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Burning Issues: Choosing Peace-building Over Military Engagement
Measure the presidential candidates on how they balance spending on militarism and on peacemaking, says Theo Sitther of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, in this Burning Issues video.
Lame Duck TPP Push Hands Trump A Powerful Issue Against Clinton
Democrats need to persuade President Obama to not bring the Trans-Pacific Partnership before Congress in the lame duck session. If he doesn't pull back, Donald Trump can use this as a campaign issue against Hillary Clinton.
Verizon Unions Deliver For American Middle Class
The long Verizon strike has ended, and the unions won. This means that the American middle class won, too.
How TPP Hijacks Democracy
This is a must-listen segment in which Richard Eskow interviews Lori Wallach, Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch describing how TPP hijacks democracy.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Fracking as Foreign Policy Charlie Cray, a researcher at Greenpeace, in the latest Burning Issues video says the United States has been promoting hydraulic fracturing – fracking – in dozens of countries around the world despite the direct environmental...
Dodgin’ Donald’s Hiding Something in Those Unreleased Tax Returns
Donald Trump contends billionaire presidential candidates get a special exemption from releasing their income tax returns. Dodgin’ Donald doesn’t want workers to find out that while they paid the IRS every week, he paid nothing.
Common Sense on the Democratic Presidential Race
With Donald Trump tied with Hillary Clinton in early polls, hysteria is building among Democrats. Much venom is directed at Bernie Sanders, with Clinton surrogates telling him to pack it in. Here's a little common sense on the race.
Burning Issues: Fracking as Foreign Policy
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has encouraged the use of fracking as a foreign policy tool, Charlie Cray of Greenpeace explains in this Burning Issues segment.
Wingnut Week In Review: Trump’s Tinfoil Hat Campaign
Proving once and for all that he truly has not one shred of decency in him, Donald Trump has traded in his red trucker hat for a tinfoil hat. The sad and frightening part is that he’ll probably get away with it.
Sanders, Brown Speak Out On Gunboat Diplomacy For Corporations
Membesr of Congress are weighing in against the U.S. government's use of "gunboat diplomacy"-style intimidation against Colombia over a generic cancer drug.
