Vermont senator weighs in on how President Obama will sell his Bush-era tax cuts stance to Americans.
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Protests against the U.N.
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Jamie Court discusses the way we talk about Internet privacy, and the need for a federal Do Not Track list.

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Pr. Obama – Job Growth from Tax Deal Projected Nationwide by Economists
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At the U.N.
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Top Wall Street firms will once again break their own salary record this year and as the gap between the haves and have-nots worsens, could it get worse? Most of the government benefits have gone to help Wall Street get on its feet while others suffer.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will remain in custody until at least December 14 when a British court will take up a Swedish request for extradition.
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Alexander Cockburn and Vince Warren discuss the real problem the elites have with the WikiLeaks disclosures–the discord between the public and private views of diplomacy and government positions.

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As a result of WikiLeaks, the Obama Administration may introduce a new bill that would allow government officials the ability to spy on Americans through the internet. Meanwhile, an army of hackers rally behind WikiLeaks by shutting down MasterCard and PayPal because they stopped all payments to WikiLeaks.
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Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights notes that it’s important to be aware both that charges against Julian Assange might be politically motivated and also that rape charges should be taken seriously.

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Longtime activist Nnimmo Bassey has been awarded the 2010 Right Livelihood Award for “revealing the full ecological and human horrors of oil production” by multinational corporations in Nigeria and for his leadership in advocating environmental justice and human rights throughout the world.
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A recent survey found that only 1 in 5 Americans said that the US economy is the world’s strongest—nearly half picked China instead. Has the United States economy really been passed over by the Chinese?
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Inside the U.N.
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As the US economy continues to struggle, it seems Wall Street and big banks are doing better than ever. The income disparity gap in the United States is the largest of all the developed industrial nations.
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