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Supreme Oligarchy: How Billionaires and the Supreme Court are Betraying the Promise of America
Supreme Oligarchy: How Billionaires and the Supreme Court are Betraying the Promise of America

Author, broadcaster and scholar Thom Hartmann warns of the existential threat of a virulent new oligarchy: the third frontal assault by the ultra-wea…

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Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock
Indigenous Rising: From Alcatraz to Standing Rock

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes. From the historic Indigenous occupation of Alcatraz Island in 1969 to the fossil fuel fights throughout…

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Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman
Take This Job and Shove It: The Great Resignation or The Great Revolt? | Saru Jayaraman

Labor organizer and Founder of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman, takes us inside one of the fiercest labor struggles to challenge a mighty oligarchy: Th…

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Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging digital authoritarianism.
Cindy Cohn, director of Electronic Frontier Foundation is challenging digital authoritarianism.

We plug into the real world Matrix – the digital Wild West of surveillance capitalism that dominates this Age of Information. Behind it is the unholy…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Learn about how to join today’s growing anti-monopoly movement
Learn about how to join today’s growing anti-monopoly movement

Episode 271

Today, three to five giant corporations control up to 80% of almost every industry and marketplace. These monopolies depress wages, exploit workers, …

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Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Democracy v. Plutocracy: Breaking Up is Hard to Do

From local communities and states to federal policy, antitrust movements to dismantle monopolies are challenging the system that can be summed up as:…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

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Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime
Democracy v. Plutocracy: Behind Every Great Fortune Lies a Great Crime

In this first part of a two-part program, we travel back and forth in time to explore the battle between democracy and plutocracy that goes back to t…

6 months ago

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Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy?
Who Is an American? Is Our Democracy as Unequal as Our Economy?

By around 2044, the U.S. will become a majority-minority nation. This seismic demographic shift has triggered a cultural earthquake, provoking a radi…

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A Conversation with David Rothenberg
A Conversation with David Rothenberg

Dive into a conversation between Bioneers senior producer J.P. Harpignies and David Rothenberg. David is a musician, composer, author, naturalist, ph…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism
When No News is Bad News: The Struggle to Save Local Journalism

Episode 281

The most critical feedback loop in a democracy is a free press and access to vital information. Yet decades of corporate consolidation allowed giant …

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