Dec 04 2009
Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute will discuss the EPI’s 5 Point plan to stem the jobs crisis. And South Asian Network Executive Director Hamid Khan will report back from his recent trip to Pakistan and how ordinary Pakistanis are responding to increased militarization. Plus, Randy Olsen, author of “Don’t be such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style” will join us in studio. …
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Dec 04 2009
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* Obama Embraces War Presidency
* Empire Notes on Obama’s Afghanistan Speech
* Hopes Dim Over Copenhagen and Climate Bill
* Black Agenda Report on Haiti and Honduras
* Rev Billy and the Church of Life After Shopping
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Dec 04 2009
President Barack Obama met recently with the Prime Minister of Myanmar or Burma, a country ruled for 2 decades by a military dictatorship. Burma’s elected leader Aung San Su Kyi remains under house arrest after a controversial trial earlier this year for allegedly breaking the terms of her imprisonment. The meeting between Obama and Prime Minister Thein Sein took …
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Dec 04 2009
Today is the 40th anniversary of the murders of Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton Jr. and Mark Clark in Chicago. After their deaths, with increasing evidence that the police in collusion with the FBI knowingly carried out a raid that ended in murder, a lengthy legal battle ensued. At the heart of that battle was attorney Jeffrey …
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Dec 04 2009
As droves of activists head to Copenhagen, Denmark, to pressure international leaders to take drastic measures on global warming, here in the US, nine Senate Democrats have decided what they would like President Obama to agree to. The Senators include Arlen Specter and other centrist Democrats who wrote a letter to the president suggesting that “all major economies …
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Dec 04 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Haiti and Honduras.
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Dec 04 2009
The Murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark
Back in the day on December 4th, 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were murdered by the Chicago Police Department. Exactly forty years ago the two members of the Black Panther Party were shot to death during an early morning raid on their apartment. Despite the police having been cleared …
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Dec 04 2009
“We’re in a giant car heading toward a brick wall and everyone’s arguing over where they’re going to sit.” — David Suzuki …
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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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