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The Dr. Rod Berger Channel pulls together global stories from around the world through several engaging shows. Dr. Rod Berger explores deep into the minds of those on the frontiers of our society. Uncovering the 'why' behind acclaimed contributors forging their path through life and those new souls just stepping beyond the crowd. Investigating the source of inspiration that drove those who have gone before us, HeadRoom with Dr. Rod Berger, The Narrative Edge, and The Dr. Rod Berger Show, hope to inspire the 'next' in us. Join Dr. Rod and uncover the stories seldom told, adding richness to the narratives within our own lives.The Dr. Rod Berger Channel Sozialwissenschaften
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  • Nothing About Us Without Us: David Holdridge on Aid, War and Trust

    Nothing About Us Without Us: David Holdridge on Aid, War and Trust
    Oct 22 2026
    The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer.Before every run into the badlands of south-central Iraq, David Holdridge sat in the back of a beat-up car and rehearsed his own execution.Dr. Rod Berger sits down with David Holdridge for a second conversation, more than two years after their first. Holdridge led an infantry platoon outside Chu Lai in 1969 and came home wounded. He spent 18 months in hospitals and neuropsychiatric wards until a Hartford neurosurgeon found the nerve behind his causalgia and cut it. Then came 40 years of humanitarian work among people living through war, exploitation and poverty. Rod wants to know where the caring started and why it still burns. Holdridge traces it to a 16-year-old prep school kid on an Amtrak train, watching an old man on a fire escape listen to the Dodgers on his radio.From there, the stories run hot. A former smuggler named Ahmed Kadir dresses Holdridge as a sick old man in a kaffiyeh and drives him into Iraq's badlands to meet the sheikhs. Off Lebanon, a sailboat called the Sea Queen carries about 26 Palestinian women, children and old men out to an Israeli missile boat, while Holdridge waits two hours in a cabin and the captain runs his name all the way to the Pentagon. In Iraq, a fatwa from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani protects his team while bounty posters with his face hang in the souks. Holdridge turns just as hard on the system he served. He calls the USAID of recent decades moribund and "not worth saving," and says less than 30 percent of the money reached his people in Iraq. His fix fits in five words: nothing about us without us. What would change if the people receiving help wrote the plan?Guest: David Holdridge, Vietnam veteran, 40-year humanitarian worker and author of The Water AboveKey topicsWhere caring starts: an old man on a New York fire escape and a young preppy who chose to live in the South BronxRehearsing captivity: the private ritual Holdridge ran before every trip into south-central IraqCausalgia, the neuropsychiatric ward and the seven-hour surgery that ended the painThe Sea Queen: a sailboat of refugees, an Israeli missile boat and a choice between Haifa and LarnacaWhy Holdridge says USAID had drifted from Kennedy's vision into bureaucracy and earmarksSafety without razor wire: the Sistani fatwa and the Arab code that hid him from ZarqawiThe hope meter: Congress, the midterms, Gaza and the promise Kennedy made in the sixtiesResourcesDavid Holdridge's books (The Water Above; Charity Overseas; The Avant Garde of Western Civ, winner of Prize Americana): https://www.davidholdridge.com/#booksDavid Holdridge on Substack: https://davidholdridge.substack.comDavid Holdridge at Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/david-holdridge/Rod's first conversation with David Holdridge: https://www.fairobserver.com/podcasts/a-vietnam-veterans-journey-from-battle-to-humanitarian-efforts/Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.comDr. Rod Berger: https://drrodberger.comChapters00:00 Welcome back: a follow-up with a friend Rod has never met in person03:25 Where the caring started: the old man on the fire escape06:02 The South Bronx and a life without that aura of fear07:49 Rehearsing his own execution: Ahmed Kadir and the runs into Iraq12:42 The cost: causalgia, the neuropsychiatric ward and Dr. Whitcomb14:08 The Sea Queen and the Israeli missile boat18:56 "You are not a damn saint": gratitude he could not accept23:01 USAID: Kennedy's vision and the bureaucracy it became27:11 Nothing about us without us: the Sistani fatwa and lines a kilometer long30:38 They bleed the same: Islamic history, Zarqawi and the protected guest39:20 Where the money went, and the heroes inside the system44:21 The hope meter: Congress, Gaza and Kennedy's promise Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s book, The Narrative Edge: Authentic Storytelling That Meets The Moment (Wiley), hits bookstores in late 2025. He draws on more than 4,000 interviews conducted worldwide for Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Fair Observer, including a cover story about former Virgin Entertainment co-founder Jason Felts, for Los Angeles Magazine, as well as various podcasts. He has captured the narratives of investors, CEOs, renowned entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, scholars, and cultural icons such as NBA legends Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley, as well as United Nations officials and Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar, while also exploring the behind-the-scenes world of Formula 1.Berger has met with the Crown Princess of Sweden, Pope Francis, United Nations officials, and NGO leaders, covering stories of water insecurity with WaterAid, the intergenerational refugee crisis faced by displaced Sudanese in Uganda, and the impacts of child marriage in Western Africa with the Le Korsa Foundation.Berger served as a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management for nearly two ...
