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David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts on Conflict, War, and Debate
From: Open to Debate
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Debate is a form of conflict that is played out through civility, and the capability to exchange ideas with people we disagree with. But what leads...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 11, 2024
  • Length: 54:02
  • Purchases: 2
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 21
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Rwandan genocide museum, Credit: David Kattenburg
Bacteria in your gut tweak your brain. Sometimes friendly, sometimes not. The hundred-day genocide in Rwanda -- recalling the mayhem on its 29th an...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2023
  • Length: 58:49
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 18
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Nothing woolly-headed or Utopian about it: A universal, guaranteed basic income. A hundred years later, memories of war that do not fade. And, one ...

  • Added: Jul 09, 2023
  • Length: 59:14
Flipping Extremists To Bolster Peace
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
Caption: Mubin Shaikh
A threat of both international and domestic terrorism has been a constant in our world for decades now. Radicalization of individuals to practice ...

Bought by KMUN and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 25, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
EE 22-50: “Profound acts of care” at the Ukrainian-Polish border , 12/9/2022
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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Stories of ordinary people assisting those fleeing Ukraine at the start of the war earlier this year.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2022
  • Length: 54:01
2022-04-03 The Doomsday Doctrine
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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How do we justify keeping so many nuclear weapons—and continually threatening to use them?

Bought by KMUN, GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KSKQ, KWMR and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2022
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
Learning Lessons from History to Make Peace Today
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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On this episode of Peace Talks Radio, correspondent Sarah Holtz speaks with three historians who warn against the danger of historical amnesia to p...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
War, Sacrifice, and the Media
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Does fighting a war require an enemy to demonize?

Bought by KSKQ, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KTSW 89.9, Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
The Ethics of Drone Warfare
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are drones the herald of a more sanitized and efficient form of war, or do they represent the dystopian reign of uncaring technologies?

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Military: What Is It Good For?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is the "citizen soldier" an outmoded concept of a bygone era?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, KMUN, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Oct 31, 2018
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
2018-08-19 National Security and Climate: Secretary Leon Panetta and Admiral David Titley
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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What’s the connection between climate change and national security? “Military commanders don't operate on the basis of fiction,” says Leon Panetta,...

Bought by WJCT, KZYX, NPR Now, KFOI Radio, KWIT and more


  • Added: Aug 16, 2018
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
Humanitarian Work for Peace: Doctors Without Borders & The Peace Corps
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Doctors Without Borders has been serving the wounded and sick in conflict, disease and disaster sites around the globe since 1971. The organizatio...

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Jul 10, 2016
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Study and Practice of Nonviolent Action
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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How effective have nonviolent resistance movements been to effect social and political change, compared to armed violent uprisings? This time on P...

Bought by KISA Digital Studios, KRZA, Aspen Public Radio, Radio Baha'i, WLGI, and KUNM


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kurdish People:  Their Struggle to Keep Their Homeland.
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits an archived conversation with Bob Blincoe, a Presbyterian minister who worked as a missionary in the Zagros Mountains from 1...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
What To Do After Paris?
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Amb. Chas Freeman, a freethinking veteran of foreign service, and the French journalist Sylvain Cypel, we’re in the Open Source situation room...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 4
Bringing Home the War Dead (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Before the Korean War, American soldiers killed in conflicts abroad were buried in overseas cemeteries. But the conflict in Korea changed that. (An...

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  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 10
Bringing Home the War Dead (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Before the Korean War, American soldiers killed in conflicts abroad were buried in overseas cemeteries. But the conflict in Korea changed that.

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  • Added: May 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 5
Our Worst War
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Seymour Hersh, Noam Chomsky, and Christian Appy on the legacy of Vietnam.

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: May 10, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Learning from Paris
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The story of the massacre at Charlie Hebdo has gone everywhere in the past week: into meditations on free speech and blasphemy, into declarations o...

Bought by KZYX and KWIT


  • Added: Jan 16, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Retired Navy doctor and poet Fred Foote on the healing power of the arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Fred Foote
In Medic Against Bomb, Fred Foote’s first collection of poetry, the neurologist demonstartes first-hand the healing power of the arts for veterans.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, RadioFreePalmer, and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 4
War and Water
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
Caption: The Euphrates River, Credit: NASA | by Robert Simmon, using Landsat data/EarthObservatory
Sectarian conflicts in the Middle East have been ongoing for what seems like forever. The latest violence in Syria and Turkey brought Peter Neill t...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:03
Global Ethics Corner: Is it Time to Arm the Syrian Rebels?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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With the Syrian civil war about to turn two years old and the death toll approaching 70,000, some are saying it is time for the U.S. or the UN to i...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
Global Ethics Corner: Are Women Second Class Citizens in the U.S. Military?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Despite making valuable contributions to the U.S. military since the Civil War, women are still technically excluded from direct ground combat role...

  • Added: Feb 15, 2013
  • Length: 01:59
Global Ethics Corner: Justice For Some, But Not For All?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Recent acquittals of Croat and Kosovo-Albanian officials in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have left some doubting t...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
Global Ethics Corner: Can We Know Too Much About Osama bin Laden's Death?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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With the publishing of "No Easy Day," a tell-all from a retired Navy SEAL about the raid that killed bin Laden, questions are being asked about how...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2012
  • Length: 01:53