unconfirmed and should be treated as speculation rather than fact. What has been happening around him, however, is a steady drumbeat of...
2025-12-1703 min
Notes from the WorldInside the Maelstrom: Jihadists, Juntas & Russian mercenaries in the SahelSince 2020, the Sahel region of Africa has been buffeted by a series of coups that upended the democratically-elected governments of the region and replaced them with military rulers. First in Mali, which saw the presidency of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta overthrown in August 2020, and which then witnessed a subsequent May 2021 coup that saw General Assimi Goïta seize power; then in Burkina Faso in January 2022, which saw the overthrow of President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and then in September of that same year, which saw Captain Ibrahim Traoré seize the reigns of state there; and finally in Niger, where a July...
2025-12-0752 min
Notes from the WorldThe Fall of El FasherLate last month, the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan, fell to the legions of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the two competing sides in the civil war that has torn Sudan apart since April 2023. During and after the capture of the city, reports proliferated of gross human rights abuses and mass summary executions by RSF forces, a number of which the fighters recorded and broadcast on social media themselves. According to the United Nations, nearly 70,000 people have fled since the city’s fall. To decode the current situation in El Fa...
2025-11-041h 06
Notes from the World"I think H. P. Lovecraft's time in New York shaped him as the writer that he became."For this special Halloween edition of Notes from the World, we are joined by David J. Goodwin, a historian, writer, past Frederick Lewis Allen Room scholar at the New York Public Library and the author of Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham, a biography of the horror writer’s New York years. His first book, Left Bank of the Hudson: Jersey City and the Artists of 111 1st Street, received the J. Owen Grundy History Award in 2018 and he has written for a variety of publications including Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, The Metropole, The Pr...
2025-10-3129 min
Notes from the World"We have never figured out how to value Africa at its true worth."Howard W. French is a Professor at Columbia Journalism School who spent the bulk of his reporting career as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times working in Latin America, Africa and Asia. He is the author of several books, including A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans and the Making of the Modern World and his new book and the subject of our discussion today, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.
2025-10-281h 06
Notes from the World"Ukraine is literally defending us"Linas Koyala is CEO of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Associate Professor of Partnership at Vilnius University’s Institute of International Relations and Political Science. He is also a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council and Non-Resident Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He joined us to discuss the current situation in the Baltics, the war in Ukraine and its possible implications for wider Europe.
2025-10-0627 min
Notes from the World"Historically, Mexico's government has been complicit in hiding the high levels of violence."ldefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Texas who has reported on Mexican drug cartels and public corruption along the U.S.-Mexico border and in Mexico itself for over 15 years. He is a regular guest on radio and television newscasts including on Telemundo, Univision, CNN and the BBC. He joined us to discuss the situation in the Rio Grande Valley and Mexico's Tamaulipas and the history and current state of drug trafficking and organized crime in the region.
[Note: There were a few issues with the audio on my end which I fixed as best I could, but...
2025-09-1638 min
Notes from the World"This is the face of totalitarianism."Adam Hochschild was born in New York City in 1942, and in his youth worked as a writer and editor for Ramparts magazine and became a co-founder of the magazine Mother Jones. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Atlantic, the New York Times, and many other publications. He is the author of numerous books, most of which are united by dual themes of a granular examination of authoritarianism and despotism, and also of the unquenchable desire, even when facing great odds, of humankind to be free. Those books include The Mirror at Midnight, A South African Journey...
2025-09-0140 min
Notes from the World"Haiti Must Change."Kettly Mars is a Haitian novelist and poet who was born in Port-au-Prince in 1958, one year after the ascent to power of François Duvalier, who would rule the country for the next 14 years. Her work confronts some of the most difficult issues present in Haitian society, from the complicated dynamics that exist between a dictatorship’s adherents and its victims, the gulf between rural and urban society and the exploitation of the most vulnerable in the wake of catastrophes, both natural and man-made. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix Senghor and the Prince Claus Award. We...
2025-08-2337 min
Notes from the WorldSyria's government must "be truly inclusive in a serious and significant manner."Murhaf Jouejati is the founder of Syria Consult and emeritus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Middle East Studies and Global Affairs at the United States Naval Academy. He previously taught at the National Defense University's Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies and George Washington University, where he served as the director of the Middle East Studies Program at the Elliott School of International Affairs. He served as a member of the Syrian National Council (SNC), the first Istanbul-based opposition coalition that was formed in 2011 in response to the uprising against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. He joins us on Notes...
2025-08-1229 min
Notes from the WorldMilei's ArgentinaAmy Booth is managing editor of the Buenos Aires Herald, an English-language online newspaper, and co-founder of the Pirate Wire newsletter. She has been working in Argentina since 2018 and her work on politics, social affairs and human rights has also appeared in the BBC, the Guardian, VICE, and many other outlets. She joins us today on Notes from the World to discuss the presidency of Argentina’s Javier Milei as the country prepares for legislative elections in October and Milei himself prepares to mark two years in power.
2025-08-0645 min
Notes from the World"It is a moral responsibility to listen to the women of Afghanistan."Fereshta Abbasi is a Researcher in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, focusing on research and documentation of ongoing abuses in Afghanistan, where she has documented the human rights situation for a number of organizations for the last decade. She holds a Master of Laws in International law and Strategic Studies from the University of Aberdeen, has been recognized as a Rising Leader by Aspen UK, part of the global network of Aspen Institutes, and as a Development Fellow by the Asia Foundation. We spoke about the ongoing human rights crisis in Afghanistan, the recents indictment of Taliban officials...
