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Alexis Tsipras, a member of the Hellenic parliament, president of the Synaspismos political party since 2008, head of the SYRIZA parliamentary group since 2009, and leader of the Opposition since June 2012. SYRIZA currently leads in Greek opinion polls.
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Special Programming
Noam Chomsky on the Occupy Wall Street movement
Noam Chomsky is linguistics and philosophy professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Author of nearly 100 books, Chomsky is one of the world's most widely read progressive dissident intellectuals. He talks about his new book, "Occupy," about the Occupy Wall Street movement and the wider issues of class warfare in the America today.
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has been reporting on the OWS movement from its first days in August,
2011. In this April 3, 2012 interview, Richard Hill asks him to assess
the on-going debate in the movement between those espousing a strict
adherence to non-violence principles and practices and those advocating
a 'diversity of tactics', Interview conducted by Richard Hill, WPKN
"MP3 Audio of Four Panel Discussions from the Left Forum",
produced by Scott Harris, March 20, 2010, Pace University, New York, NY
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Show date: Jan. 20, 2014
FCC Can Resurrect Net Neutrality from Ashes of a Federal Court Ruling
Interview with Todd O'Boyle, program director for Media and Democracy at Common Cause
Todd O'Boyle assesses President Obama's proposed reforms to National Security Agency blanket surveillance of Americans' communications and the recent federal appeals court ruling that rejected FCC regulations protecting net neutrality which preserve an open Internet.
An excerpt of this interview was featured on the nationally syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine show. See the BTL page for a full description, subject links and edited audio.
Racial Disparity in U.S. Health Care Exacerbated by Republican Governors
Interview with Brian Miller, executive director of the group United for a Fair Economy
Brian Miller discusses his just-released report, "Healthcare for Whom?" which examines the racial disparities in access to healthcare, as well as the growing debate on the most effective policies to address record levels of income inequality in the U.S.
An excerpt of this interview was featured on the nationally syndicated Between The Lines radio newsmagazine show. See the BTL page for a full description, subject links and edited audio.
Opponents Rally to Stop Fast Track Authority Linked to Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Treaty
Interview with Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of the Citizens Trade Campaign
Arthur Stamoulis discusses his group's mobilization to defeat fast track legislation related to the Obama administration's effort to gain congressional passage of the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership free trade treaty.
Chris Christie's Bridge Gate Problems Look Petty Next to Allegations of Money Laundering with Billionaire Koch Brothers
Interview with Greg Palast, BBC investigative journalist and author
Greg Palast discusses his investigation into the Committee for Our Children's Future, embattled New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and his Koch brothers billionaire buddies. Greg will also talk about his latest investigation into the Republican Party's coordinated campaign to impose laws suppressing the voting rights of minority, senior citizens and student voters. Palast is author of the New York Times bestseller, "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits" and the DVD "Vultures and Vote Rustlers."
Recent Shows
January
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Kim Ives: Four Years After Devastating Earthquake, Corruption Derails Haiti's Recovery
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Peter Dreier: 1964: War on Poverty; 2014: War on the Poor
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Brad Friedman: CBS' "60 Minutes" Adopts Fox News Playbook
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Joe Dinkin: Working Families Party Racks Up Impressive Victories in 2013
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Danny Schechter: With Little Compelling to Offer, U.S. Corporate News Outlets Being Abandoned by Audience
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Ben Beachy: The Failures of NAFTA: A Warning on Proposed Trans Pacific Partnership Free Trade Treaty
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Peter Wilcox: After 2 Months in Russian Prison, Greenpeace Captain Vows to Stay in Fight Against Climate Change
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Monte Frank: One Year After Sandy Hook School Massacre, Newtown Action Alliance Continues Campaign to Strengthen Gun Safety Laws
December
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Medea Benjamin: Top 10 Progressive Accomplishments of 2013
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Jeremy Scahill: U.S. Dirty Wars Create New Enemies Around the Globe
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Eric LeCompte: The Philippines' Marcos-Era External Debt Saps Funds from Post-Typhoon Rebuilding Effort
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Morgan Fox: Legalization of Recreational Marijuana in Two States is Wave of the Future
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Shahid Buttar: Challenges to NSA Dragnet Surveillance Gain Momentum
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Robert W. McChesney: Amazon's $600 Million Contract with CIA Casts Shadow on Washington Post's Integrity
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Richard Dieter: U.S. Execution of Prisoners Decreases to 40-Year Low
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Stephen F. Cohen: Roiled by Protests, Divided Ukraine Weighs Future Trade Relations with EU and Russia
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Laura MacCleery: House - Senate Budget Agreement Continues Austerity Policies Targeting Working Families
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Kade Crockford: Latest Snowden Documents Reveal NSA Dragnet Collection of Worldwide Cell Phone Location Data
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John C. Philo: Federal Court Ruling on Detroit Bankruptcy Jeopardizes Public Employee Pensions Nationally
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Robert Parry: Ronald Reagan on the Wrong Side of History with U.S. Policy Toward Apartheid South Africa and Nelson Mandela
