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Program Summary: Sept. 12, 2015

Free Speech Radio News (see: http://fsrn.org/ ) 30 min.

• Obama calls for US to take at least 10,000 refugees as hundreds of thousands pour into the EU
• Nationalism and censorship in Turkey complicate regional conflict
• States prepare challenge to Clean Power Plan
• Jailhouse suicides on the rise; reform advocates call for training and oversight
• Hunger strike for Chicago public high school expands in its fourth week
• Ceasefire in Ukraine seems to hold; local residents still wary
• Independent experts say Mexico’s version of what happened to 43 missing students “didn’t happen”

News shorts with commentary on the austerity measures and crony politics in Kansas a/k/a #Brownbackistan.

Vintage music your great-grandparents hooked up with at the speak easy behind the barn.

The latest Taxcast by Naomi Fowler for the Tax Justice Network.