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WorldCanvass (excerpt): Nov 2009, Human Rights Discussion featuring Michael Ratner and Burns Weston
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Michael Ratner, winner of the 2009 Courage of Conviction Award, discusses human rights with UI Center for Human Rights founder Burns Weston.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:16
WorldCanvass:Asia
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is Asia.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:58:32
WorldCanvass: The Middle East
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes. This program's focus is The Midle East.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:03:49
Otto Pérez Molina and Militarization in Guatemala
From: War News Radio
Caption: Parachute Brigade of Guatemalan Army
War News Radio - Guatemala Militarization

  • Added: Mar 20, 2012
  • Length: 07:51
Nuclear Iran
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Nuclear Iran, Credit: By Daryl G. Kimball, Peter Crail, and Greg Thielmann
UN nuclear inspectors visited Iran to once again try to determine if Iran's civilian nuclear program is indeed a cover for weapons development, how...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Sanctions Against Iran
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Istock Photo
As the world community tightens economic sanctions against Iran, many are questioning the possibility of unintended consequences.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 28:56
Just Business: A Global Look at Migration
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Just Business
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Global migration is a key part of our economic future and one that is often overlooked. Three experts offer very different takes on migration, iden...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 11, 2012
  • Length: 27:21
  • Purchases: 1
Stop and Go
From: War News Radio
Caption: 1814 Thomson Map of Persia
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Nov 18, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Making Foreign Aid Accountable
From: With Good Reason
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The database AidData allows the public to see where foreign aid money goes and to what purpose.

  • Added: Sep 19, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Captain John Campbell
From: Basetrack
Series: Basetrack: One-Eight, The Interviews
Caption: Captain John Campbell, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Captain John Campbell of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 08:33
  • Purchases: 1
Corporal Sean R. Smith
From: Basetrack
Series: Basetrack: One-Eight, The Interviews
Caption: Corporal Sean R. Smith, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Sean R. Smith of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 07:37
  • Purchases: 1
Corporal Michael Perry
From: Basetrack
Series: Basetrack: One-Eight, The Interviews
Caption: Corporal Michael Perry, Credit: Balazs Gardi / Basetrack
Corporal Michael Perry of 1st Battalion 8th Marines spoke to Balazs Gardi, while on deployment in Southern Afghanistan, in 2010.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2011
  • Length: 09:53
A Conversation with Azar Nafisi
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:05
  • Purchases: 1
Determined Voices
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jun 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Why They Call it "Going for Broke" with Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
  • Purchases: 1
Late in the Arab Spring with Juan Cole and Steven Heydemann
From: Open Source
Caption: Steven Heydemann at Brown University's "Engaging Afghanistan" Conferece
With the news of Osama Bin Laden's death punctuating the reports from Libya, Syria, and Yemen, we're wondering: is this the beginning of the end, o...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
Mondli Mzizi the Comedian
From: NBPC
Series: Kwamashu Voices
Caption: Comedian Mondli Mzizi., Credit: Courtesy Ekhaya Multi Arts Center
Mondli ‘Usher’ Mzizi is a young comedian who travels the country hosting ceremonies and entertaining through his comedy. A University of Natal Dram...

  • Added: May 03, 2011
  • Length: 14:28
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Swan of Cairo - Mark Blyth
From: Open Source
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Open Source "Shorties" are 7-8 minute cuts of our best evergreen material. Today: Mark Blyth on the political economy of uncertainty in Japan, Egyp...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 25, 2011
  • Length: 07:47
  • Purchases: 1
A Jewish Reflection on the Arab Revolt - Philip Weiss
From: Open Source
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Journalist Philip Weiss reflects on the links and gaps between European anti-semitism, the neoconservative movement, the modern idea of Zionism, an...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
From Pakistan to Tanglewood - Vazira Zamindar & Composers
From: Open Source
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Historian Vazira Zamindar talks about the "wound of partition" in today's Pakistan. Then, we meet three young composers - Cynthia Lee Wong, Jacob B...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WRST-FM Oshkosh, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Profile of a musician in a refugee camp in Kenya.
From: Becky Palmstrom
Caption: Scisa Rumenge at home in Kakuma Refugee camp, Kenya., Credit: Becky Palmstrom
Scisa Rumenge is a Congolese musician living in Kakuma Refugee camp in the north of Kenya. He taught himself to play guitar in the camp and sings a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 1
Human Textures - Nir Rosen & Marianne Leone Cooper
From: Open Source
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Even as we watched transfixed as the protests in Egypt and Tunisia pushed the region's political scene into new waters, Nir Rosen stayed (will stay...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
On the Ground in Egypt
From: Spencer Downing
Series: BACKGROUND BRIEFING with IAN MASTERS
Caption: Ian Masters
Conversations with two women--one a 17-year-old journalist in Alexandria and the other an established novelist/author in Cairo--to explain the situ...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2011
  • Length: 54:02