I just returned from a five day book tour on the East Coast of Canada with my partner and co-author, Jim Ingalls. We were there to promote our new book, “Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence.” Despite the fact that Canadian troops in Afghanistan number only 2,300 compared to the US’s 20,000, there is a far more vibrant nation-wide debate about the presence of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, compared to here …

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GUEST: Maxine Hong Kingston, editor of “Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace,” author of many books including Warrior Woman, China Men, and The Fifth Book of Peace

Maxine Hong Kingston is a well-known writer and poet based in Oakland, California. In 1976 she wrote the acclaimed novel, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood …

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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 4, on the “War on Terror.”

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

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GUESTS: Zahid Butt, member of the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, Gary Blasi, UCLA Professor and co-author of the report, “Driving Poor,” Associate Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations

This afternoon, the Los Angeles Taxi Workers Alliance, or LATWA, will be holding a community hearing calling for reforms to the Taxicab Industry. Panelists …

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GUEST: Lisa Hajjar, Professor in the Law and Society Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara, author of “Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza,” and editor of “Middle East Report.”

Late last week, the House Judiciary Committee endorsed President Bush’s plan to legalize …

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“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” – Gandhi. …