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Feds Bring Billion Dollar Fraud Suit Against Bank of America ; Brian Edwards Tiekert interviews William Black , associate professor of economics and law at the University of Missouri , Kansas City and the author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One Women and the Election; Brian Edwards Tiekert interviews … Continued
Assassination Bombing of Anti-Syrian, Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan in Lebanon ; Brian Edwards Tiekert interviews Amr Al-Azm , Assistant Professor of History at Pawnee State University in Ohio, about the current situation in Lebanon and Syria. What Should The Presidential Debate Be Raising? An Election-Year Agenda for Progressives ; Norman Solomon , Author, Media Critic, … Continued
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Economy ; Host Brian Edwards Tiekert speaks with Anat Shenker Osorio author of Dont Buy It: the trouble with talking nonsense about the economy Oakland Police Department to discipline 44 officers over Occupy Oakland Crackdown ; John Burris a local civil rights attorney speaks with Brian … Continued
Sound track for the Arab Spring. Syrian hip hop producer Ahmed Sharif Khouja of Strongholdsound.com
