Thank you for watching Current for the past eight years. Please join us in the launch of Al Jazeera America, today at 3pm ET/12pm PT. Find out how to get the channel here: www.aljazeera.com/getajam
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We’re excited to welcome David Shuster to the Al Jazeera America team as one of our New York anchors! Read more about his award-winning political and investigative news coverage and why he joined here: http://alj.am/11Rcn3p
Current TV contributor David Shuster has joined Al Jazeera America! Will you watch when the channel launches on August 20th?
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Zoom in and find out what kind of demographics dominate your local area in the New York Times’ interactive census map. The app features color-coded dots that represent a race that dominates a population of 200 people, grabbing from 2005-2009 Census Bureau’s samples. You can look anywhere from the major American cities to even your local regional area.
Cenk on Obama's Internal Threat program: 'We're on the road to East Germany'
Cenk talks to Ana Kasparian, Jayar Jackson and Richard Eskow about the death of TYT contributor Michael Hastings and his reputation of speaking truth to those in power. “Michael was old school,” Eskow says. “He was a wild man. He went out there and he wrote what he wrote. He researched and he got it right whatever it took…nothing was going to stop him from saying it.”
Cenk agrees: “One of the many truly tragic things about this is that we’re not going to have his powerful voice anymore to call out the government on the next story and the story after that.”
We loved Michael here and it was great to have him with us. He was a true, true journalist. One of the very few we have in the country. It's a great loss not just for us but for the country. There's about a handful of journalists in the whole country who are actually challenging the government, challenging the Pentagon, not just trusting what they say but actually breaking news on it. He wasn't in bed with the government, like most of the mainstream press. He was a watchdog, and he's not on the watch any more. We're going to miss Michael.
-Cenk Uygur on the passing of long-time TYT contributor Michael Hastings
We’re all raised to think we’re heroes because every movie is about a hero defeating the bad guy and how brave he is. In reality, very few humans are that kind of brave.
- Wes Clark Jr.: Would you have the courage to leak intelligence?