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Two and one half minute commentary by series host Martha Burk on the Pentagon's systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to bat...

Bought by WAMC


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Michael Scharf
Talking Foreign Policy is an hour-long program hosted by Associate Dean Michael Scharf and produced by Case Western Reserve University and WCPN 90....

  • Added: May 17, 2013
  • Length: 59:04
Caption: Walter Payton College Prep Poetry Team, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"Found Letters to My Granddaughter" is a team piece performed by the poetry team of Walter Payton College Prep: junior Kamaria Woods, 17, senior Ma...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Michael Scharf
Our panel of experts discuss what the appointments of John Kerry (State), Chuck Hagel (Defense) and John Brennan (CIA) will mean for American forei...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 59:07
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Brilliant biting piece on the military industrial complex paralleling the M-1 Abrams Tank program as basis. Evergreen for 2012/2013.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2012
  • Length: 03:00

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
Caption: Tatiana McBraun, Credit: Ian Hill/KQED
Tatiana McBraun, a political science major at San Jose State, told KQED’s Lillian Mongeau she feels too much security can be a bad thing.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2012
  • Length: :33
Caption: "The duty of the hour; - to save her not only from Spain, but from a worse fate."  Chromolithograph, 1898., Credit: Library of Congress
Fifty years ago this week, a U.S. military jet photographed strategic nuclear missiles that had been installed by the Soviets in Cuba. Over the nex...

Bought by WRPI and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 19, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Jews sang & wrote some of the best protest songs ever- ranging from war to discrimination. You'll hear from Bob Dylan, Graucho Marx, & more.

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Member of the Chesapeake and Potomac Vintage Baseball Club, Credit: Eric Mennel
On this episode, the History Guys ask what drives Americans to the suit up in the clothes of the past and reenact their history. Is it purely educa...

Bought by KREV-LP and WTJU


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: WWI bonds poster, Credit: Library of Congress
The History Guys explore why the national debt has continued to be so controversial in a country that was founded on borrowing.

Bought by KSKQ, WMMT, WFIU, WEZU, and WTJU


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Money Matters Award Winning Host Marc Cuniberti
Military Industrial Complex, the M-1 tank and a scam of immense proportions. Evergreen Piece and a doosey.

  • Added: Oct 02, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
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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


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Michael Ratner, winner of the 2009 Courage of Conviction Award, discusses human rights with UI Center for Human Rights founder Burns Weston.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
Caption: Javier Sicilia in 2011, Credit: Flickr user: sarihuella
On this edition, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. And an emerging mov...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KRZA


  • Added: Apr 30, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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Examination of PTSD treatment and veterans' care after the Gulf War and in the present

Bought by WAMC and WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:40
  • Purchases: 2
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From a lumbering, oar-propelled apparatus to an advanced nuclear-powered machine, the submarine has evolved since the early 1600s.

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Feb 11, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Unmanned systems to meet the changing modern challenges of security at sea.

  • Added: Nov 10, 2011
  • Length: 04:39
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Let's remember 9-11.More than 3000 children lost their parents in the tragedy.The destruction has caused damages to the economy at the global marke...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2011
  • Length: 03:53
Caption: Karl Jenkins, Credit: www.karljenkins.com
A music historian tells stories about how classical composers have been influenced by the threat of war and the hope for peace in their works. Mus...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Oct 20, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A Fambul Tok fire., Credit: Sara Terry
A look at a new Reconciliation process in Sierra Leone.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 05, 2011
  • Length: 54:56
  • Purchases: 1
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News and features on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:04
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Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (1990) is considered one of the finest books about the Vietnam War. But it's almost less about the war and m...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:59