2025-07-2925 min
Notes from the WorldThe Essequibo QuestionThe Guyanese politician and diplomat Carl Greenidge has had a varied career in that South American nation’s political sphere over the years, serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Finance and Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. Today, he joins us in his capacity as Agent for the government of Guyana before the International Court of Justice (ICJ), where he is representing Guyana regarding the situation in the Essequibo region in the west of the country, a region which the government of neighboring Venezuela has in recent years claimed for itself and threatened to tak...
2025-07-101h 06
Notes from the World"Dessalines should be remembered as somebody who, above all else, prioritized the abolition of slavery."Julia Gaffield in an Associate Professor of History at William & Mary College in Williamsburg, Virginia. Having identified the only known official copy of the Haitian Declaration of Independence during her archival research in 2010, she is the author of two books, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution, published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2015, and the subject of our conversation today, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom, published by Yale University Press.
2025-06-2941 min
Breaking BattlegroundsFighting Big Pharma and Facing Haiti's CrisisWe kick things off with former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, now spokesperson for the Pharmaceutical Reform Alliance. He joins the show to expose Big Pharma's runaway profits—with margins more than twice the average of S&P 500 companies—and their outrageous spending, including $36 billion on direct-to-consumer advertising. Hayworth explains how President Trump has assembled a nonpartisan, pro-American team to tackle this crisis head-on. This is an American problem that demands an American solution, and the people are united in their demand for change. 84% blame pharmaceutical companies for high prices, and they overwhelmingly support reforms to force drugmakers to put pati...
2025-06-201h 22
Notes from the World"Not Even Game of Thrones Compares to Bolivian Politics."Jhanisse Vaca Daza is the co-founder two organizations: Ríos de Pie, a non-violent citizen movement focused on human rights and environmental rights in Bolivia, and the Jucumari Foundation, whose goal is to contribute to humanitarian and environmental efforts across Latin America. Currently serving as the activism outreach specialist and manager of the Freedom Fellowship programme at the Human Rights Foundation, a non-profit that focuses on promoting and protecting human rights globally with an emphasis on closed societies, she spoke to Notes from the World about the environmental struggles in Bolivia, the nation’s democratic challenges and her thoughts on its...
2025-06-1133 min
Notes from the WorldRun From Rain: A Conversation with Jess DiPierro ObertJess DiPierro Obert is a writer, photographer and filmmaker who splits her time between Brooklyn and Haiti, where she has worked since 2016. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the New Humanitarian, Buzzfeed, The Economist’s 1843 Magazine, PBS Newshour and other outlets. Her new film, Kouri Pou Lapli, or Run from Rain, is a short documentary that tells the story of 16-year-old Macul Nelson, who had to flee from Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, to the town of Mirebalais, in the country’s Plateau Central region.
2025-06-0129 min
Notes from the World"In Peru, having power means having the capacity to kill."Eduardo González Cueva is a Peruvian human rights consultant and sociologist specializing in transitional justice. He participated in Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission at the end of its 20 year internal armed conflict and provides technical and strategic advice connected to the establishment and operations of truth and reconciliation processes in a number of countries around the world. We spoke to him on Notes from the World about the situation in Peru more than two years after the ouster of President Pedro Castillo and about the country’s tangled political and social history.
[Image: Caja Negra (2001) by Alfredo Márquez and...
2025-05-1646 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation with Joe BoydFor this week’s episode of Notes from the World, we had the great pleasure of speaking with the United States-born, British-based record producer Joe Boyd, who has helmed some of the most important recordings of some of the most influential musicians of the last sixty years, including Nick Drake, Pink Floyd, Richard and Linda Thompson, Vashti Bunyan, Toots and the Maytals and R.E.M. He is also the author of two fascinating books, 2017’s White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s and this year’s And the Roots of Rhythm Remain: A Journey Through Global Music. Our conversation ranged...
2025-05-0252 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation About Ukraine’s Literature and Nationhood With Oksana LutsyshynaOksana Lutsyshyna is a Ukrainian author and translator who currently serves as Associate Professor of Instruction in Ukrainian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. A native of Uzhhorod in Western Ukraine, she is the author of, among other works, the novels Ivan and Phoebe and Love Life as well as the poetry collections Persephone Blues and Felicity's Poems. She has been the recipient of the Taras Shevchenko National Award in Fiction and the Lviv City of Literature UNESCO Prize and is a member of PEN Ukraine. We discussed Ukraine’s vibrant literary culture and the state of Ukraine in th...
2025-04-2532 min
Breaking BattlegroundsHaiti on the Brink with Michael Deibert and Congressman Darrell Issa on Reining in Rogue JudgesThis week on Breaking Battlegrounds, hosts Chuck Warren and Sam Stone are joined by journalist and author Michael Deibert for an update on Haiti, where armed gangs are rapidly closing in on the capital, Port-au-Prince. With nearly 30 years of experience covering the region, Michael explains how the country has descended into chaos, what role America can play, and why only a Haitian-led solution offers real hope. Later in the show, Congressman Darrell Issa discusses his No Rogue Rulings Act, aimed at reining in activist federal judges and stopping nationwide injunctions from single district courts, along with his Sanctuary City...
2025-03-281h 13
Notes from the World"Palestinians are just like any other human beings."Dalia Alahmad is a writer and podcast producer from Jenin, now based in Ramallah, who works at the Palestine office of the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) as an outreach coordinator, though she is speaking here in her capacity as a private citizen. Notes from the World spoke to her about daily life in the West Bank and some of what the media coverage misses about Palestinians and their lives.
