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Political Aid
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Feb 12th, 2025
Figuring all the messy world of politics is not a pleasurable task with the array of podcasts that are being produced monthly. “Political Aid” is a curated list of rational presentation of political events/political figures that will hopefully eliminate misconception and propaganda narratives.
Episodes
Episode | Description | Categories | Contacts | Reach | Guests | Hosts | Date Aired | Length | Curator's Notes | ||||
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Terrible sh*t is happening in Syria. You probably heard about it on the news. Robert was there earlier this summer and he talks about it, what’s happened since, and what’s about to die forever (freed | -- | -- | October 16, 2019 | 1:17:46s | A well- detailed explanation of the Kurds abandonment by its only ally. | ||||||||
Brazil's far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to rebuild an old military highway through the Amazon. Is this a plan to drive the economy or a more sinister push to annex parts of the Amazon? | -- | -- | October 22, 2019 | 15:46s | When Brazil ?? elected an extreme ring wing president whose conservative agenda has not been a secret. | ||||||||
The Soong sisters were at the centre of power during mid-20th century China, but each played a very different role. | -- | -- | October 14, 2019 | 24:46s | The Soong Sisters have been part of the making of Modern China. Intriguing overview of their lives by a biographer. | ||||||||
In a week that saw the talks of impeachment boil over into Congressional action, a former Republican Senator says Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right to hold off on an impeachment inquiry until now. Once a | -- | -- | September 30, 2019 | 31:21s | A Republican who is not Pro Trump, discusses the process of Trump’s Impeachment process and thoughts related to the republicans of yesterday in a world in which Trump redefined the party approach to many issues. | ||||||||
"We have no idea what the role of mental illness is," Vanderbilt professor Jonathan Metzl said about mass shootings. "And so it seems to me like a code word and a distraction and a deflection."We spok | -- | -- | August 5, 2019 | 45:44s | Mass Shootings in America... When will they end? When will legislators take a stand? | ||||||||
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those experiences shape their politics today.In deep con | -- | December 24, 2019 | 14:03s | Pete Buttigieg - The University Activist with socialist agenda, a Version that is quite different from Mayor Pete who aspires to be a president of the ??. | |||||||||
The Trump administration blocked chipmaker Broadcom's bid to acquire rival Qualcomm on the grounds of national security. But how did the San Diego-based company become the target in the first place? A | -- | -- | May 1, 2018 | 18:19s | Can a company whose board members are foreigners/expats put the interest of another country first? Unlikely. Then, Imagine if such a company is planning to monopolize the market? ?? .. Exactly | ||||||||
Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Washington Post' reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker did over 200 interviews with Trump administration insiders. Their new book, 'A Very Stable Genius,' details president | -- | January 22, 2020 | 49:25s | The Chaotic Trump Administration never disappoints in providing interesting materials regarding how it’s handled. This is too volatile to be successful or inspiring. | |||||||||
This week, the NPR Politics Podcast investigates defining moments in the lives of four top Democratic presidential candidates to understand how those experiences shape their politics today.Elizabeth W | -- | -- | December 27, 2019 | 13:54s | Elizabeth Warren is probably the only one of the candidates who search and research for for bulletproof ideas/plans documented with evidence as a method to find solutions to problems. She is an incredible asset. | ||||||||
If you've sorted through your mail any time in the past few weeks, you probably noticed a very serious, very official letter from the U.S. government. It's a note asking you to fill out the 2020 Censu | -- | -- | April 12, 2020 | 37:36s | Want to learn about the History/Provenance of US Census, Look No further ?? | ||||||||
Rural hospitals already walk a scalpel's edge between solvency and collapse. Coronavirus threatens to push many of them over the brink. | -- | -- | April 15, 2020 | 9:39s | Aid distribution mechanism enhances the need to support those communities that are overwhelmed but how will underwhelmed communities survive when their support is halved/Cut? What is fair and how Fair is socially difficult. | ||||||||
In this special collaboration with NPR's Life Kit the NPR Politics team breaks down what are key steps for running for office. This episode: Congressional correspondent Susan Davis, political reporter | -- | -- | November 29, 2019 | 15:49s | Not a guide book for those planning to run for office but important and informative tidbits for any one seeking exposure in activism or even a political career. | ||||||||
