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Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table”
In part two of Reality Asserts Itself, Paul Jay and Vijay Prashad discuss the limits imposed on questioning the roots of inequality and how those who own the majority …
Protesters Condemn ALEC’s Push to Privatize Public Education
Demonstrators Crash ALEC convention in Chicago, a city impacted by the privatization of public schools.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Our Government Is Going After Bank of America, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission filed parallel civil lawsuits against Bank of America for making misleading statements and failing …
A Domestic Surveillance Scandal at the DEA? Agents Urged to Cover Up Use of NSA Intel in Drug Probes
The US Department of Justice has begun reviewing a controversial unit inside the Drug Enforcement Administration that uses secret domestic surveillance tactics - including intelligence gathered by the National …
The Bomb Sends a Message to the World – Untold History
The atomic bomb did not end the war with Japan, it was a threat to the Soviet Union that the US would dominate the post-war world.
Vijay Prashad: Marx and Tolstoy Helped Me See the Limits of Liberalism
Vijay Prashad talks about growing up in India and coming to the realization that liberalism could never eliminate poverty.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democrats in Congress Are Standing Up to the Supreme Court, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Tea Party is turning on Republicans; rising ocean temperatures rise around the globe, are forcing marine life to migrate to cooler waters; …
Glenn Greenwald on How Secretive DEA Unit Illegally Spies On Americans, Covers Up Actions
Journalist Glenn Greenwald responds to a report by Reuters about how a secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is covering up its use of intelligence intercepts, wiretaps to help …
The Rise of Chinese Influence in Africa
Leonce Ndikumana: China invests in building Africa's infrastructure, but fails to employ local labor.
ALEC Turns 40, But Who’s Behind It?
Brendan Fisher: After forty years, corporate-funded ALEC remains an organization filled with secrecy.