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Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 11:00 am

Marine Sergeant Jeremiah Workman fought in Fallujah. Won the Navy Cross – and a brutal case of PTSD. He’ll tell his story.

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Monday, November 9, 2009 at 10:00 am

Horror at Fort Hood, Texas – a mass killing by one of the Army’s own. We’ll look at the tragedy, its meaning, and its impact on the US military.

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Monday, September 21, 2009 at 10:00 am

Vietnam War critic Daniel Ellsberg and Iraq War critic and Colin Powell’s right-hand man, Lawrence Wilkerson, say we need to take a long, hard look at Afghanistan.

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Monday, March 30, 2009 at 10:00 am

A new plan for Afghanistan. Pakistan, too. We’ll look at the Obama strategy and what it’s up against.

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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 at 11:00 am

The education of an American soldier, from the battlefield of Afghanistan to the political battlefield at home.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009 at 10:00 am

Pulitzer Prize-winning defense writer Tom Ricks on the U.S. military’s lessons from Iraq – and challenge in Afghanistan.

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Monday, October 6, 2008 at 11:00 am

U.S. warships, Russian warships, and the bold pirates of the Somali coast. We look at high stakes piracy on the high seas.

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Recent Shows
Poker: America’s Game
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Poker and American history. How the game of presidents, cowboys, gangsters, and online gamblers helped shape America.

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Google vs. Murdoch
Thursday, November 19, 2009 image

Rupert Murdoch wants to block the search giant from scooping free content from his newspapers. We’ll look at the staredown.

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On Point Blog
Michael Wolff and Jeff Jarvis on Murdoch v. Google

We had a rousing discussion about Google vs. Murdoch, and what it says about the whole future of news, with Michael Wolff, Jeff Jarvis, and Steven Brill. Here’s what Wolff and Jarvis had to say about the delusions of both Murdoch and Google.

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Video: Google CEO Eric Schmidt

Last week, host Tom Ashbrook was on stage with Google CEO Eric Schmidt, asking him about some of the biggest technology and business issues of our time.

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California, here we come! And we need your questions!

On Point is headed west!
No, no. Not for good. Only for one show. But it’s a very special show!  The NPR station in Thousand Oaks, California – KCLU – is celebrating their 15th anniversary. We’re lucky to have been on their airwaves for nearly seven years, and they invited us out west to host a live [...]

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