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The Kingdom of Bhutan is a small country with big mountains and ancient Buddhist traditions.
It’s tucked up against the Himalayas between India an...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
While all eyes have been on North Africa and the Middle East these last few months, some significant changes in Cuba have gone more or less unnotic...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
During the revolution in Egypt, Muslims and Christians united to oust the government.
During those tense days in Tahrir square, Christians and Musl...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WBEZ
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:25
- Purchases: 2
Many of the poorest residents of New Orleans lost everything in hurricane Katrina, but what some miss most may surprise you. This is a food-loving...
Bought by WTJU, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 04:37
- Purchases: 3
Earlier in the show, you heard a report from Grant Fuller about Cubans being allowed to start small businesses. While Grant was in Cuba, he became ...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 2
Across the world, people have been migrating from one area to another for as long as they’ve had legs to walk on. Some go in search of freedom, so...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 06:58
- Purchases: 1
Micro-lending has been hailed as the silver bullet to help end poverty. But the practice of lending small amounts of money to the world’s poor hasn...
Bought by HCC Radio The Dragon, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:56
- Purchases: 3
The expression “living on less than a dollar-a-day” has become a common catchphrase in the developing world. On a reporting trip to Ethiopia, Erne...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 03:43
The tiger of free enterprise is now loose in Cuba.
The socialist government there now allows private citizens to own small businesses.
Despite heav...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 28:00
A recent poll shows forty percent of Americans still think Gulf seafood isn’t safe to eat. Commercial fishermen in Bayou La Batre are fighting to w...
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 05:34
Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 01:50
Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 07:46
They prayed together and protected each other during Egypt’s democracy protests, but now Muslims and Coptic Christians are fighting again.
This we...
Bought by WDSE
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 01:31:26
- Purchases: 1
John Tarka with the American Federation of Teachers discusses some of the problems schools and their teachers are facing with massive budget cutbac...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 50:00
The Alabama beach tourism industry was hit hard by the Gulf oil spill, and it could take years before local officials know if visitor businesses ha...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:39
One concern raised by the Exxon Valdez experience is the long term mental health impact, which didn’t hit residents near Prince William Sound until...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:46
Bob Donald is the talk of the town in Gulf Shores near Alabama’s beaches. Before moving to the beaches, he and his wife lived in Valdez, Alaska dur...
- Added: Apr 14, 2011
- Length: 05:11
Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:48
Big business is as much of a threat to our livelihoods as out of control government, when they can do what they want and steal from us, and get awa...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:02
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 09:16
State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 06:32
Laura Milkins is walking from Tucson, Arizona to Grand Rapids, Michigan—with a streaming webcam attached to her head. Milkins is a performance art...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 1
Today on The Union Edge Talk Radio Show, Julie Reiser, of Made in USA Certified the nations leading, third party, independent certification company...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 50:00
Dr. Mary Jane Koren, vice president for the Picker-Commonwealth Fund Long-Term Quality Improvement Program, joins us today.
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 25:50
Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 08:58
