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Dispatches February 9 2012 from Cairo, Kazakhstan, Boulder Colorado, Turkish-Syrian Border, Delhi, Brooklyn New York, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for February 9 2012. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Egyptians may be divided over miltary rule but the Army's not going anywhere soon. We'll hear why its influence is too deep to deny.
In Kazahkstan, nobody grows very old in the villages near a former nuclear test site NOW being considered for commercial farming.
CBC News enters the Syrian refugee camps in Turkey, where exiles exist on a diet of defiance and division.
In India, cheap han ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches February 2 2012, from Philadelphia, New York, Sri Lanka, Puerto Berrio Colombia, Bahrain, Islamabad Pakistan, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for February 2nd, 2012. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
The stateless of the South Pacific. Why six inmates freed from Guantanamo are now marooned halfway round the world.
Jazz night in Addis Ababa. Ethiopia is comfortable with some western influences but dissent isn't one of them.
How Sri Lanka's headlong rush to development is pitting resorts against its people.
Making a deal with the nameless dead. Why Colombians adopt the victims of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 26 2012 from, Haiti, Kingston Jamaica, New York, Burma, Rajasthan India, Rwanda, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for January 26 2012. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
From the Haitian earthquake rises new thinking about technology that will save lives around the world.
A political paradox in Jamaica. The country's about to celebrate independence though most voters say it's failed them.
Something is killing the cane cutters of Central America. A mysterious new kind of kidney disease found nowhere else.
And from the archives, spying on free speech. H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches January 19 2012 from Damascus Syria, Sarawak Malaysian Borneo, London England, Toronto, Ghana, Nigeria, Lombardi ItalyWelcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for January 19th, 2012. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week,
Hear why the struggle for Syria has become an equality of weakness, in our correspondent's dispatch from Damascus.
Then, putting the bore in Borneo. Tidal bore that is. A phenomenal view of a natural phenomenon.
Why was Canada in Kandahar? A new study says we didn't ask enough tough questions before seizing an ill-starred mission.
And, if Ghana is democracy's beacon in Africa, it so ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, January 12 2012 from, East Jerusalem, Toronto, Sake, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dublin Ireland, Beijing China, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for January 12, 2012. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Israel rewrites the history books. No Arafat. No Intifada. Palestinians say, no more.
How jazz found a foothold in India. A story of rhythm and racism.
Then in our encore segment, we'll revisit Congo, where former rebels are getting away with murder.
Did an Irishman save Hitler's life? Disturbing documents surface in Dublin.
And a view from Beijing, where a foot in cold water is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, January 5 2012 from Amsterdam, Toronto, Punta Allen Mexico, Ukraine, Vancouver, Addis Ababa Ethiopia, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for January 5 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Smoking, nope, The Netherlands considers a crackdown on its notorious pot cafes.
Then, Educating Roma, why a well-meant effort to address racism in Romania is going spectacularly wrong.
And from the archives
Lobsterman Charly's beaten back nature's attack on his livelihood in Mexico but a man-made threat is proving a much greater hurdle.
And, a Canadian filmmaker documents the cultural cha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
December 29, 2011 from Artibonite, Haiti - Brazil - New York - Uganda - Saudi ArabiaFrom Haiti, your land or your life. The murderous row over property rights in Haiti. Plus: the Plumpy'nut paradox: a cure for malnutrition they just can't make enough of. In Brazil, a dedicated team of environmentalists has to find the last survivor of a remote Indian tribe before his enemies do. And: Uganda is no country for gay men and the closet is sometimes the only safe place.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, December 22, 2011 from: Seoul, South Korea - Manila, the Philippines - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Monrovia, Liberia - Zambia The bleak legacy of Kim Jong Il. He made North Korea the most secretive country on earth but a few citizen journalists risk their lives to defy it. We're on patrol with the world's only female peacekeeping units, in a country where police can't be trusted with guns. What happens to the goat you bought from that charity for a needy village? A Canadian filmmaker treks to Africa to find his.
