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How Do You Know for Sure? Conspiracy and the Media
In a world of conspiracy theories presented as facts in new media how can you be sure of what you know? In this FRDH podcast Dr. Matthew Sweet, cultu…
2 years, 8 months ago
Chilean Coup 1973: an Eyewitness's History
A half-century after the Chilean coup of 1973 an eyewitness and participant in that traumatic history remembers. Marc Cooper, then an American in hi…
2 years, 8 months ago
Christian Nationalism: Hypocrisy and Heresy in America Today
Christian nationalism is an increasingly loud form of the faith and many evangelical Christians in America are tired of its hypocrisy. In this FRDH p…
2 years, 8 months ago
Saudi Arabia: Silent Kingdom Steps Center Stage
For decades Saudi Arabia was a place of official silence but now it is taking its place and the center of the geo-political stage. Whether it is payi…
2 years, 9 months ago
Odesa 2023: War, Identity and Poetry
War has come with a vengeance to Odesa in 2023 and poet and translator Boris Dralyuk wants to talk about Odesa's identity and the poetry and comedy a…
2 years, 10 months ago
History Repeats: First Time as Tragedy, Second Time It's Still Tragic
Karl Marx was wrong when he wrote History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce. The second time around it is still tragic as the events of…
2 years, 10 months ago
Tel Aviv Anti-Netanyahu Demonstrations: A Rough Draft in Sound
Every Saturday night for the last 26 weeks in Tel Aviv crowds of up to 150,000 have staged demonstrations against Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu over …
2 years, 10 months ago
Democracy in Crisis: One Idea for Fixing It
To say Democracy is in crisis today is not hyperbole but people don't have an idea about fixing it. Forty years ago Oxford professor Maurice Pope saw…
2 years, 11 months ago
China Today: One Leader, Many Chinas
Journalist Isabel Hilton talks about China today, its leader Xi Jinping, and the many different Chinas he is trying to bring under his control. Chin…
3 years ago
25 Years Later: Mo Mowlam and the Price of Northern Ireland's Peace
25 years after the Good Friday Agreement was signed this is the story of how Mo Mowlam accepted what the price of peace in Northern Ireland would be …
3 years, 1 month ago