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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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Dispatches February 9 2012 from Cairo, Kazakhstan, Boulder Colorado, Turkish-Syrian Border, Delhi, Brooklyn New York,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Feb 09, 2012
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 handmade cigarettes may have health risks but they're going global anyway.
And the life of Brian, how a kid from Brooklyn found his muse in the music of Africa.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches February 2 2012, from Philadelphia, New York, Sri Lanka, Puerto Berrio Colombia, Bahrain, Islamabad Pakistan,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Feb 02, 2012
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 violence floating down its largest river.
And, the Pakistani journalist who revealed corruption in his craft only to become a victim of his own success.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches January 26 2012 from, Haiti, Kingston Jamaica, New York, Burma, Rajasthan India, Rwanda,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Jan 26, 2012
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. How Rwanda tries to suppress the legacy of genocide.
This is Dispatches
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Dispatches January 19 2012 from Damascus Syria, Sarawak Malaysian Borneo, London England, Toronto, Ghana, Nigeria, Lombardi Italy
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Jan 19, 2012
Welcome 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 sometimes shines with faint light according to the filmmaker who's documented its presidential election.
And from the vaults, the fitful search to learn why Italian soccer players are coming down with Lou Gherig's Disease?
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, January 12 2012 from, East Jerusalem, Toronto, Sake, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dublin Ireland, Beijing China,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Jan 12, 2012
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 the poor man's recreation.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, January 5 2012 from Amsterdam, Toronto, Punta Allen Mexico, Ukraine, Vancouver, Addis Ababa Ethiopia,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Jan 05, 2012
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 challenges confronting black foster kids in Ukraine.
This is Dispatches.
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December 29, 2011 from Artibonite, Haiti - Brazil - New York - Uganda - Saudi Arabia
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Dec 29, 2011
From 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.
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Dispatches, December 22, 2011 from: Seoul, South Korea - Manila, the Philippines - Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Monrovia, Liberia - Zambia
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Dec 22, 2011
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 run. One man's fight against sex trafficking in the Philippines.
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Dispatches December 15, 2011 from, Rio De Janeiro, Nairobi Kenya, Delhi India, London, Mexico City
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Dec 15, 2011
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 Dispatches.
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Dispatches, December 8 2011 from, Santiago Chile, Benghazi Libya, Toronto, Cambridge Massachusetts, Independencia Peru
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Dec 08, 2011
Welcome 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. So why's the government encouraging people to get married?
Those stories and more as well as your letters about last week's story on black pete. Lots and lots of letters.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches December 1, 2011 from: Manila, Philippines - Cairo - Amsterdam - Jalalabad, Afghanistan - Colombia
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Dec 01, 2011
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,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Nov 24, 2011
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 image but will Equatorial Guinea also change its ways?
And from Mexico, the saint comes marching in.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, November 17 2011 from Toronto, Kabul Afghanistan, Montreal, Mogadishu, Somalia, Victoria Brazil
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Nov 17, 2011
Welcome 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 graffiti train. Why one of the world's largest mining companies is embracing the street art of Brazil.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches November 10 2011 from, Haiti, New York City, Detroit, Nepal, San Diego, Rome
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Nov 10, 2011
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, Ben Hur returns to Rome, but does a blockbuster film make for blockbuster theatre?
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches November 3 2011, London, Berlin, Washington, Fukushima Japan, Lugango Democratic Republic of Congo
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Nov 03, 2011
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 zone, a fisherman's tale of hope and denial.
And in Congo, it takes a village, because the government isn't doing anything to improve people's lives.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, October 27 2011 from, Kabul, Toronto, Freetown Sierra Leone, Chiquitania, Bolivia
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Oct 27, 2011
This 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.
And, Bolivia may not be the first place you think of when you hear baroque music, but it will be by the end of the program.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches Podcast Oct 20th, 2011
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Oct 20, 2011
An 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.
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October 13, 2011 from Athens - Manama, Bahrain - Iraq - Tijuana, Mexico
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Oct 13, 2011
As 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 time.
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Dispatches, October 6 2011 from, Misrata, Libya, Guatemala City, Peshawar Pakistan, Mendoza Argentina, London
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Oct 06, 2011
Welcome 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 reunite in the hopes of convicting their captors
This is Dispatches
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Dispatches September 29, 2011 from Kenya's Northern Border, Toronto, Peshawar Pakistan, Chisinau Moldova, Mumbai India,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 29, 2011
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 bling. A shift in culture is making diamonds the new gold.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches September 22, 2011 from Chicago, Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Washington, Montreal,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 22, 2011
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 their murderous orders.
And, a perfect storm confronting Kenya. Anarchy nearby and affluence abroad drive a new black market for African ivory.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, September 15 2011 from, Misrata Libya, Washington, Beijing China, Kenya, South Sudan, New York,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 15, 2011
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 sent a man in China on a twelve-year quest.
This is Dispatches
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Neil Macdonald on the Palestinian bid for statehood - Sep 15/11
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 15, 2011
Our 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.
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Dispatches September 8 2011 from, Chicago, Dadaab Kenya, Tunisia, New York, Toronto,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 08, 2011
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.
And how in the world did remains of the dead of nine-eleven wind up in a New York garbage dump? For some families, the indignity continues.
So does insecurity in Iraq, but in an effort to improve it they're abusing human rights. Are safer streets worth secret prisons?
This is Dispatches
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Dispatches September 1, 2011 from, Manila, New York, Karachi, Kabul, Oslo, North Dakota, Miami, Spain,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Sep 01, 2011
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.
In the garden of Wali Mohammed, small problems are dealt with. Is there a lesson in it for Afghanistan's big ones?
Taping the Taliban. A Norwegian filmmaker is rare witness to the ambushes and ambitions of Canada's secretive enemy.
Then, Homeland insecurity. The U.S. puts eyes-in-the-skies along the Canadian border. Unmanned aircraft, powered by fear.
And the dean of Gitmo reporters, dishing the dirt on covering a court like no other.
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches, August 25 2011, from Berlin, New Delhi, Chipas Mexico, South Africa, Mozambique, New York,
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Aug 25, 2011
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 why isn't it working?
This is Dispatches.
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Dispatches August 18 2011 from, Sudan-Uganda border, Ghana, Toronto, Detroit, Dakar Senegal, London
podcasting@cbc.ca Thu, Aug 18, 2011
Welcome 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 correspondent is ringside as a merry cult of combatants battle for self-control on the canvas and the board.
Or you can make a million wrestling in Senegal, You'll need a loincloth. And sand. Lots and lots, of sand.
This is Dispatches.
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