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"We're in an age where every person can have access to global information. If they have access to a cell phone, which most of the world now has acc...
- Added: May 08, 2013
- Length: 04:02
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
"The good news is that we're figuring out some of the big mistakes people are making, and if we figure out in time, we can try to fight that and ac...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2013
- Length: 03:41
- Purchases: 1
"I see a world driven by a loss of central authority, which creates its on moral problems as a consequence."
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
With over half of the detainees on a hunger strike, tensions are worse than ever at Guantanamo Bay. Is it finally time for the United States to clo...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 02:02
"A global ethic, which is absolutely necessary to meet the destructive forces that our intellectual and technological powers have given us to meet ...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 03:55
"There are two kinds of countries in this world, the good ones and the bad ones. The good ones I count as the countries where the governments are a...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 02:45
After a controversial election, Kenya has inaugurated Uhuru Kenyatta, who has been indicted by the ICC for crimes against humanity, as its new pres...
- Added: Apr 15, 2013
- Length: 02:05
"The tendencies are hostile to achieving perpetual peace. But these tendencies do not have to be accepted the way they are. Once we understand what...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 04:24
"I'd really like to see us get globalization right. For me, getting globalization right wouldn't mean that we have stuff from every corner of the w...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 03:37
"On the most basic level, a global ethic should be a recognition that we simply cannot afford to ignore our neighbors, even if they don't appear to...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 03:31
"Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of a...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 03:10
A new book claiming that bonobos can feel empathy suggests that morality may be biological. If this is the case, what purpose does religion serve? ...
- Added: Apr 04, 2013
- Length: 01:52
"Even dictatorships go to great lengths to create these fake elections to prove to the world that they have consent of the governed. It's sort of a...
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: :13
"You've got to balance national interest against global interest. I think that's the direction in which global ethics is going to go."
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 03:21
A recent nuclear test and renewed threats from North Korea has led to new sanctions from the UN Security Council. Does this mean that China's patie...
- Added: Mar 27, 2013
- Length: 02:06
Anthony, no stranger to faraway places himself, tells the harrowing history of the search for the Northwest Passage in "The Man Who Ate His Boots."...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Mar 17, 2013
- Length: 10:11
- Purchases: 1
The world's eyes are on Venezuela as Hugo Chavez's death leaves many questions. Will he be remembered as a champion of the poor or will his legacy ...
- Added: Mar 13, 2013
- Length: 02:13
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
For years, large global organizations, like the G-20 or the UN, have failed to cooperate on major international challenges, like climate change. Is...
- Added: Feb 26, 2013
- Length: 02:16
President Obama called al-Qaeda a "shadow of its former self," but the organization is making inroads in Mali and Algeria and some say it is as dan...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 02:11
When Iceland was hit hard in the 2008 financial crisis, it responded by doing everything Western economic theorists told it not to. It has made an ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 02:08
The hope that existed at the beginning Arab Spring has been marred by violence and conflict in Syria, Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere. Have we entered ...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 02:06
"I do approach it in a positive way, that we ought to be thinking about nutrition for every human being, keeping people alive so they have a chance...
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 03:19
- Purchases: 1
"The new world, the 21st century is about global communication and global citizenship. I see this particularly in the young people."
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 03:06