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    50 Min.
  • Josef Olmert on Harbin, Madrid and the Story of Leaving

    Josef Olmert on Harbin, Madrid and the Story of Leaving
    Oct 19 2026
    The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer.The first face-to-face meeting between Israeli and Syrian negotiators in Madrid was set for 10:30 in the morning. By Josef Olmert's account, the Syrians showed up at 10:30 at night.Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Josef Olmert, Middle East scholar, former Israeli government spokesman and member of Israel's delegation for talks with Syria. Olmert's family story runs through Russia, China, Israel and the United States. His father's family fled revolutionary Russia for Harbin, in Manchuria, where his parents, both Zionists, lived before leaving for Mandate Palestine in the early 1930s. In 1992, after Israel and China established diplomatic relations, Olmert traveled to Harbin as a guest of the Chinese government. That same year he visited an elderly aunt in St. Petersburg, a communist who had gone back to the Soviet Union decades earlier, and brought her food. Rod asks him to name the story underneath three generations of movement: arrival, or leaving?Olmert takes Rod inside the 1991 Madrid Peace Conference, where, as he tells it, the first Israeli-Syrian session ran past 3 a.m. and a Syrian intelligence officer sat behind his own delegation watching for any sign of friendliness. A colleague's rebuke afterward stayed with him: preparation built only on politics and PR, the colleague said, misses the culture. He shares a seating snub at a Jimmy Carter conference at Emory, a classroom debate at the University of South Carolina over respect versus acceptance, and the one time as spokesman he told the press something he knew was untrue, on the eve of the 1991 Gulf War. He also explains why he now says Israel did not win its war against Iran, a view some supporters dislike, and why he sees saying it as loyalty to the cause rather than a break from it. When does telling people what they need to hear become the most loyal thing you can do?Guest: Josef Olmert, Middle East scholar, former Israeli peace negotiator and Fair Observer contributorKey topicsHarbin's Jewish community, Chiune Sugihara and Olmert's 1992 visit as a guest of the Chinese governmentSamara, Odessa and why Olmert hesitates to call his family refugeesA communist aunt in St. Petersburg, post-Soviet Russia up close and the warning signs Olmert sees repeating todayInside the Madrid Peace Conference: the delayed meeting, the tenth man at the Syrian table and a smile from Walid MuallemRespect versus acceptance: a debate over "the Prophet Muhammad" in a South Carolina classroomJanuary 14, 1991, and Ben-Gurion's rule: tell people what they need to hearEmigration from Israel, and why Olmert calls leaving "a mistake maybe, but not a crime"ResourcesJosef Olmert at Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/josef-olmert/Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.comDr. Rod Berger: https://drrodberger.comChapters00:00 Welcome: scholar, negotiator and Arsenal fan02:43 Highbury, the LSE and a World Cup postmortem05:15 Fleeing revolutionary Russia for Harbin06:46 Harbin in 1992: preserved Jewish sites and the Sugihara story12:02 Refugees? Samara, Odessa and a careful word15:02 A communist aunt in St. Petersburg and Russia in 199217:44 Soviet echoes in Russia today, and what the West misses about Iran20:45 Madrid 1991: the Syrians arrive 12 hours late23:11 Culture behind the table: Carter, Emory and Walid Muallem27:54 "The Prophet Muhammad": respect versus acceptance in the classroom36:20 The one untrue statement: January 14, 199140:37 Arrival or leaving? The story Olmert tells himself Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s book, The Narrative Edge: Authentic Storytelling That Meets The Moment (Wiley), hits bookstores in late 2025. He draws on more than 4,000 interviews conducted worldwide for Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Fair Observer, including a cover story about former Virgin Entertainment co-founder Jason Felts, for Los Angeles Magazine, as well as various podcasts. He has captured the narratives of investors, CEOs, renowned entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, scholars, and cultural icons such as NBA legends Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley, as well as United Nations officials and Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar, while also exploring the behind-the-scenes world of Formula 1.Berger has met with the Crown Princess of Sweden, Pope Francis, United Nations officials, and NGO leaders, covering stories of water insecurity with WaterAid, the intergenerational refugee crisis faced by displaced Sudanese in Uganda, and the impacts of child marriage in Western Africa with the Le Korsa Foundation.Berger served as a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management for nearly two decades, focusing on the power of storytelling in business.He has partnered with The Jim Henson Company to create a television show, The Ultimate GOAT, that combines his passion for distant lands and storytelling with culture, sports, ...