2025-03-2839 min
Dakota Town HallNo Daycares, No Departments of EducationThis week we welcome Michael Bockorny from the Economic Development Professionals Association of South Dakota and Senator Randy Deibert from District 31. We dive into the childcare veto discussion, then discuss the accessibility of the new governor, and explore the connection between economic development and property taxes. Plus, the Department of Education... Or not. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2025-03-211h 00
Notes from the World"We want Elon Musk out of the government.": A look behind the Tesla Takedown protestsTesla Takedown is a protest movement that grew out of the fury at the actions of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Musk, the world’s richest man, gave Donald Trump and Republican Party $290 million for the 2024 election cycle, thus becoming the largest individual donor during that election. Adam Sheridan is the volunteer Lead Organizer for Cooper River Indivisible, an affiliate chapter in southern New Jersey of the national Indivisible organization, which is a progressive movement and organization in the United States initiated in 2016 as a reaction to the first election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. He has be...
2025-03-2120 min
Notes from the WorldHonduras Under the Gun: A Conversation with Jared OlsonJared Olson is a writer and independent investigative journalist covering extractivism, organized crime and state violence in Honduras and Mexico. Based between Mexico City and San Pedro Sula, Honduras, his work has been published in The Baffler, The Nation, Foreign Policy, The New Humanitarian, Al Jazeera and elsewhere. He joined us on Notes from the World to discuss the current state of the Central American nation of Honduras under the rule of Xiomara Castro, its history and where it may be heading.
2025-03-1345 min
Democracy DialoguesHaiti on the Brink“The mood [in Haiti] I would describe as despair and near panic,” says journalist Michael Deibert in a Democracy Dialogues interview with AS/COA Vice President Eric Farnsworth. Drawing on his on-the-ground reporting and daily contact with Haitians, Deibert outlines how armed groups—some with as many as 14,000 members—are expanding their control over Port-au-Prince and other parts of the country. With Haiti's police force severely understaffed and under-equipped, and international security missions struggling to make an impact, "the small section of Port-au-Prince where life is not under gang control is getting smaller and smaller," Deibert warns. He traces th...
2025-03-1124 min
Let's Talk LoyaltyWinning Over the Fickle Customer: Marigold CMO Ashley Deibert shares insights from the 2025 Consumer Trends Index (#650)Our guest today is Ashley Deibert, Chief Marketing Officer, Marigold. Ashley leads marketing at Marigold and oversees global go-to-market strategy, brand positioning, and expanding the company’s presence across North America, Latin America, EMEA, APAC, and Japan. Ashley is recognized for her ability to overhaul marketing infrastructures, define go-to-market strategies, and scale multi-million-dollar growth globally.We cover lots of ground in this conversation, while digging into a new report from Marigold, The 2025 Consumer Trends Index (CTI). The report examines what makes today’s consumers tick and offers insights across multiple dimensions of cross...
2025-03-1148 min
Notes from the WorldGuatemala's Struggle Against ImpunitySteven Dudley is the co-founder and co-director of InSight Crime, a think tank and media organization that seeks to deepen and inform the debate about organized crime and citizen security in the Americas. He is the author of two books, MS-13: The Making of America’s Most Notorious Gang (HarperCollins, 2020) and Walking Ghosts: Murder and Guerrilla Politics in Colombia (Routledge 2004). He has reported from Latin America and the Caribbean for over two decades including from Colombia, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba, Haiti and from the subject our our conversation today, Guatemala. .
Last month, InSight Crime published an in-depth report examining how Guatemala’s Pr...
2025-02-2842 min
Notes from the World"What we have left is the street and a resistance movement"Rafael Trelles was born in the Santurce neighborhood of San Juan in 1957 and began studying painting at the age of eleven under the instruction of Catalan painter Julio Yort. In 1980, Trelles graduated from the Universidad de Puerto Rico with a degree in Fine Arts, magna cum laude. In 1983, he pursued graduate studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). His work has been exhibited internationally including in New York, Florida, Mexico and in a major exhibition in 2018, Santurce, un libro mural, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico. He resides and works in San Jua...
2025-02-1518 min
SpyTalkA “Bonanza" of Spyware AbusesRonald Deibert of Citizen Lab tells host Michael Isikoff how his research firm has uncovered the shocking abuse of commercial spyware by foreign governments and spy agencies around the world, resulting in a proliferation of "Watergate-like” scandals.Follow our guest:Ron Deiberthttps://x.com/RonDeibertChasing Shadowshttps://www.simonandschuster.ca/books/Chasing-Shadows/The Citizen Labhttps://citizenlab.ca/https://x.com/citizenlab
Follow Jeff Stein on Twitter:https://twitter.com/SpyTalkerFollow Karen Greenberg on Twitterhttps://x.com/Ka...
2025-01-3149 min
Notes from the World"People don’t suffer less because of the identity of the perpetrator. They suffer equally."Rayhan Asat was born in Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, referred to by China, the political entity that governs it, as an autonomous region. Since 2014, the Chinese government has committed a series of ongoing human rights abuses against the Uyghurs - a Turkic Muslim ethnic group in Xinjiang - that have been documented to include mass arbitrary arrests and detention, torture, mass surveillance, cultural and religious persecution, family separation, forced labor and violations of reproductive rights. In August 2022, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report looking at the treatment of Uyghurs and oth...
