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Sanctions Against Iran
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Istock Photo
As the world community tightens economic sanctions against Iran, many are questioning the possibility of unintended consequences.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
"It's what we're about."
From: Obama for America
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National Field Director Jeremy Bird talks organizing.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2011
  • Length: :00
The Reactionary Mind
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

  • Added: Nov 08, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Why They Call it "Going for Broke" with Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann
From: Open Source
Caption: Steven Heydemann at Brown University's "Engaging Afghanistan" Conferece
With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Artist Speaks
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
Tony Shalhoub, Madison, March 12 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Actor and Wisconsin native Tony Shalhoub addresses a crowd in Madison, WI on March 12, 2011. Shalhoub discusses the "Fab 14" Democratic senators, G...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 11:43
Sen. Jon Erpenbach, Madison, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Jon Erpenbach addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison, WI on March 12, 2011

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:18
Sen. Julie Lassa, Madison, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Julie Lassa addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison, WI on March 12, 2011.

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:51
Spencer Coggs, Madison, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Spencer Coggs addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison March 12, 2011

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:04
Lena Taylor, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Lena Taylor addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon her return to Madison on March 12, 2011

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:35
Chris Larson, March 12, 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Chris Larson addresses a crowd on the capitol square in Madison, WI

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 02:52
Mark Miller - March 12 2011
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Sen. Mark Miller addresses a crowd on the capitol square upon his return to Madison, WI

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:40
Susan Sarandon in Madison
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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Susan Sarandon speaks to a crowd of 100,000 in Madison, WI

  • Added: Mar 12, 2011
  • Length: 05:56
A Jewish Reflection on the Arab Revolt - Philip Weiss
From: Open Source
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Journalist Philip Weiss reflects on the links and gaps between European anti-semitism, the neoconservative movement, the modern idea of Zionism, an...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Do You Hear The People Sing - entire song
From: Lauren Peterson
Series: Madison protests
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At 1:00 p.m. on the 13th day of protests in Madison, Wisconsin, hundreds of singers and instrumentalists suddenly burst into song. The "Les Miserab...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 1
From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From: Open Source
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Shades of the 1930s in Wisconsin
From: Dick Meister
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The attempt by Wisconsin's governor to all but eliminate union rights of state employees is one of the most important labor developments in decades.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Feb 23, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Africa in a Chinese Century, Firecracker Prose - Howard French & Lydia Davis
From: Open Source
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This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 27, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Pakistan Pulse-Takers - Daniyal Mueenuddin & Najam Sethi
From: Open Source
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We're talking with the Pakistani journalist Najam Sethi and the fictionist Daniyal Mueenuddin. With both the underlying supposition is that it's Pa...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2011
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 2
Voices of India - Namita Gokhale & Ashis Nandy
From: Open Source
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Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 13, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3

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