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Ending Poverty with Global Christianity’s Phantom Trillion

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

In the ’90s, Keith Olbermann was part of a flawless thing called SportsCenter. Even though the political commentary and overall style he’s developed since then isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, this Special Comment from the July 11 edition of “Countdown” is essential viewing for anyone who cares about the justice issues tied to humanity’s basic failures of compassion, empathy and care.

“Face it,” Olbermann says, “we do not take care of one another. Not we as in progressives, not we as in Americans, not we as in the West. We as in a species.”

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