Nov
30
2015
GUEST: Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, also an Executive Board Member of the California Democratic Party.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, reportedly boasted about the ease with which he snuck into the city alongside refugees, and apparently was planning more attacks on Jewish centers and businesses. Abaaoud was killed during a police raid following the attacks.
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Nov
30
2015
GUEST: Samantha Cook, co-found of SOSBlakAustralia.
Friday November 27th was meant to be the biggest shopping day of the year. But that day has increasingly become a convenient day of protest for a variety of causes including low-wage workers demanding better working conditions, and Black activists boycotting sales over police violence. This past Friday also marked one year since the start of a campaign called sosblakaustralia.
Indigenous …
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Nov
30
2015
GUEST: Daphne Wysham, director of the Climate and Energy Program at the Center for Sustainable Economy.
Hundreds of thousands of people marched in cities around the world as the United Nations Conference of Parties kicked off in Paris, France. There were to be massive demonstrations in Paris demanding a global climate agreement, but in the wake of the recent ISIS attacks there which killed 130 people, French President …
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Nov
30
2015
Published by Truthdig.com on November 25, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets supporters at a campaign event in New York City on Sept. 3. (a katz / Shutterstock.com).
From Minneapolis to Chicago this week, thousands of Americans are marching to demand justice in the police shootings of two young black men, 24-year-old Jamar Clark and 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Despite the fact that fatal …
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Nov
20
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUESTS: Diana Lopez is an organizer with the Southwest Workers Union for worker rights, environmental justice and community empowerment in San Antonio, Texas and has attended several UN climate conferences; Shawna Foster, veteran of the US National Guard where she served as a Nuclear Biological Chemical Weapons Specialist. She is currently the Board chair of Iraq Veterans Against The War. Both Akuno and Foster …
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Nov
20
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Robert Jensen is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in media law, ethics, and politics. He is the author of a number of books. His latest book is called ‘Plain Radical: Living, Loving, and Learning to Leave the Planet Gracefully.’
Our society tends to glorify leaders, those who make a name …
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Nov
19
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Luna Olavarria Gallegos, multimedia journalist originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is currently a student at The New School in New York City. Previously, she has contributed to stopbeingfamous.com, National Radio Project and she is a senior editor of the national student newspaper readcontra.com.
Campus activism against racist policies has escalated and spread ever since the University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe stepped …
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Nov
19
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Jordan Elgrably, founding director of The Markaz, Arts Center for the Greater Middle East. A writer, editor, curator and producer of public programs, Jordan is of Moroccan and French heritage.
The Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (ISIS) has declared that it carried out an attack on a Russian airplane carrying 224 people last month. The attack, which took place over the Egyptian …
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Nov
19
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Amos Kamil is a playwright, screen writer, and investigative reporter. He is the author of Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal, and the Quest for Justice At the Horace Mann School.
On June 6, 2012, New York Times magazine published a bombshell of an article entitled Prep-School Predators: The Horace Mann School’s Secret History of Sexual Abuse. The author, Amos Kamil, was a …
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Nov
18
2015
Published by Truthdig.com on November 18, 2015
A French sailor checks a Super-Etendard jet on the deck of France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on Wednesday. (Claude Paris / AP)
When the brutal attacks in Paris occurred Friday night, social media was immediately abuzz with Facebook “safety checks” and breaking news reports that screamed ever-increasing death tolls in their headlines.
Within 24 hours, people were making snap …
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