Sunday, November 30, 2014

RESOURCES | Triple Divide | Fracking Documentary

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Michael Brown Paid, Full Footage Shows | Ring of Fire

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Typewriters, Not Touchscreens … Security the Old-Fashioned Way | BillMoyers.com

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Our Daily Poison: How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain

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Ferguson Protesters March to Governor's Mansion; Officer Darren Wilson Resigns

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Ohio Republicans Push Law to Keep All Details of Executions Secret

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: 2014 Is Shaping Up as the Hottest Year on Record

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How to Deal With Wall Street and Income Inequality in One Fell Swoop

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Barbed Wire and Tear Gas in Cairo as Protesters Rise After Mubarak Acquittal

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Faces of Part-Time Workers: Food Stamps and Multiple Low-Paid Jobs

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Florida Homeless Program Uses Unpaid, Destitute Residents as Steady Labor Force, Revenue Source

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Soy: Industry's Miracle Bean in Brazil

Santiago Navarro F., Renata Bessi and Translated by Miriam Taylor, Truthout: Soy was initially introduced to Brazil as part of a US military aid package. Today, its industrial cultivation results in a number of negative consequences, including deforestation and the expulsion of small-scale farmers from their land.

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Our Daily Poison: How Chemicals Have Contaminated the Food Chain

Marie-Monique Robin, The New Press: Our Daily Poison examines the origins of the modern chemical industry, from the epidemic of cancers and other diseases that exploded at the end of the 19th century to the idea of acceptable daily chemical intake.

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Racism and the Charter School Movement: Unveiling the Myths

Antonia Darder, Truthout: Rather than an oppressive and manipulative engine for capitalist accumulation, schools should function as centers of creativity and imagination where an ethos of democratic life is grounded upon cultural inclusiveness, social justice and economic democracy.

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Truthout Interviews JP Sottile on the School of the Americas 2.0

Ted Asregadoo, Truthout: JP Sottile discusses the rebranded School of the Americas, continued US military involvement in Central American conflicts and global military training with drug traffickers and terrorists replacing Communists.

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With Election Over, First Order of Business Is $450 Billion Corporate Tax Break

Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Every year Congress renews a package of "temporary" corporate tax breaks. Congress is working on this year's extenders package, except this time it wants to make many of the tax breaks permanent.

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Coal's Black Wind: Pregnant Women in Parts of India Advised to Stay Away

Lindsey Konkel, Environmental Health News: The poor pay the highest cost of India's dependence on coal. Already burdened by chronic disease, poor nutrition and inadequate health care, they also are highly exposed to air and water pollution.

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Israeli, West Bank Arabs' Divergent Lives Revealed in Olive Harvest

Daniella Cheslow, McClatchy Newspapers: The olive harvest reflects the growing disparities between Palestinians who live in the West Bank and their more prosperous brethren who hold Israeli citizenship and grapple with a divided loyalty to people and country.

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Obama: Don't Sell Out the United States' Women

Martha Burk, OtherWords: The Trans-Pacific Partnership being negotiated in secret. However, here's what we do know: This so-called "partnership" is an insult to US workers, and it's especially bad news for women.

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Justice Department Takes Steps to Reform Grant Program Incentives

Inimai M. Chettiar and Lauren-Brooke Eisen, Brennan Center for Justice: The Department of Justice has made some subtle but important changes to its largest grant program, the Byrne Justice Assistance Grant, which improve the program's transparency and accountability.

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The Free Marissa Now Mobilization Campaign, after hearing news of Marissa Alexander's plea deal this week, vows to organize until she is free; Carmel Hannan details how Irish communities are taking to the streets to protest a new water tax, but it's not just about water or austerity; Jason Cervone examines why rural Americans so often vote against their own self-interests; Collette Flanagan reflects on what it means to join a delegation of mothers who have lost children at the hands of the police; Dr. Hakim says both his Afghan and American friends wish for the Afghan conflict to be resolved, but not through expansive war; Michelle Corbin understands that what is happening in Ferguson is not only a personal question, but also a political and pedagogical challenge; Frank Seo argues that a new chapter for the immigrant rights movement is only just beginning; and more.

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Saturday, November 29, 2014

Why Is California Keeping Kelly Savage in Prison for a Crime She Didn't Commit?

