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Great Speeches and Interviews
by sgl
Listen to the brightest voices on the controversial issues of our times. Listen to Great Speeches and Interviews and decide for yourself.
Episodes
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Reviews of American Sniper
Since American Sniper is about a real person in a recent war, I find it to be an interesting commentary on Americans. For me, American Sniper shows how an American can seamlessly morph from a cowboy to a government trained mass murderer. Mass murder occurs on the average every two weeks in the…
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Paying For Endless Wars
James Risen Ever since 9/11 America has fought an endless war on terror, seeking enemies everywhere. James Risen reveals the shocking corruption, waste and abuse of our metastasizing Homeland Security Industrial complex. From the bankrupting of the American taxpayer to the moral bankruptcy of the...
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Genocide In Guatemala
Oscar Castaneda, a survivor of the slaughter of Dos Erres that occurred during the civil war in Guatemala. In 1982, the Guatemalan military massacred the villagers of Dos Erres, killing more than 200 people. This is the true story of Oscar Alfredo Ramírez Castañeda and genocide in Guatemala....
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The Cost of Carbon Emissions - A Debate
With potentially staggering costs involved, are efforts to make major reductions in carbon emissions even worth it? Would the money be better spent elsewhere? Or, does the amount of money involved become less important when considering the possible consequences of climate change? One of the most...
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The Limits of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Bacevich discusses the diminishing returns of America's long-held foreign policy of expansionism, the dangers of rampant consumerism at home and a imperial executive president. Debt And The New American Exceptionalism "As America’s efforts to “degrade and ultimately destroy” Islamic State...
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GMO - OMG
Biotechnology engineer examining immature corn cob on field Agricultural plants are frequently cited as examples of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Some benefits of genetic engineering in agriculture are increased crop yields, reduced costs for food or drug production, reduced need for...
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Is Organic Food Marketing Hype? - A Debate
The European Union, the United States, Canada, Japan and many other countries require producers to obtain special certification based on government-defined standards to market food as organic within their borders. Although sales of organic food increased greatly over the last decade, organics are...
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Too Many People?
Alan Weisman talks with Francesca Rheannon about the population crisis and how we can solve it. The Earth’s population is expected to be somewhere around 11 billion people by the end of this century. Alan says overpopulation already underlies much of the conflict we see in the world today,...
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Should the U.S. Oppose Immigration? A Debate
Protestors call for President Obama to push immigration reform, outside the White House in Washington, DC, July 24, 2013. Tomas Martinez/Associated Press The U.S. was built on the hard work of its immigrants. The vast majority of Americans are descendants of immigrants. The U.S. is home to an...
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Living In A Police State
Overcrowding in a California prison. Courtesy Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP Paul Butler was an ambitious federal prosecutor, a Harvard Law grad who gave up his corporate law salary to fight the good fight, until one day he was arrested on the street and charged with a crime he didn’t commit....
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Has The Two-Party System Made The U.S. Undemocratic?
Opponents of the two-party system argue that Americans are locked into evaluating every issue through a prism of left and right. They say the country needs to break out of a system that has led to stagnation and a difficulty in finding common ground. Others counter that, while the two-party…
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Inside The Police State
Police officer Adrian Schoolcraft secretly recorded his supervisors telling officers to manipulate crime statistics and make illegal arrests from 2008 to 2009. The Village Voice series that broke Schoolcraft's story was written by Graham Rayman. Ira Glass narrates the story. Police Officer Adrian...
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Should The U.N. Admit Palestine As A Full Member State?
Israeli military officials say 20 Palestinians were evicted early on Saturday after the activists tried to set up a cluster of tents near the village of Al-Tiwaneh, south of the city of al-Khalil (Hebron), 2013. The conflict between Israel and Palestine has a long history. On November 29, 2012…
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Who Scares Us And Why
Almost all Americans fall victim to the hype, intensity, and propaganda, that accompanies political panics. Mark Stein examines American political panics over witches, Indians, Masons, Chinese, Socialists, Latinos, Muslims, gay marriage and more. Mark closely examines just what it is that causes…
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Should Drugs Be Legalized?
Karen Goldstein attends a rally for Florida Attorney General candidate, Jim Lewis, who is running on a platform of legalizing marijuana on October 12, 2010 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Lewis believes that legalizing the drug will save the state hundreds of millions of dollars that can be…
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Lies and World War
Facts are essential in a democracy. A government “of the people, by the people, and for the people” demands an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with...
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Was Bush 43 The Worst President Of The Last 50 Years?
Not everyone appreciates George W. Bush's sense of humor as seen in the following quotes. "You know, I could run for governor and all this but I’m basically a media creation. I’ve never really done anything. I’ve worked for my dad. I worked in the oil industry. But that’s not the kind of profile...
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The End of American Exceptionalism
Andrew Bacevich "The United States today finds itself threatened by three interlocking crises. The first of these crises is economic and cultural, the second political, and the third military. All three share this characteristic: They are of our own making. ... Yet, as events have made plain, the...
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Facing Racial Anxiety And Stereotype Threat
The U.S. prides itself on the ideal of equality. However, the educational, health care, and legal systems, are plagued by institutional biases against racial minorities. A closer look reveals that these disparities are likely not due to hateful intent, but caused by a combination of factors that...
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We're Already Paying Carbon Taxes
"The fact is that American taxpayers are paying for the costs of climate change now. These costs don't hit us all at once but sporadically, in different places and at different times. They don't feel like a carbon tax, though they amount to one. Every time we use fossil fuels, we increase our tax...
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Living With Stereotypes
Sarah Jones performances include many characters. Here are some of those characters. Bella is a African-American feminist. Habiba Rahal is a Muslim professor of comparative literature. Lorraine Levine is an older woman. Ms. Lady is poor, homeless and disabled. Joseph Mancuso is Italian-American...
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The End of American Exceptionalism with Andrew Bacevich
“Andrew Bacevich speaks truth to power, no matter who’s in power, which may be why those of both the left and right listen to him.” — Bill Moyers Andrew examines of the triple crisis facing America. An economy in disarray that can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad and a government...
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Does U.S. Military Intervention In The Middle East Help Or Hurt?
"After much occasion to consider the folly and mischiefs of a state of warfare, and the little or no advantage obtained even by those nations who have conducted it with the most success, I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad...
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Angry White Men
Washington Post, August 29, 2012 Sociologist Michael Kimmel has spent hundreds of hours in the company of America’s angry white men including white supremacists to men's rights activists to young students. Downward mobility, increased racial and gender equality, and a tenacious clinging to an...
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