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Caption: White text reading "Borders: What are they good for?" superimposed on top of a greyscale background showing the jagged border between two sides of a sand dune., Credit: Original photo by Siora Photography on Unsplash. Digitally altered by Lucy Kang.
What are borders, and why do we have them? And how is violent border enforcement at the US-Mexico border connected to Israel's brutal assault on Ga...

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  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Taxes are necessary for a civilized society, and most ordinary people pay their fair share.  But there's one group that pays nothing at all, while ...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
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Dr. Mindy Romero, founder of the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California, talks with Jess about current election sc...

  • Added: Feb 06, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
If you're getting nervous these days about going to the grocery or taking your kid to the ballpark for fear of getting shot, rest easy. Republicans...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:00
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Capitalism is standing in the way of progress on our most critical environmental issue.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jul 03, 2023
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 3
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Jess investigates what connects giant salamanders, community organizing, and fracking via a conversation with journalist Annie Roth and biologist J...

  • Added: May 09, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
Caption: Rana Foroohar
The biggest tech companies generate enormous wealth and power by harvesting information about people. It’s called surveillance capitalism. This epi...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Deerfield, 1963 , Credit: ART SHAY / @ART SHAY ARCHIVE, 2018
A North Shore Suburb of Chicago skirts fair housing laws that require affordable housing and struggles to come to terms with segregation and a trou...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2018
  • Length: 14:55
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On this edition, we hear from Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies at Princeton Universit...

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  • Added: Jul 05, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Things we learn from Woody Guthrie and Native Americans ... and Donald Trump's dad?

  • Added: Oct 13, 2016
  • Length: 27:19
Caption: Janessa Gans Wilder
Janessa Gans Wilder was a CIA analyst stationed in the Green Zone during the first couple of years of U.S. occupation of Iraq. After 21 months work...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:39
Caption: Peter Seidel
Dr. Doug Craig, Climate of Change Blog, co-hosts on Unspun as we discuss how much time we have before the catastrophe of Climate Change is upon us ...

  • Added: Nov 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:58
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Lately we've been awash in a debate over whether a Muslim should serve as President, triggered by Republican candidate Ben Carson, who said Islam i...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Sep 28, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Host Martha Burk
There’s an old saying “be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it.” That applies in spades to Republicans who have voted over 50 ...

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
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The 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership has been causing conflict of late, with a broad range of disagreements over key provisions and debates inte...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 05:45
Caption: Rich Austin, ILWU
Interview: Part 3 of a 6 part series called ‘War on the Workers’ starts off with Rich being interviewed about how working class Americans are getti...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2015
  • Length: 28:21
Caption: Host Martha Burk
AARP has done a feature on best places to retire for years, and Time magazine does a similar analysis on “best places to live.” But nobody has don...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: JP Sotille
Unspun takes a deeper look at Obama's State of the Union Address 2015, with JP Sottile, the Newsvandal.

  • Added: Feb 17, 2015
  • Length: 55:12
Caption: Cat Brooks
Mauro Oliviera, local activist and producer of Smallworldradio.net, co-hosts with me today. Our guest is direct action activist and organizer, Cat...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 58:54
Caption: Norman Solomon
Unspun is privileged to have Norman Solomon as our guest. Norman Solomon is an author, columnist, media critic, anti-war activist and former Congr...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2015
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Host Martha Burk
College students are hitting the road back to school this month. There’s no doubt it can be a wonderful experience. But for some, college will be ...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
Two and one half minute commentary on forced arbitration agreements.

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:30
Caption: Host Martha Burk
The recent budget deal had plenty for war contractors, but jobless Americans were left in the cold. For them, it's going to be a very Unhappy New ...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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What India's latest space mission to Mars can tell us about the difficulties in reconciling the aspirations of the "haves" and the "have nots."

  • Added: Nov 06, 2013
  • Length: 02:23
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What a suicide attack in Tiananmen Square can tell us about the Chinese government's struggle with dissent.

  • Added: Oct 30, 2013
  • Length: 02:07