CBC's Dispatches Podcast
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Dispatches host Rick MacInnes-Rae knows what it is like to be an eyewitness to history. Go beyond the headlines with correspondents on assignment all over the globe.
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Disptaches, September 01, 2008, Toronto, Hawston, Cape Town, Washington, Niger Delta.
Mon, Sep 01, 2008
The criminal underworld is going global. Author Misha Glenny has the dramatic stories of predators and victims alike. John McCain a ?maverick?? A noted libertarian says he?s bad news for individualism in America, and security in the world. Fire meets rain in the Niger Delta. Nigerians are getting sick from the rainfall around Western oil wells. And the destruction wrought by the poaching of South Africa?s abalone. Drugs and easy money are killing the abalone and many who live off it.
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Best of Dispatches, August 24, 2008 -- Kabul, Afghanistan, Islamabad, Pakistan, Fosu, Ghana, Turkmenistan, Leeds, England, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Sun, Aug 24, 2008
The new 0pium Eaters of Afghanistan; the world's oldest narcotic is hooking the country's children. A Canadian journalist goes to Sierra Leone to teach young reporters, but gets schooled in the perils of being one. The unsung compassion of Sylvia Nortey. Ghana did away with school fees so teachers like her could help more kids learn. Now if only they had money for pencils. The long and winding road to Pakistan's National Art Gallery, from the architect who refused to veer from the path.
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August 17, 2008 - Best of Dispatches -- New Haven, Conn, Capetown, South Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Sun, Aug 17, 2008
You say torture - I say abuse. You call it escalation, I call it a surge. We parse White House euphemisms with a language lord who decries them as "floating metaphors, with a low yield of fact." In South Africa is it smut and gore or a public service? Tabloids specialize in grim and ghastly. And it's making mainstream journalists uneasy.
As Ethiopia shudders under poverty and oppression, Canada's accused of bean-counter development. A feature documentary from the Horn of Africa.
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The Best of Dispatches, August 10, 2008 -- Butare, Rwanda, Nairboi, Kenya, Jakarta, Indonesia,
Sun, Aug 10, 2008
All Africa: Genocide justice in Rwanda;countryside courts putthe accused on trial. In Kenya, kids are schooled with the Canadian cash. But with Ottawa tilting towards Latin America, Africa wonders if will lose out. Somalia and Sergeant Cleveland's corpse. The story behind a Pulitzer-winning picture that wounded American foreign policy, and torments the journalist who took it. Kick, kick, sweep. The sound of percussive music and athletic dance known as Capoeria brings lost culture back home.
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The Best of Dispatches -- August 3, 2008 -- New Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Toronto
Sun, Aug 03, 2008
Inside India: As more women take to the week subcontinent,the car is challenging the culture.
Ratcatchers, Software Wizards and the Press-wallah of Chennai; Daniel Lak has stories of economic awakening. A guide to paan. The "English-speaking curse."
India strives for fluency despite English teachers who tell students to "Keep it simple, and yet so crispy."
And a guide to Paan: Just take betel nut, flower petals, mix with metal flakes and pop'em in your mouth. Mmmm. Dispatches.
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