We're also in Haiti, where education is rising from the wreckage.
And, when to kick and when to ru ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches December 15, 2011 from, Rio De Janeiro, Nairobi Kenya, Delhi India, London, Mexico City Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for December 15 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week,
In a stadium in Brazil reside the memories of a nation. But in trying to make it better are they about to make it worse?
Congo elects a new president. Or is it two? That's not supposed to happen.
Inside a Mafia State. Russia's efforts to intimidate journalists, one break-in at a time.
And, a swing through a city on a swamp. Never mind New Orleans. Mexico City's sinking man.
This is Di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, December 8 2011 from, Santiago Chile, Benghazi Libya, Toronto, Cambridge Massachusetts, Independencia PeruWelcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for December 8 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Will the Chilean Winter become Chilean Spring? How students in South America hijacked the country's political agenda.
Syrians find an unlikely refuge. Thousands decamp to Libya.
Expect piracy off Somalia to get a lot more violent says a Canadian journalist who knows the hijackers well.
Meet the Concrete Nerds of MIT, trying to grow greener concrete.
In Peru, it's easy to get a divorce ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches December 1, 2011 from: Manila, Philippines - Cairo - Amsterdam - Jalalabad, Afghanistan - Colombia This week: Tapping the illiterate vote: how Egyptian politicians are reaching those who can't read. And: blackface characters in a Dutch Christmas tradition set some on edge while others say the country's gone post-racial. Then, tweets from the Taliban: how the enemy's using social media to take the progaganda war to NATO. And an explorer's story: why Sir Christopher Ondaatje sold his soul. Finally: a plastic bottle is lighting the lives of the poor in the Philippines.
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Dispatches November 24 2011 from, Dhaka Bangladesh , Cairo, Santa Peru, Jonestown Guyana, London, Mexico City, Hello I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae and this is Dispatches, from our correspondents around the world.
This week
Justice delayed or justice denied as a controversial war crimes tribunal begins in Bangladesh?
In Peru, requiem for a ragged history as new graves are uncovered from the long civil war.
And, if there are lessons in tragedy, should the site of the Jonestown Massacre be made into a tourist attraction? The push is on to do just that.
Then, a dictatorship in Africa wants to change its ima ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, November 17 2011 from Toronto, Kabul Afghanistan, Montreal, Mogadishu, somalia, Victoria BrazilWelcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for November 17th, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
the preventable epidemic no one's bothering to prevent in South Africa.
American journalism gets a scolding as a Canadian journalist takes one of its top awards.
Fawzia Koofi wants to be the next President of Afghanistan. Even if it kills her.
A story of selflessness from Somalia, where the only things not destroyed by in the long civil war are hope and the sea.
And, all aboard the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 10 2011 from, Haiti, New York City, Detroit, Nepal, San Diego, Rome Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for November 10 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week:
Haitian justice on trial as prison guards stand accused of a jailhouse massacre.
Detroits's better angels pull it through the fires of Devil's Night but need a miracle to end the decline at its core.
Then; sex, murder and the fungus trade. Nepal's got a problem like you won't believe.
The U.S. Navy is going green, one ship at a time, because saving energy is saving lives.
And, Be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches November 3 2011, London, Berlin, Washington, Fukushima Japan, Lugango Democratic Republic of Congo Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for November 3rd, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week Inside the Syrian uprising with a correspondent who says the passive protesters are about to start shooting back.
A sinner in China, celebrity abroad. The quiet poet turned enemy of the state, saved from madness by a flute.
Can an eye-in-the-sky stop an atrocity on the ground? We'll look in on the progress of the satellite snooping on Sudan.
Then, from Japan's radioactivity zon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, October 27 2011 from, Kabul, Toronto, Freetown Sierra Leone, Chiquitania, BoliviaThis week
In Kabul, some disputes are still settled by giving women away. We'll meet those living with the consequences.
Afghanistan also turned the Cold War culture of the Canadian military inside out. A former commander is here with the lessons.