Is it the Prime Minister? The Governor General? The Queen? Canada's Head of State may be symbolic, but symbolic of what? Desmond Cole and Andray Domise start with the basics. Support COMMONS: http://c | -- | -- | May 5, 2015 | 24:30s | The Mechanism of Governance in Canada. Good explanation | ||||||||
President Trump invoked the Defense Production Act, which empowers the White House to order private manufacturers to produce certain goods, but has thusfar resisted using it directly, instead using it | -- | -- | March 23, 2020 | 16:04s | When executive orders could be implemented to the greater good, they could be withheld for political gain and public manipulation. Trump understands the game; The Don is a Con | ||||||||
How do officials weigh the economic cost against the public health benefit? Plus a report from the hardest-hit area of Italy, and a sampling of free things that you had to pay for before the coronavir | -- | -- | March 23, 2020 | 12:26s | Social Distancing; a practice that is being promoted as an essential factor in the eradication of Covid 19 has its adverse effects on some commercial establishments and this episode of Consider this, will explore the hidden costs. | ||||||||
Historian Kathleen Belew discusses the modern history of the white power movement and the often overlooked connection between incidents like Charlottesville and the Oklahoma City bombing. Learn more | -- | -- | May 5, 2019 | 49:00s | Fascinating listen to the provenance of White Power Nazi Movement that has been flourishing for decades with no significant government oversight to tackle its insurgence. | ||||||||
The more we learn about the coronavirus, the clearer it becomes that it's disproportionately affecting communities of color. And as protests continue across the country, some health experts worry that | -- | -- | June 2, 2020 | 11:45s | It’s assumed that all communities are supported equally, but the harsh reality is that communities with lower socio-economic status are not in bar with richer communities. During The Covid -19 crisis, Hospitals of such vulnerable communities st | ||||||||
A former spy and his lawyer exposed an illegal bugging operation the Australian government conducted on Timor-Leste during negotiations over oil and gas field resources. Now they face jail time. Trans | -- | -- | October 29, 2019 | 20:18s | Whistleblowers have rights as they risk repercussions from supervisors and colleagues as well as the possibility of social ostracizing. In third would countries, we shall assume the lack of protection for them, but who could have imagined Austr | ||||||||
We tend to associate great speeches with moments of triumph or the heat of battle. Yet some of the finest and most impassioned political speeches have been made by losers. | -- | -- | June 9, 2016 | 4:23s | |||||||||
We talk with journalist Vincent Bevins about the increasingly volatile political situation in Brazil and continue our series on the global anti-communist international discussing his new book The Jaka | -- | -- | June 11, 2020 | 1:30:20s | |||||||||
Since January, Peter Hessler has reported from China under quarantine. Now, as restrictions lift, he tells David Remnick about his return to normal life; recently, he even went to a dance club. But, a | -- | May 29, 2020 | 21:16s | ||||||||||
From NPR's Embedded: The workers who produce pork, chicken, and beef in plants around the country have been deemed "essential" by the government and their employers. Now, the factories where they work | -- | -- | May 25, 2020 | 20:28s | |||||||||
Our first episode - “Is Democracy Dead?” - features Chief Political Correspondent of The Herald and The Age David Crowe, Nine’s Political Editor Chris Uhlmann and former Daily Telegraph editor David P | -- | -- | September 21, 2018 | 37:52s | |||||||||
You may not know his name, but you know his work and his words. Like "climate change" instead of "global warming," and "death tax" instead of "estate tax" -- he's really helped position policy for vot | -- | -- | July 29, 2016 | 47:08s | |||||||||
'Time' correspondent Molly Ball says the key to the speaker's success is her mastery of the inside game in politics — building relationships, counting votes, plotting strategy and working around the c | -- | May 6, 2020 | 49:22s | ||||||||||
Protests have exploded across the US after a video showed Derek Chauvin, a white Minneapolis police officer, kneeling on the neck of George Floyd, an African American man, despite his pleas that he c | -- | -- | June 3, 2020 | 37:07s | |||||||||
"We do politics based on where our communities are," says researcher Ashley Hinck. "Increasingly, that same community is found in fandoms. We're going to see more and more of this fan activism."Want t | -- | -- | July 1, 2020 | 35:17s | |||||||||