2025-01-3049 min
Notes from the WorldVenezuela “is a state that is not just an ally of organized crime but one that has been taken over by organized crime”Ewald Scharfenberg is the founder of the Venezuelan investigative website Armando.Info. For more than a decade, the site has provided readers with a unique window into the workings of Venezuela's authoritarian regime and the toll its activities and abuses have taken on the country's population. Scharfenberg, editor Roberto Deniz, and two other Armando Info journalists fled Venezuela after the government persecuted them for their reporting on corruption in a state food distribution program. I spoke with him about Venezuela’s struggle to regain its democracy, the criminal nature of the Maduro regime, the shadowy figure of Alex Saab and th...
2025-01-2140 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 490Comic Reviews: DC Aquaman 1 by Jeremy Adams, John Timms, Rex Lokus Marvel Magik 1 by Ashley Allen, German Peralta, Arthur Hesli New Champions 1 by Steve Foxe, Ivan Fiorelli, Ig Guara, Arthur Hesli What If… Mickey and Friends Became the Fantastic Four? by Steve Behling, Riccardo Secchi, Lorenzo Pastrovicchio, Lucio Ruvidotti What If… Galactus Transformed Gambit? by Josh Trujillo, Manuel Garcia, Ceci de la Cruz Marvel Unlimited Alligator Loki 43 by Alyssa Wong, Bob Quinn Boom Jim Henson Presents 1 by Shannon Watters, Max Sarin, Lisa Moore; Jill Tew, Carola Borelli, Gloria Martinelli; Seanan McGuire, Countandra, Valentina Pinto Dark Horse Those Not Afra...
2025-01-182h 11
Notes from the WorldHaiti's Earthquake, 15 Years On: A Conversation with Louino RobillardAs we mark the 15th anniversary of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, this week on Notes from the World we speak with Louino Robillard, a Haitian social activist who was born in Saint-Raphaël, in Haiti’s north, and raised in Cité Soleil, one of the most populous neighborhoods of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, and also one of its most deprived. The driving force behind a number of organizations in Haiti including the Konbit Solèy Leve, Konbit Bibliyotèk Site Solèy and Pak Nan Ginen, he focuses on peacebuilding initiatives in urban neighborhoods and on sustainable development in the Haiti...
2025-01-1239 min
Notes from the World“The most important thing is not to despair.”On this week’s episode of Notes from the World, we speak with David Frum, a Canadian-American political commentator and writer for The Atlantic, about what we can expect from the impending second presidential term of Donald Trump. A former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, Frum is the author of several books, including Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy and Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic.
2024-12-1728 min
Notes from the World"Hope is reignited and we can go back and rebuild Syria without tyranny."On this week’s episode of Notes from the World, we speak to Sarah Hunaidi, a Syrian writer and human rights advocate, about the fall of the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad and what may lie ahead for that country. Sarah's work has been published by Foreign Policy, the Independent, Chatham House, Buzzfeed, and the New Arab among other publications. She provides political analysis and commentary on refugee and gender issues in the Middle East and the diaspora, and has appeared regularly on channels like NPR, BBC, and Aljazeera. She graduated from Harvard University with a Master’s Degree in Middle East...
2024-12-0928 min
Breaking Battlegrounds Official PodcastsPodcast 222: Michael Deibert Discusses Haiti’s Gang Violence & Elizabeth Mitchell on States Protecting Minors from Gender-Affirming CareThis week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck Warren and Sam Stone are joined by Michael Deibert, who explores the contrasts between Haiti 30 years ago and its current state. He discusses the nation’s political collapse, rampant gang violence, and his interview with gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, known as “Barbecue.” Michael emphasizes the need for stronger governance, economic opportunities, […]
2024-12-0700 minBreaking Battlegrounds Official PodcastsPodcast 222: Michael Deibert Discusses Haiti’s Gang Violence & Elizabeth Mitchell on States Protecting Minors from Gender-Affirming CareThis week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck Warren and Sam Stone are joined by Michael Deibert, who explores the contrasts between Haiti 30 years ago and its current state. He discusses the nation’s political collapse, rampant gang violence, and his interview with gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, known as “Barbecue.” Michael emphasizes the need for stronger governance, economic opportunities, […]
2024-12-0700 min
Breaking BattlegroundsMichael Deibert Discusses Haiti's Gang Violence & Elizabeth Mitchell on States Protecting Minors from Gender-Affirming CareThis week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck Warren and Sam Stone are joined by Michael Deibert, who explores the contrasts between Haiti 30 years ago and its current state. He discusses the nation's political collapse, rampant gang violence, and his interview with gang leader Jimmy Chérizier, known as "Barbecue." Michael emphasizes the need for stronger governance, economic opportunities, and enhanced international collaboration to address Haiti's ongoing crisis and create pathways to stability. Later, Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell of The Daily Signal also joins the program to recap recent Supreme Court arguments on state laws banning gender-affirming care for minors. Drawing from h...
2024-12-061h 13Dakota Town HallWhip It GoodWe're taking next week off, so this week we Whip It Good with the new Majority Whip, D31's Ramdy Deibert. We discuss committee assignments and the division, or maybe lack of, in GOP leadership. D1's Michael Rohl joins the show to discuss the hot topics of the week in South Dakota. BIll Off 2025 gets early heat with Rohl vs TVH. Taft fat vs Teddy fat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-11-2353 min
Notes from the World“The Russians are always the ones in charge. They give the orders.”On this week’s episode of Notes from the World, we speak to Philip Obaji Jr, a Nigerian journalist who currently serves as correspondent for The Daily Beast covering sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, his work has focused on the activities in the region of the Russian state-funded private military company the Wagner Group and its successor, the Africa Corps, whose abuses against civilian populations and links to the governments of the Central African Republic, Mali and elsewhere we discuss in detail during our conversation. In 2022, he was awarded the Jaime Brunet International Human Rights Prize and the following year he...
