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GUESTS: Mark Schapiro, Editorial Director at the Center for Investigative Reporting, author of Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What’s at Stake for American Power, Jessica Frohman, Co-Chair of the National Toxins Committee at Sierra Club

The largest toy company in the United States, Mattel Inc, has recalled millions of Chinese-made …

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GUEST: Scott Amey, General Consul for the Project on Government Oversight

After a watchdog group recently launched its Federal Contractor Misconduct Database, response has varied from positive to the critical. The improved and more user-friendly database created by the Project on Government Oversight names contractors, the amount of federal money they have received, the …

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GUEST: Greg Speeter, Executive Director of the National Priorities Project

A new study released earlier this week found that half of the US’s poor are not getting the food stamps for which they are entitled. The numbers varied state-by-state with the District of Columbia having the highest participation rate at 72%, and Nevada having …

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… about the Mississippi State College Board.

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GUEST: Robert Parry, Investigative journalist with Consortium News, author of several books including “Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W Bush”

In his latest weekly radio address, President Bush characterized his troop surge plan in Iraq as a strategy that is “delivering good results.” Ahead of next month’s congressional progress report on the …

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GUEST: Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus

Crisis after crisis seems to be striking the southern African nation of Zimbabwe. The rate of state initiated human rights violations has doubled since last year to over 5000 in the first six months of 2007 alone. The violations include torture, assault, detention, intimidation, and even …

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GUEST: Carmen Balber, Consumer Advocate at the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

Intel, the computer chip maker recently pulled an advertisement that, to most people, appears obviously racist. The ad was for a new generation of micro-processors and showed six black sprinters crouched in the start position in front of a white …

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… about New York City’s White Riots .

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GUEST: Erin Aubrey Kaplan, contributing editor to the Los Angeles Times

Last Friday, a federal agency concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. – Harbor Hospital in South Central Los Angeles failed to meet minimum patient-care standards. As a result, King-Harbor will lose $200 million dollars in federal funding that constitutes more than half of its …

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GUESTS: “Lea” and “Melinna,” two US-based attendees of the 3rd Annual Cuban Hip Hop Symposium

The third annual Cuban Hip Hop Symposium took place late last month at the cultural center in Havana, Cuba. Organized by La Fabri_K, a Cuban Hip Hop collective of groups like Obsesion and Hermanazos, the symposium featured conferences, workshops, and …

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