Dec 12 2006
“I have faith in Chile and in her destiny. Others will surmount this gray, bitter moment in which treason seeks to impose itself. You must go on, knowing that sooner rather than later the grand avenues will open along which free people will pass to build a better society — Salvador Allende, last radio address, on September 11th 1973 …
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Dec 11 2006
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Dec 11 2006
“The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection.” — George Eliot …
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Dec 11 2006
GUESTS: Charles C. Mann, Correspondent for Science and The Atlantic Monthly, author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Julia Guernsey, Professor of Art & Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Art
Mel Gibson’s latest film, ”Apocalypto” opened this past weekend as the number 1 movie, …
Dec 11 2006
GUEST: Dahr Jamail, independent reporter
“Hundreds of thousands of widows are becoming the silent tragedy of a country sliding deeper into chaos by the day.” That’s the opening line of a new article by independent reporter Dahr Jamail, entitled “Widows Become Silent Tragedy.” He’s talking about Iraq where hundreds of thousands of men …
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Dec 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 on the Baker-Hamilton Report.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Dec 11 2006
GUEST: Marge Nicols, United Way’s Director of Research for more than 20 years, currently a consultant
United Way of Greater Los Angeles recently released their “2007: The State of Women in Los Angeles County” Report. In it, the organization examines critical trends in education, the economy, housing and health. The report also focuses on …
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Dec 08 2006
“Something to Scream About” Screamers director and System of a Down join forces to decry Armenian Genocide. By Gabriel San Román (Originally Published in the December 7th issue of the OC Weekly)
On April 24, 1915, the Ottoman Turkish government began a systematic campaign of arrests, deportation, and annihilation against the Armenian people. By 1923, mass killings had claimed the lives of an estimated 1.5 million Armenians in what became …
Dec 08 2006
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* Award winning Palestinian photo-journalist speaks out on “truce” in Gaza
* The UN Considers a Global Arms Trade Treaty
* Katrina Survivors Pressure FEMA for Housing Rights
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Dec 08 2006
GUEST: Mohammed Omer, correspondent for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs Gaza
The United Nations and its partners this week launched their largest ever appeal for emergency aid to the occupied Palestinian territory. More than $453 million is needed after Israel cut off tax and customs funds to the Palestinian Authority when Hamas …
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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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