PODCAST: How Dr. Vanessa Kerry Helps Strengthen Health Systems Around the World Mark Leon Goldberg August 16, 2018Dr. Vanessa Kerry is the Co-founder and CEO of Seed Global Health. This is an international NGO that works in five sub-Saharan countries to bolster the education of medical professionals.This is a vital...
PODCAST: The Bombing of UN Headquarters in Iraq, 15 Years On Mark Leon Goldberg August 13, 2018On August 19th, 2003 the United Nations headquarters in Iraq at the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, was hit with a truck bomb. At least 22 people lost their lives in this attack, including the UN's top official in ...
Twenty Years Ago Today Two United States Embassies Were Bombed. A Survivor Tells His Story Mark Leon Goldberg August 7, 2018On August 7th, 1998 my guest today John Lange was the acting United States Ambassador to Tanzania when a truck bomb exploded outside the embassy in Dar es Salaam. He did not know it at the time, but this b...
PODCAST: The UN Released it’s First-Ever Report on the Regulation of Content on Twitter and Facebook Mark Leon Goldberg August 2, 2018The UN Special Rapporteur for the Freedom of Expression has a mandate to protect free speech around the world.Earlier this summer, the rapporteur, David Kaye, released the UN's first-ever report on the ...
PODCAST: 977 Days as a Hostage of Somali Pirates Mark Leon Goldberg July 30, 2018Michael Scott Moore spent 977 days as a hostage of Somali pirates. He is a journalist and in 2012 he set out for the Somali coast on a reporting trip when he was kidnapped. What followed was a two and a hal...
PODCAST: Colombia Has a New President and he is Opposed to the Peace Deal Mark Leon Goldberg July 26, 2018Ivan Duque won a run-off election on June 17th to become the next president of Colombia. Duque is a right of center politician who has been a sharp critic of the peace deal negotiated by president Juan Manu...
PODCAST: The Inside Story of How the World Closed the Hole in the Ozone Layer Mark Leon Goldberg July 23, 2018The year is 1985. Ronald Reagan is president. Margaret Thatcher is prime minister of the United Kingdom. Michael Jackson, White Snake and George Michael are dominating the billboard charts. Back to the Fut...
PODCAST: How Much Progress Are We Making Towards the Sustainable Development Goals? Mark Leon Goldberg July 19, 2018At the United Nations in mid-July officials gathered for an annual checkup on progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The SDGs, as they are known, are a set of 17 anti-poverty, health and envir...
PODCAST: How These “Invisible” Countries May Redraw the World Map Mark Leon Goldberg July 16, 2018Joshua Keating loves maps. His new book Invisible Countries: Journeys to the Edge of Nationhood is all about the borders we see on maps and those we don't see.Keating is a longtime foreign affairs journ...
