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Catholics Against Militarism (CAM) is an informal, grassroots, Internet-based movement of lay Catholics that seeks to identify and respectfully challenge militaristic attitudes in the U.S. Catholic Church. We conduct interviews with Catholics and other Catholic groups who are: 1) successfully registering dissent at the parish level, 2) raising awareness of the dangers of militarism through dialogue with fellow believers, and 3) spurring deeper, more honest reflection on the role of violence ...
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From the evolution of intelligent life, to the mysteries of consciousness; from the threat of the climate crisis to the search for dark matter, The world, the universe and us is your essential weekly dose of science and wonder in an uncertain world. Hosted by journalists Dr Rowan Hooper and Dr Penny Sarchet and joined each week by expert scientists in the field, the show draws on New Scientist’s unparalleled depth of reporting to put the stories that matter into context. Feed your curiosity ...
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Accidental Gods

Accidental Gods

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Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone- and it's never coming back. We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine, and by doing so, lay the foundations for a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn. What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity? What happens if we let go of the race for meaningl ...
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Innergetics

Veronica & Kim

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*Energetics *Emotional Intelligence *Neural rewiring This is the show where we lay on the table for you everything we have explored in our un-ending thirst for the wisdom of the ages and hunger to tune into the evolution of consciousness. We are eager to pull back the curtain and share with you the raw inner workings of what it can take to navigate the roughest of waters, reach the highest of peaks and truly embody your essence on your journey to realizing your most magnificent life. You, th ...
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The Kitchen Sisters Present

