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Steven Simon, author of seven books, is currently a Fellow at MIT (Mass. Inst. Tech.) after spending nearly 40 years specializing in the Middle Eas...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:27
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With INVISIBLE STORM Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politic...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
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Dan Pedersen, author of, TOPGUN. An American Story, was the boss of the group that formed the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School. Also known as the...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Civil Disobedience means maintaining civility- a new lesson from Peace activists protesting at a Naval Destroyer christening and the Police Who Ar...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2019
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: DoD Deputy Shanahan said the Pentagon didn't think they'd pass an independent audit and they didn't..., Credit: Susan Cook
Fifty-four cents of every federally appropriated dollar goes to the Defense Department budget. Exactly where, the Pentagon auditors find "impossibl...

  • Added: May 10, 2019
  • Length: 08:36
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New Mexico-based Hampton Sides’ newest book is "On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War’s Greatest Battle.” Based on ne...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2018
  • Length: 09:55
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
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As Bath Iron Works ships become more sophisticated in their use of sonar devices, we recall the 40 million dollar Maine Legislature approved tax br...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2018
  • Length: 09:56
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Elected representatives have taken a new approach to legislating. Only their own district or cell or voting area can receive information from there...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 01:25
Caption: After watching "The Vietnam War" we all know more about conscience...
Freud never quite cornered the market on Conscience. After two weeks spent with the Burns/Novick film ‘The Vietnam War”, the complexity of conscie...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2017
  • Length: 05:56
Caption: Children's art is an eyeglass into their view. , Credit: Susan Cook
'Chuzo Tamotzu, Children’s Drawings and the Art of Resolution’ is an exhibit hosted by the Bowdoin Art Museum which presents the artwork of childr...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2017
  • Length: 07:35
Caption: "I don't hate the press, none of them. As a matter of fact, I feel sorry for them.'', Credit: Szep, Boston Globe, July 18, 1974
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...

  • Added: Jun 04, 2016
  • Length: 07:16
Caption: Celeste Zappala, Credit: Photo by Jim MacMillan
News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 07:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Interview with Southern Colorado Congressman Joel Hefley

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 11:13