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The GMO Deception
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: JUNE 2014
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Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...

  • Added: May 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
The Magnet and the Train
From: ABCtech Media Productions
Series: Maglev - Hi-speed transportation
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By the middle of the 20th century electromagnets were common and engineers had begun experimenting with using them to levitate vehicles, including...

  • Added: May 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
if music be the love of food?
From: PhilipDavid Ellwand
Caption: pork walk, Credit: archive
Passions for food and music shine through the nation of Catalunya.The traditional, the innovative, the very local and the trans-Mediterranian fusio...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:00
Underground Trade Part 2: The Route Through Queens
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Without ever knowing it, you may have driven the same routes, passed the same landmarks and used the same rest stops as today’s human trafficking n...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:26
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 8: What Now?
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Individuals can take heroic steps to stop human trafficking, like the cab driver in Saigon who rescued 11- and 12-year-olds enslaved in garment fac...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 08:20
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 3: The Business of Trafficking
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Why would someone fly 8,500 miles and spend $4,000 dollars to pony up to a bar in Pattaya, Thailand? “If they go into Pattaya, it’s not because Pa...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, XRAY.fm, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW and more


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 6
Underground Trade Part 5: Taken into China
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Two girls rescued from sex traffickers, Credit: Phillip Martin
Vietnam is losing its children. For years, girls and young women have been taken — kidnapped and trafficked across the border into Cambodia and so...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:38
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 4: One Town in Thailand
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: child victims of sex trafficking in Pattaya, Credit: Phillip Martin
Thailand is considered an incubator for human trafficking…so WGBH Radio's Phillip Martin traveled to one town there to document the relationship be...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:49
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 6: Trading in Shame
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
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Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. The ...

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 5
Underground Trade Part 7: Modern Day Slavery in America
From: WGBH Radio Boston
Series: Underground Trade: From Boston to Bangkok
Caption: Chinatown, Manhattan, Credit: Meredith Nierman, WGBH
If you think slavery ended in 1865, think again. Human traffickers have picked up where Jim Crow left off.

Bought by KUER, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KUOW, and WRPI


  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:53
  • Purchases: 5
Not In Our Backyard: Fighting Pollution in Richmond, California
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Richmond, California is one of the lowest-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s also one of the most toxic. On this edition, we’ll...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Latitude News Podcast #7 — From War on Drugs to legal weed, where will the U.S. lead the world next?
From: Latitude News
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A short, strange history of marijuana in the U.S., Mexico and everywhere else

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Feb 01, 2013
  • Length: 15:06
  • Purchases: 1
Latitude News Podcast #6 — The Shady Trade in American Horsemeat
From: Latitude News
Caption: This racehorse never should have been eaten. , Credit: Ken Terpenning
Are Europeans eating drugged-up American horses?

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and Louisville Public Media


  • Added: Dec 17, 2012
  • Length: 14:04
  • Purchases: 2
Latitude News Podcast #5 — The Mormon and the Muslim
From: Latitude News
Caption: Margaret and Mohammed discuss how Americans marginalize their religions. , Credit: Jesse Ellis
Islam and Mormonism — not exactly a perfect pair? Actually, these two religions have a striking similarity: both are marginalized in American socie...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 13:10
Misogyny Loves Company...even in 2012 ( UPDATE/REMIX)
From: Paul Fischer
Series: What's the Frequency, Kenneth? a newsical series
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Misogyny is alive and well in 2012. No surprise ( After all,as you'll hear in this program, even the music of the "peace and love" sixties was fill...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2012
  • Length: 56:50
Afghan Railways: From the Great Game to the Modern Silk Road
From: War News Radio
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News and features on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WBEZ, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 07:11
  • Purchases: 3
Radical Evolution
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Bestselling author Joel Garreau shows in his book, Radical Evolution, that we are at a turning point in history. At this moment we are engineering...

  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
TTT1125 June 20: AUTISM TODAY: What About the Children?
From: Andy Driscoll
Series: TruthToTell
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL queries four activists dealing in various aspects of the autism spectrum from causal inquiry through treatment and public polic...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:35
"The War You Don’t See" A film by John Pilger
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: U.S. soldier at Tahwilla, Iraq in 2008., Credit: U.S. Army
Was mainstream media in cahoots with government forces in the lead up to the Iraq War? In his film, “The War You Don’t See,” Australian journalis...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
COINTELPRO 101 (Part 2)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Over the next two weeks, we broadcast the documentary film “COINTELPRO 101,” about the secret FBI program which ran from 1956-1971, and disrupted m...

Bought by WXDU


  • Added: May 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Unreal World of Narcissists and Sociopaths
From: Jari Chevalier
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
Engineers of the New Millennium: Sustainable Design for the Future
From: Spectrum Radio
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Sustainable Design for the Future, from IEEE Spectrum Magazine and the National Science Foundation. Sustainable planning – of buildings and communi...

Bought by CHSR-FM 97.9, KZYX, KISU, WNYC, KZYX and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 9
Ghost Schools
From: Seattle Globalist
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Primary education is compulsory in Pakistan, and the country has a large public school system. But many of these schools are just marginally functi...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2010
  • Length: 06:45
  • Purchases: 2
The Local Aftermath of Bush-Era Workplace Immigration Raids
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We go to Postville, Iowa and Laurel, Mississippi--two communities where the largest workplace immigration raids happened in 2008.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jan 20, 2010
  • Length: 14:53
  • Purchases: 1
Part 2: Foot Dragging Produces Dioxin Delays
From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays
Caption: The southeast corner of the Dow Chemical plant, from the vantage of Midland's Whiting Overlook Park, which features an homage to and history of the company and its founder., Credit: Shawn Allee
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to clean up the dioxin. Shawn Allee looks for an answer.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 03:17