Then, we'll take cocktails under the Tree of Forgetfulness with Alexandra Fuller, author of a new memoir on madness and colonialism in Africa.
Hear why our correspondent gets a nasty reception in the one country mourning Muammar Ghadaffi.
A ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches Podcast Oct 20th, 2011An African war criminal, wanted by the International Criminal Court yet living in plain sight, is followed by U.S. journalist Mac McClelland. On the ground in southern Sudan, as the government bombs its people. Last week's guest is fired by the US State Department. An investigation into fracking in Pennsylvania, and more.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
October 13, 2011 from Athens - Manama, Bahrain - Iraq - Tijuana, MexicoAs Greece convulses, Greeks adapt. We'll find out how as we go inside the lives of those enduring the pain of a debt crisis. Plus: Bahrain's failed revolution is not over. The state continues to punish those who took part, and the protest goes on. And: a failure in Iraq. We'll hear from an American diplomat who ruefully admits helping lose the battle for the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Finally, we'll revisit the Mexican opera singers out to improve Tijuana's image, one aria at a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, October 6 2011 from, Misrata, Libya, Guatemala City, Peshawar Pakistan, Mendoza Argentina, LondonWelcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for the week of October 6, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week,
The downside of Twitter for a correspondent in the middle East, impersonators hijack her identity.
On the road with the bomberos of Guatemala, tending to the casualties of a culture in crisis.
Why insecurity plagues the badlands between Pakistan and Afghanistan and will likely get worse.
And, we revisit a heartbreaking homecoming in Argentina, as two torture victims reuni ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches September 29, 2011 from Kenya's Northern Border, Toronto, Peshawar Pakistan, Chisinau Moldova, Mumbai India,Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for September 29, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Desperate times call for unusual measures to combat the drought in Kenya.
After years of being named and shamed, is Canada cracking down on Canadian corruption overseas
Al-Qaeda then and now, from the Pakistani journalist who had rare access to both of its leaders.
Broken sidewalks, broken lives. Why nobody dares write the story of modern-day Moldova.
And India brings the bli ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches September 22, 2011 from Chicago, Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Washington, Montreal, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for September 22 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
how an American city in the grip of climate change is trying to cool down its streets, one alley at a time.
Civil war forces the pygmies of central Africa to forsake their old ways and struggle to find new ones.
A tale of two Haitis, there's the one our correspondent settled down in. And the unsettling one that sprang up around her.
Ghadaffi and his dogs of war, a mercenary reveals t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, September 15 2011 from, Misrata Libya, Washington, Beijing China, Kenya, South Sudan, New York, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for September 15, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Libyans emerge from the rubble to mourn their dead at war's end. But for black guest workers are finding there's still a war on, and it's against them.
Correspondent Neil Macdonald on the Palestinians big gamble for statehood through the United Nations.
The silver bullet that could defeat malnutrition and why we can't get enough of it.
And, visions of Joanna the picture that sen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Neil Macdonald on the Palestinian bid for statehood - Sep 15/11Our former Middle East correspondent looks at the attempt by the Palestinians to get some form of statehood by asking for recognition from the United Nations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches September 8 2011 from, Chicago, Dadaab Kenya, Tunisia, New York, Toronto, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's Dispatches for September 8th 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week, Barbarians at the gate. The most invasive aquatic species since the zebra mussel is eating its way north towards the Great Lakes.
In Libya, the fighting may soon be over but our correspondent considers what's next for a revolution of competing visions?
Then, we're inside the refugee camp that's become Kenya's fastest growing city and has the country calling for armed intervention.
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Dispatches September 1, 2011 from, Manila, New York, Karachi, Kabul, Oslo, North Dakota, Miami, Spain, Welcome to the podcast of Dispatches in the summer for September 1 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week, nine-eleven then and now.
Ten years on, security is a sacred, self-licking ice-cream cone in the United States. And we'll recall the jungle where the global fear industry began.
