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Epidemics Change History
From: Celine Gounder
Series: Coronavirus Pandemic
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Pandemics have played a huge role in human history. A cholera outbreak in Europe had huge implications for the way we see public health. And it was...

  • Added: Apr 22, 2021
  • Length: 04:06
Arkansas recorded 5/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A generational discussion about life in Arkansas over history

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 23:52
Presidents recorded 2/2003
From: Phil Mariage
Series: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
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A very special program comparing US Presidents with special guest the late Helen Thomas of UPI. Others on the panel discuss many aspects comparing ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 24:59
US Healthcare After Covid: What’s Next & How Could It Be Better?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The Medicare for All Act was reintroduced into the U.S. House in March with a record number of cosponsors and public support. But while the idea of...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Pandemic Economics: Robert Reich, Esteban Kelly, Mary Kay Henry, Stephanie Kelton
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The economic collapse unfolding before our eyes is much bigger than it appears and the solution isn’t simply to “build back better.” COVID-19 didn’...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Big Ponder #5: Little America Revisited
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
Caption: The Big Ponder, Credit: © Goethe-institut
Since World War II, there have been countless American GIs stationed at military bases all over Germany. Sylvia Cunningham and Monika Müller-Kroll ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 1
Not Everyone is a Jerk: Rutger Bregman on Humankind
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Life gives us plenty of reasons for cynicism but best-selling author Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) summons a wealth of evidence that humanki...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 24, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Part 1: The City
From: Robyn Shipton
Series: Water Is For Fighting
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On the last leg of a long journey, Water faces a final foe: Aging infrastructure.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 51:52
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
Baldwin's Lessons for the US
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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James Baldwin was one of the 20th century’s most incisive thinkers and writers. In our own era, as political rhetoric, state violence, and popular ...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Judicial Independence (Pt 1)
From: Humankind
Series: Humankind Specials
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Have our courts – intended by America’s founders to be an independent arbiter of justice – turned into another political battlefield? Are today’s j...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WVBI-LP, WNMU-FM, WKMS, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Jan 18, 2021
  • Length: 52:59
  • Purchases: 47
Barn Raising For a Better America
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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In the aftermath of the January 6th siege of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters, Laura convenes a panel of pro-democracy activists to discuss...

Bought by KDNK and KWMR


  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 56:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Economics of Abolition (release date December 23, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Will the new abolition movement succeed in transforming how we invest public resources? And what really are the economic underpinnings of the syste...

Bought by KSPC and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
F-Word: Times They Ain't A Changing
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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Bob Dylan... "sing as he might about The Times They are A-Changing, Dylans deal, worth an estimated $300 million to him, changed nothing about anyt...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2020
  • Length: 03:00
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
2020-11-22 Spinoza
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What made Baruch Spinoza one of the most influential and beguiling thinkers of all time?

Bought by KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Nov 22, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 4
F-Word: The Media’s Quadrennial Eclipse
From: Laura Flanders
Series: The F-Word: Laura Flanders' Bi-Weekly Commentary
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"All this how’s-he-doing coverage is par for the course as we transition to the next administration, but someone’s missing from this picture of our...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:30
The Untold Story of the Central Minnesota Community Foundation
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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With the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying restrictions not going anywhere any time soon, local non-profit organizations are doing their best to a...

  • Added: Nov 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:52
2020-11-08 Camus and the Absurd
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is life just like a rock you keep pushing up a hill so it won't roll back over you?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 09, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Zen
From: Philosophy Talk
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What is the sound of one hand clapping?

  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 53:59
Islamic Philosophy
From: Philosophy Talk
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Astronomy, mathematics, linguistics, politics, justice, and the state -- the heritage of the West, given to Christianity by Islam.

Bought by KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, and WNYO


  • Added: Nov 04, 2020
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Dreamer
From: Israel Story
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David Ben Shabat hates being called a prophet. As he sees it, he’s just a guy who stumbled upon a deep truth and wants to share it with the people....

  • Added: Oct 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:17
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2

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