International

Host Sandy Baird is joined by Kurt Mehta and Marc Estrin as they discuss the Democrats, Bernie Sanders, the 2020 presidential campaigns, healthcare, corporate interests, and more.

Kevin Kamps, nuclear waste specialist with Beyond Nuclear, talks with host Margaret Harrington about Canada’s plan to bury nuclear waste beside the Great Lakes.

Repositories suggested over the years as the nuclear waste crisis grows have included sites in Vermont. They also discuss the imminent sentencing of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 activists who continue the resistance of the Catholic Worker  Movement.

The month's show chronicles a truly remarkable story. According to the Acton Institute's blog:

"Extreme poverty – the number of people in the world living on $1.90 a day – fell from 15.7 percent in 2010 to 8.6 percent in 2018 (the most recent year for which we have data), according to the World Bank. Child mortality fell by nearly a third, from 51.3 deaths per 1,000 children to 38.6 in 2018. Life expectancy has risen by nearly two years in the last eight."

The PovertyCure Network consists of over 400 organizations in over 150 countries and is a big part of the progress noted above.

Before returning to Washington to vote on a War Powers Act resolution placing limits on the President’s authority to take military action against Iran, Representative Peter Welch holds a press conference to discuss the resolution as well as related developing events. He is a founding member of the No War with Iran Caucus in the House and cosponsor of legislation to limit the President’s authority to take military action.