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We've assembled a panel of the world’s foremost piracy experts to discuss the continuing challenges of maritime piracy.
- Added: Sep 16, 2013
- Length: 59:02
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Aaron Sheehan-Dean explains to host Brian Balogh how the idea of “home” motivated Confederate soldiers, and strengthened their resolve to...
Bought by Radio Newark, Radio Newark, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 01, 2013
- Length: 11:50
- Purchases: 3
Talking Foreign Policy is an hour-long program hosted by Associate Dean Michael Scharf and produced by Case Western Reserve University and WCPN 90....
- Added: May 17, 2013
- Length: 59:04
The ten most water-stressed countries in the world – gosh, it sounds like a bad Buzzfeed article - are all in the Middle East or North Africa. Yeme...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: May 03, 2013
- Length: 08:12
- Purchases: 1
This month on War News Radio, “Forward Thinking”, we first discuss the future of Iraq in light of the ten year anniversary this past March. Then, w...
- Added: Apr 11, 2013
- Length: 30:01
In this week’s show, we commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the war in Iraq through a look at the country’s past, present and future and the imp...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 29:06
With the Syrian civil war about to turn two years old and the death toll approaching 70,000, some are saying it is time for the U.S. or the UN to i...
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 01:58
President Obama called al-Qaeda a "shadow of its former self," but the organization is making inroads in Mali and Algeria and some say it is as dan...
- Added: Feb 19, 2013
- Length: 02:11
Despite making valuable contributions to the U.S. military since the Civil War, women are still technically excluded from direct ground combat role...
- Added: Feb 15, 2013
- Length: 01:59
Our panel of experts discuss what the appointments of John Kerry (State), Chuck Hagel (Defense) and John Brennan (CIA) will mean for American forei...
- Added: Feb 06, 2013
- Length: 59:07
Drones, or unmanned aircraft, are making headlines for their controversial attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan…and for how they could be used for s...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 07:01
- Purchases: 1
Recent acquittals of Croat and Kosovo-Albanian officials in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia have left some doubting t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2012
- Length: 02:16
This dramatic soundscape uses interviews, narration, sound effects, and music to explain the emerging neuroscience of tinnitus - a ringing, buzzing...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Oct 19, 2012
- Length: 09:40
- Purchases: 1
Under rules codified at the 1961 Vienna Convention, diplomatic missions are generally considered inviolable. But with the murder of Libya Ambassado...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:07
With the publishing of "No Easy Day," a tell-all from a retired Navy SEAL about the raid that killed bin Laden, questions are being asked about how...
- Added: Sep 17, 2012
- Length: 01:53
A recent report showed that the American arms industry made billions last year selling to states with questionable human rights records. Should a g...
- Added: Jul 16, 2012
- Length: 02:01
The International Criminal Court turns 10 in July after a tumultuous first decade. With only a handful of rulings handed down, critics say the ICC ...
- Added: Jun 25, 2012
- Length: 02:04
An influential Russian engineer recently called for an international ban on cyber weapons, saying that they could have unforeseen consequences, but...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:58
After a recent "New York Times" story on Obama's "kill list" of terrorists, many are questioning the president's counterterrorism strategy. Is it e...
- Added: Jun 19, 2012
- Length: 01:59
Libya's civil war is over, but many victims of the Qaddafi regime are still violently meting out justice to their former oppressors. Will this just...
- Added: May 14, 2012
- Length: 02:06
President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser recently defended drone strikes, saying they are legal, wise, and moral. But, citing international l...
- Added: May 07, 2012
- Length: 01:53
On this edition, political science professor David Shirk sheds light on the history and politics of the war on drugs in Mexico. And an emerging mov...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and KRZA
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
After the recent highly publicized stories of American military members desecrating the remains of Taliban soldiers, many in the U.S. armed forces ...
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 02:05
It's been almost a year since demonstrations started in Syria and the government crackdown gets bloodier every day. With sanctions not producing re...
- Added: Feb 28, 2012
- Length: 02:00
In Iraqi Kurdistan, a common adage says the Kurdish people have “no friends but the mountains.” Today, the mountains along the northern border of ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 05:49
- Purchases: 2
