We team up with KUT 90.5 in Austin Texas, the day after Major Nidal Malik Hasan lies in hospital in Texas, after shooting 12 colleagues and a civilian dead. We'll address the biggest issue online - should more or less be made of the attacker's Muslim faith?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: Your questions about AfghanistanFor three days we've heard your many different opinions and emotions about what's happening in Afghanistan. Today, it's your turn to ask the questions.
All week long you've been sending us emails asking for more information about the country and the conflict... And so we've invited three experts onto the show who we're confident will help you out.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: Is it time to let Afghans sort out their own country?Afghanistan is a country that has consistently defied every foreign occupying power that has ever tried to control or influence it. Is the current military and development mission no different? Is it time to accept that Afghanistan is just different – that no amount of money or intervention is ever going to profoundly change it?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 03 Nov 09: Those who've lost the most in Afghanistan.Today, those who've lost the most in Afghanistan come together to talk. We'll hear from mothers of US and UK servicemen who've died, from Afghans whose relatives have been killed by suicide bombs, and we'll try to hear from relatives of fallen Taliban fighters, and of civilians killed by NATO operations.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 02 Nov 09 Has anyone really won in Afghanistan?Hamid Karzai is still the president of Afghanistan. And, as was widely predicted, the second round of the election is off. So over two months since the first poll, we have a winner. But is that really a word you'd use to describe any of the interested parties?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 31 Mar 09: The G174Two days to go til the g20 and we've a summit of our own -- the G174 summit -- a gathering for all those countries who weren't invited to help reshape the world's economy.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 13 March 2009, Why are there so many Climate Change deniers in teh world?The worst-case scenarios on climate change envisaged by the UN two years ago are already being realised,Yet still individuals and countries around the world are failing to do enough to try to reverse the effects.Do you feel you're doing enough?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 24 Feb: Has Guantanamo proved its worth?Slowly but surely Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay is closing. British resident Binyam Mohamed became the latest inmate to leave this week and within a year, at President Obama's request, the facility will be closed.Seven years since it was created, you're debating if Camp Delta has proved its worth? Or did it only success in bringing disgrace to America and creating more enemies of the West...Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 18 Dec 08 Are there countries the world doesn't care about?On the day the UN contacts 50 nations to ask them to send a force into Somalia and only two say they will help should we just accept that there are some countries the rest of the world simply doesn't care about ?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
WHYS: 19 Dec 08 A four state solution in the Middle East?On the day that the Hamas ceasefire ends leading British commentator Jonathan Freedland argues there may be a different way of looking at the Middle East problem ; never mind a two state solution, isn't it a 4 state problem ?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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