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In Praise of Veterans and One Special Veteran People Call Santa Claus
From: Chuck Wolfe
Series: The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel
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The Emotion Roadmap featured a show about veterans close to when we celebrated Veteran's Day in 2019. One caller talked about a veteran living in a...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2019
  • Length: 54:23
CJ Chivers, Author of 'The Fighters'
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra interviews CJ Chivers about his book "The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq"

  • Added: Aug 23, 2019
  • Length: 30:11
Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers and The Post
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious revisits a 1997 conversation with whistle blower Daniel Ellsberg who released “The Pentagon Papers” in 1971.

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 24, 2018
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Vietnam: Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On this episode of "Culture Clique" we get to listen in as Winonan's recall their memories of Vietnam on the home front and on the battlefield. Thi...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 32:24
The Cost of War: A Reflection on the United States and Iraq Conflict
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Members of Iraq Veterans Against the War present at the U.S. Social Forum in Atlanta, GA. , Credit: Photo by flickr user Brooke Anderson.
Almost 4,500 American soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis have died since the start of the Shock and Awe campaign. Fourteen years later, we asses...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, XRAY.fm, and WXDU


  • Added: Mar 21, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Derek Weida and The Next Objective
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
Caption: Derek Weida speaks at the Northern States Natural Classic Bodybuilding Competition, Credit: Teri Tenseth Market
On this episode of Culture Clique, we visit with Derek Weida, who is a wounded veteran, and a former paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division. T...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 15:35
  • Purchases: 1
Women Rising #25 Activists Against Global Armaments and War
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Miriam Nobre, Credit: http://marchamulheres.files.wordpress.com/
We profile women fighting the expansion of global militarism and violence; Stella Soh, Kathy Kelly, and Miriam Nobre.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2014
  • Length: 30:00
Mission Accomplished: How Wars End
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Caption: May 1, 2003: President George W. Bush declares an end to major combat operations in Iraq , Credit: (Paul Morse, White House photographer).
The declaration of "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq was famously premature. But have America's other wars had neat or definitive endings?  In this ep...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KFOK-LPFM, KBRP Community Radio, WRPI, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 8
Lessons of Nagasaki
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Hope for peace in Nagasaki. Atomic bomb anniversary, 2004., Credit: creative common flickr user: Marufish
The US dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Three days later, Nagasaki also fell victim. On this edition, w...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KALW, KSFR, WVTF, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Jul 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
State of Privilege
From: War News Radio
Caption: The two highest earning Iraqi politicians: Prime Minister Maliki and President Talibani, Credit: Photo Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal
News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Jul 30, 2010
  • Length: 28:58