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GUEST: Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, the leading critic of US foreign policy, author of scores of books; his latest are “Failed States” and the bestseller “Imperial Ambitions.” The New York Times calls him, “a global phenomenon, perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.”
Five years ago today, …
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GUEST: Laura Poitras, New York based Peabody award-winning film maker
When the tragedy of 9/11 occurred five years ago, President Bush and many of his administration officials were desperate to hit Iraq in retaliation, a country they had been eyeing since Bush’s presidency began. It wasn’t until over a year later that …
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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 part 2 of 2, on the “War on Terror.”
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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GUESTS: Samira Yamin, exhibiting artist and co-curator of Stomping Ground, Francesca “Zeal†Harris, an exhibiting artist
“Stomping Ground,†a new art exhibit by young women of color, opened this past weekend in Los Angeles. Running until October 31st, at Le Florence Gallery in the historic Lucy Florence Coffee House and Gallery in Leimert Park, …
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“Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a “racial pride” among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as “The Homeland” … As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, …
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