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Commentary: Lie Detectors Lie
From: Dick Meister
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Although increasingly used by the CIA, FBI and other agencies and private employers, so-called lie detector tests are highly unreliable and serious...

  • Added: May 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:57
Why Single Payer, Part 6: The Single Payer System
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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The problems in healthcare have gone beyond just tweaking the current system to a point where we really have to look at infrastructure issues, and ...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 07:44
Why Single Payer, Part 5: The Flow of Medical Information, the legal system, and medical school.
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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Emergency rooms don't have access to a patient's primary healthcare information. This, as well as the cost of a healthcare education, adds to the ...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2006
  • Length: 05:35
Why Single Payer, Part 4: Emergency Rooms and Prevention
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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As access to healthcare becomes increasingly difficult, emergency rooms are becoming the primary health service for a lot of people.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2006
  • Length: 06:47
Why Single Payer, Part 3: Cash Flow in the Healthcare Industry
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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When capitalism is applied to taking care of our health, things can quickly get out of control.

  • Added: Mar 01, 2006
  • Length: 04:41
Why Single Payer, Part 2: A big slice of the healthcare pie - Insurance and Pharmaceutical Companies
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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If you look at who is profitable in healthcare these days, it's not hospitals, it's not doctors; the two most profitable lines of business are phar...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:44
Why Single Payer, Part 1: We are all paying for a broken healthcare system!
From: Miles Eddy
Series: Why Single Payer Healthcare Series One
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We are all paying for a broken healthcare system! Three healthcare professionals speak out why and offer some possible solutions.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2006
  • Length: 06:17
A View From Across The Pond
From: Chris Frear
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A Commentary from Scotland on issues affecting the Bush/Blair conduct of the war in Iraq

  • Added: Feb 05, 2006
  • Length: 08:48
Hamas/Ahmadenijad and Radical Islam's continued success
From: [redacted] [redacted]
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two commentaries on reasons for radical islam's success in Palestine and Iran

  • Added: Jan 26, 2006
  • Length: 10:13
The Gas Game: You Can Help Solve Our Energy Crisis!
From: Peter Navarro
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Play the Gas Game and America can save 1 million barrels of oil a day

Bought by WSCS-FM and KDNK


  • Added: Jan 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 2
Rehabbing the Fourth Estate
From: Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism
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A broadcast special from the Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

Bought by Central Florida Public Media, KCPW Salt Lake City, KUOW, and KQED


  • Added: Jan 03, 2006
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
From: Janis Shields
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Exploring the enduring "attraction" of war

Bought by WCPN, KPFT, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2005
  • Length: 50:57
  • Purchases: 3
Looking for Democracy: Uganda: No-Party-Democracy
From: BBC
Series: Looking For Democracy
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Examining democracy in Uganda.

Bought by KUHB


  • Added: Nov 22, 2005
  • Length: 22:30
  • Purchases: 1
Oilcast: High US Gas Prices Here For Good
From: A Porter
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Katrina has confirmed that high gas prices in the USA are here to stay.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2005
  • Length: 15:05
Merrie Spaeth CPB Commentary
From: KERA
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commentary regarding House Committee vote on CPB funding

Bought by KRCC-FM and WYSO


  • Added: Jun 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
CPB Controversy - Commentary from Barrie Dunsmore
From: Vermont Public
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Veteran diplomatic and foreign correspondent Barrie Dunsmore comments on recent CPB criticism of NPR's Middle East News Coverage

Bought by WBEZ and WMPG


  • Added: May 25, 2005
  • Length: 03:11
  • Purchases: 2
Japan-Asia
From: Steve Herman
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Japan ponders is diplomatic path as anti-Japanese sentiment escalates among its neighbors

Bought by WETA


  • Added: Apr 14, 2005
  • Length: 06:03
  • Purchases: 1
Japan-China Diplomacy
From: Steve Herman
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Japan, China trade blame for demonstrations

  • Added: Apr 12, 2005
  • Length: 03:13
Cambodia-Opposition
From: Steve Herman
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Cambodian opposition says it has been virtually "wiped out"

  • Added: Mar 31, 2005
  • Length: 03:46
Strobe Talbott Diplomacy In The Post Cold War Era
From: WQLN
Series: Chautauqua Lectures
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Strobe Talbot compares pre and post-cold war diplomacy.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 28, 2004
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Economist Swing State Reports: Arizona
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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Arizona Swing State report

Bought by KTOO, PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 16, 2004
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Economist Swing State Reports: Washington
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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Diversionary attacks

Bought by KTOO, PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Economist Swing State Reports: Pennsylvania
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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Pennsylvania's puzzles

Bought by KTOO, PRX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 3
The Economist Swing State Reports: New Mexico
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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Not really like anywhere else

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KTOO, KZYX, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Economist Swing State Reports: New Hampshire
From: The Economist
Series: The Economist Swing-State Reports
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The granite prize

Bought by KTOO and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 15, 2004
  • Length: 03:30
  • Purchases: 2