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Should Congress Stop Funding the War in Ukraine?
From: Open to Debate
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The U.S. has provided more than $75 billion in aid to Ukraine in its war against Russia. Some Congress members question whether we have done enough...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
Should NATO Admit Ukraine?
From: Open to Debate
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In the wake of the Russian invasion, Ukraine has applied on a fast-track membership bid to join NATO. Those who argue “yes” say admitting Ukraine w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
In Good Faith - Henry Bakarr & Kim Swain
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Finding faith in God in places like college, civil war, and while working with others.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 52:52
  • Purchases: 1
V (formerly Eve Ensler): Reckoning with Our Past, Transforming the Future (Suggest- Women's History Month)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“Reckoning” is the new best-selling book from V (formerly Eve Ensler), author of “The Vagina Monologues” and founder of V-Day/One Billion Rising, ...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KVNF, KDNK and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
What ISIS Can Teach Us About Drone Warfare in Ukraine
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What does accountability look like in the age of remote warfare?

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 18, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
In Good Faith - Father Nabil Haddad & Mariam Kallon-Olayemi
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Power in God's timing and the pursuit of peace.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:50
A Blurred Civilian/Soldier Line? Accountability and Ethics in the Age of Drones
From: Mateo Schimpf
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First, Ray talks with journalist Azmat Khan about accountability remote warfare and later, with professor Shannon French, about the ever-evolving f...

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
For-Profit Business of Training Guns-for-hire is Literally Booming In Rural America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Winning War, Building Peace: Activists from Ukraine, Russia & The US Debate
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The latest peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war may lead to an eventual ceasefire but not before displacing millions and damaging the air, water a...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Apr 06, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
2022-04-03 The Doomsday Doctrine
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons—and continually threatening to use them?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Women's History Month: Changing the Narrative, Women War and Peace II
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Making the future while surviving a war. In humanity’s never ending war stories, combat makes the news, but the macho gaze misses the complex reali...

Bought by KWMR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
In Praise of Veterans and One Special Veteran People Call Santa Claus
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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The Emotion Roadmap featured a show about veterans close to when we celebrated Veteran's Day in 2019. One caller talked about a veteran living in a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:23
The Mad Military Money Machine
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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There’s something sick about US Military spending. It’s certainly not keeping anyone safe. This week, why we the public spend billions on bad techn...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jul 31, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
#19-21 Chanticleer: Heart of a Soldier
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Chanticleer: Heart of a Soldier

Bought by KPOV, Rhythm & News Service, KWAX, and KMXT


  • Added: May 20, 2019
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 4
War, Sacrifice, and the Media
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does fighting a war require an enemy to demonize?

Bought by KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Ethics of Drone Warfare
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are drones the herald of a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies?

Bought by KTSW 89.9, KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KSKQ and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Military: What Is It Good For?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the "citizen soldier" an outmoded concept of a bygone era?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Novelist and Former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher
From: New Letters on the Air
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The Iraq War ended in December 2011, a dramatic setting for former U.S. Army Captain Matt Gallagher, who discusses his novel, YOUNGBLOOD, which dra...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chanticleer: Heart of a Soldier #18-11
From: All Classical Public Media
Series: Played In Oregon
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Chanticleer sings music of war and peace

Bought by WCNY, WNIJ, Rhythm & News Service, KMXT, and KWAX


  • Added: Mar 14, 2018
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 5
Violence
From: Wind & Rhythm
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As much as some hate to admit it, violence has been part of the shared human heritage from the beginning of recorded time. Even today, in some part...

Bought by KTXK, WUAL, and KMFA


  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 3
Water Politics in War
From: Stephen Baker
Series: Water is a Many Splendor'ed Thing
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Life in war torn regions of Afghanistan are bad enough for the communities but it can become even more hopeless when the water runs out.

  • Added: Jul 29, 2017
  • Length: 06:01
Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance
From: Northeast Indiana Public Radio
Series: Folktales
Caption: WBOI's Folktale of Patriotism & Remembrance, Credit: Julia Meek
It's a time of military memorials in our world, and that's the hallowed path we walk on this week's edition, with musical reflections on battles--a...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WVIA, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:00
  • Purchases: 17
Missouri Poets of the Midwest Poets Series
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2