We look back to Ground Zero at the surprising moment when music and patriotism rocked the wreckage.
From Pakistan, a correspondent's chance encounter on a dark road with the future of the war on terror.
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Dispatches, August 25 2011, from Berlin, New Delhi, Chipas Mexico, South Africa, Mozambique, New York, Welcome to Dispatches in the summer for August 25, 2011. I'm RMAC.
This week
Berlin's anti-Nazi Cleaning Lady, scrubbing hatred from public places no matter who she offends.
How to make something out of nothing. The pros and cons of India's can-do work ethic.
Then, an odyssey where sexual assault is an acceptable risk. The peril facing Latina migrants on the road.
And a playground merry-go-round that doubles as a water pump. A perfect labor-saving device for undeveloped countries. So wh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches August 18 2011 from, Sudan-Uganda border, Ghana, Toronto, Detroit, Dakar Senegal, LondonWelcome to Dispatches in the summer for August 18, 2011. I'm Rick-MacInnes Rae
This week
The Machine Gun Preacher of Sudan, why a reformed biker's waging holy war on one of the most feared rebel movements in Africa.
Selling America by the pound. Meet the author who's documented the end of a Detroit auto plant, and its rebirth in Mexico.
Inside the witch camps of Ghana. A Canadian author's time among women exiled more for spite than for spells.
They call it chessboxing and our correspon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches August 11 2011 from Washington D.C. Voss Norway, Swarthmore Pennsylvania, Urumqi China, Welcome to Dispatches in the summer for August 11, 2011. I'm RMAC.
This week
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a feared militia leader who admits killing thousands during the Liberian civil war yet the state lets him walk free.
The sound of Uyghur music. A minority in China listens to its past, for clues to its future.
Meet the Indiana Jones of lost languages who scours the planet to save endangered tongues.
And, fancy another helping of sheep cheeks and watery eyes? Norwegians are ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches August 4, 2011 from Port-au-Prince, Haiti - the United States - Huntsville, Alabama - Ulvohamm, Sweden Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches July 28 2011 from Durban South Africa, Zimbabwe, New York, Vancouver, Haiti, London, Welcome to Dispatches in the summer for July 28, 2011. I'm RMAC.
This week:
Heroin's terrible handmaiden. An old drug with a deadly new additive hits the streets of South Africa.
We'll hear from the Canadian who's resurrected some lost music from Haiti, and earned a Grammy nomination for doing it.
Zimbabwe's contribution to the glossary of dictatorship. It's called "Smart Genocide." Less killing but more torture, and dirty diamonds are the prize.
From India, the story of a private invest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches July 21, 2011 from Yunnan province, China - Haiti - South Africa - Uljanovsk, Russia - Palermo, ItalyListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches July 14, 2011 from Comitman, Mexico - China - New York - Paris This week: The misplaced love of Marvin Pinto. A story of obsession with the culture of the cockfight.
Stove Camp; the "hippie Manhattan Project" hoping to save millions of lives through cleaner cooking.
As China goes, so goes the world, according to an author who says Chinese consumers are transforming...everything.
And, conflict in the catacombs. Hard-core crypt crawlers, take exception to the, teen tomb tourists, partying in their playground under Paris.
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Dispatches, July 7 2011 from Capetown, South Africa, Kabul Afghanistan, London England, Goma Democratic Republic of Congo, Nairobi Kenya, Welcome to the podcast for July 7, 2011.. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae, and this is Dispatches in the Summer
This Week
The Redemption of Larry Joe, a South African convict trying to make a good finish from a bad start.
Then, justice delayed for the wartime victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Afghanistan's wounded set up a roadside pension plan, though some might call it extortion.
And, a free-fire zone, unruly troops, and the streetlights don't work. Welcome to the world of Mogadishu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches June 30, 2011: from Israel - Colombia - Berlin - Democratic Republic of Congo - Rajasthan, India Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, June 23, 2011 from Port Au Prince Haiti, Haifax, Dublin Ireland, Oakland California, Columbia Welcome to the podcast for June 23, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae, and this is Dispatches in the Summer.
