Helen Caldicott, M.D., pediatrician and internationally recognized author and lecturer, hosts a weekly, one-hour radio program titled If You Love This Planet. Produced by Jasmin WIlliams and Scott Powell. Edited by Jasmin Williams.
This week on If You Love This Planet, Dr. Caldicott talks with journalist Robert Koehler, who writes a nationally syndicated column for the Chicago Tribune. As the Bush administration unleashed its war on terror, Koehler became increasingly focused on current events, and refers to the column as âpart political brawl, part secular prayer.â Koehler has won awards for his writing from the National Newspaper Association, Suburban Newspapers of America, and the Chicago Headline Club. He is the author of Courage Grows Strong at the Wound (published by Xenos Press), a collection of his essays. Dr. Caldicott and Koehler touch on the nature of peace journalism, the roots of violence, the 2011 Norway youth camp slayings, the morality of U.S. trillion-dollar military spending, Rubert Murdochâs media influence, the power of Fox News, and Obamaâs lack of backbone.