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TRNN This Week March 10 - March 15
March 16, 2013

March 15

Documentary Exposes US Role in Iraq Sectarian Conflict
Maggie O'Kane, Executive Producer, tells the story revealed by the Guardian documentary about the role of Col. James Steele in supporting torture, death squads and brutal sectarian conflict during the height of the Iraq war. Steel's reports went directly to Rumsfeld and Cheney.
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James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq
The full length version of 15-month investigation by the Guardian and BBC Arabic reveals how retired US colonel James Steele, a veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq
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Will a Grand Bargain or Betrayal be Obama's Legacy
Bill Black: Slate magazine says that President Obama wants a Grand Bargain on budget cuts he can call his legacy - but it will be a Grand Betrayal that makes the recession worse
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March 14

A New Pope and "The Most Corrupt Vatican Since the Borgias"
Matthew Fox (former Catholic priest) discusses the Vatican's work with the CIA and it's alliance with far right political forces and Pope Francis' opposition to liberation theology in Latin America.
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Israel's Land Injustice Perpetuated by a Racist Discourse
Efforts to reform Israel's discriminatory land allocation has met with failure, because mayors of impoverished Jewish communities are loath to cooperate with the mayors of Palestinian and Bedouin towns and villages.
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Advocates Condemn Clearing of Baltimore's 'Camp 83' Homeless Encampment
City clears 'Camp 83' and refuses to find residents shelter but private citizen provides campers temporary housing
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March 13

The fatal choice between food or heating in Modern Britain
Senior Citizens and Disabled people say they're being abandoned by society. Thousands are left to die in cold homes every year in the UK, while energy companies threaten to raise cost of heating further
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"The Backdoor to War with Iran" - Wilkerson Attacks Senate Resolution
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Resolution S.RES.65 sends the message to Iran that the US objective is regime change, not a negotiated settlement to nuclear question
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Inequality and the Environment
James Boyce: In places where the income gap is greatest, the environment is more degraded for everyone
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March 12

Rally Against Deportations in Phoenix
Protest organized by families broken by immigration deportations
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Harper's Venezuela Insult Shows Right Ideology Trumping Canadian Interest
Yves Engler: Harper's "condolence" message on death of Hugo Chavez shows Harper has pushed Canadian policy so far right it even jeopardizes business interest in Latin America
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Austerity and the Death of Logic
Bill Black: Both the GOP and the White House refuse to support a bill that ends the sequester, it shows the real intention of the Obama administration
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March 11

Hamas Offers Amnesty to Palestinian Collaborators Spying for Israel
Hamas tries to end collaboration with what it says is due process, but some NGO's say accused rights are violated in Hamas prisons
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Congressman Tim Griffin Accused of "Voter Caging", Fronts XL Pipeline for Koch Brothers
Greg Palast: Griffin worked with Karl Rove, now backed by Koch brothers, fronts for tar sands pipeline in Congress
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The Power of Finance and a New, New Deal
On the 80th anniversary of the election of FDR and the New Deal, Jennifer Taub and John Weeks discuss the prospects for a serious reform of the banking system
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March 10

Humanitarian Catastrophe in Syria
Omar Dahi: Western Powers and GCC countries fail to provide aid at levels needed, inspite of professed interest in the Syrian people
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Who Benefits from Austerity?
Bob Pollin fields the question: are the very rich hunkering down for a long recession and to protect their assets, are more concerned about debt than high unemployment
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Undoing the New Deal
PT2 On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of Roosevelt's election and the introduction of the New Deal, Jennifer Taub and John Weeks discuss the post-war period and how successive administrations dismantled it
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