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2022-05-22 The Allure of Autoritarianism
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Democracy may not be in great shape, but why would anyone prefer to be ruled by a despot?

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  • Added: May 23, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Congressman Jamie Raskin On January 6th: After a Failed Coup, a Successful One?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America, “...

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  • Added: May 18, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Lisa Graves: The Extremist Revolution & Democracy Hanging by a Thread
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The American Right is embracing a dangerous extremism, challenging elections, packing courts and aligning with Hungarian prime minister and Putin-a...

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  • Added: May 11, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Can China Erase History in Hong Kong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week's episode, we hear about the various ways that Beijing is tightening the screws on Hong Kong's freedom of expression, speech, and press.

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  • Added: Apr 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Forget Everything You Know About Texas
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Red, Republican, anti abortion, anti trans — Texas has certainly been a testing ground for backlash policies and politicians, and that could be wha...

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  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
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
AOC & Noam Chomsky: Inter-Generational Meeting of Minds (Re-Air week of 12/15/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In this historic, inter-generational meeting of minds, Laura Flanders brings together New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and MIT profe...

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  • Added: Dec 15, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
2021-12-26 The Examined Year: 2021
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Because the un-examined year is not worth reviewing!

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 5
How Radical Self-Love Can Heal the World
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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It’s that time of year when we all need resilience: elections, holidays, the change of seasons. Many of us need fortitude to get through. Reverend ...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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
  • Purchases: 6
13-14: Inalienable: Belonging to the Earth Community, 10/27/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Joanna Macy
Deep Ecology extends an inalienable right to life to all beings. Yet as the naturalist Aldo Leopold observed, “One of the penalties of an ecologica...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2021
  • Length: 28:30
Democracy: A National Temperature Check
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Disinformation, polarization, growing economic inequality, attempts to undermine elections and the rights of women and racial minorities—all of the...

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  • Added: Sep 09, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Post-Pandemic College Experience
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Coronavirus concerns forced many universities to close their campuses this fall. The mix of fewer students on campus, canceled athletics, and onlin...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 04:12
Caregiving as Infrastructure
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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The pandemic has upended caregiving and what it means to be a working mom. More than 2 million women have left the workforce because of the cost an...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 04:27
Vaccination Verification: Ticket to Ride or Social Divide?
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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How do you let people who are fully vaccinated get back to normal life without creating super-spreader events for those who haven’t yet been vaccin...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 04:19
Vaccinating the World Part I: The Problem with Patents
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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President Joe Biden said the United States would be the world’s “arsenal of vaccines” but critics say current plans to donate 80 million doses arou...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2021
  • Length: 03:40
Vaccinating the World Part II: You Can’t Fight Scarcity with Scarcity
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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India is the world’s largest supplier of vaccines but the government there suspended the export of all COVID-19 vaccines after a devastating outbre...

  • Added: May 28, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Techno-Racism & COVID at Home and Abroad
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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During the pandemic, disinformation campaigns have been targeting people of color with lies like African Americans can’t get COVID or denying the p...

  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 04:24
With Us, For Us
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Black healthcare workers are taking on the mission to inform and hopefully convince more people of color to get vaccinated. We’ll hear where this o...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 03:52
Health Insurance recorded 3/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A comparative generational discussion on the issues evolving in health insurance.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:28
RDD: A Local Activist
From: WGTE Public Media
Series: The Rough Draft Diaries with Haley Taylor
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Brittanie Kuhr serves as the Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at Defiance College, but for this interview on The Rough Draft Diaries...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2021
  • Length: 06:17
In For The Long Haul
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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COVID “long-haulers” are people who have extended experiences with COVID symptoms that never let up, or keep recurring. The virus is so new that we...

  • Added: Mar 01, 2021
  • Length: 04:03
2021-02-21 John Rawls
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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The life and thought of political philosopher John Rawls, born February 21, 1921.

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  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
03-11: Beloved Community: Hello My Other Self, 1/6/2021
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Ilarion "Larry" Merculieff
In today’s radically shifting world, the name of the game is resilience – the capacity of both human and ecological systems to absorb disturbance, ...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:30