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Inside ALEC: 50 Years of Driving Extreme Policies in America with Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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We’re discussing what’s being done to expose and push back against the anti-democratic practices of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or A...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6
(January 10, 2024 Re-Air) Josh Paul: Resigns State Dept. Over Arms to Israel
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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After 11 years in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs — the entity most responsible for arms transfers to allies and partne...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 15, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
#50YearsOfHarm: Rep. Ro Khanna & Lisa Graves Call Out ALEC / The American Legislative Exchange Council
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Many people have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC – but for 50 years, the group has been the driving force behind ...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Anti-Trans Hate Machine: Resistance, Money, and the Struggle for Trans Rights
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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2022 will go down in history for the number of anti-trans bills introduced into state legislatures. Over 300 bills banning books, medical treatment...

Bought by KWMR, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Whipping Man
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A gripping Civil War drama with an unusual twist.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KFCF FM, KWMR, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 14, 2023
  • Length: 01:58:02
  • Purchases: 25
StoryCorps: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Halyna Hrushetsky and Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman at their StoryCorps interview in Chicago Illinois on September 4, 2014., Credit: By Andre Perez for StoryCorps.
Halyna Hrushetsky tells her daughter Oryna Hrushetsky-Schiffman about when she learned her Ukrainian parents had lived through the Holodomor famine.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Mar 01, 2022
  • Length: 02:14
  • Purchases: 1
Extremist Ties of Survivalist Groups at Paramilitary Training Camps In Rural America (Holiday ReAir - Week of 12/29/21)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

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


  • Added: Dec 17, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Community Safety in a Time of Insurrection
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KDNK, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: Oct 21, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
A Paramilitary Industrial Complex is Growing in Americans' Backyards
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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The F-Word is released bi-weekly featuring timely commentaries by Laura Flanders and guests. "Veteran activists organizing across this state [Nor...

  • Added: Oct 19, 2021
  • Length: 04:00
Reporting on Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Equipped with a facemask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports in this episode (from a responsible distance) on the impact of Covid-19 on one ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
545-Celestial Congestion
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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Imagine being under a clear natural night sky, with no moon, waiting to see stars down to the horizon, the Milky Way, star clusters, planets, the z...

Bought by KCHW, Simply Beautiful, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KENW, WTIP and more


  • Added: Jun 28, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
Masterpiece in the Mire
From: Out of the Blocks
Series: Out of the Blocks, Quick Hits
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Each day starts off at ground zero. Based on my motivation, it'll either be mundane or it'll be a masterpiece.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 22, 2019
  • Length: 04:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Self and Survival
From: Barry Lam
Series: Hi-Phi Nation
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This show is about past life memories and whether science and philosophy can ever accommodate them.

  • Added: Mar 30, 2018
  • Length: 43:48
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218 (Encore)
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by Indie3 Radio, KKWE Niijii Radio, and KTRL


  • Added: Mar 27, 2018
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
439-Big and Close
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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A large asteroid approached Earth from the direction of the Sun with little advanced warning.

Bought by KENW, WTIP, KKRN, KUPR low power FM, and WLPR


  • Added: Mar 01, 2018
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 5
StoryCorps: Francine Anderson
From: StoryCorps
Caption: Francine Anderson
Francine Anderson grew up in rural Virginia during the 1950s. It was the Jim Crow South and “Whites Only” signs punctuated the windows of many busi...

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Aug 22, 2017
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
Near-Term Human Extinction: Guy McPherson #218
From: Citizen-Powered Media
Series: Conversation Earth
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Award-winning scientist Dr. Guy McPherson has concluded that for human civilization, the end is near. He advises the rate of change of our climate ...

Bought by KTRL


  • Added: Jun 20, 2017
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Perilous
From: Wind & Rhythm
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"Here's to the risk-takers. The ones who seek adventure. The people who never give up and never back down. The ones who stand up for what's right a...

Bought by KTXK and WUAL


  • Added: Feb 14, 2017
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 2
Joby Warrick, author of "Black Flags"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Host Bob Kustra talks with Joby Warrick about his book, winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.

  • Added: Jan 25, 2017
  • Length: 30:01
#735- The move towards a cashless society- conveniance or plot
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Eliminate cash? Track all payments? Debit taxes and anything else they want? The implications are frightening! Hear the implications and the progress!

Bought by WRFA-LP


  • Added: Jun 13, 2016
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
#730- "The cost of killing -Redux"
From: marc cuniberti
Series: Money Matters Economic Forum
Caption: Money Matters host Marc Cuniberti
Classic piece resurrected from years back on war and the cost of killing. Unique piece, Money Matters award winning news filler. One of a kind piec...

  • Added: May 04, 2016
  • Length: 04:11
Martin J. Blaser, M.D., author of "Missing Microbes"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Blaser, a microbiologist and physician, discusses how the overuse of antibiotics is fueling our modern plagues.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2015
  • Length: 29:30
A President's Curious Choice
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: FEBRUARY 2015
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Presidents often disappoint us. Professor Rowland Brucken reads from his book, A Most Uncertain Crusade: The United States, the United Nations, and...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
U.S. General Shocks A President
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: AUGUST 2014
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Only uncovered recently: a famous general commits a crime... but world events overshadow it. Author Nigel Hamilton reads from his book, The Mantle ...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
How Far Have We Come? Justice for Female Inmates in 2013
From: Making Contact
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Up until fairly recently, the public knew very little about what happens to a woman when she lands in jail and is pregnant. What prenatal services ...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2013
  • Length: 10:30