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Economic Update: Why Economics Is Poorly Understood
This episode covers updates on GM recalls, Cuba's investment in medical training, Germany's end-all tuition requirements, and more.
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Head in the Tar Sands
When climate change isn't newsworthy.
“Have F—-ing Beliefs, Not Teams”: Citizen Radio’s Hosts Talk #NEWSFAIL, Advertising, Veganism and More
Allison Kilkenny and Jamie Kilstein talk about their new book, discuss why independent media is so needed and more.
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Care for Child Refugees
As indigenous peoples flee persecution in Central America, they should be treated as the refugees they are - with a right to asylum in the United States.
Death of US-Backed Ex-Dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier Won’t End Haitian Victims’ Quest for Justice
The former US-backed dictator of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as “Baby Doc,” has died at 63.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Global Inequality Keeps Getting Worse, and More
In today's On the News segment: Global inequality just keeps getting worse, and more.
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The Late Triumph of the Bush-Bin Laden Dance
Osama Bin Laden explicitly described his terror tactics as drawing the US, and the West generally, into an endless war.
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Bangladeshi Workers Organize to Protect Their Most Valuable Export: Themselves
Migrant domestic workers from Bangladesh enjoy little protection from their government, but they're not alone.
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Unemployment Rate Falls to 5.9 Percent in September, as Economy Adds 248,000 Jobs
There has been no acceleration in wage growth even as the unemployment rate has fallen.
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Public Infrastructure, Private Investment? Whose Hands Are in Whose Pockets?
In reading the US Treasury Department's glowing new report on public-private partnerships, truth must be separeted from fiction.