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Mass Protests Against Mexican Election Results
Student movement takes to the streets to reject what they call election fraud.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Half-Million Eligible Voters Will Find It Virtually Impossible to Get the Necessary ID to Be Able to Vote in November, and More
A new study by the Brennan Center for Justice reveals just how damaging Republican-backed Voter Suppression ID laws will be to hundreds of thousands of Americans.

Total System Change: A Real-Life Look at Regional Governance and Public Ownership
Institutional change, from co-ops to land trusts, and including municipal enterprise and state investing, challenge dominant corporate ideologies and help clear a path for new approaches to meaningful, larger-scale …

Bill Moyers | Financial Expert Sheila Bair on Keeping Banks Honest
Sheila Bair: I worry that the public is getting cynical about if the regulators in Washington can fix any of this.

Interest Rate-Fixing Scandal Swindles Baltimore, Other Municipalities out of Millions of Dollars
Amidst the financial crisis of 2008 and resultant recession, cities and states around the country lost millions of dollars on investments tied to the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor).

The Hunger Games Economy
Jeff Faux: Dreams of Wall St. and Military Industrial Complex are not compatible with dreams of American middle class.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japanese Protesters Take to the Streets Against Nuclear Reactors, and More
On Monday, Republicans in the Senate joined together to filibuster and kill the latest attempt by Democrats to inject transparency in our elections, On Monday, the Georgia State Board …

Investigation Takes a Closer Look at GOP Donor to Adelson’s Billions
Steve Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica talks with Rachel Maddow about the reporting in a new ProPublica/FRONTLINE PBS collaboration looking into the questionable dealings behind the Macau-based casino fortune …

Report on the Greek Left
Leo Panitch: Recently returned from Greece, a report on Syriza, the left party that could win the next election

The Story of Change
Annie Leonard: Ever since I learned where our stuff really comes from u2013 and how this system is trashing people and the planet[i] u2013 Iu2019ve been trying to figure …