Mar
26
2008
* A compelling new documentary called Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?
* As election time nears in Zimbabwe, we’ll examine Robert Mugabe’s his toughest challenge yet, and how his opposition is preparing
* As fighting spreads in Basra and Baghdad, we’ll take a look at this dangerous phase in the Iraq war and what it means.
* This week’s Peace Vigil Annoucements …
Mar
26
2008
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GUEST: Ali Ahsan, lawyer and son of leading dissident Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Farhat Haq, Pakistani American teaching at Monmouth College, and expert on political Islam, women and Islam, and contemporary Pakistani Politics
Pakistani President and major US ally, Pervez Musharraf, swore in Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country’s new Prime …
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26
2008
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GUEST: Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law
Dozens of 13 and 14 year old children have been sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole in this nation. In a new report called Cruel and Unusual, the …
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26
2008
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GUEST: Glen Chase, advocate with California Alliance to Stop the Spray and other community groups, has taught environmental economics, statistics, and management at University of Southern California and Cal State Monterey Bay
Earlier this year, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced controversial plans for an aerial pesticide spray aimed at eradicating the light …
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Mar
26
2008
… about the US Naturalization Law of 1790
Produced by Radio Rootz.
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Mar
26
2008
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
– Edmund Burke, statesman and writer
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