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The next chapter of The Laura Flanders Show

From my days at Your Call, or Air America Radio, to GRITtv, and our launch on PBS stations nationwide, you know I’m committed to forward thinking reporting. Many of you rely on The Laura...

Loss, Movement, Change

As the brutal Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues, you can only imagine the debates inside newsrooms. Do you go ahead with the programming you had planned or suspend it for something more newsworthy instead? We...

Sanctuary, If We Really Meant It

Sanctuary, the very word makes you feel kind of relaxed and safe. And that's the whole idea, a place where you might be free from persecution, prosecution, imprisonment, deportation, where you would be safe....

$800 Billion in Military Spending Won’t Make the World Safer

When war ends, armies retreat, but the weapons those armies have amassed will stay on this Earth for decades to come. Missiles, fighter jets, high-powered guns — are these tools of destruction any good...

Who is missing in our media? Palestinians, Israelis, Afghans . . .

I have seen more descriptions of life in Gaza in the past two weeks than I have seen in the media in the last 17 years of Israel’s blockade. I’ve seen more Israelis, speaking...
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Jubilee Justice Regenerative Farming: Tackling Racism with Rice

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. How do you nurture the soil, feed hungry bodies, and heal hurt people and places in these stressed-out times? In Central Louisiana, a network...
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Minnesota Democrats Codify Abortion Rights, Pass LGBTQ Protections and More. It’s Not a ‘Miracle’

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. It’s being called the Minnesota miracle, but Minnesota’s historic legislative session was no act of god.  Democrats in Minnesota wrote abortion rights into law and...
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Moore v Harper and the War on Democracy in North Carolina

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. It has often been said that the US South is the testing ground for American democracy, which makes it frustrating how little attention national...

Trafficked workers’ Great Escape?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Saket Soni is a brilliant labor organizer. He's also a talented storyteller. His first book, The Great Escape, A True Story of Forced Labor...

Time to Stop Trashing the Luddites?

Subscribe to our podcast to listen on your favorite podcast platform. Twenty-three minutes. That’s how long it takes for your brain to refocus after shifting from one task to the next. Check your email, glance...

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