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Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello has a new EP out as his alter-ego The Nightwatchman. It’s called Union Town and is inspired by the labor struggles earlier this year in Wisconsin. Morello went to Madison and performed in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of union members gathered every day at the capital to preserve their rights. …

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The Los Angeles City Council this Tuesday voted 11-1 to opt-out of the Department of Homeland Security’s Secure Communities program. Secure Communities is a pillar of current federal immigration policy. States enter into the program voluntarily and agree to share fingerprint data from local arrest records with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Obama administration is reportedly pushing for …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on US Aid to Haiti

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“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …

We’ll revisit Egypt and the battle unfolding between supporters of the revolution and reactionary forces. Plus, Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello on his latest EP at The Nightwatchman, called Union Town. And, a look at the battle shaping up between the Federal Government and some states over the Secure Communities program that targets immigrants. And the Black Agenda Report. …

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The internet has been abuzz for some weeks now about a NASA coverup of a prediction that in 2012 the sun will erupt in a solar flare so dangerous, that it could destroy the Earth. While Solar astronomers have assured the public that our sun is a very stable star, incapable of generating a flare strong enough to engulf the earth, it has …

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“The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat 20 pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness of theirs, even if he or she is a provable nut, as being far more credible than ten normal witnesses on the other side; treats rumors, even questions, as the equivalent of proof; leaps from the most minuscule of discoveries to the grandest of conclusions; and insists… that the failure …

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We’ll spend the hour with Jonathan Kay, author of Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground.

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The Youth and Gender Media Project explores through film, the stories of gender non-conforming children and their parents. Through two short films called “I’m Just Anneke,” and “The Family Journey,” Director and Editor Jonathan Skurnik sees his films as a tool to “educate and transform school communities across the United States.”

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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday urged the government of Yemen to begin an “immediate transition” in the absence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh. President Saleh was wounded late last week in an attack on his palace by rebel forces, reportedly having punctured a lung and suffering burns on over 40% of his body. Speaking anonymously to the …

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