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Caption: Surrounded by veterans, family members, and others at an August 2022 ceremony, President Joe Biden signs legislation designed to compensate people who were exposed to toxic substances during their military service, including people who lived on Camp Lejeu, Credit: C-Span
Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the cl...

Bought by WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, KWMU St. Louis, KTEP, and KUT


  • Added: Sep 26, 2022
  • Length: 03:55
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Matthew Hanks labels a pottery shard in the Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis office. Hanks is part of the Corps Veterans Curation Program, which employs veterans to help maintain artifacts unearthed in various Corps projects., Credit: Eric Schmid / American Homefront
An Army Corps of Engineers program teaches former troops how to do curation work, while also preparing them for jobs in other fields.

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, KPBS, Texas Public Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 22, 2022
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 6
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episode 5: Disinformation and media manipulation are everywhere. Nobody can really know what’s going on in a ‘fog of war’. You’ll hear from displa...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 15:21
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episode 4: Not surprisingly, in a time of war, most of the funding available to science in Ukraine is gone. You’ll hear how Canada can help rebuild...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:09
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episode 2: How can you conduct research under extremely difficult conditions, such as they are in Ukraine? A sociologist and researcher at the Cen...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:25
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episode 3: The war in Ukraine is proving to be a real-time lab study of staying one step ahead of the hackers and finding ways to protect and prese...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 20:30
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episode 1: It's the early days of the war. Scientists in Canada and France offer a helping hand to Ukrainian colleagues. A research scientist at t...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2022
  • Length: 19:59
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This week's summary of under-reported news followed by these interviews: Six Months After Russia’s Ukraine Invasion, There’s Signs a Negotiated End...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WETS


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Nurse practitioner Carmen George conducts an ultrasound at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center on Joint Base San Antonio Texas, March 11, 2022., Credit: Melody Bordeaux / U.S. Air Force
As states across the country restrict abortion, President Biden and some other Democrats want to ease federal restrictions on the procedure.

Bought by KWMU St. Louis, KPBS, WRFA-LP, and North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Filmmaker Chris Nolan discovered a sane way to deal with the chaos we all confront today:  VUCA, an old battlefield system developed by the Pentagon back in 1987.
One look at the headlines on any given day makes it clear: the world is UNclear. How can an organization navigate through the volatility, uncertai...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2022
  • Length: 56:01
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This week on the show: Upping the pressure, the EU cuts the number of travel visas for Russians Remembering Gorbachev's gamble, but will Russians...

  • Added: Sep 01, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
Caption: Eric Terashima (right) stands with an interpreter, an Afghan Army Colonel, and some Afghan children in a 2010 photograph., Credit: Courtesy Eric Terashima
Since the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan last year, many American veterans have tried to help Afghan allies escape the collapsing country. Though s...

Bought by KRPS, WRFA-LP, KPBS, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2022
  • Length: 03:44
  • Purchases: 4
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This week on the show: Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov on six months of war with Russia. Turkey’s high risk strategy continues to pay off. Who kill...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused horrific damage and casualties, in spite of Ukraine’s remarkable efforts to defend itself. The conflict has...

Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KGUA, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
  • Purchases: 8
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused horrific damage and casualties, in spite of Ukraine’s remarkable efforts to defend itself. The conflict has...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2022
  • Length: 58:56
Caption: Margaret Costantino, right, director of the Center for Refugee Services in San Antonio, organizes donations for Afghan refugees. She is assisted by Mohammad, an employee who himself is an Afghan refugee. He asked that his last name be withheld because he , Credit: Center for Refugee Services
The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan one year ago led tens of thousands of people to flee the country and come to America. But for some who are her...

Bought by WRFA-LP, North Country Public Radio, KUT, and Texas Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 23, 2022
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Retired Navy senior chief Leah Stiles leads a group of sailors on the final night of induction season September 15, 2011. , Credit: U.S. Navy
Some service members and health experts say the Pentagon isn't doing enough to address eating disorders, which are sometimes linked to the military...

Bought by Texas Public Radio, WRFA-LP, KPBS, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 19, 2022
  • Length: 03:22
  • Purchases: 4
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First, Ray talks with journalist Azmat Khan about accountability remote warfare and later, with professor Shannon French, about the ever-evolving f...

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


  • Added: Aug 18, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
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This week on the show: How Finland's radioactive waste should be safe for 100,000 years. The UK shuts its only gender identity clinic for children...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE


  • Added: Aug 10, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Tucker Salls, a member of the Connecticut National Guard, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Connecticut, Jan. 2, 2021., Credit: Steven Tucker / U.S. Air National Guard
The Pentagon said unvaccinated guardsmen won't get paid and can't participate in federally-funded deployments, but some states are concerned that w...

Bought by KRPS, KPBS, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KUT


  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 5
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With INVISIBLE STORM Jason Kander has written the book he himself needed in his darkest moments of PTSD. After Afghanistan, his day job was politic...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 10:01
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This week on the show: Speaking truth to power - As the war in Ukraine rages on, we look at the fallout in Ukraine's neighboring countries Belar...

Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KWIT, and WXDU


  • Added: Aug 05, 2022
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week on the show: Nuclear threats, war and exit strategies in Ukraine. The first ship carrying Ukrainian grain sets under the Turkey-brokered...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2022
  • Length: 59:01
Caption: People on both sides of the abortion issue rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 1, 2021., Credit: Victoria Pickering / Flickr
More than 100 military installations are in states where abortion is now banned.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, KPBS, KRPS, WRFA-LP, KMXT and more


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 03:40
  • Purchases: 6