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July 21, 2011
We’ll highlight the California Public Utilities Commission’s public hearing on the proposed AT&T – T-Mobile merger. And, a former Los Alamos employee sounds the whistle on the lab’s plan to build a nuclear weapons facility that would house weapons grade Plutonium on a fault-line. Plus, Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red joins us in studio to discuss his “insider’s account of a social movement under siege.” And the Black Agenda Report. …
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Rupert Murdoch appeared yesterday with his son James before the British House of Commons Media Select Committee, to be questioned on allegations springing from the phone hacking scandal. Former Chief Executive of Murdoch’s News International, Rebekah Brooks, was also questioned. All three appeared contrite, with Rupert Murdoch interrupting his son in the first minutes of their testimony to interject, “This …
Conservatives and business groups are up in arms over proposed changes to labor laws governing union elections. Two days of public hearings earlier this week at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) drew both union and business advocates on opposite sides of an increasingly caustic debate over the length of campaigns for union representatives. Currently, when employees of a company …
If you are a patient with a terminal disease, how painfully you live out the remainder of your life depends on where you live. Patients in mostly wealthy countries can expect to have easy access to drugs like Morphine. However, in poor countries like India, terminal patients often live out the last few months and years of their lives …
After being temporarily revived on Sunday, the Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza finally wrapped today when the Israeli Navy intercepted and seized the last boat. On Sunday the crew of the French yacht Dignité al-Karama, declared Alexandria, Egypt as their destination and was allowed to leave its Greek port. It changed course for Gaza once reaching international waters …
President Obama yesterday disappointed his base in announcing he would nominate Richard Cordray to be the Director of the embattled Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren was long championed as the only acceptable choice for the post by Labor, consumer advocates, and progressive policy organizations. The decision to bypass Warren came after months of reports that the …
