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December 10 - "The President Needs to Purge His Administration”; Holding White House Officials Responsible; From the Tyranny of Wealth to a Democratic and Sustainable Society

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November 18 - The Islamic State's Use of the Media; Endangered House Democrats and a Possible Republican Shutdown; FIFA's Flagrant Corruption

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October 14 - Jonathan Taplin sits in for Ian Masters

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September 1 - The Failure of the West to Understand Putin; Pakistan's Army Orchestrates the Latest Political Crisis; The Islamic State's Use of the Media

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August 6 - Will Putin Invade Ukraine?; The State of Journalism and the Future of Truth; Going After Corporate Tax Cheats with $2.5 Trillion Stashed Abroad

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May 12 - Dealing With a Regime that Merges Organized Crime and National Security, The Mafia and Nuclear Weapons; The FCC's New Rules on Net Neutrality; Demonstrations Against Google's Membership of ALEC

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March 20 - "Russia's Powerful Media Bubble"; Vermonters Push for a Public Bank; The Latest Outrageous Corporate Golden Parachute

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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 26 - A Strategic Shift Away From Saudi Arabia; How The P5+1 Deal is Going Down in Iran; The New Pope’s Call for Reforms

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November 20 - Is Lebanon Being Sucked into Syria's Civil War?; Rescuing Venezuela's Economy by Emergency Decree; The Phony Crisis of Obamacare

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