Potkaars English Podcasts from the Netherlands

Nederlands ondertititeld. On the eve of what could be the last trial on British soil in the extradition case of the United States vs. Australian journalist and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an information evening was held at the Frontline Club in London. After a heartfelt welcome by Frontline Club owner Vaugh Smith, Chris Hedges (moderator); Stella Assange (Assange’s spouse); Jennifer Robinson (lawyer) and Kristinn Hrafnsson (WikiLeaks) discussed the current state of affairs of the Assange trial and answered questions from the audience. During the trial that took place on the following two days (February 20 and 21, 2024), High Court judges Victoria Sharp (President King’s Bench Division) and Jeremy Johnson would hear arguments from both sides, in order to decide whether Julian Assange may appeal against the first ruling by District Judge Vanessa Baraitser, and protesting the verdict of High Court Judge Jonathan Swift and extradition confirmation by, then, Home Secretary Priti Patel. A date for the judgement has not been set. Baraitser, although blocking Assange’s extradition to the U.S. on mental health grounds, had found Assange guilty of the 17 charges under the Espionage Act (all relating to normal journalistic practice), as well as the one charge relating to (conspiring in/inciting) hacking. The U.S. is seeking Assange’s extradition on the basis of documents published in 2010, and intend to try him under the Espionage Act. In 2010, Assange published a trove of documents leaked by U.S. Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. The documents revealed war crimes committed by the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, unlawful treatment and torture practices in Guantanamo Bay Prison and diplomatic cables. This conversation is subtitled in Dutch. You can turn on subtitles in Rumble and YouTube.

Interview with European Commission whistleblower Roelie Post, at the 'Raise Your Voice for Julian Assange and Sing him Free! Rally' Place de l'Albertine in Brussels, September 23 2023. Dutch and French subtitles are auto generated and may contain errors. We're in Brussels in front of, behind the stage, we're backstage, of a Julian Assange rally. Running into Roelie Post, Dutch whistleblower, European Commission. Whistleblower, Roelie Post, how are you doing, Roelie? I'm reasonably fine, considering the circumstances. I'm very happy to be here. I'm supporting Assange since many years. Also the book which was presented here from a few years ago, I was a co-signer of the Joint Letter asking for the release of Julian Assange. Well, of course, first of all because he brought out so many truths. And one of the first truths he wrote out was through some people, including myself, who brought out some scandal about an adoptee who was sexually abused and it's on the internet. And Julian Assange was the only one who published it and who also wrote an article about it. So I knew about Julian Assange from long before he became a prosecuted whistleblower and journalist. And being a whistleblower myself, of course, I have an extra sympathy for people who are being prosecuted or being badly treated, and that's an understatement in the Assange case, for bringing out the truth and doing basically what every citizen should be doing. Your story may also be one that is slowly being forgotten. I have not forgotten you. Are you safe? Is your life in order? Or how are the powers that be treating you at this moment? The powers that be are treating me like before. They are in total denial of anything ever having gone wrong, in denial of me being a whistleblower. With that I mean the European institutions, European Commission especially. At the same time, during the last years, because it's five years ago we spoke, during those five years the Dutch National Parliament has adopted a decision, a motion, unanimously about me in my support. Also the Dutch House of the Whistleblowers has taken a position at the request of the Prime Minister, Mr. Rutte, and the House of Whistleblowers has written to President von der Leyen to request her to review my case, but the European Commission is again denying this and saying that it's not the beginning of proof that I'm a whistleblower, I have been badly treated. I live back in Brussels since three years. I'm very happy to be back in my house. I'm reasonably safe, but that's only since I installed a very serious security system because I was threatened and more, again in Brussels. But in general I'm back being in Brussels, in the heart of Europe where things happen, where there is the power to change things and where I can participate to events like this and speak to people and I hope together we can all be strong and get a better world in the near future. So the power to change things should be here. This is headquarters of Europe, one would say. At the same time that would be the critical questions that I have on European Union functioning currently, European Commission. We're doing nothing for peace, we're picking a fight, we're picking a war, we're doing nothing to resolve a crisis of health that's evolving in the world and European Union is doing nothing about that. So what's your observation of European Commission functioning now? Well, they're not doing anything for Assance, they're not doing anything for Snowden, they're not doing anything for those whistleblowers, they treat me badly. But yes, the war is a major, they should be going for peace. Peace one gets by negotiating and not by sending arms. So yeah, I'm very sad about that, but I remain optimistic that perhaps the next Commission will bring about change. I hope people stand up around Europe and ask for a better world. I know it's definitely not going well at the moment, in my opinion, but we must keep hope, because otherwise all is lost. So let's just all stand up and stay strong and work for the best. If anyone gives me hope, Roelie, it's you and running in to you. Thank you for talking to us. You're welcome.

