Independent Groups Step Up On-Air Ads
BY DANIELLA DE FRANCO, PETER OVERBY   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   JULY 18, 2008
Election season is heating up, as independent groups from across the political spectrum launch new ad campaigns targeting candidates for pre ...
Liberal, Conservative Groups Vie for Vets' Interests
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: WEEKEND EDITION   |   JULY 5, 2008
Two politically opposed veterans' advocacy groups—Vets for Freedom and Vote Vets—are battling for voters. NPR and CIR look beyond the po ...
Nonprofits Look for New Ways to Shape Campaign
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: MORNING EDITION   |   JUNE 25, 2008
CIR and NPR report on how nonprofits are quietly mobilizing to influence the 2008 elections. One network of liberal activist groups, started ...
Money and influence behind a liberal network
BY WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: MORNING EDITION   |   JUNE 24, 2008
Secret video raises questions about journalist Chauncey Bailey's killing
CIR SPECIAL REPORT   |   JUNE 18, 2008
A secretly recorded police video captures Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and two associates discussing journalist Chauncey Bai ...
A Day in the Life of Independent Political Ads
BY PETER OVERBY   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   JUNE 11, 2008
Now that the presidential primaries are finished, independent political groups are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on TV ads to in ...
Troubles Loom for '527' Ad Efforts
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   MAY 28, 2008
Independent political groups are already trying to influence the presidential campaign with TV ads and automated phone calls. Candidates Joh ...
Misleading Calls Confuse Voters
BY PETER OVERBY, WILL EVANS   |   NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: ALL THINGS CONSIDERED   |   MAY 1, 2008
A nonprofit with ties to Hillary Clinton is under fire for running apparently illegal "robocalls" ahead of next week's North Carolina primar ...
The Rise of an Alleged Torturer: Bo Xilai
BY SHAHIEN NASIRIPOUR   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE REPORT   |   APRIL 24, 2008
Bo Xilai, the son of one of modern China's most influential leaders, has thus far led a life of privilege and entitlement. It's also been ma ...
The High Price of Diplomacy with China
BY JAMES SANDLER   |   TRUTHDIG   |   APRIL 24, 2008
For two years, the Bush administration has tried to scuttle a federal human rights lawsuit that threatens to embarrass one of China’s top ...
Beijing Olympic Chief Linked to Torture
BY SHAHIEN NASIRIPOUR   |   TRUTHDIG   |   APRIL 24, 2008
The president of Beijing's Olympic Organizing Committee was once found liable for torture in a U.S. federal court, a CIR review of court rec ...
Business of the Bomb: The Modern Nuclear Marketplace
BY MARK SCHAPIRO, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
The number of nations seeking nuclear technology is rising. An hour-long radio documentary by CIR and American RadioWorks investigates the m ...
The Nuclear Renaissance
BY EMMA BROWN   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
Nuclear power is back on the table as an alternative to carbon-based energy. But some say reviving the global nuclear energy industry presen ...
Know Your Uranium
BY EMMA BROWN   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
What's the difference between "highly-enriched" and "weapons-grade" uranium ... and what does it take to build a bomb?
Suitcase Smugglers
BY EMMA BROWN, MARK SCHAPIRO   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
A review of reported nuclear smuggling cases turns up mostly minor incidents. It's the cases we don't see that worry nuclear proliferation e ...
Atoms for Peace
BY MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
With the onset of the Cold War, the U.S. sought to change the image of atomic energy from a force of awesome destruction to one of peace and ...
South Africa's Nuclear Underground
BY MARK SCHAPIRO   |   CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE REPORT   |   APRIL 10, 2008
The three men supplying parts for A.Q. Khan's network through Tradefin were not new to the nuclear black market. All had previously worked w ...
A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Ad
CIR WEB EXCLUSIVE VIDEO   |   APRIL 10, 2008
When South African police raided the Tradefin warehouse in 2004, they found bomb-making parts and a videotape promoting nuclear kingpin A.Q. ...
Business of the Bomb: The Modern Nuclear Marketplace
BY MARK SCHAPIRO, MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
The number of nations seeking nuclear technology is rising. An hour-long documentary by CIR and American RadioWorks for public radio investi ...
Building the South African bomb
BY MICHAEL MONTGOMERY   |   AMERICAN RADIOWORKS   |   APRIL 10, 2008
In the 1980s, Andre Buys managed a small team of South African scientists that designed and built six nuclear devices for the country's apar ...
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