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Matt Hawthorne: Religious Group Advocates Public Disclosure of Senate Report Documenting U.S. Torture of Terrorist Suspects
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Dan Beeton: Candidate Alleging Fraud, Demands Vote-by-Vote Recount in Honduras Presidential Election
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Todd Gitlin: Divestment Campaign Targeting Fossil Fuel Industry Could Advance Global Warming Fight
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Craig Aaron: New FCC Chair Will Soon Face Tests on Net Neutrality and Media Consolidation Issues
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Laura Gottesdiener: Investigation Reveals Dangers of New Rental Securitization Investment Scheme
November
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Rebekah Wilce: Right Wing Think Tank Network Promotes Corporate Agenda in State Government
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Kingston Reif: Interim International Nuclear Arms Accord With Iran A Welcome First Step to Reduce Threat of War
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Kevin Kamps: Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Cleanup Enters Extremely Dangerous Phase
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David Swanson: If New U.S.-Afghan Accord is Ratified, America's Longest War Likely to Go Longer
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Karen Orenstein: The Philippines, Typhoon Haiyan and the Urgent Task of Addressing Climate Change
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Alex Main: Honduras Could See Democratic Rebound in Nov. 24 Presidential Election
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Gareth Porter: Breakdown of Iran Nuclear Negotiations: A Lost Opportunity that Could Have Been Averted
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Dr. Margaret Flowers: Obamacare's Flaws and Shortcomings Reinforce Activists' Push for 'Medicare for All' Universal System
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Gerry Condon: Veterans for Peace Commemorate Veterans Day by Rejecting Militarism and the Glorification of War
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Kimberly Fountain: As Conservatives Push for Benefit Cuts, New Coalition Campaigns for Social Security Expansion
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Ellen Brown: Struggle to Hold Big Banks Accountable Leads Group to Advocate for Public Banking
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David Hoffman: Independent Media's Role in Struggles for Democracy and Social Change Examined in New Book
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Michael J. Wilson: Federal Cuts to Food Stamp Program Hurt Children, Seniors and the Disabled the Most
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Norman Solomon: Campaign Launched to Restore NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden's U.S. Passport
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Phil Donahue: TV Talk Show Host Phil Donahue's Documentary Film, "Body of War," a Close-up Look at the Horrors of War
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Karl Grossman: Public Debate on the Future of Plum Island, a Former Government Germ Warfare Site on Long Island Sound
October
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Matt Simons: Thousands Protest NSA Blanket Surveillance in Washington, Launch National Movement for Reform
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Paul Jorgensen: Campaign Cash Influences Expansion and Institutionalization of 'National Surveillance State'
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Rachel O'Leary: Amnesty International Calls for Investigation of Possible War Crimes in U.S. - Pakistan Drone Strikes
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Teri Eickel: CT Religious Coalition to Convene Climate Stewardship Summit to Address Global Warming Nov. 7
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Jim Dean: Cultivating the Electoral Backlash Against the Tea Party-led Government Shutdown
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Lori Wallach: Obama Administration Conceals Details of Proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Treaty to Blunt Opposition
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Britt Cocanour: Greenpeace Launches Global Campaign to Free Arctic Activists Held in Russian Jail
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Hendrik Voss: School of the Americas Watch Continues Decades-Long Campaign to Close Pentagon School that Trains Latin American Soldiers
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Eric Kingson: Social Security and Medicare Benefits Cuts Next on GOP Hostage Ransom Demand List
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John Nichols: Unregulated Money and Decline of Independent Journalism Empowered Fringe Groups to Close Federal Government
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Christian Ramírez: In Midst of Government Shutdown, Immigration Rights Activists Continue to Pressure Congress to Adopt Comprehensive Immigration Reform
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Lucy Nolan: Federal Shutdown and Sequestration Cuts Hamper Battle Against Hunger in Connecticut
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Matthew Rothschild: Republican Government Shutdown Hurts the Nation's Most Vulnerable
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Rania Khalek: Government Shutdown Roulette: Nation's Values Upside Down in Determining Which Programs Stay Open and Which are Closed
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Scott Nelson: New Case Before the U.S. Supreme Court Could Further Erode Campaign Finance Reform Laws
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Mark Bray: Anarchism a Potent Force Among Organizers who Shaped the Occupy Wall Street Movement
September
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Reza Marashi: U.S. Responds Positively to Iran's Pursuit of a Diplomatic Breakthrough
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Phil Radford: Greenpeace Climate Activists Held by Russia Could be Charged with Piracy
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Dr. Oliver Fein: Assessing the Pros & Cons of the Affordable Care Act that Provoked Federal Government Shutdown
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Erez Krispin, Bruce Barrett and Mohammed Oweda: New Haven, Conn.'s IWage Peace Walk Calls for Interfaith Work Toward Peace, Justice in U.S., the Middle East and Around the World
