A Global NRA: Our Government Is the Largest Federally Licensed Weapons Dealer on the Planet

Given these last weeks, who doesn’t know what an AR-15 is? Who hasn’t seen the mind-boggling stats on the way assault rifles have flooded this country, or tabulations of accumulating Newtown-style mass killings, or noted that there are barely more gas stations nationwide than federally licensed firearms dealers, or heard the renewed debates over the Second Amendment, …

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Honeychain from Los Angeles!

We played the song “Easy to Forget” on today’s show.

Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader to make that information free of charge, died in New York on Friday, a family member said.

Mr. Swartz was 26, and his death was due to suicide. His body was found by his girlfriend in his apartment in New York, his uncle, …

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Thousands of Sunni Iraqis have taken to the streets of Baghdad and other parts of the country to decry the alleged targeting of their minority, in rallies hardening opposition to the country’s Shia leader.

Counter-demonstrations were held on Friday in predominantly Shia areas of southern Iraq calling for authorities to resist demands to reform anti-terror laws or consider a wide-ranging prisoner release, both key demands in majority-Sunni areas.

The protests have worsened a political crisis, pitting Prime …

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A 2010 Human Rights Watch report, “As If I Am Not Human,” based on extensive interviews with domestic workers in Saudi Arabia as well as in their home countries, described conditions amounting to modern-day slavery:

Most domestic workers reported working 15-20 hours a day, typically with one hour of rest or no rest at all. None of the interviewees had a day off or paid leave. Domestic workers reported having …

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Erika Andiola, a well-known immigrant rights leader, watched Thursday night as agents handcuffed and took away her mother and adult brother from their Phoenix home–arrests that sparked swift outrage among activists like her across the nation.

Organizations released scores of statements condemning the action. Federal officials were bombarded with petitions and calls for the release of Andiola’s mother, Maria Arreola, and brother, Heriberto Andiola Arreola. Both are suspected of being in the country illegally.

By Friday morning …

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We’ll examine what some are calling President Obama’s “diversity problem” in his new term’s cabinet reshuffle. And, delegates from around the world plan to gather in Geneva to discuss a new treaty regulating mercury emissions from coal-fired plants. Plus, Antonia Juhasz on her new expose entitled “The New War for Afghanistan’s Untapped Oil.” …

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Federal Regulators Settle With Big Banks Over Foreclosure Fraud for a Few Hundred Dollars Per Homeowner — Reflections on the 11th Anniversary of Guantanamo — Rape Culture Pervasive and Justice for Rape Victims Elusive — Scientists Find Strong Correlation Between Childhood Lead Exposure and Violent Crime

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A new book by former Seattle Black Panther Aaron Dixon tells the unique story of his years as a Captain in the Black Panther Party’s Seattle chapter. Dixon was only 19 years old when he founded the Seattle chapter of the Black Panther Party. His beautifully written memoir captures what life was like for a young black man growing up in the revolutionary era of the late 1960s.

Starting with …

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“[T]he Black Panther Party’s legacy is eternal. It will live on, always, in the hearts and minds of those who stand for the truth, of those that stand for justice and are willing to do whatever is needed to create the world we all deserve to live in: a world free of poverty, hunger, greed, fear and hate – a world full of love and balance.” — Aaron Dixon …