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Stephanie Flanders on A Trump Economy & What to Watch in The Ultimate Election Year
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Just in time for election season, Laura invites her sister Stephanie back to the program. Stephanie is the head of Economics and Government at Bloo...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: May 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
269: Solidarity Economics: Taking It to the Bank to Build Community Wealth , 4/24/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders
In this episode on community wealth building, we look at how communities are working to transform their local economies by harnessing the assets th...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
268: From Wealth Supremacy to Community Wealth Building: Models for Democratizing the Economy, 3/20/2024
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Laura Flanders, Credit: Photo by Don J. Usner
Today’s corporate, capitalist economy is radically unequal, ecologically unsustainable, and embedded in recurring boom-and-bust cycles of crisis. N...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
Is the Republican Party’s Refusal to Raise Taxes Fiscally Irresponsible?
From: Open to Debate
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Whether to extend four trillion dollars in tax cuts or raise them next year is in question, with 34.1 trillion dollars in federal debt hanging in t...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio]


  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 4
Is Legalizing Marijuana a Mistake?
From: Open to Debate
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While marijuana legalization is gaining more cultural acceptance, effectively regulating weed has long puzzled policy and lawmakers, with some star...

Bought by KCPW Salt Lake City and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 07, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 2
261: Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt?, 6/7/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Saru Jayaraman, Credit: Alex Akamine
Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: ...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
Wrangling Over the Debt Ceiling: Where Does Your Money Really Go?
From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk
Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Biden and House Speaker McCarthy are meeting over what gets cut in arguments over raising the debt ceiling, with most social programs on ...

  • Added: May 15, 2023
  • Length: 03:01
Should the FTC Ban Non-compete Clauses?
From: Open to Debate
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The Federal Trade Commission recently shook up the labor market, proposing to ban non-compete clauses. These clauses are essentially contracts proh...

  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
2023-04-07 Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

Bought by KUOW, Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WGBH Radio Boston and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
  • Purchases: 12
20230407: Two Voices on Climate That Will Surprise You, 4/7/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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It’s easy to write off people outside our own ideological bubbles, even when we may have many goals in common. But as the effects of the climate cr...

  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:57
Mountain Time Podcast Hour Episode 14
From: Wyoming Public Radio
Series: Mountain Time Podcast Hour
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Two stories about climate change.

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 09, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
  • Purchases: 1
He was right about inflation. Biden wasn’t. Larry Summers on what’s coming next
From: Playbook Deep Dive
Series: Playbook Deep Dive
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Ryan caught up with the former treasury secretary — and thorn in the side of Biden White House economists — Larry Summers on the sidelines of the A...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2022
  • Length: 40:25
Banking on Climate Chaos - The Fossil Fuel Finance Report - EcoJustice Radio
From: Jack Eidt
Series: EcoJustice Radio
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On this show we discuss the Banking on Climate Chaos report, digging into how banks are supporting fossil fuel companies and causing further climat...

  • Added: May 16, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Signs of speculation, cause San Francisco leaders to spend millions to buy apartment buildings
From: KSFP
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Worries that real estate investors are buying multi-unit housing properties in San Francisco, then evicting tenants to turn a quick buck. has promp...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
The Bay Area could add millions of people without using more water. Here’s how.
From: KSFP
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Can the Bay Area address housing affordability and control water use in perpetually drought-stricken California at the same time? SPUR's Laura Fein...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
210312: Political Reality of Climate Action, 3/12/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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True to his campaign promise, President Biden dove right into the climate crisis on Day One, signing a stack of executive orders that signaled his ...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
2021-01-15 Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 2)
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Incoming President Biden faces an unimaginable set of challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, a gutted economy and a nation reeling from the r...

Bought by MPR News Stations, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, Ohm Radio , WMUU-LP, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 13
2020-12-18 Biden’s Climate Opportunity (Part 1)
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. But after the destructive environmental policies of t...

Bought by WAMU, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KOWS, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Jan 10, 2021
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 10
201218: Biden's Climate Opportunity (Part 1), 12/18/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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President-elect Joe Biden says he will infuse climate change into every corner of his agenda. That’s becoming evident looking at his emerging team....

  • Added: Dec 17, 2020
  • Length: 58:58
Stalking the Middle Class with David Roediger
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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Today we’re stalking the middle class – from Marx to Middletown (Muncie, IN) to Macomb County, Michigan – to reveal what it’s hiding. David Roedige...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Captains of Disaster: Vulture Capitalism and the Pandemic Playbook
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Wilbur Ross, "King of Bankruptcy," vulture capitalist, and US Secretary of Commerce.
Bankruptcy, it turns out, and as Donald Trump typifies, is a best practice, and best supported by government. This is a part of statecraft as conce...

  • Added: May 26, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine for May 20, 2020
From: Scott Harris
Series: Between The Lines Radio Newsmagazine
Caption: Timely, In-Depth Progressive Analysis Since 1991
This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: More Than 90,000 Deaths & Whistleblower Testimony Confirm Trump’s Catastr...

Bought by WKPW


  • Added: May 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
There Are No Accidents: The Business of Blaming the Worker
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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13 of us die on the job every day in the US and that’s a number based on less than reliable employer data. These are often called "accidents," but ...

Bought by WCPN and WLPR


  • Added: Apr 30, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Can Marijuana Create a Path to Justice?
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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The fight to legalize marijuana has never been easy, as evidenced by the recent collapse of months-long efforts in New Jersey and New York. A key i...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
190315: EPA Chief Andrew Wheeler on Cars, Coal, and Climate, 3/15/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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The U.S. Senate recently confirmed Andrew Wheeler as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Greg Dalton sits down for a rare in...

  • Added: Mar 19, 2019
  • Length: 58:59