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Stephanie Flanders on A Trump Economy & What to Watch in The Ultimate Election Year
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just in time for election season, Laura invites her sister Stephanie back to the program. Stephanie is the head of Economics and Government at Bloo...

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


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
269: Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth , 4/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
268: From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy, 3/20/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders, Credit: Photo by Don J. Usner
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Is the Republican Party’s Refusal to Raise Taxes Fiscally Irresponsible?
From: Open to Debate
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Whether to extend four trillion dollars in tax cuts or raise them next year is in question, with 34.1 trillion dollars in federal debt hanging in t...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Is Legalizing Marijuana a Mistake?
From: Open to Debate
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While marijuana legalization is gaining more cultural acceptance, effectively regulating weed has long puzzled policy and lawmakers, with some star...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
261: Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt?, 6/7/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Should the FTC Ban Non-compete Clauses?
From: Open to Debate
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The Federal Trade Commission recently shook up the labor market, proposing to ban non-compete clauses. These clauses are essentially contracts proh...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
Has Globalization Backfired?
From: Open to Debate
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For a period of time, going global just seemed to make sense. But with China’s rise, Covid-19, and the war in Ukraine, more and more people are cal...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 1
2023-04-07 Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

Bought by KUOW, Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 12
20230407: Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You, 4/7/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
He was right about inflation. Biden wasn’t. Larry Summers on what’s coming next
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
Banking on Climate Chaos - The Fossil Fuel Finance Report - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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On this show we discuss the Banking on Climate Chaos report, digging into how banks are supporting fossil fuel companies and causing further climat...

  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
The Knowledge of Power: Graduate Worker Exploitation at Indiana University
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Striking graduate worker Nathan Douglas quotes from Vice Provost Eliza Pavalko's 1987 dissertation.
Our three guests today are all PhD candidates in various departments at Indiana University. We discuss the graduate workers’ strike, the formation ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
The Untrammeled Cartoonist: The Radicalism of Art Young (Repeat)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. ...

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  • Added: Dec 21, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
From: KSFP
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Mask of the Public Good: What the University Costs Communities
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our guest is Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and author of In the Shadow of the Ivory ...

Bought by KTSW 89.9 and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Aug 31, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Mallory Moench - San Francisco Reporter Discusses "Rampant Shoplifting"
From: Ray Samuels
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Mallory Moench, City Hall reporter for San Francisco, California, discusses the alarming trend of "rampant shoplifting" in the city.

  • Added: Jun 09, 2021
  • Length: 11:40
210312: Political Reality of Climate Action, 3/12/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-01-15 Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 2)
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the r...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
2020-12-18 Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 1)
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. But after the destructive environmental policies of t...

Bought by WAMU, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
2021-01-08 Talking Green, Playing Dirty: Corporate America’s Mixed Record
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Questioning science, funding vocal climate denial groups, and encouraging the focus on personal carbon footprints are corporate America’s preferred...

Bought by KTSW 89.9, Maine Public Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 12
201218: Biden's Climate Opportunity (Part 1), 12/18/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging team....

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Stalking the Middle Class with David Roediger
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Captains of Disaster: Vulture Capitalism and the Pandemic Playbook
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Wilbur Ross, "King of Bankruptcy," vulture capitalist, and US Secretary of Commerce.
Bankruptcy, it turns out, and as Donald Trump typifies, is a best practice, and best supported by government. This is a part of statecraft as conce...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 20, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: More Than 90,000 Deaths & Whistleblower Testimony Confirm Trump’s Catastr...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1