Mar 06 2007
GUEST: Patricia Isasa, torture survivor from Argentina
We return now to the story of Patricia Isasa, Argentine torture survivor whom we have featured on Uprising before. Patricia is the lead witness in a trial which will begin this year, to bring 9 human rights violators in Argentine to justice for torture, complicity, or even …
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Mar 06 2007
GUEST: David Lynn, independent journalist, just returned from Chad
Last week the International Criminal Court made its first move on Darfur, Sudan, in response to the on-going genocide. The Court accused a Sudanese minister and a militia commander of war crimes. As expected, the Sudanese government refused to co-operate. Meanwhile the African Union’s …
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Mar 06 2007
… on the 1857 Supreme Court Decision on Dred Scott vs. Sanford.
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Mar 06 2007
“You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.†– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …
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Mar 05 2007
GUEST: Yanar Mohammed, Chair of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq
Last August, two Iraqi women, 31 year old Wassan Talib and 26 year old Zeynab Fadhil were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq, for the murder of several Iraqi security forces. Zeynab Fadhil has long held that she …
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Mar 05 2007
GUEST: Nu Wexler, Communications Director at Wal-Mart Watch
The nation’s most important gathering of conservatives just wrapped up in Washington DC over the weekend. The Annual Conference of the Conservative Political Action Committee CPAC is the most important conservative movement event of the year, attended by over 5,000 activists from every state. One of the …
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Mar 05 2007
GUESTS: Austin Delgadillo, an organizer with Critical Resistance
James E. Tilton, Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation recently toured the Lancaster State Prison facility to support Governor Schwarzenegger’s prison reform package. Tilton witnessed extreme overcrowding and is supporting the Governor’s plan which calls for a $10.9 billion expansion program to add 78,000 …
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Mar 05 2007
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 Walter Reed Scandal and Socialized Medicine.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Mar 05 2007
… on the U.S. government’s apology to Nazi Germany.
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Mar 05 2007
“Sometimes I think this whole world is one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards.” — Bob Dylan …
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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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