In 2016, poll after poll predicted a Hillary Clinton victory, and voters constantly heard that she was "ahead in the polls." But, what does that really mean? Why were the polls so far off? And if poll | -- | -- | September 30, 2020 | 23:55s | |||||||||
For the first-ever episode of the China Untold Podcast, I revisit my experiences at the PRC’s borders with two of the five self-proclaimed communist states still in existence: the Democratic People’s | -- | -- | -- | May 11, 2020 | 27:47s | ||||||||
This episode was recorded when Ron Steslow was host of The Lincoln Project Podcast (www.lincolnproject.us). He is no longer affiliated with the organization. This feed is now the home of Politicology. | -- | -- | -- | October 14, 2020 | 1:21:51s | ||||||||
In the midst of the historic coronavirus pandemic, economic hardship and a reckoning over racism, this November Americans will decide who leads the nation for the next four years: President Donald Tru | -- | -- | -- | September 25, 2020 | 1:51:30s | ||||||||
Transcript“I think today we are going to be doing roughly 125,000 meals across America in very strategic places. Restaurants transforming to Community Kitchens are going to be playing a vital role in | -- | -- | March 31, 2020 | 26:42s | |||||||||
"Women [in detention] are faced with this problem where they don't have [medical] choices and they don't have the liberty to go find those choices," says migrant rights advocate Michelle Brané.She als | -- | -- | September 22, 2020 | 34:12s | |||||||||
Award-winning journalist Michele Norris joins Michelle to discuss how we can gain new understandings of ourselves during an international pandemic and national reckoning with race. Find the episode tr | -- | September 30, 2020 | 50:02s | ||||||||||
She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by | -- | -- | -- | July 22, 2020 | 33:02s | ||||||||
It might have seemed like a good idea to the framers of the Constitution in the 1780s, but we've been arguing about the Electoral College ever since. Who is at the forefront of the fight for a fairer | -- | -- | November 16, 2020 | 36:32s | |||||||||
Will a Joe Biden presidency be better for the environment than President Trump’s policies? Is China really set to take the lead on tackling climate change? And can the world's two biggest emitters of | -- | -- | November 16, 2020 | 22:58s | |||||||||
Let’s start at the very beginning: voter registration. How do you do it and why does it matter? Registering to vote hasn’t always been simple, and for many Americans, it still isn't. The first step in | -- | -- | September 16, 2020 | 18:36s | |||||||||
Polling in the days since the storming of the Capitol paints a complex picture. While most Americans do not support the riot, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Trump bears respon | -- | January 19, 2021 | 32:29s | Sometimes things as clear as a sunny day in Los Angeles, but Sometimes pride and loyalty are factors that hinder the clarity of certain incidents. Here comes Republicans. | |||||||||
In 2017, rich Republican donors demanded a legislative victory, and this is how they got it. We meet one big donor from Dallas who goes on the record to explain how money and power work in Trump’s Ame | -- | -- | September 17, 2020 | 30:49s | |||||||||
The story of the day the Federal Reserve got its independence and the fight—an actual physical fight—to keep it. | -- | -- | March 2, 2019 | 19:55s | The establishment of the Federal Reserve as an independent entity. | ||||||||
In Pima County, where Tucson is located, formerly incarcerated individuals and local government officials have joined efforts to send fewer people to jail. Meanwhile, a federal program designed to sto | -- | August 27, 2018 | 29:50s | ||||||||||
She Votes! is a podcast from Wonder Media Network about the complex history of the women's suffrage movement, hosted by award-winning journalists Lynn Sherr and Ellen Goodman.She Votes! is produced by | -- | -- | -- | August 24, 2020 | 33:56s | The Women movement didn’t take a page of other movements; They didn’t disrupt or incite violent. They Persisted with a Panache! | |||||||
The first set of results from the 2020 census are in, and according to the count, the official population of the United States is 331,449,281.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.c | -- | -- | -- | April 27, 2021 | 12:09s | The importance of census results in allocating political powers across states. | |||||||
In his 100 days address this week, Joe Biden outlined his plans for a big, bold legislative agenda to come. He previewed a two-pronged economic package: the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan and the $ | -- | April 30, 2021 | 45:34s | Listen to what communities need! Chuck has several example. Ignore the parts in which he loves to shoot snide remarks against republicans. | |||||||||
When international correspondent Michael Safi began looking into why Jordan had become the country with the highest smoking rates in the world, he began to uncover what public health advocates have d | -- | -- | June 24, 2020 | 30:35s | Powerful and international businesses can influence policies in countries in need of foreign businesses. One example is the influence of a tobacco conglomerate in Jordan. A sad reality! | ||||||||
