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In a show of unity, athletes from North and South Korea marched at the Winter Olympics' Opening Ceremony under the same flag. But the Trump administration is doing its best to thwart hopes for peace on the peninsula, says Christine Ahn of Women Cross DMZ

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--Unregulated Financial Markets Created a Stock Bubble (0:20)

--Trump Budget...Reaganomics Plus Military Keynesianism Equals Deficit Boom (15:50)

--Neoliberalism and the Rise of the Net Social Wage (23:32)

--BDS Activists and Canada’s Communist Party Sue the City of Montreal for Civil Rights Violations (36:32)

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--Depression: Not Just Personal, But Also Neoliberal? (0:20)

--The Rise and Fall of the Stock Market: What to Expect (28:59)

--Ram Truck's Super Bowl Ad Drives Over MLK's Legacy (37:11)

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--Has Trump Launched a New Nuclear Arms Race? (0:20)

--Assange's Arrest Warrant Continues to Expose Him to Danger of Extradition to US (10:02)

--Far From Hurting Putin, US 'Oligarch' List Could Help (13:02)

--Anthony Hobley on Climate Change (29:32)

The Trump administration has admitted a new report about Russian oligarchs is based on a Forbes list. Stephen F. Cohen, professor emeritus at New York University and Princeton University, says the report could ultimately help Putin force wealthy Russians to bring their overseas money back home. Cohen also discusses Russia's upcoming election

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--Wilkerson: On Iran, Trump Follows the Iraq War Playbook (0:20)

--Kansas Teacher Scores Big Win for Israel Boycott, and Free Speech (17:18)

--Israel Pays a Bounty of $5,000 and Arms for Each African Asylum Seeker Expelled (24:22)

--Afrikan Black Coalition Conference 2018 Highlights (45:49)

Max Blumenthal reports that the US has provided military assistance to the Azov Battalion, known as a bastion of neo-Nazism within the Ukrainian armed forces. He also discusses US and Israeli ties to the far-right government in Poland, where neo-Nazism is on the rise

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Historian Peter Kuznick says Eisenhower called for decreased militarization, then Dulles reversed the policy; the Soviets tried to end the cold war after the death of Stalin; crazy schemes involving nuclear weapons and the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba put the world of the eve of destruction - with host Paul Jay

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A new law passed in Poland criminalizes references to Polish complicity in the holocaust and is designed to shore up the rightwing Polish government's nationalist credentials. Carol Schaeffer discusses the law's background

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--Max Blumenthal and Ex-FBI Agent Coleen Rowley on the Nunes Memo

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--Trump Preemptively Dismisses Upcoming Venezuelan Presidential Vote (24:46)

--Florida Department of Corrections Denies Statewide Prisoner Strike (43:42)