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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...

Bought by WXDU, RadioFreePalmer, and KMUN


  • Added: May 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Por América [José Martí], Juan Francisco Elso, 1986, From the collection of: The Bronx Museum of the Arts
Philosopher, Poet, and Revolutionary, Jose Marti, believed that knowledge and understanding do not originate within us, but come to us through our ...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 20, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Zhang Taiyan
Our show is on the Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhang Taiyan with guest Viren Murthy. In it we seek to detail the tangle of the so-called East a...

Bought by RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In both Germany and the U.S., the flag can be divisive, eliciting pride in some and unease in others. From patriotism to protest, Jocelyn Robinson ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:10
  • Purchases: 1
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Today we explore the question, “Can Electoral politics lead the way to Revolution?," with August Nimtz.

  • Added: Feb 26, 2019
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: When you drive in from the south, a road sign announces that both Canada and Derby Line are four miles away., Credit: Chloe Williams
The story of a small town split by the border

  • Added: Feb 08, 2019
  • Length: 19:49
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Part 2 of an in-depth documentary series using the small town of Frome, UK as a microcosm for political, social, and economic successes and challen...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jan 29, 2018
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "The Magnicent Five": (from left) Henryk Wujec, Lech Dymarski, Janusz Onyszkiewicz, Jacek Kuro?, Jan Rulewski. , Credit: Photo by Jan Krzysztof Kelus.
Dance in Chains, traces the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century and draws on examples from regi...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:28
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Guests on this WorldCanvass help us understand Russia’s historical trajectory, the cultural and social fallout from the revolution and its aftermat...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 28:18
  • Purchases: 1
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WorldCanvass guests help us understand Russia's historical trajectory, the cultural and social fallout from the revolution and its aftermath, and i...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 09, 2017
  • Length: 26:35
  • Purchases: 1
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From within this crucible the revolutionary theorist, ruthless Red Army commander and plausible dictator in waiting, leader of the left opposition ...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 58:02
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Hitler called him “half beast, half giant” and clearly saw a kind of reflection there. Kuromiya asserts that Stalin was a deeply singular personali...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:34
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On October 2 India will mark the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. But his status as an icon of humanitarianism may be at risk.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 27, 2016
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Mike Faulkner
We chat with retired educator and historian, Mike Faulkner, in London, about the real history of the first Cold War and Cold War II being created b...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2015
  • Length: 59:10
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For more than a century, the Rio Grande has been the border between the U.S. and Mexico. But rivers can move.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 01, 2014
  • Length: 13:25
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Judyth Vary-Baker
Unspun talks with Lee Harvey Oswald's lover and confidant, Judyth Vary-Baker. Judyth is an author, artist, poet, teacher and social scientist. 35...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 59:58
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(Our first daily reading for June:) A famous, enigmatic personality stood before the King and Queen of England and refused the honor of knighthood....

Bought by KCSM


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
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Dispatches from Occupy Maine's consensus process

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The streets of Abidjan, Credit: Carol Spindel
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2011
  • Length: 59:01
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This week the conversation moves from Kabul to Paris, as we talk with John Mearsheimer, the foreign policy "realist" from the University of Chicago...

Bought by WMNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KUOW


  • Added: Oct 07, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Former President Jimmy Carter with Carter Center Human Rights Director Karin Ryan, Credit: The Carter Center
CONTENT DATED. NOT RECOMMENDED FOR BROADCAST. OK FOR ONLINE LISTENING. A December 2008 two-day conference at The Carter Center in Atlanta, gene...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: 27:55
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Chile experimented with social reforms and suffered its own 9/11

  • Added: Aug 28, 2008
  • Length: 36:28
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Is the "Bush Gang" devastating the American society? Prof. Hamm and his co-authors think so.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
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Second in series of programs about John Adams’ 1780 trip to the Dutch Republic seeking support and recognition of the fledgling United States of Am...

  • Added: Jun 16, 2005
  • Length: 29:31