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September 2 - A Regional Settlement for Syria with a $200 Billion Price Tag; Is NATO a Military Juggernaut or a "Worthless" Paper Tiger?; Voter Supression in Georgia Ahead of a Key Senate Primary

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March 19 - A Report from Ukraine on Russian Political Thuggery; The Head of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters on Pacifica's Latest Turmoil; Dimming Prospects for the Democrats Holding the Senate

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November 21 - Democrats Pull the Trigger on the "Nuclear Option"; A Senator who Investigated CIA, Mafia and Cuban Ties to JFK's Assassination; The First Person to Deliver an Eyewitness Account of the Assassination of President Kennedy

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October 14 - A Senate Veteran on the Last-Minute Deal to Avoid Default; "Inside the Republican Suicide Machine"; What is Behind the Poisonous Politics of Polarization?

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May 21 - Stepping on Each Other's Toes in a Diplomatic Dance; Genocide Verdict Anulled in Guatemala; Apple Avoids U.S. Taxes on Billions in Ireland

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January 27- Republican Judicial Activists Block Obama's Way Around Republican Roadblocks; What Happened to Filibuster Reform?; Drones as Imperialism Lite

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December 13 - Rethinking our 30 Year-Long Failed Iran Policy; The Senate's Rejectionist Block of Isolationist Ignoramuses; Closing Offshore Tax Loopholes for U.S. Corporations

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November 7 - Harry Reid Ready to Dance but Fight for Filibuster Reform; The Coming Showdown over the "Fiscal Cliff"; Is the Religious Right on the Wane and Secular, Liberal America on the Rise?

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August 9 - Syria's Bloody Stalemate; When the U.S. Senate Did The People's Business; Ruining Water While Running Out of It

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May 7 - Twelve More Years of Putin?; The Twilight of the Last of the Moderates; The Fight For Healthcare Reform Within the Catholic Church

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