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    47 Min.
  • Jean-Daniel Ruch: Write for History, Not for the Minister

    Jean-Daniel Ruch: Write for History, Not for the Minister
    Oct 15 2026
    The Dr. Rod Berger Show is presented by Fair Observer.At five or six, Jean-Daniel Ruch asked his mother what comes after death. She told him there is nothing, and he spent the next two decades looking for a better answer.Dr. Rod Berger sits down with Jean-Daniel Ruch, former Swiss ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Israel and Turkey, and author of Crimes, Hate and Tremors. He grew up in the Bernese Jura during the fight over Moutier's future, a fight he remembers in tear gas, broken windows and posters that read "Moutier equals Belfast." That boyhood shaped how he later sat across from a former Hamas minister in Nablus and found he understood the grievance, if not the violence. It also shaped his read on why Europe misunderstands Russia and Islam, and why, in his view, Iran's long strategic memory outmatched superior firepower.In 2023, the Swiss government named Jean-Daniel its new state secretary for security policy. Before he could take the job, a media campaign built on rumor drove him to resign from every post he held. He chose not to read a word of it. Instead he sped up his book, published it in French and German at once, and set out to change the story. Today he teaches, writes a weekly column and speaks across Switzerland, and he closes with the advice he gave every young diplomat who worked for him.Guest: Jean-Daniel Ruch, former Swiss ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, Israel and Turkey, and former political adviser to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former YugoslaviaKey topicsA mother's answer about death and a lifelong search for meaningGrowing up inside the violent Jura conflict and Moutier's move to the canton of JuraWhy grievance and discrimination sit at the root of most internal conflictsEurope's blind spots on Russia and Islam, and the strategy behind the war with IranFiction as a way to reach truths that academic writing can'tThe 2023 media campaign, his resignation and the price of speaking freelySwiss neutrality, the coming referendum and the lesson he gives young diplomatsResourcesJean-Daniel Ruch on Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.com/author/jean-daniel-ruch/Crimes, Hate and Tremors (Éditions Zarka, 2024): https://www.amazon.com/Crimes-Hate-Tremors-pursuit-Justice-ebook/dp/B0D6YNP8L7Fair Observer: https://www.fairobserver.comDr. Rod Berger: https://drrodberger.comChapters00:00 Welcome and Jean-Daniel's introduction02:44 His mother's kitchen and the question of what comes after death04:15 A village postwoman who became its first woman mayor07:29 Moutier, the Jura question and a violent boyhood14:18 A conversation with a former Hamas minister in Nablus16:46 Europe's misreading of Russia and Islam, and the war with Iran22:45 The novels, the heroine Samira and a pen name27:41 2023: the appointment, the media campaign and the resignation32:32 Meditation, tai chi and refusing to read the coverage35:12 Changing the narrative with Crimes, Hate and Tremors44:51 Swiss neutrality, Bürgenstock and the battle of narratives48:59 Write for history, not for the minister Dr. Rod Berger is a keynote speaker, moderator, producer, author, and expert in strategic storytelling. Berger’s book, The Narrative Edge: Authentic Storytelling That Meets The Moment (Wiley), hits bookstores in late 2025. He draws on more than 4,000 interviews conducted worldwide for Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, and Fair Observer, including a cover story about former Virgin Entertainment co-founder Jason Felts, for Los Angeles Magazine, as well as various podcasts. He has captured the narratives of investors, CEOs, renowned entrepreneurs, bestselling authors, scholars, and cultural icons such as NBA legends Magic Johnson and Charles Barkley, as well as United Nations officials and Van Halen’s Sammy Hagar, while also exploring the behind-the-scenes world of Formula 1.Berger has met with the Crown Princess of Sweden, Pope Francis, United Nations officials, and NGO leaders, covering stories of water insecurity with WaterAid, the intergenerational refugee crisis faced by displaced Sudanese in Uganda, and the impacts of child marriage in Western Africa with the Le Korsa Foundation.Berger served as a guest lecturer at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management for nearly two decades, focusing on the power of storytelling in business.He has partnered with The Jim Henson Company to create a television show, The Ultimate GOAT, that combines his passion for distant lands and storytelling with culture, sports, and puppetry for family programming.Berger conducts moderated keynote events that blend storytelling with live, on-stage narratives featuring cultural icons such as Opal Lee, the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and recognized as the “Grandmother” of Juneteenth. In 2023, Berger received the inaugural Pangea International Literacy Prize and delivered his TEDx Talk, “Story is Our Currency.” He lives in Franklin, ...
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    54 Min.
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