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A Closer Look At Hamas
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group has had a complex relationship with the concept of peace talks, particularl...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 03:28
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

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  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
645-Shrinking Stratosphere
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: A view of Earth's atmosphere., Credit: NASA
As a result of human caused increases in green house gases the troposphere is expanding and the stratosphere is shrinking. Between 1980 and 2018 t...

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  • Added: Jun 04, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

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  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
StoryCorps: James Edward Brown and Michael Cline
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Mike Cline and James Edward Brown pose at their StoryCorps interview on April 30, 2019 in Pensacola, FL. By Joseph Vincenza/WUWF.
James Edward Brown was a Navy corpsman working as a surgical tech on the ground during the Beirut Bombing of 1983. The bombing killed 241 U.S. serv...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2019
  • Length: 02:44
A Blind Eye to Torture
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Ter...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
The New Cold War: U.S. Hegemony and Russian Backlash with Dmitry Orlov
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Dmitry Orlov
Dmitry Orlov joins us again. He is the author of Reinventing Collapse: The Soviet Example and American Prospects, The Five Stages of Collapse: Sur...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Wrestles the Methane Monster with Jennifer Hynes, Climate Researcher
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Jennifer Hynes
Jennifer Hynes, Climate Researcher, environmental activist and blogger joins us, as we talk about her two very popular videos, The Arctic Methane ...

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  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 59:18
  • Purchases: 1
Elephant Controversy in Africa
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: Momma and baby, Credit: LN Lurie
To cull or not to cull. That's the question.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 10:18
A local bar in Namibia
From: LN Lurie
Series: Where in the World is LN?
Caption: impalila island, Namibia, Credit: LN Lurie
I wanted to go to a bar in Impalila Island, Namibia. I couldn't because I'm white. Good thing- because I wouldn't have wanted to be there anyway.

  • Added: Sep 13, 2015
  • Length: 09:07
U.S. General Shocks A President
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: AUGUST 2014
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Only uncovered recently: a famous general commits a crime... but world events overshadow it. Author Nigel Hamilton reads from his book, The Mantle ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
Immaculée Ilibagiza: One of 16 Women Who Survived The Rwanda Genocide
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...

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  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Three Gorges Dam
From: Judy Lubow
Series: Planet Warning
Caption: PRX default Piece image
The gargantuan Three Gorges Dam over the Yangtze River in China is the largest hydroelectric project in the world and is a poster child for China's...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Genocide in Africa: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan
From: Barry Vogel
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Another little publicized war involving the indiscriminate killing and torture of people in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Sudan, in Northeast Afri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Shame On Holland Again
From: Anton Foek
Caption: Istanbul, Credit: Anton Foek
In Nederland willen we eerlijk en open met elkaar omgaan. Maar als het aan het Openbaar Ministerie ligt wordt daar grof en oneerlijk onderscheid i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Markets for Farmers
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: Farmers ready to Bid, Credit: Beatrice Murch
The Feria de Mataderos in Buenos Aires is the biggest cattle market in the world. Monday through Thursday 45,000 head of cattle pass though it's p...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2009
  • Length: 10:29
  • Purchases: 1
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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The story of the Grandmothes of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aries

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  • Added: Aug 02, 2008
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 1
Zimbabwe Violence Threatens children
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Post-election Violence in Zimbabwe Threatens children

  • Added: May 20, 2008
  • Length: 03:57
Where Would You Invest Your $7,000,000
From: The humble Farmer
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A commentary on the dropping US dollar

  • Added: May 16, 2008
  • Length: 01:49
Health Crisis in post-cyclone Myanmar
From: UNICEF
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Fear of disease outbreaks after the hurricane in Myanmar

  • Added: May 15, 2008
  • Length: 02:59
Gorilla Welfare
From: Catalina Island Conservancy
Series: March 2008 - Isla Earth Radio Series
Caption: PRX default Piece image
In 2007, seven rare silverback mountain gorillas were shot and killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo's Virunga National Park in three differen...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Crime Ignored
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: Genderless Justice
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The second part examines the sexual violence being perpetrated against women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and during the genocide in Rwanda.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2007
  • Length: 17:32
Court Sentences Argentine Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide
From: Marie Trigona
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Court Sentences Argentinean Priest to Life in Prison for Genocide(3:24)

  • Added: Oct 11, 2007
  • Length: 03:47