President Obama broke down and cried today as he announced new executive action to combat gun violence. But all emotional impact aside – his plan is still extremely modest. So why is it drawing so much outrage from the right? Jane Horton, Conservative Commentator/Veterans Advocate & Ari Rabin-Havt, -The Agenda/SiriusXM Progress/The Benghazi Hoax & Neil McCabe, One America News Network all join...
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If you don’t live on the West Coast of the United States, you might not have heard about the massive natural gas well leak that’s been venting natural gas into the atmosphere at a rate of more than 100,000 pounds per hour for over two months. Infrared video that the Environmental Defense Fund captured in December shows that the natural gas is billowing like a volcano just above Burbank, California, on a hilltop in the Aliso Canyon area. That video was taken over a month after the leak started on October 23, after the well had already ejected an...
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Greg Jobin-Leeds, WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN!: Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists That Are Transforming Our World/Schott Foundation For Public Education. Greg explains the vital practices that make modern movements work and why he’s an...
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Multiple Middle Eastern states have ended diplomatic ties with Iran after tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran rapidly escalated this weekend. What does this mean for the on-going conflicts in the Middle East – and what does it mean for the future of diplomacy in the region? How have the developments in the last few years – including the destabilization of Iraq – the rise of ISIS – the Syrian civil war – and the plummeting price of oil – contributed to this standoff? John Bradshaw, National Security Network joins Thom in the...
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What no one is talking about is the fact that that China isn’t driving the looming economic crash – what’s driving it is the fact that so-called “free market” capitalism and austerity politics are failing at a global scale. Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Democracy At Work, goes off on the state of the economy...
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