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Posted May 12, 2021
How to Stop Massive Tax Avoidance by America’s Wealthiest
Interview with Chuck Collins, director of the Program on Inequality & the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted May 12, 2021
Rise in Violence Targeting Indigenous Women, Girls, LGBTQ Decried
Interview with Tara Houska of the Bear Clan of the Anishinaabe Couchiching First Nation and founder of the Giniw Collective, conducted by Melinda Tuhus
Posted May 12, 2021
The 1960 CIA Plot to Assassinate Raul Castro Revealed
Interview with Peter Kornbluh, director of Cuba and Chile Documentation Projects at the National Security Archive, conducted by Scott Harris
Posted May 12, 2021
This Week’s Under-reported News Summary – May 12, 2021
Compiled by Bob Nixon
- Russia challenges U.S. hegemony in arms exports
- Senate passes $35 billion for clean drinking water
- Immigrant advocates, construction labor unions find new alliances
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