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Stephen Pimpare: U.S. Census: Despite Rising Corporate Profits, Poor and Middle-Class Income Remains Flat, Poverty Levels Stagnate
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Shahid Buttar: Activism and Congressional Action Required to Reform Unaccountable U.S. Surveillance System
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Ladd Everitt: Another Mass Casualty Shooting Underscores Need for More Restrictive Federal Gun Laws
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Michael Zweig: Escalating Sectarian Violence in Iraq Approaches Civil War Level of Carnage
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Richard Eskow: Rising U.S. Income Inequality Result of Economic Policies Benefiting the 1%
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Phyllis Bennis: U.S.-Russian Deal on Assad's Chemical Weapons Could Lead to Negotiations to End Syria's Civil War
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Jeremy Scahill: "Dirty Wars": New Book Investigates Dark Side of America's War on Terrorism
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Nathan Schneider: On 2nd Anniversary, Occupy Wall Street Movement Continues to Inspire Revival of Social Justice Activism
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Noam Chomsky: U.S. Intervention in Syria Would be a War Crime, Urges Negotiated Solution
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Matt Wall: Progressive Change Campaign Committee Pressures Legislators to Oppose Authorization for U.S. War with Syria
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Sara Shor: 350.org Plans Sept. 21 "Draw The Line" Protest Actions to Urge President Obama to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline Project
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John Goodwin: King Amendment in Congressional Farm Bill Would Repeal Many State Laws Protecting Animal Welfare
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Jennifer G. Loewenstein: As Obama Consults Congress on Planned Syria Attack, Avenues Toward Negotiated End to Conflict Ignored
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Bill Fletcher Jr: 50th Anniversary Celebrants and Media Dilute Message of 1963 March on Washington
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Francis Boyle: International Law Doesn't Condone Planned U.S. Intervention in Syrian Civil War
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Steven Jonas: Novel Cites U.S. Christian Right's Actual Strategies and Tactics to Portray Frightening Future Under Their Rule
August
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James Paul: After Alleged Chemical Attack, U.S. Military Intervention in Syria's Civil War is Not the Answer
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Michael Mariotte: Ongoing Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima and TEPCO Incompetence Demands Outside Intervention
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Glen Ford: Critics: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of 1963 March on Washington, Sanitizes Martin Luther King Jr's Core Message
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Jeremy Brecher: An Examination of the "Public Trust Doctrine" in Justifying Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Action to Stop Climate Change
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Daniel Ellsberg: Reflections on the Bradley Manning Verdict and Current U.S. War on Whistleblowers and Journalism
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Chris Toensing: As Egypt's Military Executes its Bloody Counterrevolution, U.S. Stands Silent
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Van Henri White: 50th Anniversary Commemoration of 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Continues Struggle for Racial Equality and Social Justice
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Dori Ahern: Local Groups Organize Transportation to the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the 1963 March on Washington
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Noam Chomsky: "Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation"
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Noam Chomsky: "Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation (Part 1)"
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Kade Crockford: President Obama's Recent Preliminary Proposals to Reform NSA Surveillance of Americans' Communications
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Peter Hart: Amazon.com CEO and Founder Jeff Bezos' Purchase of the Washington Post
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Steve Schrag: Proposed Takeover of Waterbury's Nonprofit Hospital
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Emad Mekay: As Investigative Report Finds U.S. Funded Egypt's Coup Supporters, Secretary of State Kerry Says Military Restored Democracy
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Dawn Huckelbridge: Pro-choice Activists Confront Multi-State Attack on Women's Reproductive Rights
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Amelia Adams: Low-Wage Workers Protest and Strike in Dozens of U.S. Cities Demanding Living Wage and Union Rights
July
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Myrna Perez: After Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Justice Department Challenges New Restrictive State Voting Laws
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Richard D. Wolff: Detroit Bankruptcy Follows Decades-Long Economic Decline
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Nathan White: Close Vote in House to Defund NSA Dragnet Surveillance Signals Reform is Within Reach
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Kevin Gosztola: Verdict in Bradley Manning Trial Will Have Far-Reaching Consequences for Government Whistleblowers and Press Freedom
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Rev. Rick Hoyt: Diverse Groups Join Lawsuit to Halt NSA Dragnet Surveillance of U.S. Citizen's Communications
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Louise Melling: ACLU Battles Latest Coordinated GOP Attack on Women's Reproductive Rights
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Judith Brown Dianis: Acquittal of George Zimmerman in Trayvon Martin Murder Trial Provokes Nation to Confront Persistent Racism in America
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Ben Manski: Democracy Convention in Madison, Wis. Aims to Unite Progressive Struggles into a Broad-Based Movement for Democracy
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Brenda Wright: SCOTUS Ruling Guts the Voting Rights Act; "Don't Mourn, Organize!"