The Kitchen Sisters & Radiotopia

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The Kitchen Sisters Present… Stories from the b-side of history. Lost recordings, hidden worlds, people possessed by a sound, a vision, a mission. Deeply layered stories, lush with interviews, field recordings and music. From powerhouse NPR producers The Kitchen Sisters (The Keepers, Hidden Kitchens, The Hidden World of Girls, The Sonic Memorial Project, Lost & Found Sound, and Fugitive Waves). "The Kitchen Sisters have done some of best radio stories ever broadcast" —Ira Glass. The Kitchen ...
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Episode 336 Looking for something great to read or watch on TV over the festive period? We’ve got you covered. In a special edition of the podcast, we share our favourite books, TV and films of 2025 - for those moments when you need a break from the festivities. From pure science fiction to books exploring climate change and the history of our earl…
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At the end of a turbulent year that has seen the masks come off the death cult in ways that were probably predictable, but still shocking, we reconvene our December Solstice Traditional conversation. Manda is joined by Della Duncan of the Upstream Podcast and Nathalie Nahai of 'Nathalie Nahai in Conversation' to explore the things that have stood o…
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Dissonance is a natural part of life and relationships, ohlala... even with self! Join us as we play with this world of dissonance, where life sometimes feels like a musical instrument slightly out of tune! Ouch! In this episode, with grace, humor and respect we share personal stories and giggles about navigating life's little frictions even with e…
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Here's our December Solstice Meditation for 2025 - please find a place and time where you can relax, take space for yourself, and build the connections to the web of life that will carry us forward. Details of 3iATLAS https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/comets/3i-atlas/3i-atlas-facts-and-faqs/By Accidental Gods
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Episode 337 As we reach the end of the year, catch up on some of New Scientist’s most exciting and thought-provoking features of the past twelve months. For decades we’ve got autism in girls all wrong. Symptoms present quite differently in girls to boys, meaning they often go undiagnosed. So why have we failed to see the differences - and why are g…
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How do we create the stories that will bring a whole new generation back to the web of life, that will help people find hope again, and lean into their heart's yearning for connection, relationship, being and belonging? This week's guest, Ally Kingston, is a creative facilitator and strategy lead at Purpose Disruptors, where she co-developed the br…
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Host Frances McDormand leads us through this rich international story collection of land, community and food. From the organic olive groves and vineyards being grown on confiscated Mafia land in Sicily, to secret night clubs embedded in Soviet dissident kitchens. From tales of "cooking dogs" in Medieval England, to the little-known tale of agricult…
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Here's Manda's round up of (some of) the best books, poetry and podcasts she's come across this year. Most of the links are to Bookshop.org in the UK where you can link to an independent bookshop of your choice. In some cases, we've linked to the authors' website. Fiction Rachel Neumeier - Rihasi, Marag, Sekaran, Hedesa - all four are part of the T…
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Episode 336 In an unlikely turn of events, orcas and dolphins have been observed teaming up - to hunt and kill massive chinook salmon in the pacific. Given that orcas sometimes prey on dolphins, what’s going on? Despite the promising signs of cooperation between these two species, there may be something less heartwarming at play. We dig into the fi…
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Fr. McCarthy offers a bit of oral history about the founding of Pax Christi USA and the recent election of Lauren Bailey, a "Catholic for Choice," to the board. Ellen follows up with some impressions from the conference held in Atlanta on the 40th Anniversary of Pax Christi USA. Buy your CAM "Infallible Jesus" t-shirt here: https://catholics-agains…
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If we are to build systems that meet our real needs we have to first understand what those needs are and start growing the stuff that will allow us to thrive: good food from healthy soils, safe and supportive homes and communities, space to develop and express our creativity, opportunities to increase our capacity for co-operation and kindness. As …
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In 2019, I interviewed Hugh Turley about the book he wrote with his co-author, David Martin, "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation." In 2023, Turkey and Martin published a follow-up: "Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The Case Against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin." Mr. Turley is back to tell us about the latest book and to gi…
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In this lively episode, we dive into the art and the magic of experiencing the heart in unexpected places. From the bustling streets of Italy to the quiet moments of introspection, we explore how just in simply being curious in moments that are right in front of us actually activates the frequency of love and can transform our very perception of re…
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A reflection written by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy on the first week of Advent, 2026. Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find Fr. McCarthy here: / @emmanuelcharlesmccarthy3292 https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org Find CAM here: https://catho…
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Episode 335 Exercise has been shown to shrink tumours by 60 per cent. A new study shows another link between regular exercise and cancer prevention, this time revealing that muscle cells may outcompete cancer cells for energy - basically starving them. We explore the links between metabolism and glucose - with the caveat that so far this has only b…
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We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food... but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted to toxic, nutritionally empty, addictive - and highly profitable - ultra-processed 'food-like substances' are harder to see. This week's guest, Daphn…
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The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free flow of information and ideas. Keepers of the culture and the culture and collections they keep…
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Episode 334 Which sperm is the oldest sperm - the ancestor sperm that came before all others? Well, you might think it links back to an ancient animal that came before us, but the oldest sperm may actually predate animals altogether. We explore this plus the enduring mystery of the scrotum - and why a male’s most important body part is so delicate …
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What does it mean to (re)orient our entire culture around the power of love? To answer this, we have to understand the nature of love and of power and how both of these have many meanings in our culture, some of them essential to moving forward - and some of them so toxic they turn the entire concept into a poisoned cue. This week's guest is friend…
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'tis the season... for what? Here we share our personal experiences of how we celebrate with authenticity and flexibility. What if you created all of life in a way that actually is fun for you without all the expectations and things you don't really want to do. Yes often we do it for others, that’s part of life and relationships. Make it yours, mak…
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Episode 333 It’s not often you get to see or hear someone playing music on a conch shell. So prepare yourself for a musical treat with musician and podcaster Steve Pretty, who brings into the studio a trumpet and a collection of his favourite conches, rigged up to some modern electronics. Steve is best known as the bandleader of the Hackney Collier…
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The most destructive and forked tongued teaching on Jesus’ Way and Truth in Church history: Christian Just War Theory. This was published originally at Fr. McCarthy's channel and is republished here with permission. Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodc…
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Do you love the dark? Do you yearn for sunset and the amber glow of a fire with the night growing deeper, more inspiring all around you? Most of us don't - though our ancestors through all of history have lived by firelight, moonlight, starlight... until the modern era of light at the flick of a switch. But there's a world out there of sheer, unadu…
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Today, we're thinking about Marcyliena Morgan, a keeper extraordinaire, a linguistic anthropologist who founded and championed the Hip Hop Archive at Harvard. Marcyliena Hazel Morgan was born in Chicago, May 8, 1950 and passed away September 28, 2025. We were fortunate to interview her in 2018 as part of the opening story in our NPR series The Keep…
