Oct 27 2006
GUEST: Fernando Suarez del Solar, founder of Guerrero Azteca Peace Project, father of Jesus Suarez, one of the first American soldier to be killed in the Iraq war.
October has been the deadliest month this year for U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The U.S. military has said that 96 troops have died so …
Oct 27 2006
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
Visit www.blackagendareport.com. This week’s commentary is called:
The Melting Pot
There’s a cliché that goes, “America is always reinventing itself.†Another way of saying this is, “White Americans are constantly lying about themselves and the country.†This continuous process of revisionism …
Oct 27 2006
Arch bishop Oscar Romero once said:
“Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.”
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Oct 26 2006
GUEST: Gustavo Arellano, staff writer for the Orange County Weekly, writes the popular column “Ask a Mexican”
Orange County Congressional Candidate Tan Nguyen has stated that he will not drop out of his campaign even if he is charged with a crime relating to an intimidating letter sent to registered Democrats with Spanish surnames. …
Oct 26 2006
GUEST: Dahlia Wasfi, Iraqi American activist, medical student, and speaker for Global Exchange
A survey carried out by Iraqi physicians and overseen by American academics at Johns Hopkins University and MIT, estimated recently that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since US-led forces invaded in March 2003. In the year ending June …
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Oct 26 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 about exit strategies in Iraq
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Oct 26 2006
GUEST: Elliot Mincberg, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Legal Director with People for the American Way
This past Monday marked the deadline for registering to vote in the upcoming November 7th elections. As some analysts predict that the November elections will be a potential turning point for the nation, the non-partisan Election Protection …
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Oct 26 2006
“The right to vote…is the primary right by which other rights are protected.”– Thomas Paine …
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Oct 25 2006
GUEST: Flores Forbes, author of “Will You Die with Me?: My Life and the Black Panther Party” and Chief Strategic Officer of the Abyssinian Development Corporation
This weekend is the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party was a progressive political organization founded by Huey P. Newton as a powerful movement for …
Oct 25 2006
You can jail a Revolutionary, but you can’t jail the Revolution. — Huey Newton
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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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