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IE: Inside Europe, 4/26/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Audio-guide to the revolution: join us for a journey through time and space as we visit the streets of revolutionary Lisbon. Then… The EU’s Green...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
World in Progess 16/11/23
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: World in Progress: Global Development Issues ~ from DW
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World in Progress with a 30 min feature on Diabetes globally and the situation for patients in South Africa, Mali, Haiti and globally.

Bought by WFHB and KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 16, 2023
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 2
Has China's Power Peaked?
From: Open to Debate
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This was supposed to be the “Chinese century.” In just a few decades, China transitioned from a developing economy to the world’s second largest. A...

Bought by WMUU-LP


  • Added: May 01, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 1
“We Don’t Want to Leave Our Homes”: Stories from Nagorno-Karabakh and the Armenian Diaspora
From: Mateo Schimpf
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This week, Ray brings us two stories from Armenia about disaster and discovery.

Bought by Classic107.3, RADIOLEX, WMUU-LP, GCR (Global Community Radio), WHCP-LP Cambridge and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
2305: Citizenship and Justice, 1/31/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Is citizenship the best recipe for non-discrimination?

  • Added: Jan 23, 2023
  • Length: 53:58
Why the World Cup is So &#*$&%! Expensive
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Ray teases the tournament's most interesting storylines and untangle FIFA's complicated ledger to understand why the tournament is so expensive.

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  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
2021-07-18 Foreign Aid—or Injury?
From: Philosophy Talk
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What's the right way for developed nations to fight global poverty?

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KTSW 89.9, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 19, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Stephen M. Walt, author of "The Hell of Good Intentions"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews Stephen M. Walt about his book "The Hell of Good Intentions"

  • Added: Feb 22, 2019
  • Length: 29:55
Habermas and Democracy
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Could rational communication really be the true key to real democracy?

Bought by KSKQ and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Radical Democracy Movement
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Can we create a democracy that doesn't end up oppressing minorities and dissenters?

Bought by KMUN, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KSKQ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 3
Democracy in Crisis
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Do you really have democracy when things favored by the majority can't even come to a vote?

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WFHB, KNVC Carson City Community Radio, and KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
Is Democracy a Universal Value?
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Is democracy an inherently good thing, or is it, as Plato thought, one of the worst possible forms of government?

Bought by KSKQ, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, and KNVC Carson City Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 20, 2018
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 3
Tucson is Our Home, an Interview with Mayor Rothschild
From: KXCI
Series: Mn Huna: Finding Refuge in Friendship
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Houda recently had an opportunity to sit down and talk with Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:56
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 1
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WCNY, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WCWP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 11
Face-to-Face Diplomacy (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Insights from neuroscience on international diplomacy - How the US defense budget prevents strategic thinking - Why we have a vice president (and w...

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, WCQS, WUGA (part of GPB) and more


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Are Diplomatic Trips Worth It? (feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Even as President Trump returns from two high profile international tours, digital technologies seem ever more like they could replace costly diplo...

Bought by KENW, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
Can China Lead
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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The People’s Republic has arrived and is applying for co-trusteeship of the globe. We got a good look at the co-trustee, China’s enigmatic presiden...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KZYX


  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 2
Rice Bucket Challenge
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Shiva Shankar from Hyderabad gets his niece Vaishnavi from Pune to donate rice to a woman who works there
Sandip Roy investigates the latest social media challenge and finds out what all this 'Rice' is about.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
Taiwan's Student Sunflower Movement: Interview with Two of its Leaders
From: Carnegie Council
Caption: Huang Yu-fen & Wei Yang of the Sunflower Movement, Credit: Gusta Johnson, Carnegie Council
In an unprecedented event this Spring, the Sunflower Student Movement occupied Taiwan's Legislative Yuan for over three weeks in protest against a ...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 26:20
The Syria Test
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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With Iraq and Afghanistan bleeding in our rear-view mirror, is there a case still to be made for American intervention with anything more than word...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
Thought Leader: Chan Heng Chee
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"Globally, have we reached a point where we accept that genocide is not acceptable? I think we have. But what to do about it is something different...

  • Added: Nov 19, 2013
  • Length: 04:29
Thought Leader: Brent Scowcroft
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"More and more of the things that countries, nations, governments want to do for their citizens can't be done nationally. They have to reach out to...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:15
Thought Leader: Sir David Cannadine
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"So I suppose, looking forward, what I would hope to see is a greater awareness of the richness of individual identities and less attention given t...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 04:16
Thought Leader: Louise Arbour
From: Carnegie Council
Series: Point B
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"I think what is morally distinct is our consciousness of the disconnect between our values, our aspirations, our capabilities, and our deliverable...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 03:44