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Will Ecuador Give Julian Assange Asylum?
Ray McGovern: Washington Post threatens Ecuador if Wikileaks founder given asylum.
Why Are Working People Invisible in the Mainstream Media?
That working people are chronically underrepresented in the media - even in times of economic downturn - is a sad reality readily apparent to anyone who has surveyed the …
Angela Davis and Tim Wise: Capitalism, Privatization and Hope
On this edition, we hear Davis and Wise discuss privatization, the economy, and other critical issues of our times.
Gov. Cuomo Calls for Curbing Money in Politics, but Will Money Influence His Decision on Fracking?
Pressure from big money lobbyists might be a factor pushing Gov. Cuomou2019s administration toward lifting a moratorium on fracking.
Bill Moyers | How Citizen Power Can Save a Library
Bill addresses a public library funding crisis, calling attention to a controversial community effort in Michigan to save its own library.
Thousands in New York March Silently Against Racial Profiling
Protests escalate against NYPD's
Democratic Unfreedom — Social Technique and the Manufacture of Control
A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. - Herbert Marcuse
Singer/Songwriter David Rovics is a ‘Professional Flat-Picking Rabble-Rouser’
Amy Goodman called David Rovics ‘the musical version of Democracy Now!’
Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About The Other Abu Zubaidah
Zayn Al-Abidin Muhammed Husein, better known as Abu Zubaydah was the first high value Guantanamo detainee, and the first prisoner to be waterboarded, and the torture program was built, …
Public Art ATL: Elevate Underground Present “Harriet Rising”
On display on the Alabama Street above Underground Atlanta, is a public art installation by artists Lisa Tuttle and Alice Lovelace. It’s a three-dimensional, multifaceted grouping of polyptych towers …