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Why Is Ted Cruz Weaker Than Near Beer?
Listen now (2 mins) | Oh, thank God for Ted Cruz! Once again, the far-right-wing US Senator is saving you and me from a political horror that doesn’t…
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How Things Work: Big Pharma Price Gouging
Listen now (2 mins) | Corporate and governmental hucksters intentionally cloak their schemes in convoluted obfuscations… so we commoners can’t really…
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How Biased Is the Corporate Media? Ask Auto Workers
Here’s a story about media bias. Not the flagrant, pure propaganda that defines partisan outfits like Fox News, but the daily drip, drip, drip of…
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Blast from the past: Hightower and the organic farming revolution of the 1970s
A tidbit from Hightower’s history that we thought you might enjoy: Back in 1973, he and Susan DeMarco published Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times-- a…
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How the Right-Wing is Trying to Turn Public Education Into Corporate Obedience Schools
Listen now | Back to school! Bright-eyed youngsters are now back in our public classrooms, filled with questions about the world around them. Questions…
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The new McCarthyism and what to do about it
Little Kevin McCarthy has again been cowed by his House Caucus of Rabid Hyenas, this time bowing to their squeals to investigate whether there's…
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Labor Day Is Over, but Labor’s Day Is Just Starting
Last week, I wrote about how Labor Day was created in the 1880s by rebellious workers, but I’m celebrating the spirit again this week because a…
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Yes, We Can Stop Drug Price Gouging! Here’s How!
Listen now (2 mins) | We human beings sometimes do some terrible things in pursuit of the almighty dollar. But to our credit, one moral line we humans…
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Why Are Far-Right-Wing Extremists Worshiping John C. Calhoun?
Listen now (2 mins) | A few days ago, the city of Savannah, Georgia took an important symbolic step toward racial inclusiveness, naming one of…
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The rebellious spirit of Matthew Maguire’s first Labor Day is spreading again across our country. Join the parade.
Plus: help flip Texas with an important event next week
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August 2023
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