Interview with Mick Wallace, Member of the European Parliament for Ireland, at the 'Raise Your Voice for Julian Assange and Sing him Free! Rally' Place de l'Albertine in Brussels, September 23 2023. In this video part of the speech Wallace gave on stage, followed by interview afterwards.

Rally in Brussels in support for Julian Assange and demanding his immediate release. Among the speakers were MEP Clare Daly and independent journalist John Y. Jones. In this report interviews with MEP Mick Wallace and whistleblower on the European commission Roelie Post. Speakers on stage were alternated with musical performances. In this report music by the choir Attac Bruxelles 2 with Let it be / Set him Free, Behind these Prison Walls and Sans La Nommer; http://bxl2.attac.be/chorale/ Subtitles in Dutch and French are autogenerated and may contain errors. this report on Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2023/9/25/raise-your-voice-for-julian-assange-rally-in-brussels-23-september-2023

"All may look dark today, but still; light goes through cracks" says returning guest professor Alfred de Zayas. De Zayas talks about international law and censorship, the human rights industry, and the corruption of institutions, like NATO. SUBTITLES ARE AI GENERATED AND WILL CONTAIN ERRORS Alfred de Zayas is a former UN Independent Expert on the Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order (2012-18), former senior lawyer with the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee. He is Professor of international law and world history at the Geneva School of Diplomacy. This 100 minute interview is packed with expert level analyses on many of the current geopolitical issues, linked below in chapters. 0:00:00 introduction 0:04:09 Ukraine war 0:14:03 wars in a unipolar world 0:17:23 proposals for peace 0:23:23 Putin and the hawks of war 0:25:31 censorship and the European Digital Services Act 0:36:15 the price for independence of UN special rapporteurs 0:40:08 Nils Melzer and the Trial of Assange 0:46:15 the position of the US dollar 0:52:11 NATO, Dutch politics, Mark Rutte and the succession of Stoltenberg 1:02:00 US presidents; Clinton, Obama and Bush and the crimes of NATO 1:10:47 The Human Rights Industry (new book) De Zayas: "Russia is restrained in their actions in Ukraine, however when Ukraine escalates for example by blowing up the Crimean bridge, there's going to be retaliations. The tragedy is that hundreds of thousands of young people and also elderly people, civilians who have nothing to do with the war, have lost their lives on the altar of NATO expansion". The UN charter is superior to the treaty of NATO. We should observe our obligation not to threaten other countries, not to engage in systematic disinformation and demonization of Russia. We are violating the UN Charter. Obviously the invasion of Russia in Ukraine is also a violation, that's a given. But it was provoked. It's a question of how we can mediate so that they [red. the US] can retreat without loosing too much face, but they will have to retreat, because it's either accept that Russian and China exist and live with it, or you're going to have to destroy the entire world. August 25th the EU Digital Services Act goes into effect, allowing the European Commission to invoke censorship through big tech companies. De Zayas explains how that is in violation with the right to freedom of speech. The United Nations has appointed many experts and special rapporteurs. They're obliged to be independent, but if you are, the price is you're going to be mobbed. De Zayas talks about the procedure during his appointment of United Nations Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order and that of Nils Melzer as special rapporteur for torture. Melzer who during his term took on the case of Julian Assange and determined Assange to show signs of a victim of torture. The topic of conversation then moves into the end of the Vietnam war, at which time then president Nixon took the US dollar off the gold standard and a system called the petro-dollar started. That system is now coming to an end, as more and more countries trade between them in their own currencies, rather than the US dollar. Not in the least because of the weaponization of the dollar. De Zayas: "if we had not abused the dollar as a weapon, if we had not linked our unilateral coercive measures to the use of the dollar, people would still trust the dollar". The process has begun. It's not going to be overnight, but it is a snowball process that's going to have a devastating effect on the US economy. De Zayas says as long as we have these neocons in power, we're not going to be able to solve this problem. They are capable of taking the whole world with them in nuclear apocalypse. We discuss the media in the Netherlands and recent news that Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte has offered his resignation. Rumour has it he's aiming for the position of heading NATO. What's the influence on Dutch politics by foreign posers? Not just the US but also WEF to which Rutte is a prominent member? De Zayas expresses his concern on the loss of sovereignty of the Netherlands and other countries, because of the existence of the European Union and especially of NATO.; NATO deserves the label 'criminal organization' within meaning of the Nuremberg judgment. NATO has usurped the exclusive role of the United Nations in the use of force and has proven itself to be an aggressive organisation non-stop for the last twenty years. Alfred de Zayas just wrote a new book called the Human Rights Industry. De Zayas: it's a business. There's a lot of people making a lot of money out of it. Additional reading, links mentioned and professor de Zayas previous interviews in Potkaars on this webpage:

