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Noam Chomsky on Democracy and Education in the 21st Century and Beyond
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ducation-in-the-21st-century-and-beyond
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is "a way of turning the population into a bunch of imbeciles."
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sugar substitutes and GMO food and fails to take provisions to prepare Ame=
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Unions are pressing the Obama administration to take a stand against the slave labor conditions in Bangladesh; Sen. Bernie Sanders said he's not giving up the fight for the labeling of genetically modified foods; Google began a campaign to help fight obesity, and more.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Y02Dluep5azRPQBBnWXacgqkS4G%2BOX3%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Dean Baker | Social Security and Medicare Reports Little Changed From 2012</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research:</strong> If this pattern of upward redistribution continues, wage gains over the next three decades will swamp the impact of any tax increases that may plausibly be implemented to support Social Security and Medicare.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TJjdXkdAPLnfo1F1R6zi1gqkS4G%2BOX3%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AwCT2lkBwiWhqG56KwYdWAqkS4G%2BOX3%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Capitalism Makes Us Crazy: Dr. Gabor Maté on Illness and Addiction</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kyung Jin Lee, National Radio Project:</strong> What’s the connection between the increase in chronic diseases, mental illness and drug addiction in our society today? Dr. Gabor Maté talks about the relationship between mind and body health - and what the rise of capitalism has done to destroy both.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=URtilJexQXcuWtNdz7nmOQqkS4G%2BOX3%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Listen to the Radio Program</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KIZmx5BQlgcmC9gm3upxfEihVkTswZpP"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Walmart, Gap Seek Separate Safety Standards for Bangladesh Factories</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Carey L. Biron, Inter Press Service:</strong> Top US companies are now in negotiations to agree on new safety standards for their clothing-producing contractors in Bangladesh, but labor advocates say the results will likely not be binding and thus will not be able to ensure worker safety.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UUIXkjXViqFtbadYBOGQYAqkS4G%2BOX3%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=zQ7sGtP63Wboxy0eP4G0DQqkS4G%2BOX3%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Exposed: Canadian Oil and Gas Workers, Many Unions, Now Oppose Keystone XL Pipeline</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Peter Rugh, Occupy.com:</strong> Organized labor has much more to gain by joining the coalition to defeat the Keystone XL - a coalition that is comprised of environmentalists, indigenous groups, students, unions, landowners and many others - than by teaming up TransCanada and their tar-stained bidders.</p>
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