Glenn Greenwald: The Job of Journalists Is To Prevent People In Power From Lying To The People Over Whom They’re Ruling

Protect Edward Snowden #NSA

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BBC Newsnight on Oct 3, 2013

BBC Newsnight exclusive interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald on Edward Snowden, the PRISM revelations and mass surveillance.  Continue reading

You Can Stop the #TPP: Say NO to Fast Track

Celebrating a Successful Banner Drop

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breakingtheset on Oct 3, 2013

Abby Martin speaks with Margaret Flowers, Organizer for Popular Resistance about why fast tracking the TPP is so dangerous to the democratic process, and why everyone should care about this “free trade deal”.

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Jesse Ventura: The Democrats and Republicans Have Created This Corrupt System Based On Bribery

Jesse Ventura Fights Against MN Amendment

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Note: replaced the first two videos Dec. 1, 2015

RT America on Oct 2, 2013

Politics has hijacked the United States and still lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have yet to come closer to an agreement that would put nearly 1 million government employees back to work. According to a recent poll, 72 percent of Americans are opposed of the Republican strategy to shut down the government in spite of “Obamacare.” And as the dysfunction continues, former Independent Governor Jesse Ventura sounds off on the Capitol Hill shenanigans with RT’s Sam Sacks.

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