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GUEST: Charles Ferguson, Writer, Director, and Producer of “No End In Sight”

Oxfam and a network of about 80 aid agencies issued a report yesterday warning of a serious humanitarian crisis unfolding in Iraq. The crisis puts almost 8 million Iraqis at risk, which is a quarter of the population. Meanwhile between 10 and 50 Iraqis are being killed daily across the country. Today we take a look at a new documentary created by a one-time war supporter, turned war critic. Charles Ferguson’s No End in Sight, examines major policy blunders in the US occupation of Iraq that have directly led to the current chaos plaguing the country. These include the use of insufficient troops which led to the looting of Baghdad, De-Baathification …

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GUEST: Jim March, Board of Directors of Black Box Voting

A day long hearing was held in Sacramento yesterday to assess the findings of a recent University of California study on this state’s voting machines. Commissioned by Secretary of State Debora Bowen, the study found three certified voting machine systems to have faulty security systems. Released last Friday, Bowen’s “Top To Bottom Review” found that state sanctioned computer hackers were able to bypass security systems both physically and electronically to change voting results. Hackers were provided with all the vital security information made available to Secretary Bowen. Voting machine companies such as Diebold, and members of the public had the opportunity to address the conclusions of the review in yesterday’s hearing. Prior to that hearing both …

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GUESTS: William Hartung, Project Director of the New America Foundation, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, Retired Lieutenant General Robert Gard, Senior Military Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-proliferation

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are currently touring Arab nations being considered in a new proposed Bush Administration arms deal. Saudi Arabia, alongside five other Gulf nations, could receive up to twenty billion dollars worth of advanced weapons including satellite-guided bombs, fighter aircraft upgrades, and naval vessels. The deal is pending approval from Congress. Before embarking on her four day trip to the Middle East, Secretary Rice claimed that the proposed arms deal would stabilize Iraq and the Persian Gulf region. She also said that the …

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… about Puerto Rican Independence Leader Pedro Albizu Campos.

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“The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” — Joseph Stalin

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GUEST: Daniel Kovalick, an attorney with United Steelworkers

Last Thursday, jurors in a civil trial acquitted Alabama based coal company, Drummond Incorporated, of war crimes related to the 2001 killings of three Colombian union leaders. The trial against Drummond was the first ever to utilize the Alien Torts Claim Act, originally passed in 1789, against a US-based corporation. The jury in the case decided that Drummond did not finance the killings and was not liable for their deaths. According to affidavits in the case, witnesses claimed to have seen Drummond’s Colombian chief executive hand over large sums of money to paramilitary commanders in exchange for the murders of the union leaders. Prior to the jury decision, Edwin Guzman, a former member of the Colombian …

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GUESTS: Kalea Matsakis, Media Networks Director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Jonathan Granoff, President of the Global Security Institute, Senior Advisor of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Arms Control and National Security, Vice President of the NGO Committee on Disarmament at the U.N.

The United Nation’s International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, celebrated its 50th anniversary yesterday. The UN agency has 144 member states and was set up in 1957 to ensure the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Two years ago, the IAEA and it’s head, Muhammad el-Baradei, won the Nobel Peace Prize. The IAEA has overseen the use of nuclear power in both North Korea and Iran, two countries on Bush’s so-called Axis of Evil. It is also expected to oversee a recent nuclear …

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GUESTS: Jessica Hoffman, Stephanie Abraham, members of the Editorial Collective at make/shift Magazine

The era of independent publishing has been in peril for years now. Independent bookstores have been shutting down rapidly. Independent book publishers are financially struggling, and independent media in general have trouble reaching a sufficient subscriber base. This April we covered the closure of the collectively run online news outlet, The New Standard. And, last December, the cutting-edge radical magazine Clamor, published its last issue. But all is not lost, for an exciting new independently created magazine hit the stands earlier this year. Make/shift is a magazine about contemporary feminist culture and action whose first issue sold out within weeks of publication. It’s now in it’s second printing, even as the second issue gets …

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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 about Impeachment.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.