Aug 15 2006
GUEST: Gerald Horne, Professor of History at the University of Houston, author of various books including “Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920,” latest book is “The Final Victim of the Blacklist: John Howard Lawson, Dean of the Hollywood Ten.”
Acclaimed playwright and screenwriter John Howard Lawson was the president and …
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Aug 15 2006
GUESTS: Pablo Alvarado, Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, Sergio Rascone, Business Manager of Laborers International Union Local 300
Last Wednesday, the AFL-CIO signed a national partnership agreement with The National Day Laborer Organizing Network to improve the rights of all workers. The agreement formalizes the relationship between the largest union in …
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Aug 15 2006
“The struggle between thought-control and freedom of expression is the struggle between the people and a greedy unpatriotic minority which hates and fears the people.” — John Howard Lawson [note: This statement was never put into the public record by HUAC]
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Aug 14 2006
GUEST: Ray McGovern, former CIA Analyst, co-founder of “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity”
Hundreds of veterans gathered at Peace Arch park near the Canada-U.S. border this weekend to show their opposition to the Iraq war and support war resisters. About 30 Iraqi war resisters are believed to have fled to Canada, most of whom …
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Aug 14 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 Hezbollah’s Victory
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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Aug 14 2006
GUEST: David Bacon, labor journalist, KPFA programmer, author of “The Children of NAFTA”
In the days following Mexico’s July 2nd presidential election, hundreds of striking Mexican miners were fired in the state of Sonora. Workers at the Nacozari Mine, one of the world’s largest copper mines, had been on strike since March 24th …
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Aug 14 2006
GUEST: Susy Buchanan, Senior Writer of Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report
A day after 23-year-old Israel Maciel was killed and four others injured in a drive-by shooting in Costa Mesa, Mayor Allan Mansoor commented that it was time to “remove the welcome mat.” Costa Mesa’s mayor, who enjoys honorary membership in the Minute Man …
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Aug 14 2006
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind…War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” — John F. Kennedy
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Aug 11 2006
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* Analyzing US policy in the Israeli war on Lebanon
* Next steps for Mexican presidential election debacle
* How right-wing churches attract youth
* Radio BC’s Glen Ford on Cynthia McKinney
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Aug 11 2006
GUESTS: Derrick Bell, civil litigator, administrator, teacher, writer, lecturer and author of ten books including “Race, Racism, and American Law,” currently a visiting professor at New York University Law School; Adrien Katherine Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, associate dean for …
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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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