Zack, Jenn, and Alex explain why WWE wrestling superstar John Cena issued an apology to China this week over a comment he made about Taiwan while promoting his new Fast & Furious 9 movie — and what it | -- | -- | May 27, 2021 | 49:49s | |||||||||
Scenes of economic despair are visible across Lebanon – from shops to homes, businesses to hospitals. Guardian journalist Martin Chulov discusses why the country is verging on financial collapse. Hel | -- | -- | August 3, 2020 | 25:53s | |||||||||
The fifteen year rule of Benjamin Netanyahu could come to an end this Sunday if a newly formed coalition government survives a vote of confidence. What will it mean for Israel if Netanyahu loses power | -- | -- | June 10, 2021 | 32:05s | |||||||||
This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence.Just a few years ago, Ethiopia’s leader was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Now, the nation is in the grips of a civil war, with widespread reports | -- | June 16, 2021 | 27:09s | ||||||||||
In this public News Brief, we breakdown the most common anti-Palestinian tropes and why they're based on sophistry, ignorance, racism, or some combination of all three. | -- | -- | May 14, 2021 | 37:06s | |||||||||
Does the vice presidential pick matter on Election Day? In these final weeks of the election, more eyes are focused on that second name on the ballot. Kristen Holmes speaks with Julia Azari, Associate | -- | -- | October 7, 2020 | 20:35s | |||||||||
The former Secretary of Defense was a chief architect of the conflict that came to be known as America's 'forever war.' After his death this week at age 88, that conflict has now officially outlived h | -- | -- | -- | July 1, 2021 | 12:21s | ||||||||
It's not often that CCTV footage changes the political landscape. What does the scandal surrounding Matt Hancock tell us about the way government works? And what does his departure mean for the NHS an | -- | -- | June 29, 2021 | 30:17s | |||||||||
2021 is on track to be America's deadliest year for gun violence in two decades. With record numbers of mass shootings across the country, is the US finally ready to confront the problem?This podcast | -- | -- | July 22, 2021 | 29:27s | |||||||||
Who was Muammar Gaddafi? What happened in the Arab Spring? What were the reasons behind Britain, France and America intervening in Libya in 2011? And why is there still fighting going on today? In thi | -- | -- | -- | June 16, 2021 | 38:32s | ||||||||
The military-grade spyware that’s being used to spy on journalists, human rights activists and business executives. Plus, a long overdue trip to space.Read more:Military-grade spyware leased by the Is | -- | -- | July 19, 2021 | 24:54s | |||||||||
It’s our solutions episode! Jay arrives at six things that have got to be eliminated in order to usher in substantial improvements to public safety and policing in America and he talks with Netta Elzi | -- | -- | August 17, 2020 | 21:54s | |||||||||
NPR climate correspondent Lauren Sommer talks with Emily about a dilemma facing many local governments now. Should they develop in areas vulnerable to rising sea levels? On today's episode, we look at | -- | -- | August 23, 2021 | 11:31s | |||||||||
These days, it’s not so easy to tell what’s true and what’s false on the internet. From trolls to Russian bots, there are a lot of tools being used to destabilize U.S. elections - and they are countin | -- | -- | October 14, 2020 | 22:13s | |||||||||
The government suspended the Jones Act last week, to allow non-US ships to move fuel to victims of hurricanes in Houston and Florida. Which once again made us wonder why the act even exists. | -- | -- | September 27, 2017 | 16:56s | |||||||||
The Russian military is on the move toward the border with Ukraine, with American intelligence suggesting that Moscow is preparing for an offensive involving some 175,000 troops.Could the moves herald | -- | December 8, 2021 | 26:02s | ||||||||||
Britain’s security services have named Christine Lee as an ‘agent’ of the Chinese state attempting to run influence operations in parliament. Dan Sabbagh explains what is behind the extraordinary stat | -- | -- | January 20, 2022 | 26:44s | |||||||||
It's been lampooned as a gathering of "the rich and the clueless." U2 lead singer Bono referred to its attendees as "fat cats in the snow." So what makes the World Economic Forum's annual conference i | -- | -- | January 21, 2022 | 31:45s | |||||||||
As the Winter Olympics unfold in Beijing, a darker reality remains: China’s abuses against the Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in the country’s Xinjiang region. While much of the world remains glued to th | -- | February 10, 2022 | 32:20s | ||||||||||
