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Israel Escalates Assault On Gaza Strip After Assassination Of Top Hamas Commander
Jihan Hafiz reports on the on-going military action in Gaza.
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FAIR TV: Chavez vs. Corporate Media, Greening Fracking, NYT’s Mideast Time Machine
FAIR TV takes a look at how the U.S. media handled the Venezuelan election, how the Washington Post
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Rachel Maddow: Scott Brown’s Racial Politics Crosses Line
Rachel Maddow shows video of staffers and supporters of Senator Scott Brown mocking Native Americans with hoots and gestures as a means of taunting Brown's opponent, Elizabeth Warren.
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“Harvest of Empire”: New Film Recounts How US Intervention Caused Mass Latin American Migrations
At a time of heated and divisive debate over immigration, the new feature-length documentary, “Harvest of Empire,” examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in …
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Lee Camp: Where Do YOU Get Your News?
We're in the middle of an all-out information war.
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Middle East Protests at US Embassies Spread in Uproar Over Anti-Muslim US Film
Protests are spreading in the Middle East over a movie made by a U.S. filmmaker considered blasphemous to Islam.
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Todd Akin’s “Legitimate Rape” Comment Sheds Light on Paul Ryan’s Extreme Stance on Abortion
In 2011, Ryan and Akin co-sponsored the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, which attempted to redefine rape by introducing the term “forcible rape.”
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Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg: I Congratulate Ecuador for Standing Up to British Empire to Protect Julian Assange
Daniel Ellsberg, the most famous whistleblower in the United States, praises Ecuador for granting political asylum to Julian Assange to avoid extradition to Sweden for questioning over sex crime …
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Undocumented Youth Line Up by the Thousands as Temporary Immigration Reprieve Takes Effect
Tens of thousands of young undocumented immigrants waited in mile-long lines across the country on Wednesday to take advantage of a new federal policy that may grant them legal …
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Are US Authorities Increasingly Trying to Limit User Freedom on the Internet in the Name of National Security?
In January 2012, two controversial pieces of legislation were making their way through the US Congress. SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect Intellectual Property Act, …