The song that tells the story of Julian Assange, sung by David Rovics. In the video you see clips of the war crimes Julian Assange reported on, of rallies in his support and of Julian in prison and in court fighting extradition, as they're being sung. Song reproduced with permission: https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/behind-these-prison-walls/ On Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2023/7/5/behind-these-prison-walls-david-rovics-julian-assange-song Behind these prison walls there’s a man who’s won awards For the work that he has done and all that it affords Such as the knowledge of the horrors committed in our name They can’t stop the message, so the messenger gets blamed Behind these prison walls, in solitary confinement In a land of rolling hills and royalty and other such refinement Is someone who is a hero to whistleblowers everywhere Who helped them tell the world of the crimes of Tony Blair Behind these prison walls you will find a mortal man The reason why we know what happened in Afghanistan When the soldiers of the empire whose sun set long before Were torturing civilians in their terror war Behind these prison walls is a part of Wikileaks An eloquent orator, but you won’t hear him speakh Locked away in silence, one who knows too well How those in power act when there’s another war to sell Behind these prison walls is one who stands accused Of exactly what offenses, the US has refused To say precisely which, or to try to clear the mist Or to explain how he’s not the same as other journalists Behind these prison walls is a person they’d deprive Of most of the things in life that keep us all alive A person being tortured, as we stand here now For revealing the war crimes – why, when, where, how Behind these prison walls, our very right to be informed Of what the hell is going on is the teacup in this storm With knowledge there is power, so the solution by the Crown A 24-hour-a-day, indefinite lockdown Behind these prison walls

today marks the 52nd birthday of Julian Assange, his fifth in Belmarsh high security prison with no conviction. I saw David Rovics sing his song 'Behind these Prison Walls' in Parliament square last week, and tried to sing it with this video illustrating the story. In het Nederlands https://rumble.com/v2xuuni-achter-hoge-muren-julian-assange.html On Potkaars Op Potkaars https://potkaars.nl/blog/2023/7/3/achter-hoge-muren-julian-assange

June 24 2023, the sculpture 'Anything to Say' by Italian artist Davide Dormino that shows Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange standing on chairs inviting you to speak out, is at Parliament Square in London. Today is the rally for the release of publicist and journalist Julian Assange. In this report Djamila and Rico first visit the prison Belmarsh where they meet Sean, who's talks about the legal system in England, and what goes on in institutions like these, where he's spent most of his life. Then at the demonstration many speakers standing on the empty chair next to the whistleblowers, explain what is at stake and where the defence for Julian stands. Interviews with Davide Dormino and Stella Assange, music by David Rovics who sings 'Behind These Prison Walls'. chapters: 0:02:14 introduction (use the subtitles feature) 0:06:44 Sean, interview outside Belmarsh 0:11:39 John Reese, DEA Campaign 0:13:40 John McDonnell, Labour MP 0:15:20 Davide Dormino, Anything to Say artist 0:19:59 Stella Assange 0:24:55 Shabbir Lakha, Stop the War coalition 0:28:14 Kristinn Hrafnsson, Wikileaks 0:38:39 David Rovics, Behind These Prison Walls links: On Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/assange Don't Extradite Assange Campaign: https://dontextraditeassange.com/ Anything to Say: http://www.anythingtosay.com/content/ Behind These Prison Walls: https://www.davidrovics.com/songbook/behind-these-prison-walls/ Stop the War coalition: https://www.stopwar.org.uk/

