Mar
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2007
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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 4th Anniversary of Iraq War – Part 1.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
Mar
12
2007
… on the 1864 letter about the surrender of the Navajo People.
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Mar
12
2007
“Hip Hop is struggle. It means a determined attitude towards life. It means rebellion. Hip Hop is the voice of youth and it means above all, the struggle for many things that are poorly done and the detoxification of the mind and body. For me, it means freedom.” — Soandry, Cuban hip hop artist. …
Mar
09
2007
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This week on Uprising:
* US Responsibility for Gender Violence in Iraq
* Empire Notes on the Walter Reed Scandal
* Argentine Torture Survivor Speaks Out
* Black Agenda Report on the need for a “Black Moveon”
* Independent Media in Oaxaca
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Mar
09
2007
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GUESTS: Shannon Young, Headlines editor for Free Speech Radio News, Vladmir Flores, FSRN Correspondent and works with Mal de Ojo TV, an independent media collective
Earlier this week, victims of repression in the Mexican state of Oaxaca publicly denounced ongoing injustices committed by local government authorities. The pronouncements were made during hearings of …
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Mar
09
2007
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GUEST: Joel Westheimer, Professor and University Research Chair in Democracy and Education at the University of Ottawa and the co-Director of DemocraticDialogue.com
In the days after the twin towers fell on September 11, 2001, American citizens and residents took up US flags in droves, on their cars, in front of their homes and businesses, …
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Mar
09
2007
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GUEST: Brian De Shazor, Director of the Pacifica Radio Archives
We turn next to an update from the Pacifica Radio Archives, considered by historians and scholars to be one of the oldest and most important audio collections in the world. The Pacifica Radio Archives have chronicled the political, cultural and artistic movements of the second half …
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Mar
09
2007
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GUEST: Bruce Dixon, sitting in for Glen Ford, is the Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about the need for a “Black Moveon.” Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
Mar
09
2007
… on the 1841 freeing of the men who led the Amistad Slave Revolt.
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Mar
09
2007
“Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.” — Emma …
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