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Hosni Mubarak Cleared of Conspiring to Kill Protesters in Egypt's 2011 Uprising

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Election Win Puts Rural San Benito County on Anti-Fracking Map

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From Broken Homes to a Broken System

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Ahead of Peru Climate Summit, Cautious Hope for Strong Draft Text

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The New Threat: "Racism Without Racists"

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Fast-Food Workers Plan National Strikes for December 4

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Detroit's Young Gentrifiers Face a Daunting Task in Buying $500 Homes: Evicting Poor Residents

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Why Is California Keeping Kelly Savage in Prison for a Crime She Didn't Commit?

Victoria Law, Truthout: Nearly 19 years after Kelly Savage's husband killed her 3-year-old son and they both were convicted of murder, she is filing for a writ of habeas corpus, arguing that expert testimony about domestic violence was not included during her trial. Will California allow her a second chance?

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ROTC Brings the Military Home to CUNY

Hannah K. Gold, Truthout: In the 1960s and '70s, the ROTC was kicked off campuses in the Northeast. Now it's back, appealing to the most vulnerable students, and bringing military culture along with it.

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Why the Idea of Fair, Affordable Care in the US Is Still a Problem

Liz McFall, The Conversation: Obamacare has another difficult year ahead. The attempt to introduce a more affordable health care system has been notably controversial from the start, and this looks set to continue.

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Touring North Korea? An Interview With Author Robert Willoughby

Peter Handel, Truthout: With its reputation for ultra-secrecy, imprisonment of rogue missionaries and a leadership baffling to outsiders, it's no wonder few tourists in the United States even think of taking a state-approved tour in North Korea. Meet Robert Willoughby, author of the only dedicated guide to the country.

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The Fracking Rush Hits a Pothole

Emily Schwartz Greco, OtherWords: Low prices at the pump are imperiling oil fracking operations in Texas and North Dakota. Many companies may start losing money or even go broke. While the green-minded may welcome the doom of fracking, there's a risk cheap oil could speed the pace of climate change.

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Monsters' Ball on Capitol Hill: A Tale of Congress, Tsunamis and Circuses

Mikey Weinstein, AlterNet: Far more than merely a few elected officials have ceaselessly covered the flanks of the Christian fundamentalist forces that are actively commandeering our US military.

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Katharine Gun's Risky Truth-Telling

Sam Husseini, Consortium News: Truth-telling can be a dangerous undertaking, especially when done by government insiders trying to expose wrongdoing connected to war-making, as British intelligence official Katharine Gun discovered in blowing the whistle on a pre-Iraq War ploy.

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Cultivating Climate Justice From the Front Lines of the Crisis

Antonia Bruno, Zero Waste World: Following Typhoon Haiyan, survivors in impacted communities in the Philippines came together in a deep expression of solidarity to help each other rebuild their homes and lives.

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Health Insurers Fight Republican Efforts to Repeal Affordable Care Act

Crystal Shepeard, Care2: While their motivations may be different, the health insurance industry and the Obama administration have created an alliance to push back against Republican attempts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

A Year After Congressional Testimony, Drone Strike Victims Still Searching for Justice

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Protesters Target Black Friday Sales in Ferguson

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Police Arrest 338 in LA: No Warnings, "Penned in," Arrested, Protesters Say

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Working for Walmart Is Even Worse Than You Think

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Gunman Dead After Shooting Up Austin Police Headquarters

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Selma and Fruitvale Station Directors Lead Black Friday Protest Over Ferguson

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Mexico's President Aims to Strengthen Police After Students' Abduction

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At Home Legally - for Now

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A Year After Congressional Testimony, Drone Strike Victims Still Searching for Justice

Candice Bernd, Truthout: Despite a recent finding that fewer than 4 percent of drone strike casualties in Pakistan have been confirmed as members of al-Qaeda, critics fear the program will continue with impunity and even be boosted to combat the Islamic state.

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Marjorie Cohn | Prosecutor Manipulates Grand Jury Process to Shield Officer

Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: Robert McCulloch has a history of bias in favor of police involved in altercations with black men. But, ignoring the pleas of 7,000 residents in and near Ferguson who signed a petition, McCulloch refused to recuse himself in the Darren Wilson case.