On June 21, 2022, the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam the Netherlands summarily dismissed their scientist Rogier Louwen. Shortly thereafter, we recorded this interview, agreeing to publish it only after the trial would be over. The story Louwen tells is that of a whistleblower who conducted an EU-funded investigation into pandemics. Both internally and externally, he pointed at the potential dangers and risks of the public health strategies chosen at the time, based on sound scientific research, after which he was fired. In his backyard, Louwen candidly tells his first-hand story about the investigation he led, the run-up to the dismissal and what that did to him and his team. On Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2023/6/21/i-stood-up-for-the-public-interest-and-risked-everything-for-an-open-scientific-discussion

"What we are dealing here with is is a very serious problem. It is radicalization and extremism institutionalizing in our academic institutions that are paid by the taxpayer, that are meant for general education and research that are now being hijacked by radicalized groups". In this follow up interview with social scientist at the University of Amsterdam, Laurens Buijs, we talk about what has happened to him after blowing the whistle, late 2022. He's been cancelled, threatened, and defamed now also in Dutch state media. Buijs: " it's completely unacceptable we have to speak out as openly as we can about what is happening. That the university is complicit that the administration is complicit, that staff who is not speaking out is complicit. It is such a grave problem that the only thing that I can do as a whistleblower is bring it into the light". This Follow the Science interview by Rico Brouwer was recorded late March 2023 where Laurens and Rico were paying a visit to Michaéla to see how she was doing. - On Follow the Science: https://followthescience.nl/interviews/university-of-amsterdam-whistleblower-laurens-buijs - Whistleblower protection at UvA https://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/beleid-en-regelingen/bedrijfsvoering-algemeen/klokkenluidersregeling-uva-hva.html - January 25th interview https://followthescience.nl/interviews/woke-culture-threatens-academic-freedom-laurens-buijs - March 13 Forbidden Event on Free Speech in Dutch Higher Education - Laurens Buijs https://followthescience.nl/interviews/forbidden-event-on-free-speech-in-dutch-higher-education-laurens-buijs

Threats, attacks, possible dismissal and cancelling happened when Laurens Buijs, social scientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam spoke out about his field of expertise and made a report of the cancel culture at the UvA. Buijs talks to Rico Brouwer of Follow the Science about how diversity policies have turned into a threat to Academic Freedom to the point where he's now called on Whistle-blower protection. In this 50 minute interview Laurens explains what is woke culture and the concept of non binary and talks about what happened to him after he published an opinion piece about it last week. on Follow the Science: https://followthescience.nl/interviews/woke-culture-threatens-academic-freedom-laurens-buijs

David Icke challenges the Dutch government’s ban on him entering the Netherlands and 25 other European countries (and in truth many other countries worldwide that use the same immigration criteria including the United States). In this video you'll first saee short clips from the lawsuit, followed by an interview David Icke gave immediately after with Rico Brouwer from Potkaars. Icke who was denied entrance to the Netherlands for this case, had to participate through what turned out a flaky Skype connection. He broadcast his experience through his own channels, leading to this montage of courtroom footage as broadcast in the Netherlands and images taken from Icke's stream. time markers: 0h:03 interview in Potkaars (English) 0h:28 integral recording of the lawsuit with fragments from Icke's stream (mostly Dutch) 1h:49 David Icke talks to the court (English) Ruling on dec. 19th article/links: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/12/8/livestream-zaak-inreisverbod-david-icke-op-9-december

