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March 15, 2014

Parti de Gauche leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon on Ukraine

Jean-Luc Melenchon Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Via ZNet

Currently the number one issue is to avoid war.

March 15, 2014

The Audacity of Common Sense: Progressive Caucus’ ‘Better Off Budget’

By Robert Borosage Campaign for America's Future

The CPC recognizes an inescapable truth: After decades of the conservative era, we suffer public squalor amid Gilded Age private splendor. We aren’t making the investments vital to our future.

March 15, 2014

Nurses Demand State Department Certify That Keystone XL Will Not Have Adverse Health Effects

National Nurses United NNU

NNU is also concerned about the long term contribution that tar sands oil and the Keystone pipeline will make to the global rise on greenhouse gas emissions and the climate crisis – and the growing adverse health issues inflamed by climate change.

March 15, 2014

Complaint

Dave Granlund Cagle

March 15, 2014

Courageous and Prophetic - Tony Benn in the Early 1980s

Mike Marqusee ZNetwork

March 14, 2014

Friday Nite Videos -- March 14, 2014

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Outrage at Obama on Funny or Die. Riverdance Flashmob. Cosmos: First Look. 10 Minutes of History from Tony Benn.

Outrage at Obama on Funny or Die With Nick Galifianakis

March 14, 2014

Who's angry that President Obama appeared on "Between Two Ferns (Funny or Die) With Zach Galifianakis" to promote Obamacare?

St. Patrick's Day Riverdance Flashmob

March 14, 2014

A gorgeous public performance of Riverdance on St Patricks Day, 2011, in Central Station, Sydney, Australia.

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

March 14, 2014

A first look at the stunning new science series hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. For a discussion of the relation of science and religion in the first episode, go here.

March 14, 2014

Tony Benn, Veteran Labour Politician, Dies Aged 88

Patrick Wintour and Rowena Mason The Guardian

Tony Benn served in the House of Commons and in Labor cabinets, but he was perhaps most influential after he resigned from Parliament. He wrote and campaigned in favor of genuine democracy tirelessly, and on other issues including against the invasion of Iraq.