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In Chile, where the average monthly minimum wage income falls $100 short of college tuition costs, students are continuing their winter of kiss-ins, marches and hunger strikes against private, for-profit education and demanding affordable state-run schools. (more)
Posted on Aug 21, 2011
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In an unfortunate mishmash of Spanish and Jersey Shore lingo, Michele Bachmann coined a new word while on the campaign trail: hombre-ette. (more)
Posted on Aug 20, 2011
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The stock market continued its best imitation of a roller coaster this week, reports of Syrian protesters’ deaths came in after assurances that military operations against the opposition had ceased, and American liberals cringed at the thought of another former Texas governor in the White House. (more)
Posted on Aug 19, 2011
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This week on Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK: Texan populist Jim Hightower and Robert Scheer discuss Rick Perry’s entry into the presidential race while Texas Observer Editor David Mann tells us about Perry’s “army of God.” Update: Full transcript.
Posted on Aug 18, 2011
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Stephan Shaw and his company have been making politically charged novelty gifts for years without incident, so he was surprised when state Rep. Joe Armstrong of Tennessee had his Barack Obama-themed candy “Disappointmints” banned from the University of Tennessee bookstore.
Posted on Aug 18, 2011
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Piers Morgan is going to have trouble replacing Larry King if he can’t get his guests to sit sill. Tea party sensation Christine O’Donnell grew increasingly uncomfortable with the CNN host Wednesday, finally walking off the air rather than respond to a question about whether she supports gay marriage.
Posted on Aug 18, 2011
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In its latest attack on the billionaire Koch brothers, Robert Greenwald’s Brave New Films shows how the fearsome libertarian duo used their wealth and power to elect four segregationists to North Carolina’s Wake County school board in 2009. (more)
Posted on Aug 17, 2011
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Corruption is a crime that can get you executed in China, but documenting it and other abuses against the people is no easy feat. Documentarian Zhao Liang uses lies and pinhole cameras to gain access and capture everyday abuses.
Posted on Aug 16, 2011
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Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman employed a bit of imagination while discussing the need for fiscal stimulus on Fareed Zakaria’s “GPS” last week, playfully suggesting that the discovery of an impending alien attack would force ... (more)
Posted on Aug 15, 2011
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On Thursday former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told the crowd at the Iowa State Fair that “corporations are people, my friend.” The Democratic National Committee took those words and turned them into advertising gold.
Posted on Aug 13, 2011
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Do legislators really have economic recovery in mind? Also, what’s with the U.K. riots? Plus, eight GOP presidential candidates were in Iowa this week, so who is the front-runner?
Posted on Aug 13, 2011
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A student activist living in the middle of London’s riots shares her view from the ground on this week’s Truthdig Radio in collaboration with KPFK. Also on the show: William Cohan and Robert Scheer on Wall Street’s plunge; Robin Wright on Syria, and David Inocencio on juvie journalism.
Posted on Aug 10, 2011
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The earthquake that hit Japan last March not only triggered a tsunami that devastated the island nation, but created waves that traveled all the way to the ice shelves of Antarctica ... (more)
Posted on Aug 9, 2011
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It has been shown that heterosexual men are significantly less likely to spread HIV when they are circumcised. Rwanda hopes to circumcise 2 million men across the spectrum of ages using a new device that promises to be cheaper, safer and easier than alternatives.
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At a news conference in late July, New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie loudly defended his appointment of a Muslim lawyer to a state judgeship, saying that conservatives’ fear of shariah law “is crap.”
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