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Last 20 Shows Dispatches February 4 2010, Kandahar Afghanistan, San Salvador El Salvador, Bulgaria, Buenos Aires Argentina, Cartagena Colombia, This Week
The new confidence in Kandahar; Canadian commanders prepare to take the war to the Taliban.
The reverse remittance trap. Salvadorans find themselves sending remittances to relatives in the U.S.
Someone is stealing chariots and antiquities right out of the Bulgarian soil, and there's not much anyone can do about it.
A suitcase full of cash. A suspect singing like a canary. Did a foreign government try to buy Argentina's election?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 28 2010, Por au Prince, Haiti, Washington, Faraway Washington D.C. Nigeria, Moscow, London England, Monrovia Liberia,This Week:
Haitians ask, where is their government in their time of need?
Vodka and the village of widows; Russia tries to stop the slow march towards alcoholism.
"How the internet has triggered libel tourism"
We hear from a victim of the Russian Shell Game known as "Raiding"
Also; An expert on the latest violence in Nigeria and why Liberians are getting their news on the blackboard.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 21, 2010 Port au Prince Haiti, London, Manaus Brazil, Amazon, New York,From the wreckage of Haiti a correspondent's-eye view of a pocket of undamaged optimism amid the ruins.
And it was an earthquake that caused the carnage, but we'll hear why one Canadian analyst says western foreign policy made it worse.
"Are we supposed to kill him or just burn down the house?" We're in the Amazon to document the lawless advance of development into the rain forest.
And a story of survival economics; could you survive on two dollars a day? You'll be surprised how many have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 14 2010, Sana'a Yemen, London, Beruit, Yankassa Sierra Leone, MontrealWe go inside Yemen to see why it's been such a good fit for the forces of al-Queda.
A look at the land-grab business. Agribusiness sees a global market for arable land, but the developing world might be selling off its future food security.
And, a story of lust from Lebanon. How Hezbollah is using sex as a means of recruitment and control.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 7 2010, New York, Genova Italy, Ottawa, The Hague, Port-Au-Prince Haiti,Inside North Korea; defectors tell stories of hunger and horror.
Italy's fascination with prime-time porn. Why TV there treats women like sex toys.
Some say you could raise billions to fight poverty and nobody would miss it. Hear why governments won't go for it.
In the Congo, paramilitaries stole an entire fifth grade and turned it into child soldiers. We revisit the courtroom and the man back on trial for it.
And a story of self help in Haiti which needs all the help it can getListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches December 31 2009, Jakarta, London, Washington,Marjinal rock is on a roll among the poor of Indonesia. Hear how music and politics spilled into the streets of Jakarta this year.
The big lie that crushed a small people. How the British and the Americans conspired to drive a people from their island paradise
Iraqi arts. Turns out they're alive and well -- in exile.
And, the mystery of the world's oldest computer. It pre-dates current models by, oohh, about two-thousand years. Wherever did they plug it in?
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Dispatches December 24 2009 Shaanxi China, Washington, Mali, Halifax, Touba SenegalThis week:
How to exploit Africa in just a few easy steps. A Canadian journalist exposes the simple rules of a cynical game.
China versus the churches; why Christianity offends the Communist Party and how the churches strike back.
Relics of the saints; the author of a new book explores why the bones of the dead have such power over faith and conflict.
And ecstatic pandemonium. We make a Sufi pilgrimage with the devout of Senegal to the holy city of Touba.
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Dispatches December 17, 2009, Migingo Island, Lake Victoria, Tanjian China, Washington, Iloilo City Philippines, Mindanao, Papua New Guinea, Perquin El Salvador,Climate change comes to a tiny African island. Chaos ensues.
Meanwhile in China, the world's biggest polluter is forced to get greener. Massacre in the Philippines. Human security in retreat as politics fuel a clan war. In Papau New Guinea, they've got it all. Beaches. Resources. So why are its citizens so screwed? And, did you hear about the new nuclear hotline because of tension in the Himalayas? Well stay tuned for the top 10 stories you missed this year.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches December 10 2009, South Waziristan, Pakistan, London, Seattle, Kingston Jamaica,The view from a dangerous frontier. High stakes and airstrikes as Pakistan tries to crush the Taliban advance. The words no crime reporter in Tokyo ever wants to hear from the Yakuza; write the story and you die. Yaks and thugs and a hundred-and-sixty flat tires; the cyclist who pedalled halfway round the world to take on his own fears.
And, summoning the dead to protect the living. It's an old tradition that disturbs some of Jamaica's Christian community.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches December 3 2009 Cairo, Washington, Mongolia Gobi Desert, New YorkThe fossil thieves of the Gobi Desert. Who's poaching pre-history and stealing Mongolia's past?
A Canadian's account of running with NATO's drug-dealing allies in Afghanistan, where the bad guys are also the good guys.
A quest for relevance in the land of the Pharoahs. Why some Egyptians prefer the past to the present.
