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Host Linda Olson Osterlund interviews Siddarth Kara, author of "Inside the Business of Modern Slavery." Sex slaves form the backbone for one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises. Kara has investigated the mechanics of the global sex trafficking business across... Read more

Host Linda Olson-Osterlund interviews Siddharth Kara author of the new book                Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery. His book chronicles his travels around the globe to investigate the business of sex slavery in the world today. He brings us th... Read more

Host Per Fagereng speaks with Chris Hedges about his recent article "Lost in the Rubble," which, among other things, recounts his meeting with Nizar Rayan, who Israel killed in a targeted assassination last week. Author of several books, Hedges covered the Mideast for the N... Read more

Host Michelle Shroeder Fletcher speaks with Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air, a book of world-changing ideas and a a story of genius and violence and friendship. It is the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, frien... Read more

Host Bruce Silverman interviews Liza Gadsby, a Portland native who has spent the last 20 years in Nigeria saving a primate species called the Drill. She helped to establish a breeding program, a sanctuary in the forest, and a change in attitudes of the local people and gove... Read more

Drills are endangered primates living in Nigeria and Cameroon in West Africa. Two Portlanders have spent the last twenty years there trying to save this species, and they've had some success. Liza Gadsby is interviewed by KBOO's Bruce Silverman. CD-1388 Read more

Host Michelle Shroeder Fletcher speaks with Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air, a book of world-changing ideas and a a story of genius and violence and friendship. It is the story of Joseph Priestley—scientist and theologian, protégé of Benjamin Franklin, friend... Read more

Dave Mazza interviews Leuren Moret, geoscientist and international expert on depleted uranium, who speaks at the Friends Meeting House on Sunday, January 11th. Read more

Dave Mazza interviews Leuren Moret, geoscientist and international expert on depleted uranium, who speaks at the Friends Meeting House on Sunday, January 11th. Read more

The horrors of war don't end when the last gun falls silent. Unexploded shells, landmines, and other wartime hazards continue to take lives long after hostilities cease. Depleted uranium - or "DU" - one of the lesser know of these hazards, is spreading disease and death wel... Read more