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Deciphering 10(j) Injunctions at the National Labor Relations Board's Website

Ellen Dannin, Truthout: The NLRB has launched a new website as part of an effort to beef up employee rights. But how many workers who need to know their rights can read and understand it?

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Native-American Youth Are in Crisis and Need Protection

Jessica Ramos, Care2: Centuries after the first pilgrims and Native Americans came together in peace to give thanks (so the story goes), Native-American youth have nothing close to peace. A new 120-page report from the Attorney General's Advisory Committee screams that they are in crisis.

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Government Data Sharpens Focus on Crude-Oil Train Routes

Isaiah Thompson, ProPublica: An analysis of federal government data adds new details to what's known about the routes taken by trains carrying crude oil. Local governments are often unaware of the potential dangers they face.

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Obama's Immigration Action Doesn't Go Far Enough

Diana Anahi Torres, OtherWords: Farmworkers don't qualify for reprieve under President Obama's recent executive action on deportation unless they've lived in the United States for five years and have kids who are US citizens or permanent residents with green cards.

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Asia Smiles for the Cameras

John Feffer, Foreign Policy in Focus: Washington needs to recognize that its Pacific pivot is adding insecurity to the region, not stability. With its arms sales and encouragement of ally assertiveness, the United States is bringing peace to the region just like the Colt .45 "Peacemaker" brought peace to the Wild West.

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GOP on Wrong Side of History on Immigration

Leo Gerard, Campaign for America's Future: Suffering amnesia about their personal histories, nativist Republicans want to expel the 11.7 million unauthorized immigrants, the people who harvest the United States' Thanksgiving vegetables and care for US toddlers and grannies.

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New Pope Can End Church Cover-Up of Child Abuse

Robert Weiner and Florian Prommer, Mass Live: Pope Francis has just announced he will be coming to the US next year for a conference on families. The new Pope is widely popular, but he and the Church must take stronger actions than ones to date on the victims and perpetrators of clerical child abuse.

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The Real Cost of Fracking: How the US Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets and Food

Allison Wilson, Independent Science News: Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald's new book, The Real Cost of Fracking: How America's Shale Gas Boom Is Threatening Our Families, Pets, and Food describes the results of their research on fracking's health impacts.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Thanksgiving Day and the Powerful Play

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Mexican Activist Who Fed Train-Hopping Immigrants is Slain

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Mass Imprisonment and Public Health

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Video Shows Cleveland Officer Shooting 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice Within Seconds

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Lawmakers Urge Calm, Offer Few Policy Prescriptions in Wake of Ferguson

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A New Business Strategy: Treating Employees Well

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Thomas Piketty Is Right: Income Inequality Is Holding Us Back

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California Case Could Be a Pivotal Moment in Ending the War on Marijuana

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Thanksgiving Day and the Powerful Play

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: We live in a world of shrinking margins, of narrowing visions, a world ruled and ruined by fools. This is the fact of our time, and no one is going to fix it today. Tomorrow, perhaps, but in the meantime, hold close what you hold most dear, and give thanks for the chance of that holding.

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Thanksgiving and the Socialist Imaginary

Ben Agger, Truthout: Canadians can access socialist imaginary through the Canadian New Democratic Party; with a Democratic Party that has no vision of utopia, US Americans access socialist imaginary through Thanksgiving. Holidays bear utopia as the negation of present suffering, a political resource at a time when mainstream Democrats cannot out-right the right.

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Show Up on Thanksgiving or Get Fired

Jim Hightower, OtherWords: Most Americans will get a much-deserved break from work on Thanksgiving Day. But millions of others won't. Wal-Mart, Target, Macy's, Radio Shack, and other retailers are requiring their low-paid workers to put in a shift.

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Privateers Make a Water Grab

Ellen Dannin, Portside: Facing increasing opposition abroad over the past several decades, global water privatizers have begun to see US cities as expansion markets.

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Ferguson Thanksgiving: A Former Slave Proposed the Holiday 55 Years Before Lincoln. Why His Version Matters Today

Jedediah Purdy, YES! Magazine: For some, racial inequality and fear are raw realities every day, and anything inspiring in American history rings false and remote. For others, the call to reflect on injustice feels like a personal accusation. But we are caught in this history together.

