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Borders: What are they good for?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
War and Peace
From: Mississippi Public Broadcasting
Series: Sounds Jewish
Caption: Sounds Jewish logo with star of David
Songs about war and peace

Bought by WLPR


  • Added: Oct 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
World in Progress 21/09/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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This week on the show: The troubling trend looming over Cairo's City of the Dead. Who gets to decide the best way to make space in a city? Officia...

Bought by WFHB, Troy Public Radio, and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 21, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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Jack Eidt discusses new government transitions in Honduras and Colombia. Professor Gerard Pigeon covers the history of Haiti, and why we have seen...

Bought by KTSW 89.9


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 1
José Martí and Cuban-Mindedness
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Revolutionary Parallels: Zhang Taiyan and Anti-Imperialism
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Spreading Global Freedom, or the Divine Right to Traffic Drugs, Guns, and People
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Our show today is with author Mark Driscoll, professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, whose new book is The Whites Are ...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Slavery’s Imperial Skein: Knitting Together the Capitalist Empire
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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While US Slavery established the template for the production of staples like rice, sugar, and cotton, it also troubled the imperial imaginary: how ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Concentrating Caliban: A Fund Drive Anthology
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Garrick Palmer. 'Benito Cereno,' Pencil signed proof; 1970.
Today, Interchange shared segments from three episodes that aired throughout the year – they all three touched on aspects of our current moment wit...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 20, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
2020-10-11 Hannah Arendt
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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From Germany to Paris to New York: what made Arendt so controversial?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Communists Made Us Do It: The Cold War Cover for Mass Murder
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: General Suharto in the days after the September 30th Movement.
"The Jakarta Method" is the anticommunist mass-murder playbook that, due to its great success (the nearly overnight erasure of the largest unarmed ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 06, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
At the Crossroads of Commons and Closure with Historian Peter Linebaugh
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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The current uprisings, which are beginning to threaten the status quo of policing in the United States and bringing the demands of abolition into t...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 58:22
Forms of Concentration: Constructing Racialized Bodies
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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What is most striking is that what Dan Nemser describes of 17th century Mexico City is a mode of organization nearly unchanged over four centuries....

  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Voting for Revolution: Lenin At the Ballot Box
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?," with August Nimtz.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Big Oil, Mickey Mouse, and Fascism in Latin America: The Tango War
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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US oil barons chose Nazism over Mexican sovereignty; anti-Semite Henry Ford fails in the Amazon; the US State Dept formalizes political kidnapping;...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
Husayn Means Beauty: The Attraction of the Seventh Century Martyr (1 of 2) (ENCORE)
From: John Shuck
Series: Progressive Spirit
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Scholars and religious leaders explore the impact of Husayn and the devotion of the 15-20 million pilgrims who visit his shrine each year. Part 1 o...

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Oct 08, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Political Prisoner in the Modern World
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: "The Magnicent Five": (from left) Henryk Wujec, Lech Dymarski, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuro?, Jan Rulewski. , Credit: Photo by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:28
Leon Trotsky, or The Revolution Betrayed: The Russian Revolution (Part Three)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
Understanding Stalin: The Russian Revolution (Part Two)
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:34
Gandhi the human
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Unspun Interviews Judyth Vary-Baker, Lee Harvey Oswalds Lover and Confidant
From: Doug Bennett
Series: Unspun: An Experiment in Truth-Telling
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
2013: The Year the Criminal Justice System Changed?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Solitary Confinement, Credit: Flickr user CHeitz
Years of campaigning for basic human rights for people caught up in America's criminal justice system may finally be paying off. 2013 saw significa...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Manufacturing Terror: The Media's Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Problem
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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After the Boston Marathon bombing, journalists scrambled to identify those responsible for the attack, and their motive. Rolling news and online m...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Kabul to Paris with John Mearsheimer and Graham Robb
From: Open Source
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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3