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Economic Update: From Ferguson to the Retirement Crisis
This episode covers inequality and growth and the economic lessons from Ferguson.

Henry Giroux: Liberty and Justice for All?
Scholar Henry Giroux says that America is slipping away, and being replaced with a surveillance state and culture of violence that's threatening the very core of American democracy.

On the News With Thom Hartmann: the Banksters Who Caused the Economy to Crash Are Raking in Record Profits, and More
The bankers who caused the economic crisis are raking in profits, and more.

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A USS Liberty’s Hero’s Passing
On June 8, 1967, the Israeli government learned that it could get away with murder, literally, and the crime would be covered up.

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Officer Friendly

How the New Monopoly Capitalism Will Crush You to Smithereens
Journalist and author Barry Lynn sounds the alarm about one of the greatest threats to our liberty today.

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Supremacy: A Social Order of Division, Control and Enslavement
I watched what had been marvelous, cooperative, wonderful, thoughtful children turn into nasty, vicious, discriminating little third-graders in a space of fifteen minutes.

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The Scary Economic Trend Making Americans More Job-Insecure Than Ever
Under-the-table, off-the-books work has become the norm for many.

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Calling the Troops “Heroes” Is a Lie That Puts Them – and Democracy – in Danger
Despite an overwhelming post-9/11 cultural consensus, serving in the military does not automatically make anyone a hero.

Could Stronger Unions Make China More Democratic?
There's overall more political space for labor unrest in China today than there is for any other form of social conflict.