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By Tony Platt
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By Ben Bagdikian
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As millions gather to mourn Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the spate of criticism still pouring from the mouthpieces of the U.S. corporate media confirms elite hostility toward poor people and their defenders around the world.
Posted on Mar 8, 2013
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A trial under way in Argentina is expected to reveal new details about how Latin American countries coordinated with one another in the 1970s and ’80s to kill political dissidents in a campaign known as “Operation Condor.”
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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On “The Daily Show” on Wednesday night, host Jon Stewart applauded the efforts of Sen. Rand Paul’s epic “old-school style” filibuster of the nomination of John Brennan to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted on Mar 7, 2013
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Telling his colleagues he would “speak until I can no longer speak,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., took to the Senate floor Wednesday to mount an old-school filibuster of John Brennan, President Obama’s pick to head the Central Intelligence Agency.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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Much is being written about former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the wake of his death Tuesday. Australian journalist John Pilger’s 2007 documentary on the United States’ hostile, decades-long campaign against Latin American democracy helps separate fact from fiction in Chavez’s legacy.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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The “O’Reilly Factor” host is known for sometimes throwing vitriolic and angry tantrums on his Fox News program, but his rage reached a new level Tuesday night when he erupted at liberal guest Alan Colmes.
Posted on Mar 6, 2013
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“If you look at the context of what he’s done and the enormous damage he did to national security and our prestige around the world, throughout most of history someone like that would be executed,” former Defense Department spokesman J.D. Gordon said of Pfc. Bradley Manning on Al-Jazeera this week.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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On his program Monday night, Jon Stewart said that the sequester, which took effect Friday, was like an “autoerotic asphyxiation” for Congress.
Posted on Mar 5, 2013
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An infographic-heavy video on wealth distribution that went viral over the weekend reveals that the gap between the rich and the poor in the U.S. is probably much worse than you think.
Posted on Mar 4, 2013
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As Democrats and Republicans haggle over the severity of the budget cuts, “Saturday Night Live” took the opportunity to explain how exactly the sequester could affect you—or at least, it mocked the possibilities on its latest show.
Posted on Mar 3, 2013
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Zack Kopplin, a 19-year-old Rice University student waging a national campaign in defense of science education, spoke with Bill Moyers about his opposition to laws that make it easier to teach creationism in public schools.
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, economist Robert Reich and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss President Obama’s criticism of the sequester cuts. Has Capitol Hill devolved into a state of perpetual dysfunction or is this disagreement finally proof that there’s something worth fighting for?
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A look at the Oscar-nominated docs and other political movies, and more on the hacktivist collective Anonymous.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Regardless of the fact that large numbers of Americans believe the best way to fix the budget crisis is to tax the wealthy and profitable corporations, Sen. Bernie Sanders says, $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts are taking effect Friday.
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
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Fox News host Sean Hannity might be regretting having invited Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison to appear on his program Monday night. The Minnesota congressman confronted the caustic commentator over a mashup video that was meant to smear President Obama (or, as Hannity called him, President Panic) over the sequester.
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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