Rico Brouwer, the host of Potkaars, became interested in the financial system even before he started his Potkaars podcasts. After various crises (Financial crisis of 2008, Icesave), the ever-increasing, insoluble national debts and now the current inflation and the CBDC, concerns about a good outcome are increasing rapidly. Together with Teun van Sambeek, Rico discusses the backgrounds of these ever-increasing problems. Are we being thrown into a communist nightmare, or is there a way out? A solution such as a new human right to participate equally in global money creation, as Teun proposes with his 1 Coin Per Hour initiative. This enlightening podcast/Potkaars goes through the dystopian ploys of the people behind the Fiat money, but also puts some hopeful dots on the horizon. Have fun watching and listening! episode in Dutch is English subtitled here https://youtu.be/Qdhzus0s37E Also look at: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/12/5/en-munt-per-uur-als-mensenrecht-one-coin-hour-teun-van-sambeek https://www.1coinh.org

Before they went after Assange, they locked out Wikileaks from using their crowd funding platforms. The one that did not censor remained; Bitcoin. There’s a special relationship between the early adopters of Bitcoin and Julian Assange. Stella Assange, Julian’s wife, and Gabriel Shipton, his brother, appeared as guest speakers at the Bitcoin Amsterdam conference October 12th in Amsterdam. In this report we first see Dutch activist Djamila le Pair interview Gabriel about recent developments in the case of Assange, in front of the information booth she was allowed to host in the exhibition hall. Followed by a part of Stella’s address in the main auditorium, as taken from the live stream. article/links: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/10/12/report-from-bitcoin-conference-amsterdam-2022-with-gabriel-shipton-and-stella-assange

Historian and Economist Martin Armstrong, as a computer programmer created the system called socrates that analyses history, current affairs and the flow of money and extrapolates to what may lie ahead. It gave him the nickname ‘the Forecaster’ and a documentary that to this day is forbidden in the USA. Armstrong through FOIA retreived information from the Clinton Library about what happened after the Soviet Union fell. He’s written that down in a book called ‘the Plot to Seize Russia. In this interview we discuss his upcoming book, the current state of collapsing global finance and the inescapable war on Russia as a result of that.. on Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/9/26/the-plot-to-seize-russia-martin-armstrong

Just like an army of ants in the animal kingdom, individuals, groups and even whole societies are sometimes caught up in a death spiral, a vicious cycle of self-reinforcing dysfunctional behavior. According to prof. Schippers, a death spiral is characterized by continuous flawed decision making where one bad decision leads to another, which can even lead to the collapse of an individual, group or society. In this episode of Follow the Science, prof. Schippers explains what a death spiral is, how you can recognize it and how individuals, groups and even societies can snap out of it. In order for you to reflect on your own personal life, and find out what you can contribute to society, participating in life crafting (https://ikigaitv.nl/life-crafting/) and Letters to the future (https://www.greatcitizensmovement.org/how-to/) is a good start. Also, reading and signing the Great Citizens Declaration (https://www.greatcitizensmovement.org/signing-the-declaration/) might be a good first step on escaping the ant mill and creating a brighter future for ourselves and the world. first published on Follow the Science: https://followthescience.nl/psychology-in-practice/4-the-death-spiral on Potkaars: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/9/26/were-in-an-epidemic-of-narcissism-jordan-peterson-and-michala-schippers-follow-the-science

Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order 2012-18. He is the author of ten books including “Building a Just World Order”. De Zayas is also a returning guest to Potkaars. The last time we spoke was the day before Russia took its military action in Ukraïne in February. It is 26 September 2022 when we speak again while a referendum on secession is taking place in the eastern Ukraïne regions. I re-invited mr. De Zayas, to learn his assessment on the validity of the referendum and of the actions by Ukraïne, Russia, the EU and the US under international law and treaties. We recorded this interview the day before the Nord Stream I and II pipelines were blown up in the Baltic sea. In this conversation Alfred de Zayas discusses the use of coercive measures as deployed by the US. Article / Links:https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/9/26/united-states-use-of-coercive-measures-alfred-de-zayas

this video was previously published through Café Weltschmerz in Dutch called 'Levensgevaarlijke massahysterie gaat fout volgens het boekje Michaéla Schippers en Ramon Bril - https://youtu.be/e3rCPv-IXHE (now subtitled / reposted on 23/8/22, original publication 137.407 views 6 jun. 2020)

this video was previously published through Café Weltschmerz in Dutch called 'Een wereldwijde psychische gevangenis Michaéla Schippers en Ramon Bril' - https://youtu.be/Fv4w7XAWETw (subtitled / reposted on 23/8/22, original publication 66.100 views 19 jul. 2020)

