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Caption: Host Martha Burk
President Obama got a short reprieve when Russia put forward a plan to avoid a U.S. missile strike on Syria by sequestering Syria’s chemical weapon...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
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We look back at the 2003 invasion of Iraq, 10 years later. For Iraqis, for the US military, and for the anti-war movement: how have things changed,...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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"I Gave My Heart To Know This" illuminates the lives of three female shipbuilder's during World War Two who are coping with the absence of their me...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 27, 2011
  • Length: 16:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Hear stories of human trafficking survivors in post-war Iraq.

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 06:13
Caption: Rear Adm. Wendi Carpenter congratulates Lt. j.g. Carolyn Bloomfield for earning her carrier qualifications during the Women in Aviation Conference.
Juggling work and motherhood is always hard, but imagine if you were an admiral in the Navy.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 12, 2011
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 2
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As reports of Qaddafi soldiers raping women emerge from Libya, we talk to feminist Gloria Steinem about the root causes of sexual violence against ...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 08:01
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When Congolese journalist Chouchou Namegabe first started reporting on sexual abuse in her country, the language didn't even have a word for "rape."

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:33
Caption: Filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Pakistan.
Acclaimed Pakistani filmmaker and journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ("Children of the Taliban") talks with us about the insidious tactics employed b...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 09:09
Caption: A Moro rebel in Sultan Kudarat, Southern Philippines, on Feb. 19, 2008., Credit: Mark Navales
Annabelle Abaya, who has served as the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process in the Philippines and founded The Conflict Resolution Group Found...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh


  • Added: Jul 06, 2011
  • Length: 07:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Stella Sabiiti speaking on a panel in Austria in 2006., Credit: Frank Helmrich
Through the African Union’s Peace and Security Department, activist Stella Sabiiti works with rebels who inflict violence on civilians in conflict ...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:53
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Why would a woman join an armed group? Tufts Professor Dyan Mazurana talks to us about how a cycle of violence is much more to blame for women's pa...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
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Professor Joshua Goldstein debunks the idea that biology hardwires men for fighting wars and women for staying on the sidelines on this week's podc...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:30
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Playwright and activist Lynn Nottage explains how after interviewing survivors of Congo's civil war in 2004, she was inspired to write "Ruined," wh...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 06:46
Caption: Filmmaker Julia Bacha.
Documentary filmmaker Julia Bacha takes us to the Middle East to explore the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. She talks about her new fi...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 07:15
Caption: A meeting for rape victims near Walungu, South Kivu in DRC in 2001.
For our first podcast episode, we go to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has been called the "rape capital of the world." Jocelyn Ke...

  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 09:39
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This Saturday March 20th, marks the 8th Anniversary of the Iraq War. Join Radio Curious for a conversation with Cindy Sheehan, of Gold Star Mom’s ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and KSFR


  • Added: Mar 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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From "Endless Summer" 8/13/2010: War News Radio reports on the status of women in Afghanistan, how they have come to be marginalized in most aspect...

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 08:05
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From "Uploading the War" (7/16/10): War News Radio reports on efforts to provide Afghan women with education.

  • Added: Jul 16, 2010
  • Length: 08:15
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with filmmaker Frank Stiefel, about his documentary “Ingelore,” which chronicles the life of his mother, Inge...

  • Added: Jun 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
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Susan Crane is a serious political activist of an unusual form. Instead of lobby the powers that be, she has taken a hammer to beat on weapons of m...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 30:28
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
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From "Drying Up," June 26, 2009. War News Radio reports on the tangle of issues surrounding temporary marriages in Iraq.

  • Added: Jun 26, 2009
  • Length: 07:24
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News and features on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
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News and features from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

Bought by KGOU and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2