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“Nixing” the Gold Standard: The Secret Meeting Behind Today’s Inflation
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we return to a conversation between NPR’s Chief Economics Correspondent Scott Horsley and economist Jeffrey Garten about Nixon's decisio...

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  • Added: Jul 06, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Price Shock: The World Economy, Upside Down
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In light of rising inflation, we revisit a conversation with filmmaker Rupert Russell about his book and film, “Price Wars: How the Commodities Mar...

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  • Added: Jun 30, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Improving The Peace Prize
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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The Nobel Peace Prize was established by Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor and philanthropist, in 1901. Committee members in Norway meet privatel...

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  • Added: Jun 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
“Becoming American” with Wajahat Ali
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Wajahat Ali sits down with Ray Suarez to discuss his new book, Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommenda...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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NATO and the “Age of Disasters”: The Future of Crisis Management
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray sits down with Ivo Daalder, President of the Chicago Institute on Global Affairs and former US Ambassador to NATO, to discuss the alliance’s ev...

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  • Added: Jun 08, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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White Supremacist Terrorism: From Christchurch to Buffalo
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez invites Daniel Byman, author of Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism, to discuss the roots of the global white...

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  • Added: May 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Biden’s Ukraine Strategy, At Home and Abroad
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Ray Suarez discusses President Biden’s Ukraine strategy with US State Department Counselor Derek Chollet. Then, KPBS’s Gust...

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  • Added: May 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Making Peace With Migration
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Every time a group of people line up along the external borders of a country, debates heat up among government leaders with respect to migration an...

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  • Added: May 15, 2022
  • Length: 58:54
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War Crimes: From Belgrade to Kyiv
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode we tackle these questions with a war-crimes prosecutor, a former student organizer who played a critical role in the downfal...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Lt. Col. Alex Vindman and the New Cold War with Russia
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an interview with Ray Suarez, retired Lt. Col. Alex Vindman speaks about his time in the Trump White House, the consequences of the politicizati...

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  • Added: Mar 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Medical Apartheid and the COVID-19 vaccines (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The world is struggling to contain COVID-19, as variants continue to emerge in countries where the virus is spreading unchecked, killing thousands....

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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21st Century Alliances
From: Mateo Schimpf
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California Congressman Ami Bera joined Ray Suarez to talk about countering aggression from Russia and China, why immigration is such an important p...

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How Commodity Traders Cause Global Chaos
From: Mateo Schimpf
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WorldAffairs host Ray Suarez talks with Rupert Russell about his new book and film, “Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World.”

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  • Added: Feb 23, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
How to Stop a Civil War (Before It Starts)
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray Suarez interviews acclaimed author Barbara Walter about the risk factors than can contribute to the outbreak of violence and civil war.

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Framing the Games: China’s Human Rights Problem
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What's the calculation for an Olympic athlete determined to make a protest statement at the games? And how has China's treatment of Uyghurs in Xinj...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Nothing About Ukraine Without Ukrainians
From: Mateo Schimpf
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We’re joined by Iryna Tsilyk, documentary filmmaker from Kyiv, and historians Katherine Younger and Emily Channell-Justice, to hear the story of mo...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
An American Hostage Story
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we hear Jason Rezaian's story of being held hostage in Iran, and why he thinks it’s essential that the US government and me...

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  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The Big Ponder #28: The Mom-and-Pop Store
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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In the heart of Berlin, there is a small corner store, lovingly dubbed the “living room of the neighborhood.” Sadly, the shop’s owners are facing e...

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  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 1
Where in the World Are All the Vaccines?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Dr. Seth Berkley, CEO of GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, talks with Ray Suarez about overcoming the challenges of vaccine distr...

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
How the Far Right is Changing World Politics
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, Ray Suarez talks with two domestic intelligence agents, one in Germany and the other in the United States. What have they learned ...

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  • Added: Jan 13, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Return of the Strongmen
From: Mateo Schimpf
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One year after supporters of former President Donald Trump violently stormed the Capitol, how do we make sense of the January 6 insurrection?

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  • Added: Jan 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
War and Peace
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In an episode originally aired in April, we look at what happens when you think you know what you’re doing… and don’t listen to the people you are ...

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  • Added: Dec 30, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Tracing the Peace Line in Northern Ireland
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On the centenary of Northern Ireland’s birth, we look at the lines and borders that define it.

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  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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Fiona Hill on Saving Democracy
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In the third and final episode of our series on Putin’s Russia, we feature an interview with Fiona Hill.

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
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World as Family
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we revisit an episode from earlier this year that helps us make sense of the isolation brought on by the pandemic, and mistrust sown by ...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2021
  • Length: 59:00