Aug 06 2007
GUESTS: Sherman Austin and Joaquin Cienfuegos, organizer with Cop Watch LA
Addressing the fallout from this past May’s MacArthur Park immigrants rights rally, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced that internal camera crews will now film major police actions. Devised by Deputy Chief Mike Hillman, the plan’s stated intention is to keep a documented …
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Aug 06 2007
GUEST: Miho Kim, Information Activist at the Oakland-based Research Support Organization and US coordinator of the Tokyo-Bay area based organization “Trans-Pacific Research & Action Institute for the Hisabetsu Nikkei
An opposition party member will be named the leader of Japan’s Upper House of Parliament for the first time in a special session tomorrow. …
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Aug 06 2007
GUEST: Orbal, member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), currently visiting the US
In an interview this weekend with Wolf Blitzer, Afghan president Hamid Karzai was pessimistic about his country’s future. He asserted that the security situation has “definitely deteriorated” over the last two years and that US and …
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Aug 06 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 Obama and Hiroshima.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Aug 06 2007
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Aug 06 2007
“Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police” -– Albert Einstein …
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Aug 03 2007
“The true tutors of late consumer capitalist society as measured by time are those who control the media monopolies, the aggressive content purveyors, shameless lords of omnipresent pixels, who capture sixty or seventy hours a week, fifty-two weeks a year, of children’s time and attention.” — Benjamin R. Barber “Consumed” …
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Aug 03 2007
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* Clinton or Obama – What’s the Difference?
* Black Agenda Report on Prisons and the Green Party
* Katrina Survivors Scramble to Meet Housing Assistance Deadline
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Aug 03 2007
GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco
Senator Barack Obama, one of the top two leading 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls, has shown his true colors. In a recent speech he called on the US to pull out of Iraq and focus on what he calls “the real sources …
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Aug 03 2007
GUEST: Kellie Copeland, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-choice Ohio
Republican legislator, John Adams in Ohio, has proposed a new law that would ban pregnant women from seeking an abortion without written consent from the father of the fetus. In cases where the identity of the father is unknown, women would be required to submit a …
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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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