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… about the Golden Spike and the Transcontinental Rail .

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GUEST: Paul Waldman, Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America, author of “Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn From Conservatives’ Success”

Earlier this week, Media Matters for America released a report that found cable news networks to be severely lacking in racial and gender diversity. The report, “Locked Out: The Lack …

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GUEST: Vladmir Flores, FSRN Correspondent, works with Mal de Ojo TV, an independent media collective

A little over a year after the brutal police attack on the Mexican town of San Salvador Atenco, three activist leaders have been sentenced to 67 years in prison. The three men Ignacio Del Valle, Felipe Alvarez, and Hector …

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GUEST: Morgan Spurlock, independent documentary film maker, best known for his documentary Super Size Me, Mike Akel, Director, Co-Writer and Producer of Chalk

In 2004, independent documentary film maker Morgan Spurlock released a ground breaking film about the fast food industry and obesity in America. Super Size Me was the result of Spurlock’s interviews …

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… about the Crime of Sodomy in London .

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GUEST: Elaine Bernard, Executive Director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard University

Conservative candidate Nicolas Sarkozy defeated his socialist rival Segolene Royal in last Sunday’s presidential election runoff in France. The turnout marked the third consecutive presidential election defeat for the French left with Sarkozy winning 53 percent of the vote to …

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GUEST: Beverly Daniel Tatum, President of Spelman College in Atlanta, and author of “Can we Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation”

Can we Talk About Race? That’s the central question that Beverly Daniel Tatum asks in her new book. Tatum is the President of Spelman College, the oldest …

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GUEST: Lawrence S. Wittner, Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, author of Toward Nuclear Abolition: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1971 to the Present. He serves on the board of Peace Action

Two major newspapers over the weekend printed articles about the increasing influence of liberal and …

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… about the United States Postal Service .

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GUEST: Aquilina Soriano Versoza, Director of the Filipino Workers Center, Xiomara Corpeno, Director of Organizing with CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights pf Los Angeles)

LA Police Chief William Bratton said yesterday that up to 60 members of an elite LAPD squad that stormed into a park last Tuesday and fired upon peaceful …

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