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As the United States experiences more than one mass shooting per day, the issue of gun regulation is emerging as a hot topic on the 2016 presidential campaign trail. As Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed to curb gun…

The former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency is more worried about a terrorist group getting its hands on a nuclear weapon than a nation such as Iran obtaining and using one, reports David Proeber writing for The Pantagraph.…

This week show starts with Belaez, Colombian singer visiting New York and continue with Marisol Ramirez, community activist in Jackson Heights, Queens.

“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.” –William Carlos Williams By Gary Corseri and Charles Orloski (Intro: “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold,” Yeats…

You often hear inequality has widened because globalization and technological change have made most people less competitive, while making the best educated more competitive. From the blog of ROBERT B. REICH There’s some truth to this. The tasks most people used…

They cannot continue to handle affairs that are so delicate, that affect the environment and people this way.’ by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams Highlighting how corporate extractivism and lack of accountability is driving the destruction of Latin…

Pope Francis has arrived in New York, where he will speak at the United Nations General Assembly. On Thursday he became the first pope ever to address a joint session of Congress. He urged nations to adopt the Golden Rule…

Pope Francis is in the United States this week. And while he’s there, he’s speaking out forcefully for the elimination of nuclear weapons. The Vatican has a long history of standing against the spread of nuclear weapons. But this is…

What Is Revolutionary Media? 3 Key Ideas July 20, 2015 by Kit O’Connell @KitOConnell   The following essay is based on a short presentation I gave Saturday at Monkeywrench Books in Austin, Texas as part of “Imagining Revolutionary Media,” a…

Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si, is an urgent call for a world-wide dialogue on the defining issue of the 21st century: climatic change and the future of the planet. The Papal encyclical builds upon the tradition of Catholic thought on…