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While Guthrie is best remembered as a musician, he also had a deeply political side. At the height of McCarthyism, Guthrie spoke out for labor and civil rights and against fascism. In this one-hour special, you will hear interviews and music from folk singer Pete Seeger, the British musician Billy Bragg, and the historian Will Kaufman, author of the new book, “Woody Guthrie, American Radical.”

Delegates from 190 countries have gathered at the United Nations to begin talks on the first-ever global agreement regulating the arms trade. The United States is by far the world’s largest producer, importer and exporter of armaments.

Thousands of people marched across Japan over the weekend to protest the country’s resumption of nuclear power. Ohi is Japan’s first nuclear power plant to restart since the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

Mercosur gained a member and suspended another on Friday with Venezuela entering and Paraguay on the out. The ceremony for the new member was announced for July 31 in Rio de Janeiro.

The Palestinian unity government seems to face obstacles, meanwhile Palestinian President is preparing to meet with Israeli deputy Prime Minister in Ramallah, these stories and more, coming up, stay tuned.

Ecuadorean plaintiffs have launched a new effort to recoup the $18 billion in damages that the oil giant Chevron has refused to pay for polluting Ecuador’s rainforest since the 1970s.

The Assad regime continues to face new tensions with neighboring Turkey following Syria’s downing of a Turkish fighter jet in Syrian airspace. Turkey began deploying military convoys carrying anti-aircraft weapons to its border with Syria.airspace.

As the drug war rages in Mexico, voters will head to the polls on Sunday to choose a new president. Will the PRI come back to power, or could the Occupy-inspired Yo Soy 132 movement help Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a former Mexico City mayor who narrowly lost the 2006 election, pull off an upset?

The Obama administration has granted TransCanada permission to build part of the southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline that would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands through Texas.