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Derailing the Dynasty Train
In his surprise best-seller, Thomas Piketty warns that growing wealth inequality will have a corrosive impact on our democratic institutions.
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The Future of Food?
Global agricultural projection needs to increase by 70 percent, at a minimum, by 2050 in order to keep apace with a projected 40 percent increase in population by that …
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Chris Hedges | Thomas Paine, Our Contemporary
Thomas Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it.
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The New York Times: Everybody Who’s Anybody Wants to Bomb Syria
Why would the Obama administration want to get the United States more deeply involved militarily in Syria? Didn't US public opinion decisively reject this last fall?
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If the Law Is Bullsh*t, You Must Acquit
You and I have the power to end Nixon's failed War on Drugs once-and-for-all. In fact, it's our constitutional right to do so.
Remembering Vincent Harding, the Civil Rights Activist Who Wrote MLK’s Speech Against Vietnam War
Amy Goodman spends the hour remembering the pioneering historian, theologian and civil rights activist Dr. Vincent Harding.
Living Thought, Living Freedom Through Three Portraits of Philosophy Born of Struggle
Lewis Gordon's closing keynote address at the 2013 Philosophy Born of Struggle Society meeting at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Netanyahu’s “Jewish State” Law Stirs Debate in Israel
Israeli academic Oren Yiftachel talks about ethnocracy, a term he coined that describes the sort of regime Israel practices.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Poor Are More Ethical Than the 1%
The rich love to demonize the poor, but it turns out that the wealthy are the ones who need a little shaming, and more.
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