2024-11-2131 min
Notes from the WorldA Discussion with Roqia SamimThis week on Notes from the World, we discuss the current situation in Afghanistan with Roqia Samim, the Program Director for Research and Policy at the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights at Notre Dame Law School.
Roqia obtained her law degree from the Law and Political Science School of Herat University and also holds an LL.M degree in international human rights law from Notre Dame Law School. Roqia served as Human Rights Advocate at the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and worked as the Provincial Coordinator for the Women Leadership Development program with USAID. As an Associate...
2024-11-1224 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation with Michela WrongThis week on Notes from the World, we speak with Michela Wrong, a British journalist and author who has spent three decades covering Africa and who is the author of, among other books, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo, I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (about Eritrea) and Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad, which focuses on the murder of Rwanda’s former head of intelligence Patrick Karegeya in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2013. We sp...
2024-10-3145 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation with author Sarah GerardThis week on Notes from the World, we speak to author Sarah Gerard about her new book, Carrie Carolyn Coco, which recounts the brief life of writer Carolyn Bush, the problematic leadership at my alma mater Bard College, the changing face of her native Florida and the geographies of grief.
2024-09-1832 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation with Michael PierseFor this week's episode of Notes from the World, I spoke with Michael Pierse, a Senior Lecturer at Queens University Belfast, about post-Brexit Northern Ireland, the recent far-right agitation there, the global actors helping to stir it & the possible political trajectory on both sides of the border. Go raibh maith agat, Michael.
[Note: I had some challenges splicing the two dialogue streams together this time, but I did my highly-inexpert best and hope it won't distract from the discussion too much. ]
2024-09-0534 min
Notes from the WorldA Conversation with Manisha SinhaWe speak to the noted historian Manisha Sinha as we tackle the aftermath of the U.S. Civil War, the class elements of white reaction against Reconstruction, the role of Southern elites, the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, the so-called Compromise of 1877 and the Wilmington Coup of 1898. A fascinating and very relevant discussion.
Manisha Sinha is the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History at the University of Connecticut and an authority on the history of slavery and abolition and the Civil War and Reconstruction. She is the author of The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology...
2024-08-1346 min
Notes from the World“When we’re talking about Dodik, we’re talking about Vučić”Jasmin Muyanović is a political scientist and policy specialist focusing on southeastern Europe. Born in Sarajevo, he is currently a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at the Newlines Institute, a member of the Advisory Council of the Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University's Pell Center for International Relations and an Advisory Board member of the Kulin Initiative, which focuses on political, economic and social policies in Bosnia & Herzegovina. He is the author of two books, Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans (Hurst Publishers and Oxford University Press, 2018) and The Bosniaks: Nationhood after Genocide (Hurst Publishers & Oxford University Press, 2023). H...
2024-07-0253 min
Notes from the World“Petro is trying to bring us to a point of no return”In this week's episode of the Notes from the World podcast, I speak to Sergio Guzmán, the director and co-founder of Colombia Risk Analysis, which provides commercial, security and political risk analysis for the Andean Region. As we approach the two year mark of his time in office, we examine the presidency of Colombia’s Gustavo Petro - its struggles with Congress, its environmental ambitions, Colombia’s security situation and the government’s negotiations with the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) guerrilla insurgency, among other issues. We also look at where Colombia may be heading in the coming mo...
2024-06-1731 min
Notes from the WorldMichael Deibert & Juan Martinez d'Aubuisson on El SalvadorIn this week's episode of the Notes from the World podcast, I speak to El Salvador's Juan Martinez d'Aubuisson, a journalist and anthropologist who has extensively researched that country's gangs and their links to the political and economic sectors since 2008, as well as performing extensive fieldwork in Honduras. He is the author of several books, including Ver, oír y callar: Un año con la Mara Salvatrucha 13 (Pepitas de Calabaza, 2019) and El niño de Hollywood (Debate, 2018), the latter in collaboration with his brother, Óscar Martínez, and translated into English as The Hollywood Kid (Verso, 2019). His work has appea...
2024-05-1323 min
Notes from the WorldMichael Deibert and Gershon Baskin on Israel & PalestineIn this episode, I speak with Israeli journalist, social and political activist and hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin about the 7 October attacks by Hamas, Israel's war in Gaza, the results of Benjamin Netanyahu’s disastrous reign and what the future might hold for the people of Israel and Palestine. This interview was recorded on 1 April 2024.
2024-04-1233 min
Notes from the WorldMichael Deibert and Louis-Henri Mars on the crisis in HaitiMichael Deibert speaks with Louis-Henri Mars, executive director of Lakou Lapè, about the role that Haiti's armed groups have played in the current crisis, the history of their evolution beyond mere political tools and want can be done to ameliorate the economic and social conditions in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince that give rise to them.
Please learn more about their work at https://lakoulape.org.
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A special thanks to Daniela Guzman Peña for her help with this episode.
