Dec
18
2006
… on the Chattel Slavery Abolished
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GUEST: Sameer Dossani, Director of 50 Years Is Enough
Five Iraqi trade union federations have condemned federal oil law negotiations for being too corporation-friendly. Last Thursday, leaders of the five federations met in Amman, Jordan and released a joint statement. They’re calling for a pause in negotiations that will govern Iraq’s 115 billion barrels …
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GUEST: David Helvarg, president of the Blue Frontier Campaign and author of the book “50 Ways to Save the Ocean.”
Last week the government agency NASA, released five years of satellite data in the journal, Nature. The data confirms that along with the atmosphere, ocean temperatures have also been warming. There …
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GUEST: Saul Landau, Senior fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, and the co-author of “Assasination on Embassy Rowâ€, an award winning book about the murder of Orlando Letelier and author of the forthcoming book, “A Bush and Botox Worldâ€
The death of ex –Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet last week was bittersweet for those …
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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 Dennis Kucinich.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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2006
“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives†— George Bernard Shaw …