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Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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You’ve seen them in protests since the start of the Israel/Hamas war — from New York City’s Grand Central Station and the Statue of Liberty, to the...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, WNYE, KMUN, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
U.S. Anti-Torture History After 9/11
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: "Equal Justice Under Law" & Black Hood & Orange Jumpsuit, Outside The Third Guantanamo Hearing At the Supreme Court (Washington, DC), Credit: Photo by “tacomabibelot”
In today’s program, sociology professor Lisa Hajjar traces the rise and fall of torture after 9/11. She examines the ways in which torture and the ...

Bought by KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Perilous Medicine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Leonard Rubenstein
It’s a horrific common occurrence in war. Especially modern warfare. Hospitals and health care facilities are relentlessly under attack, and health...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Sep 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Parallels in Autocracy
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Wolfgang Mac
Imagine spending your youth witnessing to the rise of Nazi Germany under Hitler’s dictatorship. You’re watching your country fall into the hands of...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Ray McPadden - 363
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An interview with Ray McPadden, author of the war novel, "And the Whole Mountain Burned." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
War and Peace
From: Wind & Rhythm
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Lock and load! So much music, like literature, is about conflict and resolution. This week we take a wind band tour of the extremes of war and pea...

Bought by KTXK, GCR (Global Community Radio), WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 07, 2019
  • Length: 59:29
  • Purchases: 4
The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: Hugh Turley Investigates His Death
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
Caption: Hugh Turley
December 10th, 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton. Questions linger. Was it a heart attack, accident, or murder?

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Dec 04, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Blind Eye to Torture
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Ter...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
The German War
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Nicholas Stargardt
The Holocaust during World War II -- Horrifying images and stories that have come to symbolize an international conflict. What the story doesn’t t...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America - part 2
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: PTSD book cover, Credit: Lexington Books
This is a continuation of a conversation with sociologist Jerry Lembcke. His book, -PTSD: Diagnosis and Identity in Post-empire America.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Feb 26, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Blind Eye to Torture
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006. Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, M...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Drones: A New Death From Above
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists working to build a g...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Returning Fire: Interventions in Video Game Culture
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: America's Army
Interactive, realistic, pro-war video games have become part of American culture. But protestors and artists are finding ways to turn the virtual ...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
America's Worst Maritime Disaster: The Sinking of the Steamboat Sultana
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique, we learn about an event in our country's history that is not widely known or talked about. Winona State University Profes...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 47:08
  • Purchases: 1
Global Ethics Corner: Child Soldiers and Counter-Terrorism: Should the U.S. Aid Countries that Recruit Child Soldiers?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Child soldiers and foreign aid raise an important ethical dilemma: Should allies that use child soldiers receive U.S. military aid, even if it comp...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Veterans Speak Out: Winter Soldier
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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In March 2008, hundreds of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans gathered for "Winter Soldier": to talk about what they saw and did in combat, and diff...

Bought by KGOU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Teaching Terror
From: Voices of Our World
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We discuss how the School of the Americas has played a large role in the shaping of South American politics by teaching its students how to kill, t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2006
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
US Policy & Murder in El Salvador
From: Voices of Our World
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When 4 US churchwomen were abducted, raped and murdered in El Salvador in 1980, the cold war was in full swing. We revisit the story to understand ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 12, 2006
  • Length: 27:58
  • Purchases: 1