are the koch brothers teaching you
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billionaires charles and david koch are infringing on intellectual freedom and independence in colleges and universities by controlling entire fields of study and the faculty hiring process defend academia and share this videotake action: http:kochbrothersexposedcomkochcollegediscuss: http:facebookcomkochbrothers

revolving door between pentagon and war industry keeps turning: general cartwright
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weapons contractor raytheon just announced that it hired retired general james cartwright to it s board of directors it039s another example of the revolving door between the pentagon and the war industry eighty percent of retiring 3- or 4-star generals cash in by going to work for military contractors--a major conflict of interest that makes a few people at the top of these companies very very richhelp us fight this kind of corruption by sharing this video with your friends then join us at http:facebookcomwarcosts

former cia director against drone strikes
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michael hayden former cia director came out against drone strikes to kill us citizens cenk uygur reads mr hayden039s comments and discusses his opinion of these drone strikeshttp:wwwsaloncom20120205u_s_drones_targeting_rescuers_and_mournerssingletonsubscribe to the young turks: http:bitlyewuu5ifind out how to watch the young turks on current by clicking here: http:wwwcurrentcomgettyt the largest online new show in the worldgoogle: http:wwwgplustotheyoungturksfacebook: http:wwwfacebookcomtytnationtwitter: http:twittercomtheyoungturks

president eisenhower warned us: military-industrial complex and today039s war profiteers
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today january 17 is the 51st anniversary of president dwight d eisenhower039s famous farewell address in which he warned of the rising power of the military-industrial complex america should have listened: war industry companies now spend millions on lobbying take home tens of billions in taxpayer money in revenues and their ceos rank among the richest 001 percent of american households

what could stop the kochs on tar sands
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the koch brothers are big oil personified -- but their hopes of getting a massive pipeline through north america are running into trouble thanks to the activism of the 99fight back get the film http:kochbrothersexposedcom

who are the 1 we film you decide
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which of the richest 1 are using their wealth and power to keep down the other 99 give us names and the reasons behind them we039ll take the best ones and invite you to vote on which ones we039ll expose through videos

occupy your city
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people young and old are taking the streets to let our government and corporations know that we are a democracy that039s not for sale take action:http:bravenewfoundationorgoccupy

the mutt romney blues
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share the story of mitt romney039s dog who was locked in a crate on top of mitt039s car for hundreds of miles he039s now singing the real story while playing a mean blues guitar song courtesy of ry cooder

lockheed martin039s ceo is after your social security check
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tell committee members to keep war contractors039 hands off the money that should go to social security and medicare: http:warcostscomthe law that created the deficit committee also created a zero-sum game: any expensive program that escapes the budget knife does so at the expense of cuts to other programs if the military contractors succeed in keeping the war budget intact they039ll likely do so at the expense of social security and medicare that means money that would go to your social security or medicare benefits will instead go into the hands of people like lockheed martin ceo robert j stephens who last year made 219 million almost totally from taxpayer-funded military contractsthis should an easy choice: cut the war budget tell committee members you want military contractors039 hands off the money that should go to social security and medicare http:warcostscom

exposed: koch industries and cancer risk
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is a koch industries factory getting away with murder while the brothers wage war against safety precautions every day their factory is dumping millions of gallons of wastewater into streams that flow near a small rural town in arkansastake action: http:kochbrothersexposedcomdiscuss: http:facebookcomkochbrothers

patriots or profiteers
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http:warcostscom this week the top military contractor companies announced their first-quarter profits for 2012 their profits continue to grow while they push washington dc to protect their budgets at the expense of the rest of us and while they break the law for financial gain george washington abraham lincoln and fdr wouldn039t tolerate this kind of outrage they knew that patriots don039t behave this way but profiteers do

glenn greenwald reports on bradley manning039s military pre-trial hearing
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democracynoworg - democracy now interviews constitutional lawyer and saloncom blogger glenn greenwald about the military pre-trial hearing now underway for alleged us army whistleblower bradley manning who has been accused for releasing classified us documents to wikileaks greenwald comments on the possible strategy being put forth by manning039s defense quotall the manning tribunal hearings have been shrouded in secrecyquot greenwald says noting there may be more transparency in guantnamo detainee hearings than there has been for the manning tribunal quotpresumably his lawyer believes that one of the best ways they have to keep him out of prison for the next six decades is to argue that he had diminished capacity by virtue of emotional distress over the gender struggles that he had over his sexual orientation being in a military that had a policy of banning those who were openly gay and so part of this emotional distress that they039re raising is designed to say that he should be excused of his actions because they were not the byproduct of full choicequot says greenwald who is openly gay and has been writing extensively about this aspect of manning039s case quothe is and i don039t blame him at all trying to do whatever he can to avoid having his life destroyed: either being killed by the state or locked up in a cage for the rest of his lifequotto watch the complete daily independent news hour read the transcript download the podcast and for more information about bradley manning and wikileaks visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgtagswikileaksfollow democracy now online:facebook: http:wwwfacebookcomdemocracynowtwitter: democracynowsubscribe on youtube: http:wwwyoutubecomdemocracynowdownload the audio: http:wwwsoundcloudcomofficialdemocracynowdaily email news digest: http:wwwdemocracynoworgsubscribeplease consider supporting independent media by making a donation to democracy now today visit http:wwwdemocracynoworgdonateyt

cia agent charged with espionage act by justice department
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quotthe justice department yesterday charged a former cia agent john kiriakou with four felony counts for having allegedly disclosed classified information to reporters about the cia039s interrogation program included among those charges are two counts under the espionage act of 1917 based on the allegation that he disclosed information which he quothad reason to believe could be used to the injury of the united states and to the advantage of any foreign nationquot the young turks host cenk uygur breaks it downhttp:wwwsaloncom20120124rules_of_american_justice_a_tale_of_three_casessingletondoj says marijuana addictive dangerous: http:wwwyoutubecomwatchv=g9irapkijowsubscribe to the young turks: http:bitlyewuu5ifind out how to watch the young turks on current by clicking here: http:wwwcurrentcomgettyt the largest online new show in the worldgoogle: http:wwwgplustotheyoungturksfacebook: http:wwwfacebookcomtytnationtwitter: http:twittercomtheyoungturks

general petraeus039 quotprogressquot spin on afghanistan: we039ve heard it before
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sign our actly petition to fight back against general petraeus039 pro-war spin: http:actly2asnbc039s david gregory just interviewed petraeus on meet the press and he failed to challenge the general when he claimed we were quotmaking progressquot we039ve got to push the other journalists on petraeus039 schedule to expose his true agenda: extending this disastrous wargeneral petraeus is on a media tour to sell the idea that the us military is quotmaking progressquot in afghanistan a well-worn message aimed at convincing elites to extend this brutal futile war if the media fail to ask hard questions there039s a chance he could get what he wants: the freedom to extend an extremely unpopular war that039s not making us safercbs039 katie couric is next in line to talk to petraeus during his high-profile spin campaign so we039ll start with her sign this petition to couric and push her to ask tough questions about petraeus039 claims of quotprogressquot and his attempt to extend the afghanistan warsign our actly petition to fight back against general petraeus039 pro-war spin: http:actly2as

wikileaks threat - glenn greenwald w cenk
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cenk uygur speaks with glenn greenwald of saloncom on how he was specifically targeted in an anti-wikileaks sabotage and disinformation plan