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As scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the Earth’s hottest year on record, President Obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants
Senator Elizabeth Warren delivers a speech about the Republican vote to defund Planned Parenthood on the Senate floor on August 3, 2015.
Susan George looks back at her four decades of scholarship to explain what led her to write her different books, how it formed her vision of power and the best ways to challenge the Davos class in order to deliver a more just world
Interview on why there was no need for a nuclear deal.
The last time the United States and Cuba had diplomatic ties, President Dwight Eisenhower was in office
In a speech in Athens, Costas Lapavitsas says the Syriza plan was to achieve radical change within the Eurozone – and that’s impossible
The humiliating offer presented by Eurozone finance ministers to the Greek government is designed to bring down Syriza
Harald Schumann On The Trail – Talking to Yanis Varoufakis
A report from Athens as Greek Voters Seek Alternatives to Austerity
Interview on what the Greek people are willing to say yes to
Interview on Europe’s “savage response” to the pushback against austerity demands
A look at the prejudice currently in the Dominican Republic, the history of segregation in public spaces, and a special comment on the Charleston shooting.
According to a report, even the killing of the boys playing ball on the beach by Israeli military last year before the international press was deemed a legitimate act of war
Discussion on how Fox News reacts to the video that shows a policeman pointing a gun at children at a pool party in Texas
Newly revealed details of the draft show the TPP would give major pharmaceutical companies more power over public access to medicine and weaken public healthcare programs
The large tech companies like Google and Microsoft and Apple collaborated very aggressively with the NSA in turning over their users’ data without much protest
Interview on environmental activism, climate change, the California drought and the future of our planet
Interview on why that plane was targeted
An interview on how education should really work
Since the 15M movement, Spain has seen the rise of a democratic revolution from the bottom up
Analyzing Hamas rocket attacks and Israel’s claims of self defense
Interview on America’s uncertain foreign policy in the region and the underlying forces propping up Assad’s government
New cellphone video sheds light on Freddie Gray’s fatal journey in a Baltimore police van
If you don’t know Stone but want to find out why he’s so beloved, the videos describe his approach and some of his accomplishments
Discussion on how data-collection began as a commercial enterprise that was eventually co-opted by the state
The Port of Seattle has voted to seek the blockade of rigs used by the oil giant Shell for its planned drilling in the Arctic this summer
Discussing the legality of Freddie Gray’s arrest
Discussion on how scientific research at MIT has been affected for the past 50+ years by its relationship with outside funding agencies, in particular the US military
Interview on the failures of the liberal class, the limitations of our existing commercial/corporate media structure, and the need for alternative approaches to education
“Baltimore today was everywhere in 1967, 1968”
The Greek social and material crisis has forced many book stores and publishers to close while writers and readers are considering new political ideas
A call for disciplined protest from a young Baltimore resident
Randy Newman’s Song of pain from the Album Little Criminals (1977)
Norman Finkelstein at Syracuse University on April 23, 2015
A report on Freddie Gray’s funeral explaining the context for the outburst of anger and frustration by youth in Baltimore
Interview with the Director of one of Greece’s largest media networks, the Syriza affiliated “Sto Kokkino,” which in English translates to “In the Red”
Interview on the alternative media, activism and a host of other related issues
The creditors are reportedly pressuring the country to restructure its labor market and curtail its pension system; Syriza has instead done the opposite by increasing pension payments to lower-wage workers
America’s media machine has been spreading its own form of propaganda throughout the world, while at the same time refusing to acknowledge its own culpability in international conflicts
Could US hegemony be coming to an end?
In conversation with Joseph Stiglitz on the Eurozone Crisis – at the INET – OECD conference, 9 April 2015
Students at Harvard University have expanded their blockade of key administration offices while calling on the school to divest from fossil fuels
Cries of “Black Lives Matter” continue to ring out across the country after new police killings of unarmed African Americans
Inteview with Ramsey Orta’s aunt, Lisa Mercado, as well as Orta family attorneys, William Aronin and Ken Perry
“the Obama administration has approved more arms sales than any U.S. administration since World War II”
Noam Chomsky is interviewed by a very prominent physicist on a variety of topics
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs held a lecture entitled:
The Geopolitics of Iran’s Nuclear Program with Vijay Prashad
On the Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World
Talks over a nuclear deal with Iran are in their final stages
Tens of thousands gather for the World Social Forum in Tunis, Tunisia