Filibustered. Last night – Republicans proved they’d rather protect billionaires from a one-half of one percent tax increase rather than keep 400,000 teachers, firefighters, and cops on the job. Despite once again acquiring enough votes to pass a portion of President Obama’s American Jobs Act under normal procedure – the legislation fell short of receiving the 60 votes needed to overcome a unified Republican filibus

Young people have been hit hardest by Bush's banksters’ worldwide crash – with more than 75 million young people across the planet desperately looking for jobs. The number of unemployed people between the ages of 15 and 24 has increased by 4.6 million since the recession began in 2008. And the effects of this massive hit of joblessness among young people are on clear display in some of the most developed economies in the

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Hour One: Yaz...what did "Big Pharma" forget to tell us? Attorney, Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire Radio

Hour Two: "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington and the Education of a President" - Ron Suskind / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - Feeding the world while protecting the planet

Republicans fought it out last night in a CNN hosted debate in Las Vegas. Before the debate – about 100 Occupy Las Vegas demonstrators surrounded the Sands Expo Center where the debate was being held to protest corporate corruption in our politics. But their message didn’t make it inside the debate – where all the candidates on stage battled each other to see who supports the 1% the most. It was a lot of the same –

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Hour One: Bernanke in Boston...Occupy Boston responds - Stephen Squibb, Occupy Boston / Plus, latest from Occupy Seattle - Mark Taylor-Canfield, Occupy Seattle

Hour Two: The latest GOP plan to "save" Social Security - Peter Ferrara, The Heartland Institute

Occupy the planet! Over the weekend – the Occupy Wall Street movement swept across the world – as hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in Europe, South America, and Asia to push back against too much corporate power in government. In Rome – demonstrations turned violent – as police cars and a government building were torched causing over one million dollars in damage. Here in the United States – where

Hour One: Latest...Occupy Wall Street and Times Square - Sarah Jaffe, AlterNet / Plus, a report from Occupy Tacoma and Seattle - J.A. Myerson, Contributer-AlterNet

Hour Two: Occupy Chicago...175 arrested at Grants Park, Chicago - Joshua Kaunert, Occupy Chicago

Hour Two: U.S. troops...out of Iraq by December? Tom Hayden

Bloomberg backs down. A showdown between Occupy Wall Street and the NYPD was averted this morning – when Mayor Bloomberg and the property owners of the public park where demonstrators have been camped out for four weeks now delayed their plans to have the park cleared and cleaned up. On Wednesday – Bloomberg notified demonstrators they had to vacate the premise by 7am this morning – or face arrest.

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It's Anything Goes on Townhall Friday!

Hour One: "Brunch With Bernie" - Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is joined by U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Ray LaHood, and then takes your calls...

Free Trade, Free Trade, Free Trade. Congress passed three so-called Free Trade agreements last night – meaning transnational corporations now have new pools of cheap labor in Colombia, South Korea, and Panama. All three trade deals were passed with bipartisan support in both Chambers of Congress despite the face that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was against them – and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed skep

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Hour One: Should elections become a reality show in America with executions at the public square every Friday? / Plus, New Free Trade Deals...no deal for American jobs? Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA, 39th District)

There was another Republican debate last night – this time Bloomberg News hosted the circus. Ironically – Bloomberg just released a new poll before the debate showing that 2/3 of Americans – and even 53% of Republicans – support raising taxes on the wealthy. Of course – none of the candidates on stage last night agreed with the majority of the American people – and all called for even lower taxes on the wealthy.

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Hour One: Occupy Boston police crackdown - Brad Johnson, Think Progress / Plus, Walker recall ramps up, so do dirty tricks - John Nichols, The Nation Magazine / And, Beaten in Boston! John Niles, American Veterans for Peace

There was a violent police crackdown against the 99% movement in the middle of the night in Boston. As the occupy Boston movement – now in its second week – grew beyond its original campsite in Dewey Square – demonstrators moved into a new space a block away yesterday – prompting police to shut it down. Among the first line of people to be arrested were those with the group Veterans for Peace – war veterans who had their