Jeremy Harding talks to Tom about the long and repressive reign of King Hassan II of Morocco, as described in a new book by Aziz BineBine, who suffered 18 years of brutal detention in Tazmamart, a sec | -- | -- | February 8, 2022 | 45:35s | |||||||||
Wednesday was the third day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but senators spent much of their time rehashing familiar lines of questioning. Republicans doubled down on c | -- | -- | March 24, 2022 | 14:33s | |||||||||
Claire Graham talks to the former BBC News Africa bureaux chief, Milton Nkosi, to get a better understanding of why the post-apartheid dream of a "Rainbow Nation" has still not materialised. | -- | -- | -- | April 9, 2022 | 18:38s | ||||||||
Barbados has replaced Queen Elizabeth II with president Sandra Mason, and while some are celebrating the change, others ask if a symbolic shift is enough to reckon with the legacy of colonialism. Mich | -- | -- | December 6, 2021 | 38:16s | |||||||||
Unlike other former presidents after leaving office, Donald J. Trump has remained in the middle of the political stage — raising more money than the Republican Party itself and doling out coveted endo | -- | May 3, 2022 | 36:27s | ||||||||||
After decades of neutrality, Finland and Sweden are set to file applications to join NATO, undermining Russian president Vladimir Putin’s aim of splintering the military alliance. CNN International Di | -- | -- | May 18, 2022 | 23:19s | |||||||||
They’ve stolen billions of dollars. Is the U.S. ready to crack down?Guest: Jason Bartlett, research associate in the Energy, Economics, and Security Program at the Center for a New American Security | -- | -- | May 22, 2022 | 24:32s | |||||||||
In 1791, enslaved Haitians did the seemingly impossible. They ousted their French masters and created the first free Black nation in the Americas.But France made Haitians pay for that freedom.A team o | -- | June 3, 2022 | 31:41s | ||||||||||
Many of the deadliest mass shootings in the U.S. have involved an assault-style rifle like the AR-15. WSJ’s Zusha Elinson reports on how Washington regulations have failed to stop the gun's rise to pr | -- | -- | May 26, 2022 | 20:16s | |||||||||
Chile is on the cusp of replacing its Pinochet-era constitution with a radically progressive new alternative.Three years after mass protests swept the nation, an elected group of citizens have rewri | -- | -- | -- | July 8, 2022 | 29:11s | ||||||||
President Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka last week after witnessing the storming of his official residence. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | -- | -- | July 20, 2022 | 21:50s | |||||||||
Inès Abdel Razek joins host Yara Hawari to discuss how the Israeli regime uses eco-normalization projects and greenwashing tactics to cover up its theft of Palestinian natural resources and lands as p | -- | -- | July 28, 2022 | 24:40s | |||||||||
Episode 1: Founded in the late 1950s, the radical fringe political group, the John Birch Society, quickly grew to dominate right-wing discourse (and embody midcentury cartoonish McCarthyism) during th | -- | -- | -- | April 6, 2018 | 13:44s | ||||||||
One year ago this week, when the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, they promised to institute a modern form of Islamic government that honored women’s rights.That promise evaporated with a sudden | -- | August 16, 2022 | 25:28s | ||||||||||
Peter Cruddas is a self-made billionaire, a Conservative party donor and now, a Lord. His rise reveals a lot about Boris Johnson’s battle with parliament. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for mo | -- | -- | -- | August 31, 2022 | 49:01s | ||||||||
This week, the Palestine Pod interviews Lyla June, an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) nations from Taos, New Mexico. | -- | -- | -- | July 26, 2021 | 1:21:56s | ||||||||
Rishi Sunak is Britain’s new prime minister – the third one in two months. He’s also the first person of color to lead the country. But will he really be a departure from his predecessors?Read foreign | -- | -- | October 26, 2022 | 23:31s | |||||||||
Congresswoman Liz Cheney’s crushing defeat in Wyoming’s Republican primary on Tuesday. Plus, Alaska experiments with a new way to vote. Read more:Rep. Liz Cheney’s loss on Tuesday night wasn’t really | -- | -- | August 17, 2022 | 28:46s | |||||||||
On October 17, 1974, President Ford testifies before Congress on the pardon of Richard Nixon.To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-pol | -- | -- | October 17, 2022 | 7:08s | |||||||||
In a new investigative collaboration, FRONTLINE and ProPublica trace the hidden sources of misinformation about the 2020 election, demonstrating how a handful of people have had an outsized impact on | -- | -- | April 1, 2022 | 55:16s | |||||||||
From Maastricht to Brexit, the European Union's first three decades have entailed plenty of political and economic drama. Danny Bird speaks to Dermot Hodson about his new book, Circle of Stars, which | -- | -- | -- | February 28, 2024 | 36:49s | ||||||||
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