Jul 17 2006
GUESTS: Rania Masri, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Balamand (Lebanon) and the assistant director of the Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Balamand.
The Israeli assault on Lebanon continues in its sixth day in full force with more than 150 mostly civilians being killed. Israel’s “Operation …
Jul 17 2006
GUEST: Ruth Rosen, Historian and journalist, teaches history and public policy at U.C. Berkeley and is a senior fellow at the Longview Institute.
Five soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division are accused of raping and murdering Abeer al-Janabi, a 14 year old Iraqi girl, near the town of Mahmoudiya on March 12. A sixth soldier …
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Jul 17 2006
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 the Israeli Assault on Lebanon.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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Jul 17 2006
GUEST: Ko, You-Kyoung, Coordinator of the Pan-S. Korean Solution Committee Against US Base Extension in Pyongtaek (KCPT), Jamie Kim, interpreter
Last Tuesday, South Korea’s Defense Ministry announced that it will launch a panel on the relocation of U.S. military bases. The Defense Ministry stated that the panel would be part of an effort to facilitate a …
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Jul 17 2006
“Sexual terrorism coupled with religious zealotry has stolen [Iraqi women’s] right to claim their place in public life. This, then, is a hidden part of the unnecessary suffering loosed by the reckless invasion of Iraq. Amid the daily explosions and gunfire that make the papers is a wave of sexual terrorism, whose exact dimensions we have no way of knowing, and that no one here notices, unleashed by the Bush administration in the name of …
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Jul 14 2006
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* Israel pounds Lebanon – we’ll go to Beirut and Haifa for reports
* Milan Rai analyzes British foreign policy one year after the London Subway bombings
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Jul 14 2006
GUEST: Ilan Pappe, Professor History at Haifa University, Khatchig Mouradian, a journalist based in Beirut, editor of Aztag newspaper.
Lebanon called for a ceasefire yesterday after Israel’s heaviest offensive against its northern neighbour in 24 years. Israeli warships blockaded the Lebanese coast, while fighter jets bombed the runway at Lebanon’s only international …
Jul 14 2006
GUEST: Actor and activist, Mike Farrell, with Death Penalty Focus
A recent Chicago Tribune series highlighted new evidence that suggests a man may have been wrongfully murdered by the state of Texas. Carlos De Luna was executed in 1989 for the fatal stabbing of Wanda Lopez in Corpus Christi. The evidence calls into question …
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Jul 14 2006
GUESTS: Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, Ra’ed Jarrar, Director of the Iraq Project at Global Exchange
For the past ten days, a number of high profile antiwar activists including Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright, Medea Bejamin, Dick Gregory, and others, have been fasting on the White House lawn to protest the on-going US occupation …
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Jul 14 2006
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 the the National Minimum Income.
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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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