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Episode 332 For only the second time, the genome of an ancient Denisovan has been sequenced - thanks to the discovery of a 200,000-year-old tooth found in a Siberian cave. This ancient member of the human family has long been a mystery, so this genome is being described as a bombshell moment, revealing an early stage of Denisovan history. We explor…
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Episode 331 This week sees the broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK of a documentary called Hitler’s DNA: Blueprint of a dictator. Geneticists have managed to find a DNA sample from Adolf Hitler and have sequenced it and verified it, and now we have his genome. The big question is what does this really tell us – what can we tell from someone’s genome? …
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This ran originally on Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy's channel and is shared here with permission. Find Fr. McCarthy here: / @emmanuelcharlesmccarthy3292 https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find CAM here: htt…
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This week's guest, Andrea Leiter, is one of those polymaths who brings not just breadth, but astonishing depth to the work of bridging the worlds of technology, biodiversity and international law; bringing them together in service of a new way of being built from the ruins of collapse. Andrea works at the intersection of law, digital transformation…
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Thank you to Cecilia and Samuel Dean for allowing me to share this video written and produced by Cecilia. This is being published on Veterans Day, because one of the best ways to honor veterans is to listen to them. Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodc…
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Fr. McCarthy reflects on the life and death of Roger LaPorte, who set himself on fire on November 9, 1965, to protest the Vietnam War, and offers some thoughts on the response of Catholic bishops, priests, and laity to this act, and the choice of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who set himself on fire in Saigon to protest the persecutio…
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We are so very proud and honored to offer our three-month luxurious coaching and frequency experience that called itself... Unstoppable. Unstoppable does not mean never stopping, not at all. We think of it as becoming so incredibly strong in your own knowing, your own frequency where your emotional intelligence has expanded your capacity to be with…
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Episode 330 COP30 is nearly upon us - and this climate conference may be the most crucial so far. In a year where we’ve seen the first major global tipping point reached, destructive wildfires raging in Los Angeles and much more, joint action has never been more urgent. But as hope starts to wane and climate goals continue to be missed, many are qu…
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What is the true vow of your life, the one it would kill you to break? This phrase comes from the poem 'All The True Vows' by David Whyte, but there can be no better introduction to this week's guest, who knows how to help people - ordinary, every-day people from our culture - build true, heart-felt connections with the web of life such that we com…
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René Girard died 10 years ago today. There is one Bible story that he said represented "the history of all religion" and held "the secret to everything." Take the Agamemnon course! We'll meet online three times over the course of 8 days. https://courses.teachtothetext.com/p/agamemnon-for-adults Take the free René Girard "course". (It's just some vi…
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The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian pasta-making family, and a 70-year-old survivor of the Armenian Genocide converge in this story of the San Francisco Treat. A Canadian woman, Lois DeDomenico, marries an Italian immigrant, Tom DeDomenico, whose family founded Golden Grain Macaroni in San Francisco. Just after WWII, the newlyweds …
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I'm applying for a job hosting a show at the Daily Wire. How do I get this video to Ben Shapiro? Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://r…
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This ran originally on Fr. McCarthy's channel and is shared here with permission. Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAM…
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Episode 329 America’s health data system is in crisis. The US government has been bleeding public health experts – many of whom run crucial public health surveys and databases which help identify, monitor and respond to health threats across the country. From drug use to food security and birth data, discover the 5 surveys most critically hit by th…
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What is an eco-civilisation? What are its values and what are the frames within which it works? Why do we need it in the first place and what will the Establishment do to maintain business as usual? Most importantly, what can each of us do to live an eco-civilisation into being? This week's guest, Jeremy Lent, explores these ideas in depth in his f…
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Fr. McCarthy weighs in on Ellen's debate with E. Michael Jones on the JWQ (Just War Question). Find the EMJ vs. EMF debate here: https://youtu.be/wYend1kUqtE?si=wxEDd91hEOa1Ahsq Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find CAM here: https://catholicsag…
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Let's gooooo! Here we explore the nuances of influencing change in the work place, at home, in our relationships and all the places. We can drop the bomb when news hits that we know is going to change circumstances for people however what if there is another way? One that has compassion, energy awareness, and the need for spaciousness when navigati…
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Come read Agamemnon with me in November! Click for more info: https://courses.teachtothetext.com/p/agamemnon-for-adults In this episode, I'm reading aloud a chapter from Fr. McCarthy's book, "Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit." Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumbl…
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Episode 328 Not only has the mRNA covid vaccine saved 14 million lives, it may also help our bodies fight off cancer. A study of cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy treatment showed those who received an mRNA vaccine lived nearly twice as long - and this effect was discovered by accident. In a trial of cancer vaccines, Elias Sayour’s team at t…
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How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture holds that we are separate from the natural world, that our cycles of exploitation, extraction, destruction, pollution are the way the world is, that this is the natural order and there's nothing we can d…
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Video was originally published on Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy's YouTube channel. Find CAM here: https://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com RSS feed: http://www.buzzsprout.com/296171​ Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/CAMpodcast Find Fr. McCarthy here: https://www.youtube.com/@emmanuelcharlesmccarthy3292 https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org Find CAM her…
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In the 1950s, some ingenious Russians, hungry for jazz, boogie woogie, rock n roll, and other music forbidden in the Soviet Union, devised a way to record banned bootlegged music on exposed X-ray film salvaged from hospital waste bins and archives. The eerie, ghostly looking recordings etched on X-rays of peoples' bones and body parts, were sold il…
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Episode 327 A special episode recorded on October 18 at New Scientist Live in London, featuring experts in geoscience, dark matter and neuroscience. Anjana Khatwa is an Earth scientist and TV presenter. In her new book, The Whispers of Rock, she brings together Western scientific knowledge about the evolution of our Earth and indigenous knowledge a…
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Episode 326 The world’s first major climate tipping point has been triggered. The decimation of warm water coral populations caused by rising temperatures is now irreversible - passing the point of no return. The global consequences of widescale coral dieback could be catastrophic, so experts are sounding the alarm. But is anyone listening? A man w…
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'Each of us was put on this earth at this time to personally determine the fate of humankind. Do you think you were put here for something less?' Chief Arvol Looking Horse. We exist in a world where the ultra-rich are getting richer, powered by a system we call 'the economy' which is serving to funnel power and value up to an ever-shrinking core of…
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Veronica shares her personal journey navigating the rollercoaster world of the healthcare system with her daughter. From navigating hospital corridors to sharing personal tales of resilience, this episode is packed with love, life lessons and a few giggles. She discusses the importance of embodying and maintaining her own perspective and finding lo…
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