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Podcast from the Foreign Press Association USA. The Foreign Press Association was founded in New York on 16th February, 1918 as the Association of Foreign Correspondents. After WW II the name was changed to the Foreign Press Association to better reflect our membership's titles and positions. It has no ties with any government and is free from all national and political bias. It is a strictly independent, not-for-profit organization. ​ www.foreignpressassociation.org
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Overlooked in Ridley Scott’s biopic is Napoleon’s role in trying to reintroduce slavery into Haiti, but then the world often forgets the chaos it has helped introduce there for over two centuries. Now with ports and airports closed following its descent into lawlessness, Haiti’s children suffer daily from the country’s growing food crisis. In this …
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With a 100% accuracy rate in Russian election forecasts, Tinatin Japaridze discussed what comes next for Russia and its neighbors in our next FPA briefing. How will the ghost of Stalin continue to shape Putin’s worldview, dreams of empire, and his willingness to light a fire under the current geopolitical world order?Tinatin Japaridze is Eurasia Gr…
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With Trump Republicans withholding military support to Ukraine, former National Security Advisor & UN Ambassador John Bolton made headlines with his straight talking- there will be “celebrations in the Kremlin if Trump is re-elected”.Bolton is one of the few leading Republicans who have dared to highlight the geopolitical consequences of a second T…
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FPA’s briefing with Chris Gunness, former BBC UN World Correspondent and later UNRWA Spokesperson, and Ben Armbruster, Quincy Institute, on UNRWA considered the questions that far too many media failed to ask. Weeks after too many governments cut funding to UNRWA - in defiance of the ICJ’s admonitions - Israel has not offered the media, or the gove…
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Children account for 13% of all AIDS-related deaths even though they comprise 4% of all people living with HIV globally. For over 35 years, the Elizabeth Glaser AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) has championed the needs of children and their families in the global efforts to eliminate AIDS. EGPAF has reached over 35 million pregnant women with services to pr…
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With more than 20,000 Palestinians dead, areas of Gaza turned to rubble, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan has yet to investigate either Israel or Hamas for the deaths on and after 7 October– despite his exemplary hair trigger speed against Vladimir Putin for war crimes committed in Ukraine.With South Africa's referral of Israel to the International Court …
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Antonio Guterres has invoked his little used powers to convene a Security Council meeting on Gaza and the US vetoed it. Ironically the day after, 9th December, was the International Day of Commemoration & Dignity of Victims of the Crime of Genocide & Prevention of this Crime. This past week also saw the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration…
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George Orwell practiced what many journalists preach, truth-telling in the face of pressure. ​ But decades later it’s like Groundhog Day. Perennially, politicians stage a new "deja vu all over again" action replay of Animal Farm and 1984. As Masha Karp points out, the second translation of Orwell’s fable was into Ukrainian - and thousands of copies…
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Eric Alterman's We Are Not One: A History of America's Fight Over Israel is a very timely, critical examination of how the "pro-Israel" side has dominated public discourse in the US to the point that for many decades only one side of the argument could be heard by all but the most specialized of audiences. Today that has changed considerably, and I…
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The US’s flyover country is taking off, boosted by technology. Previously known for industry and agriculture, decline and decay, heartland cities are being revived as technology companies move in and investors widen their focus from the coasts to fund entrepreneurs in America’s Heartland.Author and technology reporter Rebecca A. Fannin will expand …
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Georgia’s ruling party announced the withdrawal of the “foreign agent” bill from the parliament but implied that it will retry with a modified version that obscures its alleged origins in Moscow. Sadly, reminiscent of Ukraine ten years ago, Georgia’s rulers are attempting to disguise their dependence on Moscow-leaning oligarchs in the face of popul…
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The DeSantis ban on diversity programs in Florida’s State colleges and universities, African American studies advance placement courses and attacks on “Critical Race Theory,” accompanied by book bans tell us a lot about who the GOP sees as its voters. Is this 21 st Century version of Nixon’s Southern Strategy tailored to break Democratic lock on mi…
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The first translation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm was into Ukrainian, and the American occupying forces in Germany helped the Russians trash many copies for its political and linguistic heresy. The latest translation, Animal Fairm translatit intae Scots, is by Thomas Clark. London is not sending tanks across Hadrian’s Wall, but you can see the p…
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All reporters know that investigations can be long, expensive and eventually fruitless, which is why more and more papers no longer bother with them. But ProPublica goes beyond that and probes the skull beneath the skin of PR. So when reporter Brett Murphy heard about how police forces and prosecutors were using "911 call analysis” — linguistic qui…
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Were the efforts to unseat Governor Newsom in the California 2021 recall vote a grassroots uprising, or a well-plotted effort by a minority to unseat a democratically elected governor, falling into an increasing practice of using astroturf to simulate real grassroots and then setting it on fire? Cassandra Hayes’ research explores how a small group …
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The FPA joins Palestine DeepDive to talk to Kenneth Roth ‘the Godfather of Human Rights’ about Harvard’s reported decision to block him from taking up a fellowship over Human Rights Watch's criticism of Israel’s human rights record. The Harvard Kennedy School has bowed to pressure, after large donors and some prominent pro-Israeli organizations att…
