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Robert Jay Lifton on the Apocalyptic Twins of Nuclear and Climate Threats & Reflections on Survival

We spend the bulk of the hour with Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, a leading American psychiatrist and author of more than 20 books about the effects of nuclear war, terrorism and

October 13, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Corporate Media Have Few Apologies for Getting IRS Scandal Backwards

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Back in May 2013, corporate media outlets expressed alarm at a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) that suggested that from 2004 through 2013, the IRS had applied extra

October 13, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Are Americans Beginning to Care about Election Integrity?

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Nearly a year after the 2016 presidential election, many Americans have been forced, some for the very first time, to look critically at their voting protections, and recognize that US balloting systems

October 12, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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Electoral Reform

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Julian Assange on Roger Stone & Accusations About WikiLeaks and Trump Campaign Ties to Russia

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Microsoft has joined Facebook in saying it is investigating whether Russian operatives paid for “inappropriate” pro-Trump ads on its Bing search engine and other platforms. Social media giant Facebook has said a

October 10, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Politics

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’80 Percent of the Benefit Is Going to the Richest 1 Percent’

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The key part of the Republican tax plan, CNBC explained, isn’t the individual or even the corporate tax rates. The big news is that it doubles the standard deduction

October 11, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Media

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Trump Admin to Rollback Obama's Clean Power Plan

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EPA head Scott Pruitt's decision has been called a handout to profit-driven polluters that sacrifices the future of the planet

October 10, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Environment

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Climate Change

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Debate: Western Democracy Is Threatening Suicide

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Do the populist and nationalist uprisings that led to Donald Trump and Brexit signal Western democracy’s certain decline? Or can recent events be seen as part of a healthy and

October 9, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

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Debate: Give Undocumented Immigrants a Path to Citizenship

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There are an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and the question of what to do with them has sparked years of fierce debate, but no significant action.

October 9, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

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Joseph Stiglitz on the Great Divide

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Inequality is an increasing problem in the Western world, leaving everyone – the rich as well as the poor – worse off. The dream of a socially mobile society is becoming an

October 9, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

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Debate: The internet is a failed utopia

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Andrew Keen and Frank Pasquale vs Beth Simone Noveck and Peter Barron. Chaired by Jeremy Paxman. Picking up where we left off in the first session, we move from the early

October 9, 2017
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Submitted by: Love Knowledge
Category: Philosophy

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Philosophical Debates

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