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Caption: Host Martha Burk
Afghanistan is a place where peace just won’t stick. Radical Islamist Taliban insurgents have intensified their attacks on the capital with brazen ...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
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Rebecca McInroy invites Kate Betts, Margaret Cook, Nancy Baker Jones, and Jean Heath to discuss The Bullock Texas State History Museum's exhibit on...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 58:08
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In Part One, we’re joined by Majed Akhter, an Assistant Professor of Geography at Indiana University Bloomington whose current research examines ho...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2015
  • Length: 40:40
Caption: Kathy Kelly
Unspun with co-host, Mauro Oliviera, talk with Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, (http://vcnv.org/) a campaign to end...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:15
Caption: Norman Solomon
Unspun is privileged to have Norman Solomon as our guest. Norman Solomon is an author, columnist, media critic, anti-war activist and former Congr...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Coast to Coast Explosion of Protest Confronts Police Violence in Communiti...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Nobuo Fujita, who piloted the plane that bombed Brookings, donating his family's 400-year-old samurai sword to the city of Brookings
The 9-11 attacks weren’t the first time that America had been bombed. Listen to what happened at Brookings, Oregon on a Wednesday morning in Septem...

  • Added: Dec 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
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On this edition of Peace Talks Radio, what you might call an independent spin-off from Ken Burns 2014 documentary on The Roosevelts. We consider Te...

Bought by KMXT, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI and more


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Gas mask exercise, Scott Field, Illinois.1942. , Credit: Library of Congress
Chemical weapons have played a chilling role in human history ever since World War I. As accounts of recent uses permeate the news, we decided to f...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2014
  • Length: 44:21
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A short documentary about the battle of Saratoga, Yorktown, and Trenton in the American Revolution.

  • Added: Oct 24, 2014
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: The Euphrates River, Credit: NASA | by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data/EarthObservatory
Sectarian conflicts in the Middle East have been ongoing for what seems like forever. The latest violence in Syria and Turkey brought Peter Neill t...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:03
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Tyler Wigg-Stevenson on Christianity and nuclear weapons; Katy Scrogin on Christian Anarchism.

  • Added: Oct 09, 2014
  • Length: 53:50
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Phyllis Tickle on science, faith, and The Great Emergence; Katy Scrogin on Soul Repair: Recovering from Moral Injury after War.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 42:12
Caption: Michael Scharf
In this broadcast, our expert panel discusses how the Islamic State emerged so quickly as America’s newest grave threat. They critique President O...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2014
  • Length: 59:00
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Saudi Arabian Monarchy Linked to ISIS and Other Islamist Terrorist Groups; Pennsylvania Groups Mobilize to Stop Fracking Near Schools; Will Massive...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
Veterans Say New U.S.-Led War in Iraq and Syria Will Only Inflame Region's Ethnic Violence; Great March for Climate Action Activists Demand the Wor...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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As NATO Heightens New Cold War Tensions with Russia, U.S. Media Continues to Distort Ukraine Conflict; Community Joins Together Offering Clean Wate...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis
Renewed U.S. Intervention in Iraq Won't Solve the Nation's Many Internal Ethnic Conflicts; Activists Gear Up for Historic New York City Climate Cha...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Norm Stamper, Credit: KPLU
Co-host, Pamela Spoto, and I speak with 34-year veteran Top Cop, Norm Stamper of Battle in Seattle fame. He is author of Breaking Rank: A Top Cop'...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 58:26
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After Declaring 'There's No Military Solution,' Obama Launches New U.S. Military Intervention Targeting ISIS in Iraq; Detroit Citizens Rise Up to S...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
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In Major Breach of the Separation-of-Powers, CIA Admits it Spied on Senate; Accountability Demanded for U.S. Role in Supplying Munitions and Suppor...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00

  • Added: Jun 26, 2014
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
At a jazz performance, the lady next to me and I struck up a conversation. During World War II, she, a Czechoslovakian, and her family were exiled ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: May 18, 2014
  • Length: 06:50
  • Purchases: 1
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Born to Live is Studs Terkel’s remarkable Prix Italia-winning audio collage program (produced with Jim Unrath) that first aired in 1962 and serves ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WWNO, WCQS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 56:45
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
I am a great admirer of bird nests and those who build them. They make them with twigs, string, down. You find them sometimes nestled inside the a...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 06:50