May 14 2007
GUEST: Raed Jarrar, Iraq Consultant to the American Friends Service Committee
Last Tuesday more than half of Iraq’s Parliament voted to reject the US occupation of their country. 144 lawmakers signed onto a legislative petition calling on the United States to set a timetable for withdrawal. The petition was sponsored by the Al Sadr Movement, …
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May 14 2007
GUEST: Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez of Venezuela
Venezuela, alongside other Latin American nations, condemned last week’s U.S. court decision to release Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles, who has been imprisoned for an act of international terrorism. A one time CIA employee, Posada had been convicted and imprisoned in Venezuela for the 1976 bombing of a Cuban …
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May 14 2007
GUEST: Frannie Wellings, Associate Policy Director at Free Press
In late April we brought to your attention that a little known Congressional panel had approved a big increase in royalties on digital music retroactive to 2006, for companies that stream music over the Internet. The ruling changed the traditional model of paying a percentage …
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May 14 2007
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 called “An Iraq Policy of Failure”.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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May 14 2007
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May 14 2007
“There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media.†— Bill Moyers …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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