“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.” – Wendell Phillips …

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GUEST: Britta Belli, managing editor of E, the Environmental Magazine, and author of the new article, “Nuking Food: Contamination Fears and market Possibilities Spur an Irradiation Revival”

During President Bush’s recent visit to India to cement a nuclear agreement with the US, he commented on an impending new agricultural deal to import Indian …

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GUEST: John Farrell, Research Associate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and author of the report, Wind and Ethanol: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale

Last Saturday the US House of Representatives passed its version of an energy bill that has a potentially ground-breaking requirement – that the nation’s utilities get 15% of …

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GUEST: Anna Arutunyan, news editor for The Moscow News – an English-language weekly in Moscow, she is also a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus

Georgia accused Russia yesterday of violating its airspace and firing a missile at a village deep in its territory. Russia has denied carrying out the attack. The incident has …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is about Ward Churchill.

Listen to Mumia’s audio commentaries at www.prisonradio.org. …

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… about Matthew Henson: First Explorer to Reach the North Pole .

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“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” -– Jane Addams …

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GUESTS: Christopher Hitchens, author of God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

We spend the morning hearing the full length debate between Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges on religion that was recently recorded in Berkeley and briefly featured on KPFK’s last funddrive.

Christopher Hitchens is a British-American …

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… about Fidel Castro and the Nationalization of US Enterprises .

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“Why not let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe? Let each seek one’s own way to the highest, to one’s own sense of supreme loyalty in life, one’s ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, that people may grow in vision, stature and dedication” – Algernon Black …