Lynn Joyce leidde van 1999 tot 2011 de Berkshire Home Education Group in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. De groep was even belangrijk voor kinderen, als voor hun thuisscholende ouders – het was een plek om kennis en ervaringen uit te delen, gezamenlijke projecten en excursies te organiseren en vooral veel plezier met elkaar te maken. In gesprek met Djamila le Pair, op 15 juli 2022, vertellen ze wat de reden was dat hen deed besluiten hun kinderen zelf les te geven, wat hun zorgen en vreugdes waren tijdens dat onderwijzen, en hoe het hun zonen (de jongste is 28) nu gaat. Lynn en haar man Tom Joyce onderwezen hun drie zoons zelf, tot aan Sixth Form, de laatste twee klassen van de middelbare school*. Vele twijfelende, inspiratie of gewoon gezelligheid zoekende homeschoolende families bood Lynn een warm welkom in de groep. Regelmatig ontving ieder die maar wilde komen bij haar en Tom thuis, met of zonder kinderen. Waar nodig hielpen zij en Tom, met daad, of met geruststellende bemoedigende woorden. Lynn had een eindeloos geduld, zowel met ouders als met kinderen en ze wees altijd op het positieve in het kind, als ouders zich zorgen maakte om diens ontwikkeling. Haar bijdrage aan het welzijn van zovele gezinnen staat nergens te boek. Behalve een informatief interview voor thuisonderwijs-overwegende ouders, is deze opname ook zeker een eerbetoon en dankjewel aan Lynn en Tom Joyce. *In ieder geval tot 2019 was het in de VK zo dat een kind na de lagere school naar ‘secondary education’ ging, vergelijkbaar met de leerperiode tot en met onze vierde klas middelbare school. (Een andere optie was Grammar School, vergelijkbaar met ons Gymnasium.) Er werd geen onderscheid gemaakt tussen schoolniveaus, dus geen MAVO, HAVO, VWO, maar wel een onderverdeling per onderwerp: de klassen werden in ‘higher’ en ‘lower sets’ (hoger en lager niveau) ingedeeld. Tijdens de laatste twee jaar moesten leerlingen examen doen in een breed aantal vakken, de GCSE’s. Degenen die naar de universiteit wilden, konden verder leren aan een Sixth Form, vergelijkbaar met onze 5e en 6e klas VWO, met het verschil dat het verplicht aantal vakken drie was (en maximaal vijf). Engels en wiskunde waren dan niet meer verplicht. Deze video maakt onderdeel uit van een serie over onderwijs: https://potkaars.nl/onderwijs artikel / links:

In this 90 minute interview recorded in 2019 we talked to Reality Winners mom Billy Winner-Davis, her sister Brittany Winner and her friend Wendy Meer. They talk about what happens when someone tells the truth about Russian interference in the American elections and gets prosecuted under the espionage act. What happened to their loved one. (recorded 20191122) No time for the full interview: You can Stand with Reality, learn more of her story and help through their website: https://standwithreality.org/ links: https://standwithreality.org/action-to-take/letter-of-support-for-clemency/ full article on https://potkaars.nl/blog/2019/11/22/stand-with-reality-winner word lid van de nieuwsbrief en ontvang de maandelijkse postkaars: https://potkaars.nl/nieuwsbrief op twitter: https://twitter.com/potkaars

