The Majority Report with Sam Seder

3/31/2011

It's semi-casual Thursday. Wes Cheek joins us for his last dispatch from Japan, and a special guest joins us to celebrate the 7th Anniversary of the Majority Report.

 

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3/30/2011

Today, Wes Cheek is live from Japan, plus an interview with media critic Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR and author of Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.

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3/29/2011

Today, Wes Cheek reports from Japan, and Jeff Bryant of the Campaign for America’s Future discusses education reform with Sam

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3/28/2011

Jeremy Scahill of the Nation joins us to talk abotu Libya and Yemen, and Wes Cheek calls in with a live report from Japan.

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3/25/2011

Listener Wes Cheek reports in from Japan, Chris Rosen gives his weekly movie picks, and comedian Andy Kindler joins to talk about politics and the media with Sam.

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3/24/2011

There's a class war happening. And we're losing. 

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3/23/2011

Today, Sam Seder had an on-air tax policy debate with conservative John Nolte of Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood.com. Enjoy.

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3/22/2011
 
Today, Kevin Baker, author of Dreamland discusses the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and how it lead to the transformation of the labor code in New York State.
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3/21/2011

Executive Director of the National Security Network Heather Hurlburt joins us to talk about the shiny new war in Libya

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3/18/2011

Today, Spencer Ackerman, reporter for Wired.com's Danger Room.

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3/17/2011

On the show today, Linda Perlstein, Public editor for the Education Writers Association, former staff writer for The Washington Post, and author of Tested.

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3/16/2011

Greg Mitchell of The Nation on the Age of Wikileaks and the plight of Bradley Manning

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3/15/2011

Today, Edge of Sports writer Dave Zirin discusses the labor battle currently being fought in the NFL, and we discuss the latest news out of Japan

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3/14/2011

Author and Journalist Yves Smith joins us to discuss the Anonymous leak of Bank of America documents, and Sam reports back from his trip to Wisconsin.

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3/11/2011

While Sam is en route to Wisconsin to report on the labor battle, we're podcasting this interview with Lucy Walker, director of Wasteland.

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3/10/2011

Everybody Loves Chris! Chris Hayes, that is. The Nation’s D.C. Editor joins Sam on the program today to talk about how everyone does not love Wisconsin governor Scott Walker right now

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3/9/2011

Harvard Law rofessor Lawrence Lessig explains the influence of money on American politics.

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3/8/2011

Attorney Peter Mougey joins us to discuss Americans taking Wall Street to court.

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3/7/2011

Matt Taibbi joins us to talk about why Wall Street isn't in jail.

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3/4/2011

Bill McKibben - author, educator, and environmentalist joins us to talk about Timothy DeChristopher and the changing tactics of the environmental movement.

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3/3/2011

Investigative journalist David Cay Johnston joins us to talk about the media's coverage of Wisconsin and the American inequality of wealth.

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 3/2/2011

Today, Chris Hedges, columnist with Truthdig, joins us to talk about the American liberal class. Also, updates on Wisconsin and Libya.

 

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3/1/2011

Tom Tomorrow, cartoonist behind This Modern World, joins us. Also, we discuss Hydro-fracking in Pennsylvania and New York, and talk abotu new concerns from genetically modified organisms.

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