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Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In this episode, we look at this seemingly never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Biden and Netanyahu’s approaches to the conflict, and emergin...

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  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
“We have the right to hate Germany because we love it,” German writer Kurt Tucholsky wrote. Listening to positions from both sides of the Atlantic ...

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  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Filtering Free Speech" - Language is powerful. But what if someone tells you to stop talking? This hour, free speech and modern censorsh...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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For everything the West Bank barrier represents to people on both sides, it’s easy to forget that it is an actual physical structure. And as Joel S...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Aug 26, 2019
  • Length: 17:45
  • Purchases: 1
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In these times of increased awareness of environmental protection, the bicycle is on the rise again. In Germany, especially medium-sized cities suc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 14, 2019
  • Length: 19:19
  • Purchases: 2
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HOUR ONE: "Building A Better Ballot Box" - Compulsory voting? Pay citizens? Let children vote? This hour, we'll find a better way to do elections. ...

  • Added: Nov 02, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Michael Scharf
At the United Nations last year, President Trump labelled North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Venezuela “rogue States.” Since then, the Trump Administrat...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: Michael Scharf
The United States and North Korea — two countries that fought a brutal war and never made peace. Last March, the two countries agreed to hold a hi...

  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:24
Caption: "The Magnicent Five": (from left) Henryk Wujec, Lech Dymarski, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuro?, Jan Rulewski. , Credit: Photo by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:28
Caption: Michael Scharf
On Wednesday, October 11, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Jesner v. Arab Bank, a case that will determine if corporations can be sue...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 59:04
Caption: Michael Scharf
Don't miss the latest "Talking Foreign Policy," the radio program hosted by Case Western Reserve University School of Law Dean Michael Scharf on Cl...

  • Added: May 30, 2017
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Michael Scharf
A panel of international experts from London, Washington, and Cleveland -- including the Director of the International Bar Association, an Internat...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Dr. Robert Epstein
Unspun delves into methods of mind control in the 21st Century with Dr. Robert Epstein, Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for ...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 58:14
Caption: Alex Scrivener
Unspun sits down with Alex Scrivener, Policy Officer at Global Justice Now in London. They recently released a report, Gated Development – is t...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: Apr 25, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stephen Zunes
Confused about the Middle East? Prof. Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco. For many...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2016
  • Length: 59:32
Caption: Michael Scharf
Combatting ISIS, relations with China, and immigration policy have emerged as major issues in the 2016 Presidential Primaries. In this broadcast o...

Bought by WRGY, WLRN, KTSW 89.9, and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 15, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
Janessa Gans Wilder was a CIA analyst stationed in the Green Zone during the first couple of years of U.S. occupation of Iraq. After 21 months work...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:39
Caption: Jennifer Hynes
Jennifer Hynes, Climate Researcher, environmental activist and blogger joins us, as we talk about her two very popular videos, The Arctic Methane ...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Kathryn Johnson
Kathryn Johnson joins us to discuss the recently divulged Trans Pacific Partnership, TPP. Kathryn is the Policy Impact Coordinator with the Office...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2015
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: New U.S. Ground Troops in Syrian Conflict Likely to Intensify Multi-sided ...

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  • Added: Nov 04, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Political scientist Matt Gabel on how international courts work - and why countries should sometimes be allowed to bend the rules.

  • Added: Oct 27, 2015
  • Length: 11:24
Caption: Michael Scharf
"Talking Foreign Policy" takes on the controversy over the Iran Nuclear Accord. Although the press reported recently that President Obama has line...

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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Arctic opportunities and territorial claims are on the rise as temperatures change and the ice melts. Once impassable, the Arctic is now increasing...

  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:31