Feb 05 2008
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 this year’s elections.
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Feb 05 2008
… about The Immigration Act of 1917
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Feb 05 2008
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” — Aristotle …
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Feb 04 2008
GUESTS: Norman Solomon, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, author of several books including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death,” and his latest, “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State;” Lamont Yeakey, Associate professor of History at Cal State LA and former member of the KPFK …
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Feb 04 2008
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 the Failure of John Edwards.
Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …
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Feb 04 2008
… about Torture Abolition Day
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Feb 04 2008
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.” — American Essayist, Agnes Repplier …
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Feb 01 2008
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This week on Uprising:
* Super Bowl Half-time Sponsor Exploits Liberian Workers
* Black Agenda Report on Democrats’ Fear of Bush
* Costa Rican Student Activist Rails Against CAFTA
* Empire Notes on the Israeli Siege of Gaza
* How Will Suharto Be Remembered?
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Feb 01 2008
GUEST: Emira Woods, co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus
As millions of people in the United States will be tuning into the Super Bowl this Sunday, a controversy has emerged around the sporting event’s halftime show. More shocking than any possible “wardrobe malfunctions,” this year’s halftime show is being sponsored by the Bridgestone Firestone …
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Feb 01 2008
GUEST: Sebastian Sanchez-Retana, university student and anti-CAFTA activist from Costa Rica
Earlier this week, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias acknowledged that his nation will miss its deadline to fully comply with a free-trade agreement with the United States. Implementation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement or CAFTA, has been slowed by thirteen laws needed …
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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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