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A Pennsylvania man saw the true power of Atomic Annie
From: WITF
Caption: Tom Lambert
70 years ago, Tom Lambert witnessed the only time a nuclear device was fired from a cannon

  • Added: Sep 28, 2023
  • Length: 13:07
Green Planet Monitor Podcast # 23
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
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Long debunked -- the mythology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Out of the mushroom clouds, nuclearism's dark expanding circle. And, the world’s latest n...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 59:21
Little Boy & Fat Man
From: David Kattenburg
Series: Green Planet Monitor Podcast
Caption: Bravo Shot
Commemorating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki: a nuclear scientist remembers. A historian paints a different picture. And, the Pacific...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2023
  • Length: 59:23
799: Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time / 800: Difficult Summer Reading, 6/3/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Deep Time: The Tyranny Of Time" - When you’re on the clock, the hours disappear. Time scarcity is making us and the planet sick. But the...

  • Added: Jun 02, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
The Forgotten Coup, January 6th & the Small Town Americans on the Frontlines of Democracy
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Could a successful coup happen in the US? The ongoing Congressional hearings into the events of January 6 show that just a handful of election offi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jul 20, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Pseudo-Science of Whiteness: Biology as a Social Weapon (ENCORE)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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This week, filmmaker Stephanie Welch explores the role that racist, unscientific propaganda has played in promoting white supremacy in the U.S. She...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Voices of the Past Cemetery Walk 2021: Part 2
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we went to the Winona County History Center to hear the 22nd annual voices from the past cemetery walk. They talked all abo...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2022
  • Length: 38:58
Heather McGhee: The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone and How we can Prosper Together (Re-Air)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Color of Change board chair Heather McGhee talks with Laura about her New York Times best-selling book, The Sum of Us, What Racism Costs Everyone a...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KDNK


  • Added: Aug 10, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Special: Housing is A Human Right
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Before 2020, America was already in a housing crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic, high unemployment, and a recession have only made things worse. A reco...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and KWMR


  • Added: Feb 11, 2021
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Economics of Abolition (release date December 23, 2020)
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Will the new abolition movement succeed in transforming how we invest public resources? And what really are the economic underpinnings of the syste...

Bought by KSPC and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
Tracing the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed white anti-racist scholar Mab Segrest, author of the influential book Memoir of a Race Traitor, takes Laura through the US South to trace...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KDNK, and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Dec 02, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Electoral College’s Dirty History (Encore)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Given the election, and the difference between popular votes and electoral votes, we revisit our show on the Electoral College. It’s history in the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and C89.5 - KNHC Seattle


  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 2
Buffalo NY: Grappling with Gentrification in one of America’s Most Unequal Cities
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Buffalo, New York, was once a booming industrial town fueled by cheap power from Niagara Falls, a center of commerce and trade, the first city in t...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Cooperation and Cooperatives vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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From the Basque region in the north, to Barcelona on the Mediterranean, Flanders speaks with contemporary co-op worker-owners who explain how the h...

Bought by KDNK, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 08, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Bombing of MOVE, 35 Years Later (Updated)
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Our radio adaptation of the film, Let the Fire Burn. Directed by Jason Osder, examines the controversial, 1985 clash between police in Philadelphia...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Covid in the Country
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Is being rural a pre-existing vulnerability in this crisis? Equipped with a mask and a selfie stick, Laura Flanders reports (from a responsible dis...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KDNK, and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 25, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Putting Public Safety in Public Hands: The Newark Model
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Move money and power from police to communities and invest in local control. In the face of ongoing police brutality against African Americans and ...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jun 09, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the inf...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 19, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
Special: Cooperation vs Authoritarianism in Spain
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Social change and systems change go hand-in-hand. Movements for democracy and human rights are most effective when they aim to transform unjust, un...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 20, 2019
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson’s Architecture (Hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wom...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, Morehead State Public Radio, KICI Iowa City, Vermont Public, WHYY and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 15
The Conflicting Ideals in Jefferson’s Architecture (Half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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The most important architectural thinker of the young American republic was Thomas Jefferson. He also held captive more than 600 enslaved men, wome...

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KVSC, WLIW, KMUN, WYAP and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
Why We Believe What We Believe (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Why do people believe weird things? That’s what Jason Hart wants to find out. He delves into the psychology behind ghost encounters, anti-vaccine ...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KVSC and more


  • Added: Sep 12, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 13
Episode 120: The Tunnel
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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In the late 1800s, North Carolina was trying to build a railway system through the Western part of the state. In December of 1882, something went w...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 20:27
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 113: Hostage
From: Criminal
Series: Criminal
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One summer in 1973, two men robbed a bank in Stockholm. They held four people hostage for six days. Swedish psychiatrist and criminologist Nils Bej...

Bought by ABC


  • Added: Sep 05, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
  • Purchases: 1
Selling the Sights (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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-In the early 19th century, Americans began to journey away from home, simply for the sake of travelling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon:...

Bought by WCNY, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, KAZU Seaside, Calif., C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more


  • Added: Aug 22, 2019
  • Length: 53:54
  • Purchases: 11