Aug 10 2007
GUEST: Scott McLemee, essayist with Inside Higher ED
In April of this year, a man by the name of Kenneth Kronberg committed suicide in Virginia by throwing himself off a freeway onto on-coming traffic. It was revealed later that Kronberg was closely associated with eight-time Presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche. Kronberg had run a recently defunct printing press …
Aug 10 2007
GUESTS: Gina Park, a High School student who has been on a waiting list for health insurance, Thomas Tran, Public Relations Specialist for LA Care, a community health plan that serves nearly 800,000 Los Angeles County residents through Medi-Cal, Healthy Families, and Healthy Kids. L.A.
800,000 LA County kids are in danger of losing health care …
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Aug 10 2007
GUEST: Xandra Kayden, Senior Fellow at the UCLA School of Public Policy, on the National Board of the League of Women Voters
A newly formed group called Californians for Equal Representation, has submitted a ballot initiative to change the current statewide winner-take-all electoral college system. The group would like to see a formula based on congressional districts …
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Aug 10 2007
GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report
This week’s commentary is about a recent Zogby poll on racism. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Aug 10 2007
… about The Nueces River Massacre .
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Aug 10 2007
“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.” — Thomas Jefferson …
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Aug 09 2007
GUEST: Patrick McElwee, Policy Analyst at JustForeignPolicy.org
US forces in Iraq claimed to have killed 32 suspected militants in a raid in eastern Baghdad earlier this week. But Iraqi police and witnesses said that the raid killed nine civilians, including two women, and wounded six others. The death toll in Iraq keeps mounting daily. Researchers …
Aug 09 2007
GUESTS: Ruben Koroma, Ashade Pearce, Black Nature, Idrissa “Malam” Bangora, four of the nine band members of Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars
The Sierra Leone Civil war which started in the early 1990s, resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and more than 2 million refugees. It was a brutal 11 year long conflict that …
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Aug 09 2007
GUEST: Jim March, Board of Directors of Black Box Voting
Last Friday California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified three voting systems widely used in this state. She made the decision in response to studies showing that the machines could be hacked. It affects systems made by three of the four largest voting machine …
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Aug 09 2007
… about The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki .
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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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