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Jameel Jaffer, deputy legal director of the ACLU, talks with Rachel Maddow about President Obama's announcement of a sea change in U.S. counterterrorism strategy and the suggestion that we are at the beginning of the end of the war on terror.

Give away your Abercrombie & Fitch clothes to the homeless. Together, we can remake the A&F brand. Published on May 13, 2013.

Alan Grayson personally went to John Boehner's office with 300,000 signatures demanding an end to the sequester - THIS is what happened next.

Donald Rumsfeld accuses the Obama administration of promoting a self-serving narrative to fit its Middle East agenda. 

Note from Holly Near: Put out recently by Quilapayun, a Chilean ensemble that lived in exile after the military coup, this youtube shows footage from the 70s as well as honors the young people who are building a strong student movement today to protest the right wing government recently elected in Chile following the progressive leadership of President Michelle Bachelet. I had an opportunity to work with Quilapayun in the seventies and eighties and again when I went to Chile a few years ago. We sang at a men's prison in the northern part of the country.

Live recording of the song 'Debe', from Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté's first album 'In the heart of the moon'. Filmed at Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, in 2005.

Bill Withers, in 1971, playing Ain't No Sunshine.

Bill Withers pays tribute to a special kind of mother -- a grandmother.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to help college students drowning in debt by putting them in the same boat as the big banks.

Wild Women Don't Have the Blues shows how the blues were born out of the economic and social transformation of African American life early in this century. It recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters and the other legendary women who made the blues a vital part of American culture. For more information, go here.