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Caption: Logo: News In Context, Credit: Joyce Cheng
In this episode, we talk with Dr. Amber Boydstun, Associate Professor of Political Science at UC Davis, and author of Making the News… about how me...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2020
  • Length: 29:30
Caption: The 2009 view. "W" stands for water aquifer.
In the not so distant past, Anonymous was usually a woman. a woman composer, artist, author, musician, writer unless she was an accused criminal, a...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 06:52
Caption: 1974 Big Tirade: And you tell that kangaroo court they don't have the evidence that would justify impeachment...", Credit: Paul Szep, Boston Globe, August, 1974
With lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook, a tribute to You Know Who and how his workday goes sometimes. Sung to "I've been working on the railr...

  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:53
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A musical tribute to political appointees (at the cost of the Public trust) with lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook! which could be sung to th...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2018
  • Length: 02:07
Caption: "And you just tell that kangaroo court they don't have the evidence that would justify impeachment.", Credit: Paul Szep, cartoonist at the Boston Globe, 1974
Understanding the abandonment of civil liberties in this country, means looking at behaviors we ignore, passive handouts of yet another fat govern...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2018
  • Length: 06:29
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Do people of opposing political parties believe in different facts? The mantra at the moment is that they do, because of media echo chambers, motiv...

  • Added: Jul 25, 2018
  • Length: 43:49
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The commentary is an excerpt taken from our online-only interview with Chomsky, where the famed linguist analyzed the state of geo-nuclear politics...

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:30
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Millennials and younger people now make up America’s largest group of eligible voters, surpassing Baby Boomers for the first time.

  • Added: Jul 03, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
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Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, joins following the release of her new book, "What Happened," to discuss the tragic mass shooting ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2018
  • Length: 40:12
Caption: Stop guessing just whose financing was used..., Credit: Susan Cook
A musical tribute to a certain one hundred and thirty thousand dollars which it turns out a very special You-Know-Who-It-Is did reimburse his lawye...

  • Added: May 04, 2018
  • Length: 02:01
Caption:  Switching gears, Scarramouchi-style, Credit: Susan Cook
Turning to the Department of Poetic Justice and the tune from "I'll Be Seeing You", a poetic tribute to Scarramouchi's recent observation about why...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2018
  • Length: 02:29
Caption: ...the value of  human anchoring..., Credit: Susan Cook
Fourteen years ago this month, Maine Public Radio fired the host of a 30 year popular jazz program, The humble Farmer because he criticized the Ir...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:53
Caption: Greg Palast
Greg Palast is an award-winning, internationally known investigative reporter for the Guardian, The Nation and the BBC, and author of several New Y...

Bought by KMUD


  • Added: May 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, The River Is Wide offers a musical tribute to 'Donald J. Trump' to the tune of 'Seventy Six Trombones'. fr...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 02:46
Caption: JP Sottile
Jp Sottile, aka the Newsvandal, will join us in a realistic look at the coming year of Presidential Campaign antics. We'll take a look at real is...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:59
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This is the first of a two-part program based on a symposium to be held at Indiana University called Reconfiguring Global Space The Geography, Poli...

  • Added: Jul 07, 2015
  • Length: 59:42
Caption: JP Sotille
Unspun takes a deeper look at Obama's State of the Union Address 2015, with JP Sottile, the Newsvandal.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 55:12
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Executive Director, Keri Putnam and Director of Programing, Trever Groth have taken the time to elaborate on the issue of diversity in film in rela...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
If Woodward and Bernstein and Ben Bradlee had gone for the “gotcha” instead of the truth, the cost would have been the truth. The integrity that ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2014
  • Length: 04:45
Caption: New Managed car regulations require us to cover more items than we did before and our company has decided that is Unaffordable... we are cancelling your policy.", Credit: Susan Cook
Well, we thought it might happen. Over at Automobile Behavioral Health they are cancelling managed car insurance policies because the new "required...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
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A look at the issues...and the coverage of those issues...raised by the Newtown shootings...told thru narration, music and soundbites...now updated...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2012
  • Length: 57:58
Caption: Who is it- really?, Credit: Susan Cook
Thank Former Congressman Weiner for reminding us of what civilization loses when we pretend to be someone that we are not- online or in life.

  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: Talabani and Allawi win in 2006
News and analysis on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Dec 10, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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Oliver Stone and members of his research team for the movie discuss their latest work that focuses on several South American and central American C...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 53:57
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1