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As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, one of their best interviews. It's with Shin Dong-hy...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 37:54
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Radio Curious brings you an interview about torture from our archives in 2006. Our guest is Dr. Steven Miles, author of “Oath Betrayed: Torture, M...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Golden Holocaust cover, Credit: jacket design by Jackie Drooker
The CIGARETTE is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Few discoveries have been so consequential. So begins the work by his...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 28:54
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44
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Tomorrow’s primary recall election will determine the candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and which candidates will face each other in th...

  • Added: May 07, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
Caption: Jay Ipson in front of the Virginia Holocaust Museum., Credit: John MacLellan
Jay Ipson, the youngest Holocaust survivor living in Virginia today, lived in an underground lair for six months during the Nazi occupation of his ...

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 59:14
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TTT’s ANDY DRISCOLL queries four activists dealing in various aspects of the autism spectrum from causal inquiry through treatment and public polic...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2011
  • Length: 57:35
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Another little publicized war involving the indiscriminate killing and torture of people in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Sudan, in Northeast Afri...

  • Added: Jun 14, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: THE AVERAGE JOE MAKES A POINT
Joe Carraro discusses the risks of continuing to antagonize and not engage with Venezuela and the rest of South America while Russia and Cuba cozy ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 05:46
Caption: Istanbul, Credit: Anton Foek
In Nederland willen we eerlijk en open met elkaar omgaan. Maar als het aan het Openbaar Ministerie ligt wordt daar grof en oneerlijk onderscheid i...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2011
  • Length: 07:14
Caption: A Broad at Home, Credit: Walter Murch
The Conceptual artist Mr. Ai Wei Wei, was detained by the Chinese authorities on Sunday April 3. Where has he been taken and why?

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 09:25
Caption: Brian Perkins with San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier, Credit: Photo courtesy StoryCorps
San Mateo Congresswoman Jackie Speier has lived quite an eventful life. But arguably the most remarkable event happened during her time spent as a ...

  • Added: Apr 11, 2011
  • Length: 07:43
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Patient Transfer Vehicles. They look like ambulances but they're not. Riding in one can land you in the wild wild west of unregulated care. 'Risky ...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2010
  • Length: 30:50
Caption: Many Uch at the Airport Way Detention Facility., Credit: Eroyn Franklin
An imposing brick building on Airport Way at the edge of the International District housed detained immigrants from 1931 to 2004. It was once known...

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  • Added: Jun 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Civilian Casualties (Part 4)
The footage you are about to see is poignant, heart-wrenching, and often a direct result of U.S. foreign policy.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 12:09
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Security (Part 6)
The war in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood that American civilians will be killed in a future terrorist attack.

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 11:14
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Women of Afghanistan (Part 5)
Eight years have passed since Laura Bush declared that "because of our recent military gains, women are no longer imprisoned in their homes" in Afg...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2009
  • Length: 10:51
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Cost (Part 3)
Everyone has a friend or relative who just lost a job. Do we really want to spend over $1 trillion on another war? Everyone knows someone who has l...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 13:59
Caption: Rethink Afghanistan: Troops (Part 1)
President Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. This decision raises serious questions about troops, costs, overall mission, and e...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2009
  • Length: 11:46

  • Added: Nov 09, 2009
  • Length: 40:55
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When it comes to formulating an opinion on global warming, would you be more inclined to believe an MIT professor who has studied climate change or...

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  • Added: Jun 29, 2009
  • Length: :58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Hakeem Shaheed
Tens of thousands are in solitary confinement in American prisons which according to the United Nations is torture. Producer Claire Schoen met nine...

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  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Contrarian historian Niall Ferguson says the US is an empire -- in denial! And that we'd better get our act together!!

  • Added: Mar 16, 2009
  • Length: 19:21
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Interview with Brian Sloan of North American Rising Tide on "green" energy.

  • Added: Jan 29, 2009
  • Length: 26:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A visit to the Endagered Species booth at the Common Ground Fair

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  • Added: Dec 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 1