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Caption: An Iraqi man reads a newspaper in Baghdad., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jan 15, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
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This past November, Maine voters repealed a law legalizing gay marriage. Supporters on both sides of the issue were backed by strong religious con...

Bought by PRX Remix and WRNC-LP


  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jim Leach, Credit: National Press Club
Jim Leach, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, speaks at the National Press Club

  • Added: Dec 18, 2009
  • Length: 54:01
Caption: President Obama outlines his new Afghan strategy in a televised address., Credit: Associated Press
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Dec 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Civilian Casualties (Part 4)
The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 12:09
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Security (Part 6)
The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 11:14
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Women of Afghanistan (Part 5)
Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afg...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 10:51
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Cost (Part 3)
Everyone has a friend or relative who just lost a job. Do we really want to spend over $1 trillion on another war? Everyone knows someone who has l...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 13:59
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Pakistan (Part 2)
The war in Afghanistan and its potentially catastrophic impact on Pakistan are complex and dangerous issues, which further make the case why our co...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 10:42
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Troops (Part 1)
President Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 11:46
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Can the suburbs be fixed? What does sustainability look like in a land of three car garages, shopping malls, single use zoning and houses on steroi...

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  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Action Speaks!-Underappreciated Dates that Changed America presents What Now? a series of 8 one hour programs suitable for individual or serial air...

Bought by KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, Interlochen Public Radio, WRPI, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
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From the Sudan Radio Project: we hear Sudanese opinions on US President Barack Obama's new policy towards Sudan.

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 06:36
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A plea for individualizing treatment plans, incorporating all appropriate treatments

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:39
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From the Sudan Radio Radio Project: a look at Darfur activism in the Sudanese community of Philadelphia.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2009
  • Length: 05:57
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While some have predicted that "water will be the next oil" as the resource that countries will start wars over, the fact is that over centuries no...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 2
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What is true for the individual may not be true for the group, the state, or the international system, and vice versa. Does this suggest that ethic...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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How can we resolve the financial melt-down and prevent another? Solutions focus on free markets, regulation, or rewards. Perhaps we should balance ...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What criteria do you emphasize when deciding "How is my country doing?" Are you proud of how your country compares with the world?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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What does the financial crisis imply? Should we liberalize trade on agriculture and services? Or should we protect domestic producers?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Can intelligent robot soldiers be designed to be more ethical in battle than human soldiers? Would you prefer a robot or a human deciding about the...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Will our responses to the financial crisis be constructive, or will panic cloud our judgments?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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Will people associate U.S. power with "global misery" or with the opportunity and pluralism that Obama's victory represents?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:38
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We enter a slippery ethical slope when we begin to make distinctions between victims. When can an individual's rights be set aside?

  • Added: Aug 21, 2009
  • Length: 01:30
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Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper announced the 2008 Democratic National Convention was "going to be the greenest in history." In this report, Y-Press...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:35