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Sharif Abdel Kouddous: Two Years into Uprising, Bahrain Feels Like a “Nation Under Occupation”
emocracy Now! correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous joins us to discuss his recent trip to Bahrain, where the Sunni monarchy continues its crackdown on a two-year-old uprising.
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The Minimum Wage, Guns, Health Care and the Meaning of a Decent Society
Every society must necessarily decide for itself what decency requires.
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You’ve Got No Mail
The corporate hit job on the Postal Service continues with the end of Saturday mail.
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The Movement – Waves Constantly Shaping the Shore
Margaret Flowers gives an update of national resistance movements.
Why Latin America Didn’t Join Washington’s Counterterrorism Posse
It turns out that 54 nations (other than the US) took part in setting up, aiding, and maintaining the American global gulag.
Truthout TV: Laura Flanders on the State of the Nation
The discussion includes Laura's views on economic equality and the war in Afghanistan.
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The Queer Case Against Prisons
Toshio Meronek's review of Prisons Will Not Protect You highlights the emphasis by the book's contributors that the Corrections Department isn't in the business of correcting oppression.
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Health Care Spending: A 21st Century Gold Rush
What are some of the reasons health care costs continue to rise? Here are a few examples.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Republican War on Woman Went into Overdrive in Arkansas, and More
Arkansas's legislature has passed one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans.
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Britain Says Equine Drug May Have Entered Food Chain
A crisis over horse meat in European food products deepened on Thursday when British officials said tests showed that a powerful equine drug, potentially harmful to human health, may …