2024-03-2341 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 433 Comic Reviews: DC Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight 1 by Jeff Parker, Michele Bandini, Alex Sinclair Titans: Beast World Tour – Metropolis by Nicole Maines, Steve Orlando, Fico Ossio; Dan Jurgens, Anthony Marques, Joe Prado, Wade Von Grawbadger, Pete Pantazis Titans: Beast World – Waller Rising by Chuck Brown, Keron Grant Marvel Marvel's Voices: Avengers by Utkarsh Amdubkar, Tadam Gyadu, Michael Bartolo, Justina Ireland, Karen Darboe, Ceci de la Cruz, Jason Concepcion, Moises Hidalgo, Bryan Valenza, Robbie Thompson, Sid Kotian, Adriano Di Benedetto, Juancho Velez Sentry 1 by Jason Loo, Luigi Zagaria, Arthur Hesli Thunderbolts 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Geraldo Borges, Arth...
2023-12-162h 26
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 393 Comic Reviews: DC Batman vs. Robin 5 by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, Jordie Bellaire DC/RWBY 1 by Marguerite Bennett, Megan Hetrick, Marissa Louise Shazam: Fury of the Gods Special – Shazamily Matters by Zachary Levi, D.J. Cotrona, Colleen Doran, Freddie Williams II, Andrew Dalhouse, Faithe Herman, Amanda Deibert, Erica Henderson, Tim Seeley, Jorge Corona, Sarah Stern, David Sandberg, Scott Kolins, John Kalisz, Ross Butler, Josh Trujillo, Andrew Dillon, Grace Caroline Currey, Damian Fulton, Nick Filardi, Adam Brody, Kenny Porter, Mike Norton, Allen Passalaqua, Henry Gayden, Scott Godlewski, Alex Guimaraes Marvel Spider-Verse Unlimited 39 by Stephanie Williams, EJ Su, Pete Pantazis Al...
2023-03-082h 38
Comic Book ClubThe Stack: The Human Target, Rogue & Gambit And MoreOn this week's Stack podcast for the week of March 1, 2023, we've got new comic book reviews for:The Human Target #12DC ComicsWritten by Tom KingArt by Greg SmallwoodRogue & Gambit #1 MarvelWritten by Stephanie PhillipsArt by Carlos GómezPhantom Road #1 Image ComicsWritten by Jeff LemireArt by Gabriel H. WaltaShazam: Fury of the Gods Special - Shazamily Matters #1
2023-03-011h 24
The StackThe Stack: The Human Target, Rogue & Gambit And MoreOn this week's Stack podcast for the week of March 1, 2023, we've got new comic book reviews for:The Human Target #12DC ComicsWritten by Tom KingArt by Greg SmallwoodRogue & Gambit #1 MarvelWritten by Stephanie PhillipsArt by Carlos GómezPhantom Road #1 Image ComicsWritten by Jeff LemireArt by Gabriel H. WaltaShazam: Fury of the Gods Special - Shazamily Matters #1
2023-03-011h 24
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 389Comic Reviews: DC Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn by Alex Segura, Clayton Henry, Marcelo Maiolo, Alex Paknadel, Christopher Mitten, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Greg Pak, Minkyu Jung, Sunny Gho, Dennis Culver, Jesus Merino Flash One Minute War Special by Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarin, Matt Ryan, Jason Paz, Matt Herms, Serg Acuna, Rebecca Nalty, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, George Kambadais Batman: Legends of Gotham by Andy Diggle, Karl Mostert, Romulo Fajardo Jr DC's Harley Quinn Romances by Alexis Quasarano, Max Sarin, Marissa Louise, Zipporah Smith, Will Robson, Andrew Dalhouse, Amanda Deibert, Adriana Melo, John Kalisz, Frank Allen, John McCrea, Mike Spicer...
2023-02-053h 01
Break It Down ShowMichael Deibert - Haiti, the Caribbean and Drug CartelsMichael Deibert - Haiti, the Caribbean and Drug Cartels - Michael Deibert is the author of In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America’s Drug War in Mexico (Lyons Press, 2014), The Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books, 2013) and Notes from the Last Testament: The Struggle for Haiti (Seven Stories Press, 2005). Get the latest news about Michael at: A first-timer on the Break it Down Show, Michael converses with us on the situation in Haiti, the corruption, poverty and is there anything that can be done to make the situation be...
2023-01-2658 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 388Comic Reviews: DC Action Comics 1051 by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Rafa Sandoval, Matt Herms, Dan Jurgens, Lee Weeks, Elizabeth Breitweiser, Leah Williams, Marguerite Sauvage Batman: One Bad Day - Catwoman by G. Willow Wilson, Jamie McKelvie Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods by Francis Manapul, Dan Watters, Max Dunbar, Romulo Fajardo Jr., Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Jack Herbert, Alex Guimaraes, Josie Campbell, Caitlin Yarsky, Jordie Bellaire Marvel Murderworld: Wolverine by Jim Zub, Ray Fawkes, Carlos Nieto, Victor Nava, Matt Milla Sins of Sinister 1 by Kieron Gillen, Lucas Werneck, Geoffrey Shaw, Marco Checchetto, Juan Jose Ryp, David Baldeon, Travel Foreman, Carlos...
2023-01-252h 12
Music BuddySolstimas! The Most Buddy-ful Time of the YearIt's that time of the year again! Festive bells, sparkly lights, caroling, visiting with friends and family, walking in the snow (or maybe on the beach?), and dreaming of good things to come. For this special episode, we're embracing as much of the season as possible. Let's call it "Solstimas". You’ll hear from a plethora of festive musical guests, who generously offer up their seasonal favourites.GUESTS: (2:56) Andy Maize - The Grinch That Stole Christmas………………..(5:14) Lisa Sabino - "2,000 Miles" (performed by Skydiggers) / "Same Old Lang Syne" (D...
