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Learning from Paris
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: into meditations on free speech and blasphemy, into declarations o...

Bought by KZYX and KWIT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Plague After War (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Africa is rising, but some fear the spread of Ebola is a sign the continent has a long way to go.

Bought by WJCT, KKRN, WXDU, and WLIW


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Plague After War (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Africa is rising, but some fear the spread of Ebola is a sign the continent has a long way to go.

Bought by WCNY, KKRN, WTJU, Accessible Media Inc., and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 14, 2014
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 5
Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
Military Food - Is it healthy?
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Elements by Open Orchard Productions
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Military food has come a long way since the canned rations of World War I. However, has the overall quality of nourishment or taste necessarily imp...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 1
Counselors Without Borders
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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From the forest fires in California to child soldiers in Uganda, survivors of disasters are receiving a new kind of aid. Counselors Without Borders...

Bought by KENW, PRX Remix, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 3
Lines in the Sand
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The borders that divide up our modern world hinge, sometimes, on decisions that have stopped making sense. The Middle East is still suffering from ...

Bought by KZYX, WRPI, KUOW, and Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)


  • Added: Jul 18, 2014
  • Length: 58:36
  • Purchases: 4
Evicted from the Mountains (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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When Shenandoah National Park was built, hundreds of families were forced off their land. New information has emerged suggesting that some of those...

Bought by WJCT, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, WFHB, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 6
In Turkey, Legal Limbo for 500,000 Syrians
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: A Syrian refugee girl looks out from behind the fence at Yayladagi refugee camp in Hatay province near the Turkish-Syrian border April 10, 2012., Credit: Freedom House
The refugee crisis in Turkey has reached unprecedented proportions, with more than half a million Syrian refugees streaming across the border. But ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2013
  • Length: 07:32
Coming Home: A History of War Veterans [rebroadcast]
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: Detail from 1919 Red Cross poster, “Facing the Future: Uncle Sam offers training to every man disabled in the service.”, Credit: Library of Congress
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have created thousands of new combat veterans - but what is it like for those soldiers as they return home? How we...

Bought by WMMT, WHRV, WGCU, WLPR , KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 08, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
Thought Leader: Sir Lawrence Freedman
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"There are values that those of us from Western liberal societies hold dear and believe should be universal. But they're not. And that produces the...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2013
  • Length: 03:42
Friend is a Verb (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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How social media is changing the concept of friendship.

Bought by WJCT and KVSC


  • Added: Sep 30, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
Give Syrian Women (and Peace) a Chance
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Veterans in the Classroom
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. Two writing professors ha...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 4
Military Headline News
From: Rick Rogers
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Unique, non-partisan military and veterans news and information in a short format.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 05:00
WorldCanvass: Refugees in the Heartland
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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A discussion of the international refugee picture and the refugee experience in the American Midwest, including personal stories of life as a refug...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 01:54:25
Losing Pakistan: A Search for Common Ground
From: Dan Boyce
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This piece examines the tenuous state of relations between the United States and Pakistan. It follows Montana Public Radio Reporter Dan Boyce on a ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2013
  • Length: 47:43
Global Ethics Corner: Is it Time to Arm the Syrian Rebels?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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With the Syrian civil war about to turn two years old and the death toll approaching 70,000, some are saying it is time for the U.S. or the UN to i...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
Global Ethics Corner: Are Women Second Class Citizens in the U.S. Military?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Despite making valuable contributions to the U.S. military since the Civil War, women are still technically excluded from direct ground combat role...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Global Ethics Corner: Justice For Some, But Not For All?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Recent acquittals of Croat and Kosovo-Albanian officials in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have left some doubting t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Seeking Peace on Earth: A Peace Talks Radio Special (2012) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Inspiring and engaging highlights from episodes of Peace Talks Radio, the series on peacemaking and nonviolent conflict resolution. Young women fro...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
On the Move
From: WAMU
Series: Latitudes
Caption: Commuting to Syria., Credit: Courtesy of Tom A. Peter
Moving up, moving home, and moving your body. In Latitudes’ On the Move special we’ll sample many varieties of mobility. From self-deportation to ...

Bought by KUOW and Marfa Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 51:28
  • Purchases: 2
Global Ethics Corner: Can We Know Too Much About Osama bin Laden's Death?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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With the publishing of "No Easy Day," a tell-all from a retired Navy SEAL about the raid that killed bin Laden, questions are being asked about how...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:53
Mending the Past: International Truth and Reconciliation
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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After Apartheid, genocide, or after civil wars...how do nations, or people who've been pitted against each other, resolve their differences and liv...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2012
  • Length: 30:00
Veterans Turning Towards Peace (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Conversations with two U.S. Military Veterans who have chosen different paths for peaceful action in the years following their military service. F...

Bought by KGNU Community Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 3