Apr 07 2009
We’ll go to Vermont and Iowa, two states which legalized same-sex marriage just within the past week. And, we’ll explore the Dark Side of Dubai – how this glittering Arab Disneyland, built on slave labor, is now crashing with the global recession. Plus, Peru’s high court sentences former President Alberto Fujimori for 25 years in prison for human rights violations. And this week’s Who Said That Contest. …
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Apr 07 2009
The newly reinstated chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikaar Muhammad Chaudhry, has ordered an investigation into the recent flogging of a 17 year old girl by the Taliban in the Swat Valley. The public flogging which apparently happened in February, was videotaped and can now be found on Youtube. It has sparked outrage among Pakistani human and women’s rights …
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Apr 07 2009
President Barack Obama in a speech on Sunday, envisioned a “world without nuclear weapons,” committing the US to complete nuclear disarmament. In his speech, delivered in Prague, Obama promised to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. His speech came only hours after a report that North Korea launched a “multi-stage rocket” many fear …
Apr 07 2009
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by Mumia Abu Jamal and his lawyers for a new trial. The former member of the Black Panther Party and award winning radio journalist has remained on Pennsylvania’s death row ever since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of a white Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner. In letting the conviction stand, …
Apr 07 2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is called American Exceptionalism, Obama-Style.
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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Apr 07 2009
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Back in the day on April 7th, 1922, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Corporation signed a secret lease. Locked away in Fall’s desk drawer, the agreement between the three completed the transition of control away from the …
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Apr 07 2009
“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” — Justice William O. Douglas …
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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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