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Gar Alperovitz: Is Public Ownership the Solution?
Gar Alperovitz: When it comes to banking and other critical sectors, public ownership is the only solution.

Unions Are in Peril
The Knox decision is just the latest attack in the ongoing battle against labor. And like the fight in Wisconsin and other states, it focuses on public sector unions …

Obama’s Education Policy
First in a three part series about education policy in the US Presidential elections.

Rep. John Lewis, Civil Rights Icon, on the Struggle to Win – and Now Protect – Voting Rights in US
Having risked his life marching for the right of all Americans to vote, Lewis reflects on the ongoing struggle for voting rights today, when 16 states have passed restrictive …

Are Banksters Redeemable? Interview With Former JPMorgan Director John Fullerton
If we donu2019t redefine self-interest, said Fullerton, in this conversation recorded in New York in late June: I think we will look back, and our grandchildren will ask us, …

Bill Moyers | Khalil Muhammad on Facing Our Racial Past
Muhammad describes the New York City Police Departmentu2019s u201cStop and Frisku201d program as u201can old and enduring form of surveillance and racial control.u201d

As Japan Says Fukushima Disaster “Man-Made” and “Preventable,” Fears Grow for Nuclear Plants Worldwide
A Japanese parliamentary inquiry has concluded last yearu2019s nuclear meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was "a profoundly man-made disaster - that could and should have been …

The Fracking Industry’s Dirty Secrets
The fracking industry is one of the most secretive and deceptive industries in the country.

The Elephant in the Room: The Police and the Occupy Movement
Imagining a world without the armed defenders of oligarchs and politicians.

Gasland Director Josh Fox on His New Film, Gas Industry Lies and Government Collusion
Fox's new film, The Sky Is Pink, examines the gas industry's practice of sowing doubt about the science on pollution from fracking.