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Renowned author Chris Hedges paints a bleak picture of our world today, in rapid economic, environmental, and religious decline-but we still have a...

  • Added: May 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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In the aftermath of popular uprisings in the Middle East, Western aid-donors are confronted by a difficult dilemma. Should they work with anti-demo...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Turkey’s democracy has been extolled as a model in the Middle East, but has also been belittled for its creeping authoritarianism. Does Turkey offe...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Egyptian women protesting, Credit: flickr user monasosh
Youth and their use of social media have been cited as leading factors for Egypt’s “January 25th” revolution. But women also came out in force to p...

Bought by KSFR


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Western support of Israel demonstrates a clash of interests and values. Israel is a key U.S. ally, yet its policies towards Gaza and the West Bank ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by KWMR-FM, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
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Even as we watched transfixed as the protests in Egypt and Tunisia pushed the region's political scene into new waters, Nir Rosen stayed (will stay...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
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Simon Johnson, author of 13 BANKERS, analyzes about banks in American economic life. John Feffer discusses "Arab Democracy Now!" Ted C. Fishman t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2011
  • Length: 54:59
Caption: 18-year-old Marah wins the Bethlehem Speedtest, Credit: Copyright Guy Martin
'The Speed Sisters’ are the West Bank's first, and only, all-female, Palestinian racing team. They have become serious competitors on the West Ba...

Bought by KZYX, KBGA 89.9 FM, KSJD, WNIJ, and WAMC


  • Added: Dec 30, 2010
  • Length: 19:05
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Rice Flour Cookies
This week the Global Guru stays up all night for the winter solstice in Iran, where acclaimed cookbook author, Najmieh Batmanglij, leads us into th...

Bought by Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
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An update on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:02
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: NPR's Deb Amos, Credit: NPR.org
NPR's Deborah Amos talks about the importance of foreign correspondents, her hopes for political reconciliation in Iraq, and her nightmares.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2010
  • Length: 10:43
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Jewish settlers are forcibly expanded their lands. After calling for a freeze, the Obama Administration changed course, diming the prospects for pe...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


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  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Bob Schieffer of CBS's "Face the Nation" pokes fun at his friend Thomas Friedman during the 2009 Fourth Estate Awards Dinner., Credit: Noel St. John
Thomas Friedman, the ground-breaking New York Times foreign affairs columnist and author, will receive the 2009 Fourth Estate Award, the National P...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:02:03
Caption: UN Goldstone's ''Kangaroo Court'' Report -- on Gaza, Credit: SLG
Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's Spontaneous Responses to the UN Kangaroo Court Findings of alleged ''War Crimes'' in Gaza

  • Added: Sep 16, 2009
  • Length: 04:39
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An Interview with Robert Reich

  • Added: Mar 12, 2009
  • Length: 55:00