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Radio Show: Valentine’s Special 2012
Article: About The State We're In
Radio Show: The Fight of Your Life
The State We're In, 4 February 2012. A young woman in Kabul boxes to change her life and her country. A philosopher believes virtue can be taught in the boxing ring. And a Kenyan women who was attacked while running for election is...
Radio Show: Freedom's Road
The State We're In, 28 January 2012. The first Western media interview of Imad Ghalioun, the Syrian politician who defected recently, a Wikileaks pioneer and politician from Iceland who helped make public the 'collateral murder' video, and...
Article: Defected Syrian MP faced a wall of denial
Former member of Syrian parliament Imad Ghalioun speaks with RNW in the first major interview he has given to Western media since defecting earlier this month to join the opposition against President Bashar al-Assad. From Cairo, the...
Radio Show: Border Crossings
The State We're In, 21 January 2012. A man from a poor village in Kenya gets an unexpected hand from Sweden to study at Harvard. A Bulgarian orphan on the verge of dying finds a loving home with South African parents. A Nigerian man...
Article: Marisa Merico: "Mafia Princess"
Pat Riley from the UK was on holiday in Milan in the late 1960s when she met a handsome Italian boy named Emilio Di Giovine. It turned out to be no ordinary holiday romance; Emilio was to become a leading member of the Ndrangheta Mafia...
Radio Show: The Call of Duty
The State We're In, 14 January 2012. After almost 70 years, a former Dutch resistance fighter admits she assassinated the wrong man. A Canadian woman tries to help the homeless and learns a life-altering lesson about herself. A South...
Article: The accidental millionaire
Jerry Winkler had a tough youth growing up in Amsterdam. When he left home as an angry teenager he turned to crime and ended up living on the streets. But finding out the identity of his real father has completely changed his life as he...
Article: Open secret in a small town
What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was a lie? And everyone knew the truth except you. Steve Lickteig grew up as an adoptee in a farm in Kansas. When he was 18 years old, his best friend told him that he was actually...
Radio Show: Family Ties
The State We're In, 7 January 2012. Steve Lickteig thought he was the adopted son of Kansas farmers, only to discover a shocking truth that everyone in town knew, except him. Jerry Winkler was a homeless man in Amsterdam when he discovered...
Article: Blogging for revolution
Seven years ago, a revolutionary blog was born: ‘Rantings of a Sandmonkey’. An anonymous Egyptian man was taking on Middle East politics with venom. Comment on this story.
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Editor - Greg Kelly
Host - Jonathan Groubert
Producers - Mignon Aylen, Belinda Lopez, Diana Steenbergen
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