2022-12-211h 15
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 366Comic Reviews: DC Olympus Rebirth by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Caitlin Yarsky, Jordie Bellaire Tales of the Human Target by Tom King, Greg Smallwood, Mikel Janin, Kevin Maguire, Rafael Albuquerque, Dave Stewart, Alex Sinclair, Arif Prianto Marvel A.X.E. Judgment Day 3 by Kieron Gillen, Valerio Schiti, Marte Gracia Damage Control 1 by Hans Rodionoff, Adam Goldberg, Charlotte Fullerton, Will Robson, Ruth Redmond, Jay Fosgitt Fantastic Four 46 by Dan Slott, Cafu, Jesus Aburtov ComiXology New America 1 by Curt Pires, Lucas Casalanguida, Mark Dale Dark Horse Minor Threats 1 by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, Scott Hepburn, Ian Herring Star Wars: Hyperspace...
2022-09-073h 00The StackThe Stack: Fantastic Four, Human Target And MoreOn this week's Stack podcast:Fantastic Four #46MarvelWritten by Dan SlottArt by CafuTales of the Human Target #1DC ComicsWritten by Tom King Art by Kevin Maguire, Mikel Janín, Rafael Albuquerque, Greg SmallwoodDeadly Class #55Image ComicsWritten by Rick RemenderArt by Wes CraigWynd: The Throne In The Sky #1BOOM! StudiosWr...
2022-08-241h 02Comic Book ClubThe Stack: Fantastic Four, Human Target And MoreOn this week's Stack podcast:Fantastic Four #46MarvelWritten by Dan SlottArt by CafuTales of the Human Target #1DC ComicsWritten by Tom King Art by Kevin Maguire, Mikel Janín, Rafael Albuquerque, Greg SmallwoodDeadly Class #55Image ComicsWritten by Rick RemenderArt by Wes CraigWynd: The Throne In The Sky #1BOOM! StudiosWr...
2022-08-241h 02
Star Wars Splash PageEpisode #290 -- Get the Party StartedNo comics this week but plenty of new information about upcoming Star Wars comics as we discuss Star Wars Celebration Anaheim (May 26-29) and what we sort of comics-related news we're hoping might be revealed.There's also secret catch phrase and, if you bump into Jeff at SWCA and are the first to say it to him, you've just won yourself Marvel's three-volume omnibus collection of the 1977-86 Star Wars series. We'll even cover the shipping and handling. (For real!)Comics out today and broken down on this week's episode:_ NoneStar Wars...
2022-05-2516 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 337Comic Reviews: DC Monkey Prince 1 by Gene Luen Yang, Bernard Chang, Sebastian Cheng Justice League Incarnate 4 by Joshua Williamson, Dennis Culver, Andrei Bressan, Mike Norton, Chris Burnham, Hi-Fi Marvel Fantastic Four: Reckoning War Alpha by Dan Slott, Carlos Magno, Carlos Pacheco, Rafael Fonteriz, Guru eFX Sabretooth 1 by Victor LaValle, Leonard Kirk, Rain Beredo Savage Spider-Man 1 by Joe Kelly, Gerardo Sandoval, Victor Nava, Chris Sotomayor Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser: The Halcyon Legacy 1 by Ethan Sacks, Will Sliney, Rachelle Rosenberg X-Cellent 1 by Peter Milligan, Michael Allred, Laura Allred Mighty Marvel Holiday Special - Year of the Wong Image Geiger 80-Page...
2022-02-042h 48
HistoriandoEp. 014 - Haití y el Caribe Hispano | Haiti and the Hispanic Caribbean - Michael DeibertEl Dr. Edwin R. Jusino Aldarondo presenta al periodista y escritor Michael Deibert quien es experto en temas sobre Haití. Ambos hablan temas sobre la Revolución Haitiana y sus efectos en el Haití moderno contrastado con su tradición de autoritarismo. Además comparan y contrastan las sociedades de origen francesa e hispanas en las Antillas Mayores.
(THIS PODCAST IS IN SPANGLISH)
Pueden contactar al Sr. Deibert via su cuenta de Twitter: @michaelcdeibert
Para contactar al Dr. Jusino pueden hacerlo via sus redes sociales de Twitter e Instagram: @erjusinoa.
Para coment...
2022-02-031h 14
Law BytesEpisode 114: The Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert on Protecting Society from Surveillance SoftwareThe Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, led by Professor Ron Deibert, has a well-earned reputation for uncovering surveillance technologies and security vulnerabilities with research and reports that attract immediate attention worldwide. Professor Deibert has won an incredible array of awards and accolades for his remarkable work, including the Order of Ontario and the EFF’s Pioneer Award. In 2020, he delivered the Massey Lectures, based on his book for the lectures, Reset: Reclaiming the Internet for Civil Society. Professor Deibert joins the Law Bytes podcast to talk about the lab, his work, and the threat of what he cal...
2022-01-2435 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 316Comic Reviews: Black Manta 1 by Chuck Brown, Valentine De Landro, Marissa Louise Green Lantern Annual 2021 by Ryan Cady, Tom Derenick, Sami Basri, Hi-Fi Suicide Squad Annual 2021 by Robbie Thompson, Dexter Soy, Eduardo Pansica, Julio Ferreira, Chris Sotomayor DC Super Hero Girls: Ghosting by Amanda Deibert, Yancey Labat Whistle OGN by E. Lockhart, Manuel Preitano Deadpool: Black, White and Blood 2 by David Lapham, Maria Lapham, Karla Pacheco, Daniel Warren Johnson, Peter Woods, Leonard Kirk, Rachelle Rosenberg Extreme Carnage: Toxin by Steve Orlando, Gerardo Sandoval, Beyruth, Nava, Chris Sotomayor Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land 1 by Zac Thompson, German Garcia...
