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Razor Wire, Prison Cells, and Black Panther Robert H. King’s Life of Resistance: An Interview With Filmmaker Ron Harpelle
A new 40-minute documentary film by Canadian History Professor Ron Harpelle, entitled “Hard Time,” focuses on the life of Robert Hillary King, who spent 29 years in continuous solitary …
Truthout Interviews Featuring Panayota Gounari on Greece, Neoliberalism, and the Crisis of Capitalism
In a sort of orgy of social necrophilia, the Greek government trumpets the “success” of austerity as the people of Greece suffer high unemployment, a shrinking of social services, …
Sen. Bernie Sanders: Supreme Court Undermines Democracy by Allowing Billionaires To “Buy Elections”
Amy Goodman speaks to Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont about Wednesday's landmark decision in McCutcheon v. FEC and his fight to remove big money from the electoral process.
Hopkins Hospital Workers Speak Out Against “Poverty Wages”
Jaisal Noor talks to workers at Baltimore's internationally renowned Johns Hopkins Hospital as they prepare for a possible strike in order to obtain a $15 hourly wage.
Will Venezuela’s New Floating Exchange Rate Curb Inflation?
Mark Weisbrot: New exchange rate is intended to safeguard the importation of essential and primary goods.
UN Climate Panel Issues Dire Warning of Threat to Global Food Supply, Calls for Action and Adaption
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued its most dire warning yet about how greenhouse gases have driven up global temperatures and extreme weather, while threatening …
Supreme Court Ruling Gives Wealthy Individuals More Influence Over Elections
Common Cause Maryland's Jennifer Bevan-Dangle says the 1 percent are the beneficiaries of the McCutcheon decision.
Dragnet Nation: Do Google, Facebook Know More Private Info Than NSA and Soviet-Era Secret Police?
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin joins the hosts to discuss her new book, “Dragnet Nation.”
UN Report Says Climate Change Will Threaten Food Production Worldwide
Not only are the effects of climate change already occurring on every continent, the world is ill-prepared for what is to come.
Treating Humans Worse Than Animals: Prison System Voices Decry Solitary Confinement of Mentally Ill
Following the death of two prisoners at New York City's Rikers Island facility, there is mounting pressure on jails and prisons to reform their use of solitary confinement.