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This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: Rep. Dennis Kucinich takes “nothing good” from the president’s visit to Afghanistan, Robert Scheer on China, Occupiers and organizers, and California’s autism unfairness.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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There were doubts about whether Occupy Wall Street could pull off the massive day of protest its organizers spent many months planning. But demonstrators in New York City and elsewhere joined forces with labor unions and immigrant-rights activists to remind the public that there is a working class and May 1 is its holiday.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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“Which federal program took in more than it spent last year, added $95 billion to its surplus and lifted 20 million Americans of all ages out of poverty?” finance reporter David Cay Johnston asks.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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OWS communications coordinator Shawn Carrié was walking home at 9 p.m. on May Day when nine plainclothes police officers approached him, took his belongings, placed him in handcuffs and put him in a van. He was questioned about his involvement in Occupy Wall Street and then spent the next 13 hours in jail.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
It is difficult to imagine how a society in which a financial elite and megacorporations control almost every aspect of politics could possibly be mistaken for a democracy.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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Adlene Hicheur, a 35-year-old Algerian-born nuclear physicist who worked in Switzerland’s CERN laboratory, was sentenced to five years in prison by a French court for “criminal association with a view to plotting terrorist attacks” on a French barracks with al-Qaida’s North African affiliate.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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Residents of an apartment complex in east London are asking if they will be made the targets of attacks if the Ministry of Defense goes through with a plan to station soldiers and surface-to-air missiles atop their building to deter airborne terrorist threats during the Olympic Games.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Rep. Dennis Kucinich — Forty-two years ago on May 4, 1970, members of the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a crowd of unarmed students at Kent State University, firing between 61 and 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and injuring nine others.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Richard Reeves — For the second straight year, Granada Hills Charter High School in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles has won the National Academic Decathlon.
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By Eugene Robinson — Show of hands: Does anybody really understand the U.S. policy in Afghanistan? Can anyone figure out how we’re supposed to stay the course and bring home the troops at the same time?
Posted on May 4, 2012
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By David Sirota — In the Information Age, you should be thinking about your computer—and asking, how much of you is really yours?
Posted on May 4, 2012
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Researchers are encouraged by the results of a 16-year study of T cells that have been engineered to kill cells infected with HIV. The altered cells reproduce themselves successfully and have not led to the development of cancers, as previous attempts to tinker with T cells’ genetics have.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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The declaration by British MPs on Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch exercised “willfull blindness” about phone hacking at The News of the World and is “not a fit person” to run a major international company has prompted the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington to ask the FCC to revoke the 27 Fox broadcast licenses that News Corp. holds in the U.S.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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More than 100 former professional football players Thursday joined the growing list of those who are suing the NFL over concussion-related injuries.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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That’s right. Nothing to do with self-serving politicians or predatory bankers. And while we’re at it, inequality’s a good thing. Those are the arguments printed in former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard’s upcoming “Unintended Consequences,” a free-market apologia that New York Times reporter Adam Davidson dubbed likely to be the “most hated book of the year.”
Posted on May 3, 2012
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By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica —
A study into the safety of gas drilling in New York state’s Marcellus Shale concludes that natural faults and fractures, exacerbated by the effects of fracking, could allow chemicals to reach the surface and contaminate drinking water supplies much sooner than experts previously predicted.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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New York saw what was probably the city’s first ever “guitarmy” this May Day, a march by hundreds of OWS-affiliated musicians led by former Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello from midtown’s Bryant Park to Union Square, where they were joined by Immortal Technique, Das Racist and Dan Deacon to fire up protesters with song.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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By Bill McKibben, TomDispatch —
After a year with a record number of multibillion-dollar weather disasters, seven in 10 Americans now believe that global warming is affecting the weather. No less striking, 35 percent of them report that extreme weather had affected them personally in 2011.
Posted on May 3, 2012
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By Robert Scheer — We do not care a whit now—nor have we ever cared—about their human rights or any other aspect of their lives as long as they satiate our unbridled appetites.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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By Amy Goodman — May Day, Murdoch and the murder of Milly Dowler. What do they have to do with the 2012 U.S. general election?
Posted on May 2, 2012
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Junior Seau is the latest ex-NFL player to commit suicide, leaving some to question whether these cases may be related to brain injuries the men suffered during their playing careers.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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On Wednesday, the former House speaker formally ended his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, despite previously vowing to stay in the race until the GOP convention in August.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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By Andrew Salmon —
North Korea’s most notorious political prison camp is Total Control Camp 14, into which Shin Dong-hyuk was born, narrowly survived and eventually fled. Former Washington Post reporter Blaine Harden recounts his story in “Escape From Camp 14.”
Posted on May 2, 2012
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lists the Heritage Keepers Abstinence Education, a pro-abstinence program aimed at middle and high schoolers, as one of almost three dozen “evidenced-based” sex education programs that qualify as effective in preventing teenage pregnancy.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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“The Daily Show” host took aim at some of his favorite targets Tuesday night as he ripped Republicans and conservative pundits for their hypocritical response to an ad aired by the Obama campaign that highlights the president’s success in bringing down Osama bin Laden one year ago.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout —
Warlike values and the social mind-set they legitimize have become the primary currency of our market-driven culture, which takes as its model a Darwinian shark tank in which only the strong survive.
Posted on May 2, 2012
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