This week:
A doctor's lament for the injured of Haiti's earthquake, By saving them, did we condemn them to suffer?
How did the U.S. war on terror miss the man who tried to kill Castro. Just clumsy? Or just convenient?
Why hundreds of sham marriages are taking place in Ireland and there's nothing police can do about it.
How an American school menu got nuggetized and Oakland, California b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, June 16, 2011 from Gudvangen Norway, Toronto, Dakar Senegal, Bosnia, Berlin, Guca Serbia,
Welcome to the podcast for June 16 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae, and this is Dispatches in the Summer.
This week:
The angry mission of Sampat Pal, confronting a culture that abuses women in India.
In Senegal, they say you gotta eat the chilis before you get the honey. And female cabbies eat a lot of chilis.A small matter of the missing, a new book documents the quest to identify the Balkans' war dead with DNA.
Then, the sweet sound of celebration and a sour note of nationalism as brass ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches June 9, 2011: from Cairo - Venezuela - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Jerusalem - IndiaIn India, a midnight wedding, a 5-year-old bride. Why child marriage persists. Egypt's unfinished revolution, six months later. Surprises from Venezuela's state takeover of private land. Plus, our departing Middle East correspondent reflects on the never-ending story, the murderous row over property rights in Haiti, and the "gecko effect."Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, June 2, 2011, from: Lima Peru, Toronto, Den Bosch, Netherlands, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Lombardy Italy, El Salvador, This week
Cyber-space is the new east-west warzone. So why is Canada arming both sides?
Peruvians go to the polls, to choose between two devils they know.
In Brazil, a dedicated team must find the last survivor of a remote Indian tribe before his enemies do.
Why are Italian soccer players coming down with Lou Gherig's Disease? And why is the sport making it hard to find out?
And, if you were to think of insects as land shrimp, would it make them any easier to eat? We'll hear the case f ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, May 26 2011 from: San Diego, Nuuk Greeneland, Hainan Island China, Dublin Ireland, Kuching Malaysian Borneo, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for May 26th, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week;
The American military goes green, saving gas and soldiers' lives.
Then, the boat people you don't hear about, fleeing by the thousands across the Indian Ocean.
Did an Irishman save the life of young Adolf Hitler? Disturbing new documents have come to light in Dublin.
Skulls on the ceiling and big-screen TV: a tradition in transition in Malaysian Borneo.
And, another cultural change ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, May 19, 2011 from: Kampala, Uganda, Toronto, Montebaducco, Italy, Robbin Island South Africa, Portland Maine, Sarajevo,
Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for May 19th, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week: Turns out no one in Uganda will go to the gallows for being gay after all, but the threat's not past.
Then, a subject few in Israel want to talk about; how the state uses and abuses Arab informers.
From South Africa, a look at a black politician who's been running on racism.
The story of the Suicide-Catcher of Nanjing. Why does a man devote his life to prevent people leaping off ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, May 12, 2011 from: Liberia, Cheonan, South Korea, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nigeria, Berlin, New York, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for May 12 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
Bosnia on the boil. With a perfect storm of looming ethnic conflicts, we ask if it's a viable post-war country or just a bunch of bickering cantons?
Then a slice of life from The Coffin Academy, where South Koreans go to thwart death.
From Germany, word of a move to rename streets honoring some of the worst offenders from its colonial past.
We'll also hear words and music from the journal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches May 5 2011 from: New Delhi, India - Florence, Italy - Glasgow - Russia - Butare, RwandaThis week
al-Qaeda after bin Laden. An expert says it's certainly on the run from old hideouts, but on the rise in new places.
From Italy, the quest for the crypt containing the Mona Lisa smile.
In Scotland, the return of vicious sectarian soccer songs brings police on pitch.
Rwanda resorts to spies and stifling free speech to downplay the legacy of genocide.
