Jimmy Dore is an award winning writer, performer, and comedian. Each week on his KPFK show, he skewers mainstream and right wing media, using satire and comedy to drive home his points. Dore has starred in several Comedy Central specials, his latest being the one-hour special, Citizen Jimmy. He is the writer and performer of the off-Broadway hit, “The Marijuana-logues,” and has often appeared on late-night television shows such as Jimmy Kimmel Live, and The Late Late Show. He travels the world on the comedy festival circuit, and locally, appears regularly at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater in Los Angeles.

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.” — Aldo Leopold …

Who’s on Congressional Super-committee to decide where to cut the federal budget? And, Pop and Politics with comedian Jimmy Dore. Plus, a new federal report on fracking, or hydrolic fracturing, reveals problems both in the practice, and in the report itself. And this week’s Rethink Reviews. …

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Mr Karzai said he would abide by the constitution’s demand that he step down when his second five-year term concludes in 2014 – just as Nato hands over security responsibilities to the Afghan state.

He had begun the search for a successor, he added.

A statement from the presidential palace said he had announced his intentions to a gathering of MPs in response to “rumours”.

Opposition leaders have long accused Mr Karzai of a plot to either rewrite …

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Nearly a week of rioting across England has shocked its residents and international onlookers. It began on Saturday August 6th in the North London town of Tottenham when a peaceful protest over the August 4th fatal police shooting of a black man named Mark Duggan spiraled out of control. Over the next few days, protests escalated throughout Tottenham, …

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Verizon workers on strike in Northeast states are sporting bright red t-shirts declaring, “CWA On Strike For Middle Class Jobs.” The Communication Workers of America union members are fighting against wage, healthcare, and other benefits cuts proposed by their employer. Their message is clear – this battle is not only about money, it’s about class status, and they believe …

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) cut off 305,000 bus line hours or 4.5 percent of the total bus system this past June. That’s a total of 12% of the bus system that has been eliminated since 2008. The MTA’s CEO Art Leahy reasoned that the cuts were justified because “Metro buses today overall are running less than half full.” In …

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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 the London Riots.

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“It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.” — Carl T. Rowan …