Since Russia's invasion began in 2022, an estimated half-million Ukrainian and Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war and at least 10,000 Ukrainians civilians have died in the conflagration.

This war seems to know no end. Vladimir Putin recently proposed a cease fire, if Ukraine gives up the eastern part of the country that Russia controls, about 20-percent of the nation. Ukraine’s president Volodymir Zelensky has called the proposal, absurd.

Joining me to discuss this horrific war and its tragic consequences is Carl Larson a U.S. Army veteran who served in Iraq. He volunteered and fought for four-and-one-half months on the front lines in eastern Ukraine as part of the International Legion of Ukraine. He is the Co-Founder and President of the Ukraine Defense Support Organization based in Seattle.

Today, we’re investigating a topic that we all need to survive, water. Without water, there would be no plant life, no forests, crops could not grow, livestock could not exist, so we’d have nothing to eat. The fact is, we as people consist of water. The average adult human body is about 60% water.

Tragically, the world, with some 8,000,000,000 people, growing to 10,000,000,000 by the year 2050, is running out of water as we heat the planet to such an extent that glaciers and snowpack that feed mountain streams disappear.

We are draining ground water from aquifers to the point of no return, and we pollute sources of clean drinking water by using rivers and lakes as virtual industrial and residential sewers.

To discuss this vital issue impacting all of our lives, is Adrienne Esposito, Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Citizens Campaign for the Environment based in New York. Adrienne has been a long-time champion of water protection, public health, preventing pesticide use, ending plastic pollution and creating alternative energy sources.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the American way of life is our justice system. The courts are a pillar of our democratic society. A jury trial is a constitutional right.

Our founding fathers believed the right to be tried by a jury of our peers was the highest law of the land. It’s included in the 6th and 7th amendments of the Bill of Rights.

But our court system is under fire. Local courts have been chastised for convicting people of color at a far greater rate than whites. The system often compels innocent people to plead guilty. Different courts in adjacent jurisdictions yield different penalties for the same crime. High-level white-collar executives are rarely prosecuted for serious crimes.

The highest court in the land, the U.S. Supreme Court has been accused of becoming a partisan appendage of the Republican party with six of the nine justices being appointed by the GOP, three justices were appointed by ex-President Donald Trump while President Barack Obama was denied one appointment to the high court.

To discuss these critical issues, impacting all of our lives, is Ron Kuby. Kuby is a nationally known criminal defense and civil rights attorney who’s worked on some of the most high-profile cases in America including New York’s vigilante shooter Bernard Goetz, terrorist Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman who orchestrated the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and mass murderer Colin Ferguson. He was a partner with famed attorney William Kuntsler one of the most important civil rights lawyers of the 20th century. Kuby has also hosted national TV and radio programs.