Mar 16 2009
We’ll examine the situation in Pakistan in the aftermath of major demonstrations, with award-winning veteran journalist and author Stephen Kinzer. And we’ll go to New Mexico where the death penalty may be on the verge of being abolished. Plus, outraged residents protest a private security training facility in Riverside – we’ll go live to a demonstration organized by Citizens Against Private Armies. …
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Mar 16 2009
Last Friday, thousands of teachers and their supporters across California protested the more than 25,000 layoff notices recently issued. The day of action, dubbed “Pink Friday,” decried the 8.4 billion dollar budget cuts slated for the state’s educational institutions including community colleges. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed off on the state budget plan last month, defended the cuts …
Mar 16 2009
While the nearly $800 billion stimulus package signed by President Obama has come under intense fire from some conservatives, there has been hardly any comment on the Pentagon’s 2010 budget of $700 billion. Unemployment rates are sky high, record numbers of people are claiming jobless benefits, healthcare costs are bankrupting Americans, and millions are fore-closed out of their homes. Still, the Defense Department’s budget …
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Mar 16 2009
In a sharp about-turn from the Bush Administration, the Justice Department announced on Friday that it would drop the designation “Enemy Combatant” – a category widely used to justify imprisoning terrorism-related suspects over the last 8 years. Former president Bush used his authority as commander-in-chief to unilaterally hold prisoners without charge, indefinitely. The controversial term “enemy combatant” was …
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Mar 16 2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Jon Stewart.
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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Mar 16 2009
Freedom’s Journal
Back in the day on March 16th, 1827 the first black owned and operated newspaper in the United States was established. Edited by Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm, “Freedom’s Journal,” was centered in New York, but grew to be distributed in eleven states as well as numerous other countries including Haiti and …
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Mar 16 2009
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself up in the flag.” — former Texas Congressman Craig Washington. …
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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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