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#Not1More Means Not One More

Carlos Garcia, Puente Movement: Our organizing is based in the idea that when you organize from below, defending the most vulnerable, you lift everyone else up with you. When the most stigmatized have their humanity recognized, everyone else's expands as well.

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How ACA Fuels Corporatization of American Health Care

Dr. Philip Caper, Bangor Daily News: Patients are losing confidence in their doctors, while doctors are losing confidence in our ability to do the right thing for our patients. These trends are collateral damage caused by our increasingly corporatized, commodified and commercialized US health care "industry."

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"Coercive Diplomacy" and the Failure of the Nuclear Negotiations

Gareth Porter, Middle East Eye: The US posture in talks with Iran has reflected the perspective of a dominant power accustomed to employing coercive power.

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The Second Term That Movements Build

Kate Arnoff, Waging Nonviolence: The work grassroots organizers have been doing to put pressure on the White House since well before the 2008 election is paying off.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming

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The Myth of Thanksgiving Cannot Erase the Theft of Native American Land Through Decimation

Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It is a travesty to create a false narrative about the source of abundance celebrated on Thanksgiving.

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Six Revelations From the Michael Brown Grand Jury Documents

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Obama Threatens to Veto $440 Billion Tax Deal

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Anti-Fracking Warriors Sandra Steingraber and Colleen Boland Released From Jail

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Six Years Later, Walmart Still Hasn't Paid a $7,000 Fine for Black Friday Worker's Death

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In the Week Before Ferguson Decision, 12 Killed by Law Enforcement Across the US

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Glenn Greenwald: The US-UK Campaign to Demonize Social Media Companies as Terrorist Allies

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Fox News and the American Family Association May Own It, but Henry Ford and the John Birch Society Started the "War on Christmas"

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United Nations Calls for an End to Industrialized Farming

Maryam Henein, Truthout: We do not need genetically modified plants and monocultures to feed the world. To save the planet, the United Nations is calling for us to get rid of modern agriculture as we know it and adopt organic farms and a localized food system.

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Is Walmart the World's Worst Corporation?

John Logan, Truthout: Domestically and abroad, Walmart wreaks havoc on the lives of its employees and supply-chain workers, making it a serious contender in Public Eye's competition for world's worst corporation.

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Free Marissa and All Black People

Mariame Kaba, Prison Culture: For Marissa Alexander, Mike Brown and black people everywhere, the US criminal punishment system cannot deliver any "justice."

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New Sanctuary Movement Seeks to Protect Undocumented Immigrants

Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout:  A growing number of congregations across the country are defying the law by sheltering undocumented immigrants who are at risk of deportation.

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Media Must Tell What Happens - and Why - in Ferguson

Christopher Benson, The Chicago Reporter: The story of this St. Louis suburb is the story of power. It is power that is enforced at street level by the police and up throughout a justice system that has been engaged in the mass incarceration of people of color, and the political system that created it.

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From Buy Nothing Day to Independence Day

Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk, Truthout: What if "Buy Nothing Day" were reframed as "Independence Day?" It would symbolize independence from corporate control, the idea that we are merely what we consume and the life-denying tendencies of late stage capitalism.

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Should We Impeach Chief Justice John Roberts?

William Greider, The Nation: While the Republicans in Congress have blocked Democrats from enacting much of substance, the GOP majority in control of the Supreme Court has been effectively legislating on its own, following an agenda neatly aligned with their conservative party.

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No Justice in Ferguson

Terrance Heath, Campaign for America's Future: In the coming days, Officer Darren Wilson will sit down for major media interviews, and Thanksgiving dinner with his new wife. Meanwhile, Michael Brown's parents will sit with his empty chair and the knowledge that the man who killed him is not only free, but all over the media.

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Economic Update: Economics of Private Property

Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: This week's radio segment provides updates on unpaid internships, extreme wealth and economic perceptions as well as responses to listener questions on the real economics of public pensions and home refinancing.

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Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: A grand jury decision not to indict a white police officer for killing unarmed black teen Michael Brown set off outrage in Ferguson and communities across the country who see Brown's killing as part of a wide-scale pattern of police mistreatment of people of color.

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