2021-09-112h 39
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 307Comic Reviews: Batman Secret Files: Signal by Tony Patrick, Christian Duce, Luis Guerrero Justice League Infinity 1 by J.M. DeMatteis, James Tucker, Ethen Beavers, Nick Filardi Amazing Spider-Man Annual 2 by Karla Pacheco, Jed MacKay, Eleonora Carlini, Juan Ferreyra, Erick Arciniega Extreme Carnage Alpha by Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Manuel Garcia, Cam Smith, Marc Deering, Roberto Poggi, Guru eFX X-Men 1 by Gerry Duggan, Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia Red Sonja: Black, White, Red 1 by Mark Russell, Cat Staggs, Ben Dewey, Amanda Deibert, Kurt Busiek Disney's Doorways to Danger OGN by Tom Angleberger, Jeffrey Harvey Ordinary Gods 1 by Kyle Higgins, Jana Tropper...
2021-07-062h 52
Page Fright: A Poetry Podcast56. Finding Meaning in Mundanity w/ Michael DeibertMichael Deibert discusses being an emerging writer, reading practices, and his debut chapbook. Andrew talks to Michael about mundane images and fearing writing about himself. It's a great time!
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Michael Deibert is a poet and painter currently living between Toronto and Vancouver, and studying at the University of British Columbia. His debut chapbook, The Gunshot Before the Marathon, was published by the Soap Box Press in 2019.
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2021-06-1151 min
The Broken LighthouseEpisode No. 4: Fabian Michael Moran, SongwriterEpisode No. 4 is with Fabian Michael Moran. He is a Texas based singer-songwriter. Currently he is frontman of Little Universe. He's also a solo artist with an EP in the works right now. His previous bands include Fabian & The Breaks and Early Morning Creatures. We track his life through lens of him honing his craft and how that got him to where he is. There's a lot of shout outs to other wonderful musicians and producers throughout the show. He's truly one of the greatest people I've had the pleasure of spending extended time with and it was an h...
2021-03-291h 28
Democracy ForumDemocracy Forum 2/19/21: Can Democracy Survive the Internet?Host: Ann Luther, League of Women Voters of Maine -Our information ecosystem and how it’s contributed to this very divisive moment in American politics: -How did it go wrong, can we fix it? -What role do mis- and dis-information, social media, media silos, and alternative realities play in fostering extremism? -How are these issues playing out right here in real-world Maine? -What remedies are suggested by research? Guests: Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Director of The Citizen LabMunk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and author of the new book, Reset: Reclaiming th...
2021-02-1959 min
Rabbitt Stew ComicsEpisode 269Top 20 September sales, DC Solicits Comics Reviews: Rorschach 1 by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, Dave Stewart DC: The Doomed and the Damned by John Arcudi, Brandon Thomas, Kenny Porter, Amanda Deibert, Garth Ennis, Marv Wolfman, Amedeo Turturro, Saladin Ahmed, Travis Moore, Riley Rossmo, PJ Holden, Tom Mandra, Mike Perkins, Daniel Sampere, Leonardo Manco, Max Fiumara, Dominike Stanton, Baldemar Rivas, John Kalisz, Andy Troy, Adriano Lucas, Ivan Plascencia, Marissa Louise, Sian Mandrake, Mike Spicer, Alejandro Sanchez Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater, Morgan Beem Amazing Spider-Man 50 by Matthew Rosenberg, Nick Spencer, Federico Vicentini Warhammer 40,000: Marneus Calgar 1 by...
2020-10-202h 54
2019-03-0750 minCiTR -- Fill-in ShowsMichael Deibert's Radio Riddle HourWe hear some more riddles, get a few mystery callers, and listen to some rockin' tunes!
2019-03-0659 minCiTR -- Fill-in ShowsMichael Deibert's Radio Riddle HourWe listen to music, talk about fundrive, and hear some riddles!
2019-03-0459 min
What We Will Abide#047 – On the Ground: Michael DeibertJournalist Michael Deibert has called several countries --if not continents-- home, and has written several books, including In the Shadow of Saint Death: The Gulf Cartel and the Price of America's Drug War in Mexico, and most recently Haiti Will Not Perish: A Recent History, which came out earlier this year.He’s had articles published in The Guardian, Truthdig, The Huffington Post and Slate among others. He currently resides in Lancaster, but as his résumé clearly shows, staying put isn’t exactly his game. We sat together on a relatively cool summer morning in the cemete...
2017-08-2641 min
Best of The Miami Book Fair2013 Miami Book Fair | Michael DeibertThe Congo has been at the center of the deadliest series of conflicts since the Second World War, and now hosts the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world. In Democratic Republic of Congo: Between Hope and Despair (Zed Books; $19.95) journalist and author Michael Deibert's narrative travels from war-torn villages to the chaotic, pulsing capital […]
2013-12-1010 min
Coverage of the Haiti Earthquake (The Takeaway)Haitians Find Help Through the AirwavesRadio has always been an important part of Haitian society. And since the earthquake, it has played an even more critical role, serving as the primary mode of transmitting information about aid. We talk with Michael Deibert, a freelance journalist who recently returned from Haiti and spent time with local radio hosts there. We also speak to Emilio San Pedro, an editor for Connexion Haiti, a new lifeline BBC program broadcast on six stations throughout Haiti.
Read Michael Deibert's article in Slate, "Haiti After The Earthquake."
2010-02-1006 min