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Ambassador John Bolton gave a New Year round-the-world round-up of hot spots to FPA members. Talking to FPA President Ian Williams, he’s still keeping his powder dry for a potential run in in the GOP primaries, but does not see Trump as a serious contender. Kicking off from his current article on Isolationism he discusses what he sees as the weakne…
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Taiwan local elections gave gains to the KMT which used to rule the island - and indeed China, while across the straits domestic tumult in the PRC could tempt Beijing to divert attention by threatening the island. Alexander Huang was recently appointed KMT rep in Washington where former ruling party’s voice has been muted since the DPP took power i…
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Many pundits across the world have published views on Donald Trump’s mental health, but none have been experts. An actual expert, forensic psychiatrist Dr Bandy Lee, found herself fired by Yale and under attack by the American Psychiatric Association and Alan Dershowitz, lawyer to the powerful, for her organizing the book, “The Dangerous Case of Do…
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The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese*, will provide a virtual briefing on key findings and conclusions of her report to the General Assembly on the right to self-determination for the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory. This webinar is…
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The Foreign Press Association joins with the Beyond Earth Institute to launch their report urging Washington to set up a Beyond Earth Working Group (BEWG) to draft a framework for next generation of orbital enterprise, including human colonization of space. Authors Courtney Stadd, Beyond Earth Institute Vice President and Robert Brumley, along with…
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“For All Mankind” reached its climax and even though Russian cosmonauts had flaunted flags of annexed Ukrainian districts, this week a new Space Station crew with US, Soviet, and Japanese members has just launched to join the Americans, Italian and Russian crew that went up on a Russian rocket two weeks ago. In a world obsessed with other kinds of …
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In this conversation, Malaak Jamal answers questions about the Human Rights Foundation's new report, "Framing Justice in Syria: The Road Toward Comprehensive Justice" — a collaboration with The Syria Campaign — which provides a comprehensive overview of domestic and international judicial avenues to prosecute the crimes against humanity that have b…
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In the run up to Pearl Harbor British and American press magnates supported dictators, leaked wartime military secrets, used racist slurs and shameless outright lies to get their way while fawning over blood thirsty dictators. So what’s changed? Kathryn S. Olmstead talks to the FPA about her new book “The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons who Enable…
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Between fires, floods, hurricanes and famines, it might look like the end of the world. But Professor Laura Mersini-Houghton has done the math - and can tell us when and perhaps how the Universe will end and how it began. As a student in the dying days of Enver Hoxha, she was no stranger to the concept of thought crime, but found that the Western s…
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FPA President Ian Williams and Vice President Simon Locke discuss Amnesty International's recent Ukraine Report which appeared widely August 4th titled: “Ukraine: Ukrainian fighting tactics endanger civilians”. 24 hours ago on August 7th, just 3 days after their initial report, they released a statement in which they explain that Amnesty Internatio…
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China’s petulant response to the Pelosi visit raises big issues, from trade to the threat of World War III. As Speaker Pelosi is fulfilling Congress’s Taiwan Relations act – can the US allow the PRC unilateral interpretation of the deal that led to mutual recognition. How can President Biden reconcile maintaining principles with trying to wedge bet…
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Last November, 30+ journalists founded the Kyiv Independent, the English-language media outlet in Ukraine, when they were fired from the Kyiv Post for defending editorial independence. The Kyiv Independent provides round the clock news coverage about all aspects of the war in Ukraine - and is not President Zelensky’s favorite publication but is eve…
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FPA President Ian Williams and Vice President Simon Locke discuss the recent AP post which appeared widely July 9 titled: “Ukraine bears share of blame for nursing home-attack” about the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and later ascribing a “major share” of the blame to making Ukraine. It was picked up by VOA and the Washington Post. From FPA President…
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Join South African pianist Nduduzo Makhathini as he describes his inspiration, his creative as well as his performing processes. He is the very first African musician to be signed by the Blue Note label (https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2022/04/14/jazz-label-blue-note-launches-blue-note-africa-imprint/). For Makhathini, this sends a very positive mes…
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FPA features Allan Lichtman on Repealing the Second Amendment. Faced with mortal consequences of loaded and imaginative judicial interpretations of the “right to bear arms,” Professor Lichtman suggests it is inherently flawed and past its shoot-by date. Faced with the massacres in the classrooms, the overturning of New York’s gun control laws, Lich…
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Will Boris get his Bounce Back? Who decides the next British Prime Minister? Boris Johnson had an unrivaled tenacity, hanging on well after his sack-by date. Even now he clings to poop deck of his sinking government, whence all but he have fled. FPA’s Ian Williams and Simon Locke, both British exiles, discuss what happened, what might happen now, a…
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Taiwan and Ukraine - two democracies under threat. How far can, or should, the Biden White House go to support them? Join us for a conversation on these issues with former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton. This briefing made possible by the Foreign Press Foundation. Donate at foreignpressassociation.org/ways-to-support.html Become a membe…
