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(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
648-Smoky Nights
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Smith Telescope McDonald Observatory, Credit: McDonald Observatory
Until recently smoky nights at the observatory were rare. Now they have become more common place as wild fires continue to devastate portions of th...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, RADIOLEX, KGLP and more


  • Added: Jun 27, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
589-Defending Earth
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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The International Asteroid Warning Network, or IWAN (Eye-Whan) for short has been established to link scientists who are discovering, monitoring, a...

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


  • Added: May 09, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
565-Ancient Crater
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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In ancient times, Aboriginal people in southwestern Australia quarried fine grained rock on an ancient hill called Barlangi Rock to make very sharp...

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


  • Added: Nov 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
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
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
356-Seeds
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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What plant seeds will be left for interstellar travelers to take with them.

Bought by KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, KENW, KUPR low power FM, KKRN, KTRT RADIO INC and more


  • Added: May 10, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
328-The Heat is On
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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2016 is the warmest year the Earth has been in the more than 180 years of record keeping.

Bought by Radio Newark, KENW, KMXT, KKRN, WLPR and more


  • Added: Feb 02, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 6
A Blind Eye to Torture
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation about torture with Dr. Steven Miles, author of "Oath Betrayed: Torture, Medical Complicity and the War on Ter...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
Deadly River: Cholera & Cover-Up in Post Earthquake Haiti
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Epidemiology Professor Ralph Frerichs
A controversy involving United Nations Peacekeeping forces, the World Health Organization, and scientists --- not to mention the people of Haiti -...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: May 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Bangalore Rage
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Indian officials in Bangalore play 'racism dodge ball' over the attack of a Tanzanian student.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2016
  • Length: 06:00
221-Human Geological Epoch
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
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We humans are writing a record of our activities into the rock layers currently being produced on planet Earth.

Bought by KRSC, KUPR low power FM, KBMF 102.5FM Butte, Montana, Radio Newark, KRWG and more


  • Added: Jan 28, 2016
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 7
Alabama
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Once there was a great hue and cry about racial profiling by law enforcement in America and it resulted in a landmark called Driving while Black. T...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 06:04
  • Purchases: 2
Racism in a Rural California Sheriff's Department Part One & Two
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Orell Massey, a black sheriff's deputy in rural Mendocino County, Ca, who shares his experiences as a black sheriff in a ...

  • Added: Feb 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:02
India's most wanted phone
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Police officials escort a suspect (C), in the gang-rape of a female photographer, from a crime branch unit station in Mumbai., Credit: First Post
The most wanted cellphone in the country belongs to someone no one had heard of a week ago - a 21-year-old resident of Central Mumbai. The phone’s...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 26, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Microfinance: How it Lost its Way and Betrayed the Poor
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Mwahija Magoti – Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam, Credit: http://www.bot-tz.org
Hugh Sinclair, the author of Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic, in conversation with KALW radio host Rose Aguilar. Sinclair tells the story of...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Drones: A New Death From Above
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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We bring you voices from Pakistan of families destroyed by drone strikes. And we hear from Medea Benjamin and other activists working to build a g...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Dr. Shigeko Sasamori, An Account of Survival and Hope
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of Culture Clique, we have the pleasure of hearing from Dr. Shigeko Sasamori. Dr. Sasamori visited Winona State University this fal...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 55:07
  • Purchases: 2
Immaculée Ilibagiza: One of 16 Women Who Survived The Rwanda Genocide
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Immaculée Ilibagiza was one of sixteen women that survived the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. Listen to her story of survival and how it's changed her li...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:34
  • Purchases: 1
Global Ethics Corner: Child Soldiers and Counter-Terrorism: Should the U.S. Aid Countries that Recruit Child Soldiers?
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Global Ethics Corner
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Child soldiers and foreign aid raise an important ethical dilemma: Should allies that use child soldiers receive U.S. military aid, even if it comp...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
Madres de la Plaza de Mayo
From: Muriel Murch
Series: Letter From A. Broad
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The story of the Grandmothes of the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aries

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Aug 02, 2008
  • Length: 10:37
  • Purchases: 1
Death In Juarez
From: Voices of Our World
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Femicide...the term for killing women. What is the root cause of violence towards women?

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WBEZ


  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 27:56
  • Purchases: 2
Teaching Terror
From: Voices of Our World
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We discuss how the School of the Americas has played a large role in the shaping of South American politics by teaching its students how to kill, t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: May 18, 2006
  • Length: 28:08
  • Purchases: 1
RN Documentary: The Music House
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A portrait of the very musical Baka pygmies of Cameroon and the Music House built with royalties from recordings of their music made by British mus...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, WFUV, KFAI Minneapolis, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4