This week on War News Radio, “Chaos and Crisis.” First, we summarize the current civil war in Syria. Next, we present our editorial segment, “Filibusted.” Then, we hear from youth protesters in Brazil, Turkey, and Egypt. After, we examine the return of U.S. drone strikes in Yemen.
Gregg.carlstrom/Flickr Young protesters in Turkey, Brazil and Egypt took to the streets this summer in the name of democracy and social justice. Reporter Sadie Rittman spoke with these youths about their perspectives and experiences in what turned out to be much more than summer festivals. SADIE RITTMAN: This summer, between…
When President Obama promised to scale back U.S. drone strikes targeting militants in Yemen, they stopped for a full seven weeks – only to start again after one militant group issued a high profile threat. This week, I tried to find out why a terror threat hyped in the U.S.…
By Sadie Rittman On Wednesday, I had plans to get in touch with a friend of a friend, Karim Sherif, a 22 year-old engineering student in Cairo, to talk about his experiences protesting against President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood government in July. But when I woke up that morning, I…
It’s hard to listen to the news without getting angry. War News Radio’s Caroline Batten and Elliana Bisgaard-Church have stopped trying. WNR proudly presents “Filibusted”, with all the news that makes us tear our hair out. This month’s topic? Climate change.
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article – are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yemen, perhaps best known in the U.S. as the target of covert drone strikes, is in an especially dire position. War News Radio’s…
This week, Swarthmore’s Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine (SPJP) erected a temporary wall in front of Parrish Hall, the College’s main administrative building, to simulate a checkpoint along the wall that separates Israel from the West Bank. SPJP members acting as Israeli Defense Force (IDF) guards have manned the checkpoint at…
War News Radio reporter Caroline Batten has received First Place in the Region 1 Mark of Excellence Awards from the Society of Professional Journalists for her piece“Viral Content: Free Speech, Hate Speech” on the controversial “Innocence of Muslims” video posted on YouTube last fall. The Society of Professional Journalists is…
This month on War News Radio, “Forward Thinking”, we first discuss the future of Iraq in light of the ten year anniversary this past March. Then, we hear about a Philadelphia-based peace group protesting research on drone technology. Finally, we hear a Rwandan genocide survivor’s perspective on justice, forgiveness, and…
By Sabrina Singh On Thursday, Iran, North Korea, and Syria blocked the passing of the final draft of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), a U.N. effort to set standards and regulations for the cross-border arms trade. Approval of all 193 nations of the United Nations would have been necessary for…