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By Paul Conrad
By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac
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The U.S. economy added a measly 115,000 jobs in April. A Chinese dissident got Washington’s attention. France and Europe brace for the change a French presidential election will bring. Income inequality got a shoutout from one of Mitt Romney’s former colleagues. And Facebook prepares to IPO.
Posted on May 5, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Rep. Dennis Kucinich takes “nothing good” from the president’s visit to Afghanistan, Robert Scheer on China, Occupiers and organizers, and California’s autism unfairness.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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The declaration by British MPs on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch exercised “willfull blindness” about phone hacking at The News of the World and is “not a fit person” to run a major international company has prompted the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to ask the FCC to revoke the 27 Fox broadcast licenses that News Corp. holds in the U.S.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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“The Daily Show” host took aim at some of his favorite targets Tuesday night as he ripped Republicans and conservative pundits for their hypocritical response to an ad aired by the Obama campaign that highlights the president’s success in bringing down Osama bin Laden one year ago.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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It was a quiet winter for Occupy Wall Street. As the blogo- and Twitter-spheres light up this May Day with reports of unrest in the streets of New York City and beyond, spend a few minutes with this video refresher of the NYPD’s rough tactics with protesters and journalists last fall.
Posted on May 1, 2012
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Boy, he wasn’t kidding. Those infamous words are from Bill Clinton’s 1996 State of the Union address, in which he kneecapped Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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“It’s all the same crisis,” says the Truthdig columnist, “which is the collapse of globalization. It doesn’t work anymore.”
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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One day ahead of Occupy Wall Street’s broadly anticipated May Day strike, David Harvey, social theorist and professor of anthropology at the City University of New York, talks about the historic importance of urban revolutionary movements.
Posted on Apr 30, 2012
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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Consumer Reports senior scientist Dr. Michael Hanson tells us the United States lags far behind Europe and Asia in its regulation of the meat industry; Tupac and the L.A. riots at 20; Rocky Anderson’s alternative campaign for president; and Greenpeace protests Apple’s dirty cloud.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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Forgotten history is like a rake neglected in the national backyard. Soon enough you’ll return to where you left it, and if you step on its teeth, it’ll swing up and hit you in the face. (Above, McCarthy and, at right, a caricature of Rep. Allen West.)
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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The hacking collective Anonymous is back with another pulse-pounding video, this time in an attempt to rally the American public against the “SOPA-like” CISPA bill that passed the House of Representatives and now heads to the Senate.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012
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This week’s panelists discuss the U.S. economy hitting a molasses spring, Obama reminding voters that he killed bin Laden, Romney appearing to be the last Republican standing and Syria showing a tin ear for U.N. criticism.
Posted on Apr 27, 2012
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Near the Oslo courtroom where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial, as many as 40,000 Norwegians filled a square with the lyrics of “Children of the Rainbow,” a song that praises multiculturalism and that Breivik described as Marxist propaganda.
Posted on Apr 26, 2012
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Steve Brodner of The Washington Spectator imagines what it would be like for politicians and their wealthy donors to consummate their relationships. Like a car crash, it’s hard to look away.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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Judging by Barack Obama’s appearance Wednesday on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” where he “slow-jammed” his supposed support for debt-strapped graduates, the president’s campaign machine is after the student vote again.
Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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