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GUEST: Peter Hart, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)

An Israeli air strike this weekend on the Lebanese village of Qana killed 54 civilians, including 37 children. Human Rights Watch denounced the massacre and accused Israel of war crimes. Despite agreeing to a 48 hour pause in bombing, Israel has vowed to deepen and expand its attacks. According to the Lebanese health minister a total of 750 people have been killed in Lebanon, including bodies still buried under rubble. Fifty-one Israelis have been killed. The United States, which is Israel’s only ally and benefactor, has refused to rein in Israel and call for an immediate ceasefire. According to a new report by the media watch dog group, FAIR, “the Washington Post, New York Times and …

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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on the Qana massacre.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

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GUEST: Katha Pollitt, award winning poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation

In her newest book, Nation Magazine columnist Katha Pollitt chronicles the rise of right wing policies under the Bush administration before and after 9/11. The book, “Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of our Time,” is a collection of 84 essays published in the Nation. The essays deal with attacks on reproductive health, war and militarism, the rise of the Christian right, gay marriage, the health care crisis, and the seeming demise of feminism as described by the mass media. Barbara Ehrenreich said, “Over the years, I’ve been outsourcing my thinking on a host of issues to Katha Pollitt. You can do it too – start with Virginity or …

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GUEST: Andrew de Sousa, Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala

One year after the US House of Representatives narrowly passed the Central American Free trade Agreement, or CAFTA, grassroots activists are calling for trade with justice. The Stop CAFTA Coalition has drafted a pledge for trade justice, and is demanding that candidates running for office in the upcoming November elections adhere to the pledge if elected. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the trade agreement by only two votes last year. Critics assail CAFTA for decreasing exports, eroding environmental standards and rolling back workers rights in Central American nations that signed on to the deal. These include El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala. CAFTA most recently went into effect in Guatemala on July …

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This week on Uprising —

* On-going coverage of the Israeli assault on Lebanon with on-the-ground reports and political analysis
* A discussion of the current heat waves in the US and Europe and possible links to global warming
* US Senate passes the Child Custody Protection Act
* Empire Notes by Rahul Mahajan on John Bolton and Collateral Damage
* Mumia Abu Jamal on Lebanon

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Mumia Abu Jamal on Lebanon

GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

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GUEST: Paul Robeson Jr., cultural critic and writer, author of several books including “Paul Robeson Jr. Speaks to America: The Politics of Multiculturalism,” and “The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: An Artist’s Journey.” His latest book is “A Black Way of Seeing: From ‘Liberty’ to Freedom.”

Paul Robeson Jr., is the only child of the legendary artist, activist, and freedom fighter, Paul Robeson and is the archivist of the vast Robeson Papers. He served as his father’s aide for more than twenty years. Paul Roberson Jr. is also a cultural critic, lecturer, and author, and has been an active participant in the civil rights movement since 1940. He is a graduate electrical engineer and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, a …

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GUEST: Anuradha Mittal, founder and Executive Director, Oakland Institute

The Doha Round of World Trade Organization talks officially collapsed this Monday in Geneva at a meeting among representatives of the G6 countries. The G6 includes Australia, Brazil, the European Union, Japan, India and the United States. The primary reason is the US’s refusal to bring down subsidies for its farmers. Much time was spent discussing a key US demand – the lowering of import duties on agricultural as well as non-agricultural products. The US, meanwhile, targeted the EU’s failure to ease access to its agricultural market for foreign goods. EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson said Washington was asking “too much from others in exchange for doing too little themselves.” WTO Cheif, Pascal Lamy has told its …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on the Israeli assault on Lebanon.

Listen to Mumia’s audio commentaries at www.prisonradio.org.

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GUEST: Carmen Balber, Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

The California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act has just qualified for the upcoming 2006 November elections. Proposition 89, as it will be known on the ballot, proposes to set up a public financing system for political campaigns. The initiative is based in part on similar systems currently in place in Arizona, Connecticut, Maine, Portland, Oregon and Albuquerque, New Mexico. The initiative hopes to make politicians accountable to voters rather than special interests by limiting contributions and establishing public funding for candidates who agree not to accept private money for their campaigns. Funding would be provided by a 0.2 percent increase in corporate taxes. Penalties such as jail time and removal from office would be established …