"Terry Kraettli from New Zealand is the first guest in the podcast series "Children learn, always and everywhere", in which Djamila le Pair (The Netherlands) interviews former homeschooling mothers from around the world, with whom she and her children used to share educational events. There are a variety of reasons why parents decide to homeschool. Terry shares hers, as well as her perspectives on children, home education, and the importance of morals and time for one’s inner ‘self’. " Djamila and Terry met in Switzerland twenty years ago, when Terry was already homeschooling her two children and Djamila was having second thoughts about sending her son to kindergarten. Terry’s educational view, life-embracing approach and the open, happy and exploring nature of her children gave Djamila the courage to homeschool her own children. Terry and her husband home educated their children for five years. The children went to school, after the family moved from Switzerland to New Zealand. In this interview, Terry looks back on her reasons for initially opting for home education, her approach and experiences. As the child of an Italian father and British mother, Terry was raised bilingually. She herself followed formal (private) education, of which boarding schools were a part, and went on to train as a teacher. Her daughter has followed in her footsteps and has become a teacher, as well. Her son now works as a photographer. Potkaars series on homeschooling: https://potkaars.nl/onderwijs The interview with Terry Kraettli was conducted june 12th, more info and links on: https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/6/13/children-learn-always-and-everywhere-terry-kraettli-from-new-zealand-talks-about-homeschooling-english

None of the organisers had ever dreamt it would be this much of a success. The Free Assange Wave in Brussels kicked off with a panel session on Friday evening, the 22nd of April 2022, and continued the next day with a protest rally, laced with high-profile speakers and dedicated artists. In this podcast, Potkaars interviews the organisers who describe how seemingly out of nowhere, a bunch of unaffiliated Europe-based Assange campaigners got together online and organised it. This is a twently minute edit of ther full 70 minute interview that can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/s2Lb4iuLPqg The organisers discuss the travelling statue 'Anything to say' with its creator and a new rally and art exhibition event coming up in Leipzig Germany on July 2nd and 3rd. They call artists to action on every stage, much like they did themselves in Brussels april 22nd where guest speakers included Christophe Marchand, Assange’s Belgian human rights lawyer and member of Assange’s international legal team. Musician David Rovics, and speeches by UK MP Jeremy Corbyn, Iceland’s ex-minister Ögmundur Jonásson, EU MP Mick Wallace, Annie Machon (ex-MI5) and German MP Andrej Hunko. Throughout this interview you'll see images from the event and of a performace blending into Assange’s voice chiming over La Place de la Monnaie where Stella Assange voiced a heart-breaking and hopeful ‘Thank You’ to all present, while her husband’s words resonated: “If you give up what is uniquely yours, as a human being, if you surrender your consciousness, your independence, your sense of what is right and what is wrong, in other words, perhaps, without knowing it, you become passive and controlled, unable to defend yourselves and those you love. We have to educate each other. We have to celebrate those who reveal the truth. Denounce those who poison our ability to comprehend the world that we live in.” Please sign RSF’s petition: https://rsf.org/en/petition/freeassange-sign-urge-uk-home-secretary-priti-patel-reject-julian-assange’s-extradition the dance/speech performance on April 22nd in Brussels can be seen here in full source https://youtu.be/s2Lb4iuLPqg report/article (in Dutch) https://potkaars.nl/blog/2022/5/10/julians-vrijheid-is-jouw-vrijheid-verslag-van-assange-rallies-in-europa-engels guests: Davide Dormino, James Andrew, Marie France Deprez, Manja McCade, Michelle Aslanides, Kamila Grzymala, Djamila le Pair host: Rico Brouwer

Alfred de Zayas is professor of international law at the Geneva school of diplomacy and international relations, expert in the field of human rights and international law and UN independent expert on international order. He is the author of his new book ‘Building a just world order’. We talk about the right to self determination and secession for the people in Ukraine, as layed out in the United Nations charter. De Zayas gives his uncensored view on NATO, UN, EU and the OSCE. We discuss the recognition by Russia of Donetsk and Lugansk in Ukraine yesterday and its implications. De Zayas takes us back in time to 1989 with Michail Gorbatsjov until now with Vladimir Putin, in explaining the current situation between Ukraine and Russia. De Zayas is working on a new project ‘the human rights industry’ and makes a call to action for all to contribute, at the end of this interview. This interview is guest to this potkaars channel as our regular channel is censored back into youtube jail. Find all non censoring channels on: article / links: