Feb 13 2008
February 13, 2008
“We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace” — Martin Luther King Jr. …
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Feb 12 2008
February 12, 2008
“Pity the leader caught between unloving critics and uncritical lovers.” — John Gardner …
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Feb 12 2008
KPFK Fund Drive – Day 1
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Senator Obama Goes to Africa
Key primary elections are being held in the battle-ground states of Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. At stake are 168 delegates that Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both hope to win to clinch the Democratic Party nomination. Obama is favored in …
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Feb 11 2008
February 12, 2008
Uprising kicks off KPFK’s fund drive with a new DVD, “Senator Obama Goes to Africa,” about the Illinois Senator’s recent trip to various African countries. Plus, an exciting “Dollar-a-Day” Election 2008 Pack allows you to support your favorite radio station for only a buck a day – you get KPFK PLUS a great primer on this year’s election. …
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Feb 11 2008
Pakistan Heads Towards Elections in Aftermath of Bhutto Investigation
GUEST: Shahid Mahmood, former editorial cartoonist for Dawn, a national newspaper in Pakistan, now internationally syndicated with the New York Times Syndicate
Two suicide attacks in Pakistan, one on Saturday and one today, targeted political rallies in the lead up to parliamentary elections on February 19th. Violence has escalated since the assassination of former …
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Feb 11 2008
Israeli Siege of Gaza Escalated
GUEST: Gabriel Piterberg, Associate Professor of History at UCLA, author of the forthcoming book, “The Returns of Zionism.”
Israeli officials vowed today to intensify an armed offensive against Gaza with the hopes of bringing down Hamas within months. The Israeli government also hinted at renewing political assassinations as Vice Premier Haim Ramon noted that the …
Feb 11 2008
Independents Could Swing Presidential Election
GUEST: Jim Mangia, Chair of IndependentVoice.Org, the nation’s largest organization of independent voters
Illinois Senator Barack Obama won three victories in the primary elections in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska over the weekend. This puts him in currently in the lead on the number of delegates compared to Senator Hillary Clinton. Much of Obama’s success …
Feb 11 2008
Empire Notes on the Elections and the War
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 about the presidential elections and the war on Iraq.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Feb 11 2008
Radical Day in History – 02/11/08
… about Florence Kennedy
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Feb 11 2008
February 12, 2008
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” — George Bernard Shaw …
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