Minority school kids nationwide are racking up suspension rap sheets before they learn their primary colors at way higher rates than their white peers. And thanks to more cops in schools and zero tolerance for bad behavior, schools are fast-tracking kids to a perpetual cycle of school dropout and prison time. Correspondent Natalie McGill gets into the realities of the School to Prison Pipeline on Redacted...
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As part of the new National Defense Authorization Act, President Obama has signed a law that will allow the government to create an “anti-propaganda” department whose job is to “counter foreign propaganda” in the US. The law allows the administration to make grants to social media outlets and independent media who will be charged with “refuting” online propaganda. The Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Transcription of the above video: On December 23rd, a Friday, the day before Christmas Eve and the entire Christmas holiday, when he absolutely knew that nobody in the world was going to be...
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Guest host Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works, speaks with Richard Eskow, host of The Zero Hour, about why we need a media revolution and how we make one...
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Though the countryside is ravaged by blizzards and sub-zero temperatures, many of the original water keepers have remained in their winterized camps at Standing Rock in order to ensure that drilling on the pipeline ceases completely. In the wake of their decisive victory, many water protectors weighed in on how they felt about the incoming president Trump and how his administration might threaten their victory at Standing Rock. Trump, who is pro-fossil fuel and is heavily invested in the Dakota Access Pipeline itself, is a major threat to the NoDAPL protests. Though the Obama administration halted the pipeline, the...
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Big Picture Interview: Richard Eskow, The Zero Hour/Campaign for America’s Future. Speaking of Trump cabinet picks – the next presidential administration is shaping up to be the richest in American history. The last time we saw this kind of plutocratic takeover of the government it led to the Great Depression. Are we about to witness a sequel to that...
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