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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Senate Intelligence Committee hearings about Russian meddling in the 2016 election are Scurrilous one especially important testifier said.

  • Added: Jun 16, 2017
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: MY Pony, Credit: E.V. Cook
FBI Director James Comey is being queried about whether President Donald Trump asked him to drop the investigation of former National Security Advi...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:10
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Everyday the world can ask again what’s right or wrong , not just smugly proceed, go along on its merry path, answers tucked under its arm, as proo...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2017
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to longings for a casino.

  • Added: May 20, 2017
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: ....at the top of my game..., Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, as we say "Sayonara" to Tom Price, government jobs distributed as they may be, a poetic tribute called "We'll ...

  • Added: May 19, 2017
  • Length: 01:47
Caption: "You did my way, I did your way/ Surprise, surprise, I'm ready for my payday...", Credit: Susan Cook
In the Department of Poetic Justice, we offer a poetic tribute to the complex topic of hiring candidates for government jobs who carry heavy politi...

  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 05:08
Caption: Non-hypocrites stay true to intentions, Credit: Susan Cook
This week the United States Senate voted to overrule the intention of the Founding Fathers and disregard the process that give minority membership ...

  • Added: Apr 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: I'll Scratch Your Back Later..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:15
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Our ideas of manhood and womanhood determine the ways in which we raise and socialize our children, but how much does gender in a particular societ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 34:34
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The kindness of strangers made NYC subway and Obamacare..., Credit: Susan Cook
There is not a single insurance company in the country that has gone out of business because of the ACA . They’ve created new alliances, to wit Op...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2017
  • Length: 06:03
Caption: Madame Rosa, the magistrate of care, wouldn't take money for deep love., Credit: Susan Cook
Selling whatever this country has, for money, of course, at every turn, even at the highest echelons of government, has become the highest priorit...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2017
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The Presidency and being Presidential staff are not power pills that work their way out in sweat and perspiration after swallowing. They are power ...

  • Added: Jan 18, 2017
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: Private Insurance Jobs Lost..., Credit: Susan Cook
Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare was created to keep America strong. Like the Defense Industry, Obamacare government stipends are paid to priva...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2017
  • Length: 01:12
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This week, we explore various spaces of exception. We spoke with Matt Peterson, a documentary filmmaker and contributor to a multimedia project cal...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 29:58
Caption: There are always more than one..., Credit: Rebecca Farnum/Current Inc.  Colorado Springs
How does a whole country find its better angels. We hear that this new administration’s policies will deny care to the most vulnerable, escalate ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2016
  • Length: 07:11
Caption: Wondering about life post-Obama..., Credit: Susan Cook
Possibilities for a suppression of the Electoral College vote results are gone. We now come to terms with the reality that at least for the next fo...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
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There is always, someone, somewhere who "like a bird on the wire" from Leonard Cohen's song, is trying “in [his or her] way to be free“. Since 1...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2016
  • Length: 07:40
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This week, we focus on a topic that is close to many of us on the outside: the story and struggle of political prisoner and Ohio death row inmate B...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2016
  • Length: 29:54
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Honolulu Civil Beat reporter Jessica Terrell introduces the deadly events of Nov. 5, 2011 when a white off-duty federal agent shot and killed a Nat...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 36:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Today's Sixty-second Moral inquiry brings quotations from the Republican Bible on Adultery which ask 'Why Shouldn't the GOP Presidential Candidate...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 01:18
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This first episode of Kite Line is an introduction to some of the issues we want to cover here on the show. We give updates on prison news, talk ab...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
This US Presidential campaign has been characterized by a striking absence of empathy. No empathy between candidates and a Social Code that defines...

  • Added: Sep 13, 2016
  • Length: 07:05
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
I went to a performance "designed to raise awareness surrounding gun violence and its victims" the program said. The Colorado-based modern dance c...

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  • Added: Sep 11, 2016
  • Length: 07:17
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
When Mitch McConnell and the Republicans snub a duly elected President and the American people who want a Supreme Court nominee to be vetted throug...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2016
  • Length: 07:13
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In Maine, recently, an internationally known annual road race was held . 6338 runners raced. One runner in the group of the first 183 spent a full...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2016
  • Length: 05:01