Where Have All the Watchdogs Gone?

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Where Have All the Watchdogs Gone?

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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: putting government watchdogs back to work, filmmaker Robert Greenwald, Occupy funnyman Nato Green, student debt and anarchy historian Thai Jones.

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