Jan 10 2008
January 10, 2008
“Our object should be peace within, and peace without.” – Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Pakistan’s founding leader …
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Jan 10 2008
Uprising Special Focus on Pakistan
GUEST CO-HOST: Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the South Asian Network
A suicide bomber blew himself up today outside a Lahore High Court in Pakistan, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70. The incident is the latest in a wave of violence to hit the country ahead of Parliamentary elections on February 18th. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Benazir’s heir to …
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Jan 09 2008
Women Rise Up: The Real Story of Kenya’s Elections
GUESTS: Lorna Laboso, with the ODM Party, just elected to Kenya’s Parliament, Stella Nyawira, 17 year old student who was raped in the post-election violence, Amie Williams, US based film maker who just returned from Kenya
The man named the winner of Kenya’s recent presidential elections, Mwai Kibaki, appointed half his cabinet yesterday, despite …
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Jan 09 2008
Pro-Western Incumbent Leads Georgia Despite Alleged Fraud
GUEST: Deborah B. Wild, journalist covering the Caucasus region, based in Tbilisi, Georgia
As the final votes of Georgia’s presidential election were counted, a unified opposition has claimed electoral fraud. Official results from the Eastern European nation’s Central Election Commission show pro-western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili with a decisive victory over his opponent Levan Gachechiladze. Saakashvili, …
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Jan 09 2008
Governor Revives Spending Caps
GUEST: Jean Ross, Executive Director of the California Budget Project
In his fifth State of the State speech since taking office, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday addressed a projected $14 billion deficit for the next fiscal year and warned of the possibility of across-the-board cuts in services from education to health care. He proposed …
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Jan 09 2008
Radical Day in History – 01/09/08
… about a New York public flirting ban
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Jan 09 2008
January 9, 2008
“The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ.” — Thomas Jefferson …
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Jan 08 2008
New Hampshire Votes in First Primary Today
GUEST: Leigh Ann Caldwell, FSRN Reporter
New Hampshire voters are heading to the polls today in the nation’s first presidential primary elections. Coming off a first place finish in Iowa, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is projected by numerous new polls to emerge victorious over Senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic race. …
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Jan 08 2008
Johnson: Don’t See Charlie Wilson’s War
GUEST: Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy — Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic
In 2003, I interviewed 60 minutes Producer George Crile about his book, “Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History.” The book traced the US …
Jan 08 2008
Supreme Court Weighs Lethal Injection Challenge
GUEST: Patrick Delahanty, Chair of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection executions. Called into question is the three-drug method used by many states to carry out the death penalty and the 8th amendment’s ban on cruel and …
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