PODCAST: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres Mark Leon Goldberg September 17, 2019United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres discusses climate change in this special episode of the Global Dispatches podcast.On Tuesday, September 17th Antonio Guterres sat down with Mark Hertsgaard ...
What is Next for Peace Talks With the Taliban? Mark Leon Goldberg September 12, 2019In late August it appeared that the United States was very close to an agreement with the Taliban that would see US troops withdraw from the Afghanistan.Leading the negotiations on the US-side was Zalmay Kh...
Why Do Journalists Keep Getting Arrested in Tanzania? Mark Leon Goldberg September 9, 2019Tanzania has long been recognized as stable country, generally more advanced in its democracy than many other countries in East Africa. To be sure, democracy in Tanzania was certainly imperfect and flawed. But ...
Japan and South Korea Are Locked in A Bitter Dispute With Global Implications Mark Leon Goldberg September 5, 2019Japan and South Korea are in the throws of a dispute - and its getting worse. What was a trade war escalated to the security realm last month when the South Korean government announced that it was pulling out o...
Jair Bolsonaro and the Destruction of the Amazon Mark Leon Goldberg August 29, 2019Fires raging in the Amazon have captured the world's attention and put focus on the policies of the Brazilian government.The true extent of the fires is not yet known--but most sources suggest that the scal...
Research Identifies a Link Between Dowry Payments and the Outbreak of Violent Conflict Mark Leon Goldberg August 26, 2019About 75% of the world's population live in societies that practice of form of dowry payment. This is also known as brideprice and it is essentially wealth that a potential husband must pay to the family of his...
An Inside Look at Slavery in the Fishing Industry Mark Leon Goldberg August 22, 2019The fish you eat may have been caught by slaves.Most Thai fishing boats operating in the South China Sea are dependent on migrant labor. But many of those vessels are essentially floating slave ships in whi...
How We Can Feed the World Without Destroying the Planet Mark Leon Goldberg August 20, 2019The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, released a report in August demonstrating the harmful relationship between climate change and how we humans are using land for food and ag...
War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing Were Committed Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. They Deserve Justice. But How? Mark Leon Goldberg August 15, 2019In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled across the border to Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a minority population that have long faced discrimination by the Buddhist Bur...
