Sep 12 2006
GUEST: Peter Camejo, Green Party Gubernatorial candidate in California, author of “California: Under Corporate Rule”
Santos Reyes, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, is currently serving a twenty-six years to life prison sentence in Folsom Prison for placing a false name on a driver’s license test. The California Vehicle code classifies as a misdemeanor …
Sep 12 2006
GUEST: April Fitzsimmons, former Air Force Intelligence Analyst
Returning to the stage, the critically acclaimed one-woman play, “The Need to Know,†focuses on the life of former Air Force Intelligence Analyst April Fitzsimmons and her coming of age. Appearing as herself, Fitzsimmons’ drama recounts her experiences as a young girl who enlisted …
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Sep 12 2006
“I struggle to come to grips with the one recent President who was never subjected to a test from me or anyone else. While I did spend some time around him and the rest of the Bush family entourage while reporting on his father’s campaigns, he is the one President here who I never interviewed on the public record. No matter, George W. Bush is, for better or worse, the first truly electronically projected President.” …
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Sep 11 2006
GUEST: Noam Chomsky, internationally renowned MIT professor, the leading critic of US foreign policy, author of scores of books; his latest are “Failed States” and the bestseller “Imperial Ambitions.” The New York Times calls him, “a global phenomenon, perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.”
Five years ago today, …
Sep 11 2006
GUEST: Laura Poitras, New York based Peabody award-winning film maker
When the tragedy of 9/11 occurred five years ago, President Bush and many of his administration officials were desperate to hit Iraq in retaliation, a country they had been eyeing since Bush’s presidency began. It wasn’t until over a year later that …
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Sep 11 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 part 2 of 2, on the “War on Terror.”
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.
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Sep 11 2006
GUESTS: Samira Yamin, exhibiting artist and co-curator of Stomping Ground, Francesca “Zeal†Harris, an exhibiting artist
“Stomping Ground,†a new art exhibit by young women of color, opened this past weekend in Los Angeles. Running until October 31st, at Le Florence Gallery in the historic Lucy Florence Coffee House and Gallery in Leimert Park, …
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Sep 11 2006
“Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. He wanted to stir a “racial pride” among his countrymen, so, instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as “The Homeland” … As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, …
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Sep 08 2006
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* The Taliban are Back – Crisis in Afghanistan
* Commentary by Glen Ford on 60th anniversary of Nuremberg
* National Latino Congreso Convenes
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Sep 08 2006
GUEST: Felicia Gustin, co-Author of “Turning the Tide,†and co-director of Speak Out
As the school year begins for many university students across the nation, a new report entitled, “Turning the Tide: Challenging the Right on Campus,†has just been released by Speak Out and the Oakland Institute. Co-authored by Anuradha Mittal and …
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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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