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Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for October 21, 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: Dangerous Days Ahead as President’s Mental Health Deterioration Coincides ...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Biggest Threat to the US is Already Inside the Border
From: Mateo Schimpf
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According to the Department of Homeland Security, white supremacists pose the deadliest terror threat to the United States, and a growing number of...

Bought by Classic107.3, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Future of US Global Leadership
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we consider different visions of what US foreign policy can look like and how the upcoming election will determine that path. We t...

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Political Junkie Evergreen 10-09-20
From: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
Series: Ken Rudin's Political Junkie
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Carol Anderson, a professor at Emory University, discusses her book, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy.” John...

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  • Length: 53:58
Buyer's Remorse
From: Center for Public Integrity
Series: The Heist
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Republicans say they hate debt. So why did they push for a tax bill that would add almost two trillion dollars to the country’s tab? Only one Repub...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2020
  • Length: 42:50
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for September 30, 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: Leak of Trump’s Taxes Reveal He Paid No Income Tax in 10 of Last 15 Years,...

Bought by WKPW and KMXT


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
A Big Deal, Not a Peace Deal
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This month, Israel signed deals with two Gulf States on the White House South Lawn. These are the first Arab-Israel agreements in 25 years, known a...

Bought by Classic107.3, WHCP-LP Cambridge, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Facing Our Climate Future
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re launching an ongoing series about our climate future. We'll hear from activists and political leaders who discussed climate resili...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Universal Basic Income: Does it Work?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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What if we could lower COVID-19 rates all over the world with one program? It’s not a medical innovation, but an economic one. If all the world’s c...

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  • Added: Sep 16, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Will Democratic Capitalism Survive?
From: Mateo Schimpf
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As inequality rises around the world, citizens are losing faith in the free market democracy that emerged over the 20th century. Protests from the ...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Sep 02, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Coronavirus and Sub-Saharan Africa
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, we’re looking at Uganda and Rwanda, two countries who have fought pandemics before and were ready for this one. Both countries have lost...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
How Developing Nations Are Fighting COVID-19...And Winning
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Even with its close proximity to China, where the pandemic started, parts of Southeast Asia have managed to control the coronavirus far better than...

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Russia, Afghanistan and America’s Longest War
From: Mateo Schimpf
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In this episode, we take a closer look at how the war in Afghanistan has served as a proxy conflict between the US and Russia and how it fits into ...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Why Hong Kong is Protesting Again
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Protesters are back in the streets in Hong Kong to fight against a new security law that tightens the Chinese government’s grip over the city. On ...

Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, WMUU-LP, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Global Economy After COVID-19
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, we tackle these big issues and examine our new digital economy with James Manyika, Chairman and Director of the McKinsey Gl...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: Jul 09, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fiona Hill and Putin’s People
From: Mateo Schimpf
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On this week’s episode, Fiona Hill, who was a top Russia advisor under three presidents, talks with KQED’s Mina Kim about how Vladimir Putin uses o...

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  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Texts Not Jails! Before and After Covid-19 via 70 Million
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Covid-19 has transformed jails and prisons into death traps. How are some communities jailing less people in the first place. After someone is arre...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 18, 2020
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Rally to Re-open Oregon Amid COVID-19 Lockdown Draws Fringe Militia and Families
From: Kate Kaye
Caption: Anna and Brian (last names not disclosed) prepare to attend a re-open rally in Salem, Oregon on May 2, 2020, Credit: Kate Kaye
Hundreds convened in the rain this Saturday at the Oregon State Capitol in Salem. Families with kids mingled amid attendees strapped with semi-auto...

  • Added: May 03, 2020
  • Length: 05:23
Pandemic Forces Oregon Ballot Initiatives to Spend Far More than Planned
From: Kate Kaye
Caption: An Oregon petition signature sheet, Credit: Oregon Secretary of State
COVID-19 is a problem for the 50 initiatives, referenda and referrals that still technically could end up on the ballot in Oregon in November. To g...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:57
NYCHA Tenants Threaten Rent Strikes
From: William Walkey
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This is a story about potential rent strikes across NYCHA facilities in New York City. I talked with residents considering strikes (or in the midst...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
John Carlos Frey on America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: John Carlos Frey, Sand and Blood, book cover art, Credit: John Carlos Frey
On today's program, John Carlos Frey, author of Sand and Blood: America's Stealth War on the Mexico Border, explores increased militarization at th...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
“Germs” and “Invaders”
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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How does a soldier start bombing his own country? This is the question Houda asked her cousin after he was discharged from mandatory military servi...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2019
  • Length: 04:10
Women Rising. Migrations: Standing in Solidarity With the Desperate
From: Making Contact
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Women Rising Radio chronicles the rise of three different movements to advocate for immigrant rights in the USA, and to support immigrants and refu...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 27, 2019
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
The World’s Largest Methanol Refinery (and the fight to stop it)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Claudia Riedener has lived in Tacoma since 1998, and is co-founder of the grassroots environmental group Redefine Tacoma., Credit: (photographer unknown)
Special for Climate Week: Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked g...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Sep 16, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Immigration Case Management Instead of Detention - Lorri in Austin
From: Pius Wong
Series: Megaphone Texas
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Retired lawyer Lorri in Austin volunteers to help immigration organizations and asylum seekers in Central Texas. Lorri objects to how ICE and for-...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 19:00
  • Purchases: 1