Nathan Diebenow

Robert Jensen, author and journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin, picked apart the myth of "American Dream" during a recent talk in Austin, Texas. In this clip, Jensen gave an introduction to his thesis, beginning with a review of "the literature of dream analysis" that describes America's ideology.

The labor unrest in Wisconsin exposed the Republican Party's plan to essentially divide-and-conquer the lower classes in America, a liberal author recently wrote.

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Ray McGovern, former US Army and CIA officer, spoke with DemocracyNow! Friday about his arrest after his silent protest during a talk on Internet freedom given by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. He described the event as "like something right out of Franz Kafka."

Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, said Friday that former vice president Dick Cheney’s office misled his old boss with bogus information to sell the Iraq War to the American people. This talk with MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur Friday came in the wake of Iraqi defector Rafid Ahmed Alwan Al-Janabi nicknamed "Curveball" admitting he lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.