And, a new documentary film profiles a stubborn Russian journalist who refuses to be a bootlicker for the state that wants him go ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches May 5 2011 from: New Delhi, India, Florence Italy, Glasgow, Toronto, Butare Rwanda, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for May 5, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
al-Qaeda after bin Laden. An expert says it's certainly on the run from old hideouts, but on the rise in new places.
From Italy, the quest for the crypt containing the Mona Lisa smile.
In Scotland, the return of vicious sectarian soccer songs brings police on pitch.
Rwanda resorts to spies and stifling free speech to downplay the legacy of genocide.
And, a new documentary film profiles ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, April 28 2011 from: Benghazi, Libya, Belize, London, Coban Guatemala, New York, Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for April 28, 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week
In the new Free Libya, police are no longer under orders to abuse the public. We'll hear about some other changes.
From India, the story of a private investigator who busts counterfeiters by day and busts out Bollywood dance moves by night. You can tell a lot about a country by its gumshoes.
Zimbabwe's contribution to the glossary of dictatorship? It's called "Smart Genocide." Less ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches April 21 2011 from: Bhutan, Paris, Chicomuselo, Chiapas, NewYork,Welcome to the podcast of CBC Radio's "Dispatches" for month day 2011. I'm Rick MacInnes-Rae.
This week;
Bhutan fights silent tsunamis, one rock at a time.
In China, the whims of the late Mao Zedong proved fatal for a lot of people. So why are they being revived?
From Mexico, the story of a mine, and a mysterious murder that reaches all the way to Canada.
And, lessons learned from chicken guts, by an author who spent an entire year working jobs most Americans won't take.
This is "Dispat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, April 14 2011, Tokyo Japan, Montreal, London, Kampala Uganda, New York, BerlinBerlin's anti-Nazi Cleaning Lady, scrubbing hatred from public places no matter who she offends.
Japan's widening woes. It's the farmers' turn to scramble from the shadow of the nuclear plant.
They call it chessboxing and our correspondent is ringside as a merry cult of combatants battle for self-control on the canvas and the board.
With cholera wracking Haiti, a Canadian author warns it's poised to become the quintessential disease of our time.
In South Korea they're called "citizen jou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, April 7 2011, Cairo, Benghazi, Washington D.C. Port au Prince, Tijuana Mexico, Dakar SenegalEgyptian protesters break into state spy headquarters and find personal files and new suspicions. The Redemption of General Butt Naked, one of Liberia's most feared warlords. Tales from the Libyan road. Our correspondent travels with Libya's rookie rebels. We'll hear Mexican opera singers out to improve Tijuana's image. Some Presidents build countries. How will Haiti's new President re-build his? And how to make a million in in Senegal,You'll need a loincloth. And lots of sand.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, April 7 2011, Cairo, Benghazi, Washington D.C. Port au Prince, Tijuana Mexico, Dakar SenegalEgyptian protesters break into state spy headquarters and find personal files and new suspicions.
The Redemption of General Butt Naked, one of Liberia's most feared warlords.
Tales from the Libyan road. Our correspondent travels with Libya's rookie rebels.
We'll hear Mexican opera singers out to improve Tijuana's image.
Some Presidents build countries. How will Haiti's new President re-build his?
And how to make a million in in Senegal,You'll need a loincloth. And lots of sand.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dispatches, March 31, 2011, North Dakota, Vancouver, Tijuana Mexico, Bunja, Democratic Republic of Congo, Manila, Philippines, Amman Jordan, The U.S. puts its eyes-in-the-skies above the Canadian border; unmanned aerial vehicles powered by fear.
Justice delayed in the Phillipines, where someone's killing the witnesses while a mass murder case stalls.
A new Canadian film confronts the special perils facing black foster kids in Ukraine.
The CBC's correspondent in the Democratic Republic of Congo on the risk of reporting war crimes on local radio.
Crossing Jordan. Civil unrest sends another Arab King scrambling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone |
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