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Jeff Cohen: Beltway Corporate Media Attacks Journalists Doing Their Job: Revealing Government Secrets
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Nayana Fernandez Munhoz: Long Standing Grievances on Public Policy Priorities and Corruption Explode in Brazil's New Protest Movement
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Harvey Wasserman: Environmentalists: Obama Slow to Address Climate Change, but Moves to Regulate Carbon Emissions are Applauded
June
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Keith Rushing: Senate Approves Immigration Bill Amendment that will Further Militarize U.S.-Mexico Border
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Bartlett Naylor: Effort Now Underway in Congress to Restore FDR-Era Glass Steagall Act
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Peter Rugh: Global Uprising: The Potential of Grassroots Democracy Movements to Achieve Cross Border Solidarity
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Lynne Ide: Status Update on Affordable Care Act Implementation in Connecticut
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Jeff Davidoff: Global Coalition of Musicians Pressure G8 Summit's World Leaders to Commit Resources to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
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Phyllis Bennis: President Obama's Decision to Arm Syrian Rebel Groups will Escalate Brutal Civil War
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Norman Solomon: Public Debate on Surveillance Focuses on Whistleblower Edward Snowden Rather Than NSA Programs' Threat to Democracy
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Monte Frank: On 6th Month Observance of Sandy Hook Massacre, Newtown Action Alliance Continues to Advocate for Stronger Gun Safety Laws
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Heidi Boghosian: Whistleblower Exposes U.S. Government Dragnet Surveillance
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Asli Bali: Authoritarian Rule, Not Religious Conflict, Led to Widespread Protests in Turkey
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Michael Hiltzik: It's Not Time to Cut Social Security Benefits, But to Expand them
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Jill Stein: 2012 Green Party Presidential Candidate on "Mobilizing for Ecological and Economic Transformation"
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Shahid Buttar: Critics Charge Obama Justice Department's Collection of Associated Press Phone Records Undermines Press Freedom
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Chris Toensing: Escalation of Syrian Civil War Threatens Wider Regional Conflict
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Daniel Kessler: Opponents Organize Summer Actions to Pressure White House to Reject Keystone XL Pipeline
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Bill Duesing: GMO Food Labeling Bill Approved by Connecticut Legislature Set to Become First Such Law in Nation
May
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Matt Southworth: President Obama's Counterterrorism Speech: A Path to Change or More Rhetoric?
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Jay Feldman: Lawsuit Challenges U.S. EPA Approval of Pesticides Linked to Bee Colony Collapse Disorder
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Tim Franzen: Occupy Our Homes Protests U.S. Justice Department's Failure to Prosecute Wall Street Bankers Responsible for Foreclosure Crisis
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Alex Seitz-Wald: The Real IRS Scandal: Urgent Need for Campaign Finance and Tax Code Reform
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Bill Freese: Monsanto Supreme Court Victory on GMO Seeds Provokes Concern on Corporate Patenting of Life
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Kate Doyle: Landmark Trial Finds Former Guatemalan Dictator, General Rios Montt, Guilty of Genocide
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Seth Adler: 2013 Left Forum Focus: "Mobilizing for Ecological/ Economic Transformation"
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Mark Jaycox: Obama Administration Wiretaps Associated Press Reporters, Seeks New Rules to Make Internet Surveillance Easier
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Leah Bolger: Green Party Shadow Cabinet Strongly Opposes U.S. Intervention in Syrian Civil War
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Carlos Warner: Guantanamo Defense Lawyer Decries Conditions that Led to Detainee Hunger Strike
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Andrew Hiller: Occupy Wall Street's "Strike Debt" Campaign Employs Creative Solutions to Address America's Growing Personal Debt Crisis
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Gar Alperovitz: Alternatives to Our Current Failing System
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Sarah Anderson: Corporate CEOs Advocating Austerity Policies Receive Millions in Taxpayer Subsidized Stock Options
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Michael Figura: Guantanamo Detainee Hunger Strike Provokes Renewed Attention on Need to Close the Detention Camp
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Nastaran Mohit: May Day Protests Highlight Occupy Wall Street Movement's Evolution Toward Multi-Issue Organizing