Worldview 5.23.12
Wednesday on Worldview we look at global traffic safety and Chile’s long-standing tradition of activist singer-songwriters.
Wednesday on Worldview we look at global traffic safety and Chile’s long-standing tradition of activist singer-songwriters.
Worldview spends the hour with mid-east scholar Fawaz Gerges, who dissects Obama’s mid-east policy in the aftermath of the Arab Spring and argues that America’s influence in the region is declining.
An Iraqi boxer talks about what it was like to box before Saddam Hussein came to power and film contributor Milos Stehlik previews the Cannes Film Festival.
Why do some national movements turn to violence, while others commit to struggle in nonviolent ways? We revisit an interview with Wendy Pearlman, who explains why so many Palestinians have chosen to return to peaceful protest.
Henry Porter, a novelist who writes a political column for The Observer, joins Worldview to discuss what the British inquiry has uncovered about the News of the World phone hacking scandal and shares his own observations of how the scandal is unfolding.