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Headlines for December 23, 2016; "Absolutely Frightening": Greenpeace Responds to Trump's Call for a New Nuclear Arms Race; Using 1953 Law, Obama Indefinitely Blocks Offshore Oil Drilling in Arctic and Atlantic; Obama Administration Dismantles Idled Muslim Registry Ahead of Trump Inauguration; NYC Council Speaker: Solidarity Efforts Needed to Fight Trump as He Targets Muslims & Immigrants; Puerto Ricans Push Obama to Free Oscar López Rivera, Independence Activist Jailed for 35 Years

Headlines for December 22, 2016; The Future of Syria: As Aleppo Falls, What Comes Next in a Country Shattered by War?; The Impossible Revolution: A Syrian Dissident on How a Fight Against a Dictator Became a Proxy War; Marcus Garvey Inspired Millions, from MLK to Mandela; Now His Son Is Asking Obama to Pardon Him

Headlines for December 21, 2016; Flint: As 2 Unelected Emergency Managers Are Charged over Water Poisoning, Will Gov. Snyder Be Next?; Free Leonard Peltier: Obama Urged to Grant Clemency to Native American Activist Jailed for 40 Years; "Her Life Depends on Obama Taking Action Now": 100,000+ People Demand Obama Free Chelsea Manning

Headlines for December 20, 2016; A Deadly Day: Russian Ambassador Assassinated; 12 Dead in Berlin Truck Crash; Zürich Mosque Attacked; Robert Reich: Like a Tyrant, Trump Is Deploying Seven Techniques to Control the Media; Protest & "Boycott Everything": Robert Reich on the First 100 Day Resistance Agenda Against Trump

Headlines for December 19, 2016; Ambassador for Apartheid: Trump's Pick for Israel Post Slammed as Threat to Peace & Two-State Talks; Mustafa Barghouti: Trump Pick for Ambassador to Israel Giving the Green Light to Israeli Extremists; Jewish Voice for Peace: Trump Election Has Empowered Anti-Semitism & Islamophobia in United States; Ari Berman: How Voter Suppression Helped Pave Way for a Legislative Coup in North Carolina; Elector: Our Duty in Electoral College is to Prevent Unqualified Demagogues from Presidency

Headlines for October 28, 2016; Will the DOJ or FCC Stop the AT&T Merger from Creating World's Largest Media Conglomerate?; Electronic Frontier Foundation: Police Depts. Paid AT&T Millions to Scrutinize Our Texts & Chats; "A Shameful Moment for This Country": Report Back on Militarized Police Raid of DAPL Resistance Camp; Indigenous Youth Occupy Hillary Clinton Campaign Headquarters to Demand She Take Stand on #DAPL; Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Chair: DOJ Must Investigate Use of Force Against #DAPL Resistance; Is the Venezuelan Opposition's Call for Referendum on Maduro a Push to Overthrow the Government?

In Part 2 of Sekou Odinga’s first major broadcast interview, the former Black Panther and political prisoner discusses his 33 years behind bars, 15 Panthers still in prison and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Headlines for October 27, 2016; Bassam Haddad: We Have a Duty to Call for End to Killing in Syria & How We End It Matters; Shane Bauer Infiltrates Armed Militia "Hunting Mexicans" & Collaborating with U.S. Border Patrol

Headlines for October 26, 2016; Surviving Members of Angola 3 on Black Panther Legacy & Need to Free Remaining Imprisoned Panthers; Exclusive: Freed Panther Sekou Odinga on Joining the Panthers, COINTELPRO & Assata Shakur's Escape; Political Prisoner Eddie Conway on Joining the Black Panthers & How He Was Set Up by COINTELPRO; "Treat Them Like the Heroes They Are": Fmr. Black Panthers Call for Release of Those Still Locked Up

Headlines for October 25, 2016; Tom Hayden (1939-2016) on Vietnam War: We Must Challenge the Pentagon on the Battlefield of Memory; "Just Another Version of You": The Life, Art and Activism of Legendary TV Producer Norman Lear; TV Legend Norman Lear on the Black Panthers, Nixon's Enemies List & What Gives Him Hope

Amid a report of another police killing of a Native American woman, we continue our interview with reporter Stephanie Woodard, author of the investigation, "The Police Killings No One Is Talking About," which reveals that compared to their percentage of the U.S. population, Native Americans were more likely to be killed by police than any other group, including African Americans.

Headlines for October 24, 2016; Standing Rock: Police Arrest 120+ Water Protectors as Dakota Access Speeds Up Pipeline Construction; North Dakota: Water Protectors Erect New Frontline Camp Directly in Path of Dakota Access Pipeline; Actor Shailene Woodley on Her Arrest, Strip Search and Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance; Meet the Journalist Facing 45 Years in Jail for Filming Tar Sands Pipeline Protest in North Dakota; Josh Fox: Arrest of Journalists and Filmmakers Covering the Dakota Pipeline is a Threat to Democracy; Legendary Antiwar Activist and SDS Organizer Tom Hayden Dies at 76

Headlines for October 21, 2016; Chicago Cops Who Broke "Code of Silence" to Report Police Drug Gang Face Deadly Retaliation; New York Mayor Apologizes for Police Killing of Mentally Ill Woman, But Will Accountability Follow?; Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes; Former Bernie Sanders Supporter Shaun King Now Backs Hillary Clinton, Says She Has "Evolved"; Shaun King: Black Lives Matter is Not a Carbon Copy of Black Panther Party, Our Time is Different

Actress Shailene Woodley pleaded not guilty on charges related to the resistance to the $3.8 billion Dakota Access pipeline on Wednesday.

Headlines for October 20, 2016; "I'll Keep You in Suspense": Trump Refuses to Say He Will Accept Election Results; Trump Says Appointing Anti-Choice Judges Will "Automatically" Overturn Roe v. Wade If He's Elected; "All Fiction": Trump Dismisses Claims of Accusers, Saying They Want "Fame" & Work for Clinton; Green Party's Jill Stein on "Donald Trump's Psychosis and Hillary Clinton's Distortions"; Chris Hedges vs. Eddie Glaude: Should Progressives Vote for Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein?; In Final Debate, Trump Pledges to Deport "Bad Hombres," Calls Clinton "A Nasty Woman"; Trump Calls Clinton Foundation "Criminal Enterprise" & Denounces Haiti Earthquake Response; In Warmest Year Ever, Climate Change Ignored Again at Debate; Historian Eric Foner: Trump is Logical Conclusion of What the GOP Has Been Doing for Decades; Bruce Springsteen: Donald Trump is a "Flagrant, Toxic Narcissist"; From Palestine to Black Lives Matter: Alicia Garza & Phyllis Bennis on Issues Ignored at the Debates