And, an interview with the Pulitzer prize-winning author of "The Good Soldiers" of Iraq, an American memoir of the war that went sideways.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 26 2009 Sao Paulo, Naples, Johannesburg, Mumbai, NewYork,Latin American goes shopping for firepower. Since nobody expects it to actually fire the new guns, what are they for exactly?
A look inside "the land of the fires." How toxic muck and the Mob are poisoning one of the most fertile regions of Italy.
Africa is mad as hell and it's not going to take in the UN climate change conference if something isn't done about carbon emissions.
And, why Mary Colaso can't go home. Mobility is changing tradition for the elderly of IndiaListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 19 2009 Washington, London, Washington, Peja Kosovo, Mumbai India, New York, Bangalore India, TorontoElections coming. Americans leaving. Tensions rising. A view from the barricades in Iraq. And from the land behind God's back, meet the "Burnesh" of the Balkans. Women who lead their lives as men.
A year since the Mumbai attacks, some wounds have healed but life for one survivor has never been the same.
Then, how Israel's military culture helps make it the start-up-company capital of the world
And, India's tired of losing. We'll hear its plan for dominating the world in international spo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 12 2009 Prague, Milan, Denver.Revisiting The Velvet Revolution when the streets of Prague rang with dissent 20 years ago. Plus Communism`s lingering legacy in the Czech Republic. American health care: it's the only developed country that hasn't accepted it as a human right. An Italian court humiliates the U.S. rendition policy by convicting 23 Americans for kidnapping.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 5 2009 Leipzig Germany, Budapest Hungary, Berlin, London,Twenty years since the fall of the Wall; Germany's revolution then and now. From the demonstrations in Leipzig to the present-day classrooms of Berlin, we'll look at some successes and ironic failures. And, what of Eastern Europe's other revolutions of the time? "A promise not fulfilled" says a correspondent who was there. We'll look at why they may not have realised their potential.
And Inside the vaults of The British Spy Service.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches October 29 2009 Shanghai, Mexico City, Kep Cambodia, NewYork,This Week
China wants more folks drinking from the double-happiness cup because world's most populous nation needs more people.
Kicked out of the factories and sent back to their farms; the crackdown on illegal workers is hurting America and illegals alike.
Speakers in the trees; how Canada's contributed to creating town criers in rural Cambodia.
"The Teeth May Smile But The heart Does Not Forget:" a new book revisits the crimes of Idi Amin that Ugandans had agreed to ignore.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches October 22 2009 Toronto/Kandahar, Monrovia Liberia, Berlin, Molokai HawaiiThe CBC's Afghanistan correspondent on covering the conflict, the dangers of a runoff election, and the soldiers of Generation Facebook. The country that became interesting for all the wrong reasons. How Iceland went from Cool, to the cleaners. So you think you know hula "Pops" Pilippo, he knows hula. And he teaches how to dance it with integrity And; soldiers spread the virus that causes AIDS. So why won't the U.N. test its peacekeepers? We look at the polemic and military policy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches October 15, 2009 San Juan Batista, California, Kabul Afghanistan, NewYork, Capetown South Africa, Haiti, Egypt, SudanCalifornia farmers find its short term gain for long term pain growing salad greens.
Can anthropology help win the war in Afghanistan? The U.S. Army thinks so.
Hear the sound of The Last Rango Master. How a forbidden instrument is finding a new global following. Reflections on Haiti's holistic economy.
And, the plague of hairy, snarling crooks in Cape Town. It's like they're not even... human.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches October 8 2009 NewYork, Bonagobugu, Mali, Changmai, ThailandThe Torture Report, How classified U.S. documents about torture and rendition are being pieced together on the Web. Roosters, replenishment and repentance; how radio is bringing better farming to northwest Africa.
J. Paul Getty once said "The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." But a new book says oil rights cause a lot of wrongs. The story of Krong and the Elephant Lords. The black business that's pushed elephants out of the jungle and into the streets of Thailand.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, October 1, 2009 Kandahar, Toronto, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, London, England, Damascus, Syriasome Afghans are being offered a fast-track into Canada. So why are some of them sceptical. Crisis in Fair Trade coffee; the worker-Priest who helped create the industry disses corporate bigshots and its own bad management. An interview with the correspondent who puts the horror back into war reporting from "the country of broken shapes." From Bosnia, the story of a school where ethnic factions get together in peace.
Ladies Hour in Syria's ancient Bath of Roses, where they dip like the Ro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, September 24, 2009 Salaya India, Kabul, NewYork, Toronto, Dogon Country, MaliThe new prisoners of piracy on the Indian Ocean. Why crews of small ships have become targets.
The Canadian in charge of the count in Afghanistan's election. Tracy Kidder with a story of triumph over memory in Burundi. The Ramadan Blogs; two American-raised Muslims get their eyes opened when they venture into a different mosque every day for a month. And from a high plateau in Mali, the story of a trio of Canadians bring healing hands to people who've never seen medical care.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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