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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Energy, Democracy, and Dick Cheney.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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Based on my last blog entry, I wrote a lengthier, more analytical piece about the immigrant movement. It was first sent out as a commentary via the Z sustainer program. Dissident Voice just republished it here.

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Los Angeles is being seen as the epicenter of the new immigrant movement, mobilizing the largest numbers of people nationally at the recent protests. On May Day, there were two separate marches and I was fortunate enough …

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“No theater could sanely flourish until there was an umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world.” –Kenneth Tynan.
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GUESTS: Cynthia Valenzuela, litigation director for MALDEF, The Mexican-American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Phillip Hwang, staff attorney for Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Last Monday, as hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Los Angeles for immigrant rights, day laborers in Redondo Beach claimed a victory in federal court. U.S. District …

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Glen Ford, co-publisher of The Black Commentator

The Black Commentator is an online political magazine bringing you commentary, analysis and investigation from a black perspective. Today’s commentary is on Bush and Darfur.

The Black Commentator is online at www.blackcommentator.com.
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GUESTS: Tony Perucci, playwright

Cal State Northridge’s The Performance Ensemble, will perform Snark, Inc. – it’s a play based on Brian Gage‘s satire of consumer culture and is being described as “a unique guerilla theater experience.” The Performance Ensemble has juxtaposed Gage’s book with a range of revolutionary texts including: The Anarchist’s Cookbook, poetry …

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GUEST: Rev. Susan Russell, member of the Human Rights Campaign’s Religion Council and President of Integrity USA

Delegates from the Episcopal Diocese of California gathered Saturday to pick their next bishop from a field of seven candidates, three of whom were gay. The diocese chose Reverend Mark Handley Andrus of Birmingham who is a heterosexual. …

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The multi-platinum, Grammy award winning rock group, System of a Down, will be launching a campaign in Washington D.C. to urge Congress to pass legislation officially recognizing the Armenian Genocide.

The lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian, spoke to us about the campaign for recognition, the recent PBS controversy surrounding the Armenian Genocide, and the continued denial of the genocide by both the U.S. and Turkish governments.

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“The hour has arrived where we liberate ourselves completely. I feel a wave of uprising and rebellion all around Latin America and a growing courage to stop our subjugation at the hands of the North American empire.” – Evo Morales …

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GUEST: Mark Weisbrot, Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Waltraud Q. Morales, Professor of Political science at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of Bolivia: Land of Struggle and more recently A Brief History of Bolivia

Bolivia’s indigenous president Evo Morales has decided to nationalize his country’s natural …

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