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On The World 🌎 today: Shirin Jaafari: Exclusive interview with SDF's Gen. Mazloum Abdi Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman: Ghanaian Supreme Court defers action on anti-LGBTQ bill Joshua Coe: The global competition to find the world's coolest stick Tune in 📻 bit.ly/3xyRRfD

I wanted a cutaway shot of Musk after that "buy the car you want" comment.

Garth Hudson RIP. Thank you for so many great sounds, but especially this smokin' introduction. youtube.com/watch?v=h_7q9_…

With all the fawning over #SNL on its 50th anniversary, it was refreshing to read ⁦The Guardian⁩ reminder of its long history of mediocrity and dumb humor. theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Andrée Blouin, a fascinating life which, coincidentally, is also captured in the Oscar nominated doc "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat." theworld.org/stories/2025/0…

RIP #JerryButler So many memorable songs. Never gonna give you up, man. music.apple.com/us/album/never…

Yesterday I had to listen to “First Take” by Roberta Flack. Today news comes that she has died. Trying times, indeed. youtu.be/65lVYE38MzI?si…

🤩 Please enjoy this masterly speech…. Claude Malhuret, star of the french senate

If you think Zelensky is not deferential enough, this is what the man most likely to beat him in a presidential election has to say about Trump.

“Democracy and freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile, the ruling oligarchy and its highly trained elite of soldiers, policemen, thought-manufacturers and mind-manipulators will quietly run the show as they see fit." - Aldous Huxley

The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with former US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns about the implications of the shifting geopolitical situation under the current Trump administration. bit.ly/4cgwW18

Mood Fela Kuti - Power Show youtu.be/27AMXHKmEeU?si… via YouTube

A new report by Brown University found that at least 232 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Isra*l since Oct 7. This is more than the number of journalists that were killed in both world wars and the war in Afghanistan combined.

A quick 7 minute chat I had with Marco Werman about life in space during troubled times on Earth. theworld.org/segments/2025/… The World NASA

Arguably, no one has done more in the past 30 years to offer Americans great music from other parts of the globe. Thank you, Dan Storper. offbeat.com/news/putumayos…

Remembering #DanStorper today and his giant role in bringing cool global sounds to US ears. My 2013 conversation with him on The World Putumayo World Music theworld.org/tags/people/da…

Saif Musallet was a 21 year old who lived in Tampa, Florida and worked at an ice cream shop with his father. He was spending time this summer visiting family in the occupied West Bank. Friday, Saif was beaten to death by Israeli settlers. The U.S. State Department must

Read this very carefully: *One quarter* of all the people who have died of starvation in Gaza over the past 22 months have died in the past *3 days*

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