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Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 04:48
Joe Carraro discusses the fall of Merrill Lynch, the Wall Street firm he worked for as a stockbroker. He compares the greed and ineptitude of Thain...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 06:09
NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 09:16
State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.
- Added: Apr 13, 2011
- Length: 06:32
Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 08:58
The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Citizens United case, in which activist "conservative" judges took it upon themselves to grant corporati...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 04:59
The definition of a Recession has changed from many years ago. It started during George W. Bush's second term and will continue until all the reso...
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 03:37
Two women discuss why they refuse to pay for war by and resisting taxation.
- Added: Apr 06, 2011
- Length: 28:38
An exclusive interview with economist Richard Wolff, who explains how failed ‘trickle down economics’ theories are being recycled under a different...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Tom Hoffman and Nathan Sooy of Clean Water Action (cleanwateraction.org) discuss how Marcellus Shale drilling affects water sources. Then Darryl M...
- Added: Mar 21, 2011
- Length: 50:00
"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...
Bought by WDDE, WAMU, New Hampshire Public Radio, WGTE Public Media, Nevada Public Radio and more
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 81
Sasha Abramsky, a California-based journalist and author, explains why the recent measure to legalize marijuana in California, which polls showed m...
- Added: Jan 26, 2011
- Length: 38:22
From his perch in the high desert of western Nevada, remote control and cup in hand - - Travus T. Hipp pontificates to the world every morning abou...
- Added: Nov 27, 2010
- Length: 15:54
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
We all have a mouth and for the duration of our lives we put mainly food into it.
Some people think about what goes down!
Others don't care.
But m...
- Added: Sep 29, 2010
- Length: 31:00
After the news that the Senate had not passed legislation to end "don't ask don't tell," commentator Mark Blackmon decided that it was time to remi...
- Added: Sep 23, 2010
- Length: 04:08
Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ
- Added: Aug 20, 2010
- Length: 06:45
- Purchases: 2
When China loosens the peg of its currency to the dollar, the U.S. will benefit--but it may hurt labor in China. While the looser Chinese currency ...
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: 02:00
In Rwanda, 92 percent of citizens have government-mandated health insurance, collectively owned by the policy-holders themselves. Does organizing h...
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Governments have a moral responsibility to protect their citizens. How far does that extend? Is a "kill list" justified?
- Added: Jun 29, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Oliver Stone and members of his research team for the movie discuss their latest work that focuses on several South American and central American C...
- Added: Jun 25, 2010
- Length: 53:57
Should the U.S. be helping developing countries when it has its own dramatic domestic problems?
- Added: Jun 08, 2010
- Length: 02:00
Will the next dominant international conflict be between state capitalism and free market capitalism? Will it supplant the war on terror? What do y...
- Added: Jun 01, 2010
- Length: 02:15
An interview with James Lawson, the chief architect of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins, and confidant to Martin Luther King. Lawson touches on every...
- Added: May 27, 2010
- Length: 29:00
How do we meet the massive global issue of fertility without being mired in the abortion debate?
- Added: May 25, 2010
- Length: 02:00
