Good teaching should be about encourage students to think for themselves and to embrace critical thinking. However, there seems to be this conservative litmus test that goes against this ideology. Tom Osborne and panelist Mary Saliba and Dr. David Kanervo take on this topic with interesting points of view.

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan.

Balkanization is usually a pejorative term for fragmentation of a larger region into smaller regions or states, often hostile to one another. The root causes of Balkanization are usually differences of ethnicity, culture, and religion and often past political grievances. Sound familiar?
Is America on the precipice of Balkanization or has it already began?

Tom Osborne with his panelist Mary Saliba and Dr. David Kaverno discuss this very topic with Merima Semic, correspondent for TRT Balkan.

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan

The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat of tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats .....totalitarianism. It seems - America is on that slippery slope. Who can put on the breaks

By Tom Osborne

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan

The question is whether both sides can talk to the other in the politically divisive world we now live in.....Can we?, Is It Possible?

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan

Tom Osborne & Co. consisting of host Tom Osborne, Mary Saliba and Dr. David Kaverno as they address the path and right to protest. The question begs to what extent do we have the right to protest and to what extent can our right to protest be restrained? Is our democratic right to protest slowly being diminished?

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan

Covid Recovery - Now Or Never? What will it take for people to understand and take this virus seriously. However, the real question on everyone's mimd is When Will Life Return To Normal? That is the question at hand. Tom Osborne addresses this question and many others with panelist Mary Saliba and Dr. David Kanervo.

Executive Producer: Feisal Khan

If someone asked you, “Does this cell phone make me look fat?” How would you answer? Tell the truth or tell a white lie? Seems pretty unimportant… right? But when it comes to government or politics it can take on a whole new dimension and right here in the United States that’s just what has happened. Join Tom Osborne and company as they try to make sense of the last four years. The Trump years… are they really over or is there more to come?

Since our last episode, so much has happened locally in these United States of America geo-politically. That in conjunction with the Covid-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the lives of this world. US World Report therefore asks the question, Where Do We Go From Here? Host Tom Osborne addresses this question with his distinguished panel: Dr. David Kanervo, and Mary Saliba. This episode was produced and edited by Feisal Khan.

Who’s Holding Down The Fort?

Who is essential?  Who is absolutely necessary?
They are the People who make our towns and cities run, the faithful brace of health care workers, the transit workers who take us where we need to go, the grocery store checkout clerks, those who mind the malls, the diner, those we ask into our homes to fix our plumbing, the factory and plant workers who spend more time together than they do with their own families, those who are forced to choose between keeping their jobs and protecting their health.  They are the people who live paycheck to paycheck and are not getting one, who are on unemployment and food stamps for the first time in their lives, households who are pushed into bankruptcy. They are the immigrant population, people of color who are most at risk, people who played by the rules, who worked regular jobs, paid their taxes, and now are one of thirty million who are out of a job because of a crisis no fault of their own, They are the people we put in harms way to serve us, who don’t want to contaminate the community they serve, and who don’t want to be contaminated. They are the people who call us to answer the question, how much is life worth in our society? Join US World Report Radio as our team takes on these questions in one of the most perilous times in our nation’s history.

Nightmares in broad daylight with faulty logic and confusion at
the top on down, face masks, an invisible and stalking plague,
people falling ill and dying at random. Refrigerator trucks
keeping them in our streets.  Nothing is safe to touch, and
everything is banned.  Waking nights, dreams and nightmares
bring us the plain truth of what we feel about what we are seeing
but cannot consciously process.  U.S. World Report listens to the
dreams and nightmares of a nation and world in crisis and
encourages you to listen to yours to understand the trauma, or
the salvation you are experiencing.

Join US World Report as it hosts special guest Stephen Schlesinger who speaks out in defense of America’s voice, the Voice of America, under siege at home and abroad; The voice that for 75 years which has been the guardian of objective, independent and reliable news gathering. In the wilderness of World War II, the Cold War, and now the war on the worldwide pandemic Covid 19, VOA’s mission has been to report, unhindered or uncensored, good news or bad. Even now as we are locked down and our streets are silenced, Voice of America radio/TV is being heard and watched by millions explaining our self-determination, our culture, history and values. 

We are in a state of national shock.  Change is at its peak.  If we want to lead the world through this crisis we must take our government seriously if we want other nations to do so.  There will be many curves to flatten, including the spiral upward of hate and division. When we flatten that curve, what will be left of the power of the people who suffered this crisis.  As if we were emerging from the wreckage of the Twin Towers, we bang pans outside our windows and applaud health workers, our first responders? How many health workers will be left when the next wave of the virus comes? The 1918 pandemic came in three waves, the mild attack in the spring and the deadliest attack in the fall with another in the winter. Our national heart beats to patriotism.  Perhaps we will find a different kind of patriotism in the next few years. Join the US World Report team this week as we as we explore our national Recovery from Tragedy. 

The Pandemic that plagues us has become the leading cause of death in America, surpassing cancer and heart disease.
American health experts tell us to stay at home, and most definitely to avoid human contact. Meanwhile when we need it the most, our president dithers and deceives as thousands die and millions demand an answer why? Join us this week on US World Report as we take a closer look at how our basic freedoms now denied are saving lives. But what does Drive-In movie theaters and online dating have to do with all of this?

If Tom Osborne was the presidential candidate Joe Biden, this is what he would say to the citizens of America.

The World is Changing, out of control, shut down, lock down, halt the spread, economic catastrophe, months without pay, how long how far? Social distancing, when social is the air we breathe. 80 year olds will not. Empty churches and synagogues. First responders bringing in the dead and bringing home the virus. The world has watched America trip, but it has not fallen. “Senators and Congressman head the call
“Don’t block the door, don’t block up the hall.”

America now tops the world in Covid 19 virus cases and the number is doubling every four days and on the way to reach 100 million in the next month.  In the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt called upon America to reject fear.  John Kennedy faced down Nikita Khrushchev in the ‘62 Cuban Missile Crisis.  Do we run or stand and fight?  US World Report radio examines America’s will and state of mind as we confront the scourge of Covid 19.

Who do you trust and why?  What will we eat and how long will this go on?  Millennials, a generation let go and left deprived of a financial future.  Will the Coronavirus find its way into the heart of America?  Does Locking down our cities and states meaning locking out democracy?  Join the US World Report team as we assess the damage going forward.  As a side note, in 1864 amidst an armed insurgency the National elections were still held. We think we can do better in 2020!