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's guest is Tom Engelhardt, creator of the TomDispatch.com website, a project of the Nation Institute, a non profit media center based in New York, where he is a fellow. Engelhardt is the author of two collections of his TomDispatch columns: The United States of Fear and The American Way of War: How Bush's Wars Became Obama's, as well as The End of Victory Culture, a highly praised history of American triumphalism in the Cold War. One of his most recent books is Terminator Planet: The First History of Drone Warfare, 2001-2050, which he co-authored with Nick Turse.