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Congress has Opportunity to Revise Patriot Act and Restore Civil Liberties Protections; Report Finds 13 Million Babies are Born Prematurely Worldwide - One Million Die; Current Reform Bills Won't Fix U.S. Health Care Crisis; Under-reported News Summary.

Cyrus Safdari (Iranaffairs.com) discusses the media spin on Iran’s alleged nuke weapon “threat”; whistleblower/author Nomi Prins discusses the significance of our Bush/Obama financial-sector-only bailouts. Her book: "It Takes A Pillage ..."

Storms, floods, earthquake, attack, or employers closing - what are the tools to cope and recover? Author/activist Riki Ott on lessons learned from Valdez spill. Then economist John Helliwell speech comparing disaster response around the world.

Chomsky points out why our elite “leaders” understand perfectly well that democracy is exactly what must NOT happen, and the measures they use to ensnare the rest of us.

About 30 distinct local events and action calls THIS WEEK for concerned listeners. We want you to GET INVOLVED!

As a professional architect for numerous steel-frame skyscrapers, Gage was shocked by the utterly nonsensical findings of the 9-11 Commission and NIST that the WTC building collapses were caused by fire.

Faced with a judge’s order to produce surveillance records for plaintiffs in a suit brought by EFF, the U.S. Dept. of "Justice" is now claiming that AT&T is an "arm of the government" entitled to “national security” protection.

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