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The Baisakhi Parade remains one of the most colorful parades in the Big Apple, embracing diversity and understanding the relevance of a philosophy of the Sikh religion to our contemporary living. Harpreet Singh Toor is the Chairman of Public Policy & External Affairs at The Sikh Cultural Society Inc. This episode is made possible by the Foreign Pre…
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Join international dance artist Alina Sokulska as she discusses what is happening in her home country of Ukraine and how it is impacting Ukranian artists int he current moment. Alina Sokulska is an internationally acclaimed dance artist, choreographer, performer, instructor and researcher. She is one of those dancers elaborating on her own dance la…
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Especially under Prime Minister Modi, India is a swing vote in every sense. After decades of rule by Congress which hovered between Russia and the Non-Aligned, the Bharatiya Janata Party swung towards the USA, but now seems to have discovered the joys of triangulation, between Russia, China, and the US while always looking at Pakistan. At home, com…
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Over the Ukraine crisis the United Nations is looking like the attenuated ghost of the League of Nations which left Abyssinia swinging in the gale of fascist aggression. In the middle of a direct challenge to the UN Charter the organization is not just invisible but disregarded and seemingly irrelevant. Does it have a role beyond ritual handwringin…
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Join VP and Director of DAG New York, Josheen Oberoi, in conversation with FPA journalist Sarab Zavaleta as they discuss DAG's newest endeavor, an international gallery focused on women artists from 20th century India. This episode is presented by the Foreign Press Association in honor of NYC Asian Art Week and Women's History Month. Josheen Oberoi…
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Faced with war in Ukraine, oil shortages, Gulf, Saudi and Israeli reticence to support the US diplomatically and economically, western policy towards Tehran is shifting, even as Moscow tries to use the JCPOA for leverage. Trita Parsi EVP of the Quincy Institute tries to parse the shifts in policy and see where it fits in the wider conflicts. www.fo…
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They are unhappy with Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and might vote against it, but many UN members will not do much about it. David Adler is a writer and economist and was foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders. He discusses the many reasons countries are not fully supporting the Western view of Putin’s invasion and won't support Ukraine militaril…
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FPA Awardee Aleksandr Gorbachev explains the state of journalism in Russia. Newly escaped from Moscow he arrived in Istanbul and told the FPA about the constraints on media and commentary back home. A poignant view from a journalist who is just one of the latest exiles from Russia over the century. Aleksandr Gorbachev is a writer, editor and filmma…
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Stalin’s specter haunts the post-Soviet conflicts. Tinatin Japaradzide told correspondents about her discoveries researching her book and how Stalin’s legacy is used and abused in Ukraine, Russia, and Georgia and how it affects Putin’s current behavior. Tinatin Japaridze, Director of Policy and Strategy at The Critical Mass joins Ian Williams, Pres…
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Incensed by Vladimir Putin’s speech which invoked the United Nations while trampling on all its principles, FPA President Ian Williams, who has been covering the UN since before the first Iraq War was moved to suggest a way out for the organization before it sinks into the mud of Ukraine.
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Eliot Higgins, Bellingcat’s founder, details fake videos and false flags ops being used to justify moving into Ukraine. He will highlight what Bellingcat’s open-source intelligence reveals about Moscow's troop movements, disinformation & alibi invention.
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Ottawa Citizen columnist Tim Abray, and OntarioTech Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism’s Barbara Perry, will indicate the real drivers behind the Ottawa protests - and they are not freedom loving truckers! Many Americans want to know how militants took over Capitol Hill so easily. Canadians want to know how police allowed similar militants to take …
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Join celebrated American producer and filmmaker Melissa Haizlip in conversation with FPA journalist Emilie Pons as they discuss Ms. Haizlip’s celebrated documentary Mr. Soul! presented by the Foreign Press Association in honor of Black History Month. Melissa Haizlip is an American film producer, director and writer. Her 2018 documentary ‘Mr. Soul’ …
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Former National Security Advisor and UN Ambassador John Bolton returns to the FPA to provide his insights and context around Russia, Ukraine & China. Join us as he talks about the Biden administration’s response to Russia’s military buildup around Ukraine and its alliance with China, the endgame of Presidents Putin & Xi, and ways in which Trump’s p…
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Ron Howell - veteran reporter with AP, ABC, New York Daily News and New York Newsday is a close observer of the world, the US, the city, and the media. He now teaches journalism at Brooklyn College and has been studying Black political leadership in New York, hence his last two books, including this latest “warts and all” portrait of Reverend Al Sh…
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As the Russian Troops shocked many observers by pulling out from Kazakhstan, the FPA hosted Nina Khrushcheva, New School professor and grand-daughter of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, to discuss the local and global implications of the affair with FPA President who had previously worked in the country. It was clear that the foreign interference …
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FPA member Hollie McKay has been covering the transition in Afghanistan and shares her experiences of investigating crimes against humanity in a contested war zone and from inside Afghanistan and reports to members about the real situation after twenty years of Western intervention. Despite the gloomy foreboding, many of them justified, Hollie carr…
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