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News and features on the wars in Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and more.

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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This program explores the infusion of "infotainment" values into the network evening newscasts..and is written, produced and hosted by an award win...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:55
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Sharp-talking political economist Mark Blyth is back in the Glasgow pub, so we say, and he's expounding on the melt-down that's still melting down ...

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  • Added: Jun 02, 2011
  • Length: 08:56
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Caption: Jason Smith's Candlelight Vigil , Credit: Madeline Bair
Jamaica has a long history of police violence and corruption. In May 2010 a government crackdown left 73 people dead and a city in chaos. The major...

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  • Added: May 23, 2011
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
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This edition of Radio Curious is again about Richard W. Johnson Jr., publisher of a group of newspapers in Mendocino County, California, called Men...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: The Brain of a Sociopath
Narcissists and Sociopaths have always been among us and yet recent research brings us new understanding of just what these serious emotional disab...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 47:10
Caption: Derequired?, Credit: Susan Cook
We need a new word for those who think "required" health care coverage is pesky and unconstitutional.

  • Added: Apr 21, 2011
  • Length: :57
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Joe Carraro asks: If the Republicans are so sure of their ideas, why are they so afraid to debate them with President Obama and the Democrats?

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
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Joe Carraro proposes that if Congress is really representative of the people, then its members will give up its overpaid salaries and benefits and ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2011
  • Length: 07:46
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Joe Carraro discusses how the rich and powerful got richer and more powerful under Bush and now Obama as they have colluded to enrich the elites in...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 04:48
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NEPOTISM HAPPENS EVERYWHERE AT ALL LEVELS SO THAT EVENTUALLY EVERYONE BECOMES INVOLVED EITHER IN ITS PERPETUATION OR ITS COVER-UP. IT'S PREVALENT I...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 09:16
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State Senator Joe Carraro meets State Senator Barack Obama. His impression back then plays true to today.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 06:32
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Obamacare was a program put together by and for special interests, without eliminating any of the inefficiencies and corruption that are already pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 08:58
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The Supreme Court's recent decision in the Citizens United case, in which activist "conservative" judges took it upon themselves to grant corporati...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:59
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The definition of a Recession has changed from many years ago. It started during George W. Bush's second term and will continue until all the reso...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
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Think Managed Care has changed health care? Wait until your car insurance company switches to Managed Car!

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2011
  • Length: 04:16
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Caption: Chinese President Hu Jintao and Afghan President Hamit Karzai at a 2010 state visit., Credit: Photo by Feng Li/Getty Images AsiaPac
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
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Brian Frayer and Pete Kovac both DoD Law Enforcement officers

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Today on The Union Edge, Michael J Wilson of Americans for Democratic Action, (ADAction.org) and his guests Andy Gussert Citizens Trade Campaign (c...

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  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 49:52
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Today on The Union Edge, Jack Wade & Doug Cunningham, then our new program, "What Vets Need to Know”. Later, Jack Shea, Allegheny County CLC Presid...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:02
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Today on The Union Edge, Jim Little, International President of the Transport Workers Union,(TWU.org) then labor history with Charlie McCollester a...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2011
  • Length: 50:02
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Today on The Union Edge, Maggie Priebe of Working America (workingamerica.org) and later Tim Burga President of the Ohio AFL-CIO (ohaflcio.org), Ti...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 02:09
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Today on The Union Edge, National Workrights Institute (workrights.us) president Lew Maltby will join ADA (ADACtion.org) national director Michael ...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on The Union Edge we're featuring the building trades. Rich Stanizzo, President of Pittsburgh Building and Construction Trade Council; Willia...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00
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Dr. Charlie McCollester with the Battle of Homestead Foundation (battleofhomesteadfoundation.org) and Rosemary Trump of the Pennsylvania Labor Hist...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2011
  • Length: 50:00