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March 17, 2009
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 12:50 pm.
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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.
California Teachers Fight Back
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 10:02 am.
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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 saying …
Defense Department Budget Will Not Stimulate Economy
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 10:02 am.
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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 is in …
Justice Department Drops “Enemy Combatant” Definition
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 10:02 am.
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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 used to …
Empire Notes on Jon Stewart
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 10:02 am.
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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.
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Subversive Historian - 03/16/09
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 10:01 am.
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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 Canada. The …
March 16, 2009
Published 16 Mar 2009 at 9:14 am.
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“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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