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Caption: Even the subtle exhalations of rabbits heard.., Credit: Susan Cook
Turning once again to the extensive value of nursery rhyme to bring us deep understanding, which brilliant skilled public servants did Donald Tr...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:05
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: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate Republicans have introduced a bill to send all Affordable Care Act funding back to the states so states can deny coverage to citizens an...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:01
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In Rockland, Maine celebrants of the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay gathered zoomlike to honor her poetry. A woman's genius valued for i...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2017
  • Length: 05:32
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
Caption: ...yoga is liberal..., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, to the tune from 'I'll Be Seeing You', an Ohm for Mr. Bannon, updated now that he refuses an Insurrection Day ...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2017
  • Length: 02:18
Caption: His profession was listed as  "farmer's son". They never saw their family again., Credit: Susan Cook
The US Senate bill to limit immigration by educational status ignores that opportunity is exactly what oppressive regimes deny. Opportunity -as ev...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 05:59
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
"What Do We Owe You?" This poetic tribute to the failure of the Republican sponsored bill to end healthcare for millions of Americans- could be sun...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:47
Caption: His last words...Love as intense as ice..., Credit: Susan Cook
Liu Xiaobo died in 2017. His 11 year imprisonment by the Chinese government for posting subversive articles on the Internet had not ended. "No Ene...

  • Added: Jul 14, 2017
  • Length: 05:24
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An Essay and Interview with Dr. Carolyn Finney on her vision of

  • Added: Jul 12, 2017
  • Length: 25:26
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Maine has witnessed many domestic violence tragedies. In 2017, a woman, her son and a neighbor killed by her out of control partner were one of t...

  • Added: Jul 08, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Why haven't pharmaceutical companies and oil corporations been asked to make health insurance lower by reducing drug costs or refusing federal subs...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 02:43
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate and House Healthcare bills will replace Obamacare subsidies with tax breaks for the wealthy. Meanwhile oil and gas companies continue to...

  • Added: Jun 27, 2017
  • Length: 02:54
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An interview with writer Rahawa Haile who shares her experiences through-hiking the Appalachian Trail while bisexual, female and black

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2017
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Some places, for example, the Intelligence Committee of the United States Senate serve as our country's moral proving ground. But this week‘s testi...

  • Added: Jun 18, 2017
  • Length: 02:57
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings about Russian meddling in the 2016 election are Scurrilous one especially important testifier said.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: MY Pony, Credit: E.V. Cook
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: ...excluding your body, your health, your expectations of  the richest country in the world..., Credit: Susan Cook
Congress has taken on eliminating affordable health insurance coverage for all citizens. For many, this year is 'anno horribilis'. In the Departme...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We’re joined by guitarist, producer, composer and author Dave Randall. His book, Sound System, newly out from Pluto Press, is an insider’s view of ...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:28:01
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When we don't recognize the unkindness of entitled hatred, we may be quietly consuming more of it than we realize. That may be a way in which a lin...

  • Added: May 23, 2017
  • Length: 07:52
Caption: ....at the top of my game..., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, as we say "Sayonara" to Tom Price, government jobs distributed as they may be, a poetic tribute called "We'll ...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:47
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a poetic tribute to the complex topic of hiring candidates for government jobs who carry heavy politi...

  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 01:48
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Pamela Crossley of Dartmouth College & Sarwar Kashmeri of Norwich University discuss China's bold strategic gamble to develop the connections from ...

  • Added: May 15, 2017
  • Length: 04:38