Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Samuel R. Gross, the Thomas and Mabel Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School. He is also the editor of the university’s National Registry of Exonerations.
Nearly 150 people were exonerated for crimes they were convicted of throughout the United States last year. That number is a record high, as per the National Registry of Exonerations. Even more shocking, the average sentence …
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Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Thenmozhi Soundararajan, a Dalit-American filmmaker and Transmedia artist, co-founder of the international women’s media technology collective, Third World Majority.
Well-known Indian author Arundhati Roy is facing a criminal trial for contempt of court in an ominous move that reflects an increasingly intolerant atmosphere in the world’s largest democracy. Roy, who is known for her strong progressive views critical of India’s government, could face prison time. …
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Feb
05
2016
GUEST: Mehrsa Baradaran is the J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, at the University of Georgia School. She has testified before Congress on postal banking and how poor Americans are forced to resort to payday lenders.
In a 2014 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders called for the creation of a public banking system, with the postal service as a foundation. That idea …
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Feb
05
2016
Published by Truthdig.com on February 03, 2016
Hillary Clinton takes a selfie with a supporter after speaking at a high school in West Des Moines, Iowa, in January. (Patrick Semansky / AP)
The media coverage of the horse race in Iowa on Monday night was hampered by pro-establishment spin. We need to see through that but also realize that the elections are only a …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Patrick Woodall, Research Director and Senior Policy Advocate for Food & Water Watch, advocate on economic justice issues in Washington, and coauthor of a book on the World Trade Organization.
Representatives from a dozen nations including the US are gathering in Auckland, New Zealand this week to sign the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is a complex and very secret trade deal on which the …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Arun Gupta, investigative journalist who has written for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, the Guardian, The Nation, and Salon. He recently wrote a piece on Raw Story called ‘The Oregon militant leaders are captured or dead — but anger toward the government lives on.’
Ammon Bundy, the leader of an armed white militia that occupied Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon for nearly a month, is …
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Feb
04
2016
GUEST: Joy Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC. She is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com and her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Salon, and more.
After the Iowa caucuses, all eyes are on New Hampshire, the next Primary election race. While Bernie Sanders is set to win there as per his huge lead in poll numbers over his rival Hillary …
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Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Alan Minsky, Program Director at KPFK Pacifica Radio in Los Angeles, a contributor to Truthdig.com, joining us live from Ames, Iowa.
The Iowa caucuses have been seen as a bell weather of primary races in Presidential elections. Kicking off primary season, the state of Iowa attracts national and even international attention every four years, even as it struggles to pull off extremely complicated “caucusing” in …
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Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Nathan Thompson, is a researcher with the Igarapé Institute, a Rio de Janeiro-based think tank specializing in security and development issues.
Mass protests shook Brazil in mid-January, leading up to the coming Olympics. They center on the hikes to public transportation fares. Echoing similar protests in 2013, they have rocked cities like Sao Paulo, and also prompted repressive responses from government security forces.
But it’s not …
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Feb
03
2016
GUEST: Seth Freed Wessler, Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a contributor to The Nation magazine. His investigation, reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund, with support from the Puffin Foundation, is the cover story of the February 15 edition of the magazine.
Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are being held inside privately run federal prisons in the US, and, according to a new, …
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