Nov 21 2008
We’ll look at the crucial regional elections in Venezuela that could re-write the country’s political landscape; Congress woman Maxine Waters joins us with her reaction on how the Wall Street Bailout is not being used to help at-risk-homeowners; and a conversation with the author of “The Wrong Guys: Murder, False Confessions, and the Norfolk Four.†…
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Nov 21 2008
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* Iraq Occupation Could be Extended for Three More Years
* Black Agenda Report: Lawless Capital, Rushing to Armageddon
* Waxman Appointed to Influential Post Signaling Green Future Under Obama
* Empire Notes on the Nader Campaign
* “Separate is Never …
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Nov 21 2008
Prompted by the ongoing political crisis in Zimbabwe, the government of South Africa announced that it will be withholding millions of dollars of agricultural aid to the country. In a statement released yesterday, South Africa’s cabinet strongly suggested that “no amount of political disagreement can ever justify the suffering that ordinary Zimbabweans are being subjected …
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Nov 21 2008
Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has been offered the position of secretary of Health and Human Services by President Elect Barack Obama, and has accepted. Daschle has been a vocal supporter of health care reform, authoring a book about it earlier this year called “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” …
Nov 21 2008
Yesterday California Democrat Henry Waxman ousted his fellow Democrat John Dingell from the influential post of House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair. Dingell, who represents Michigan and is a staunch supporter of the auto industry played a leading role for two decades as chairman in staving off environmental adaptations for American vehicles such as fuel …
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Nov 21 2008
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is called “Lawless Capital, Rushing to Armageddon.”
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Nov 21 2008
Listen to today’s Subversive Historian
The Columbine Mine Massacre by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Eighty-one years ago on this day in people’s history, the Columbine Mine Massacre occurred in Colorado. On November 21st, 1927, striking miners were met with the gunfire of state police leaving six laborers dead. Hundreds of workers had gathered on that fateful morning in an effort to join …
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Nov 21 2008
“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.” — Edward Abbey …
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Nov 20 2008
We take a look at some potentially good news coming out of Washington DC: Obama’s appointment of Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the House vote appointing green-friendly Henry Waxman to head the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Plus, an update on the on-going political impasse and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe. …
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Nov 20 2008
On Sunday the Iraqi cabinet finally approved the so-called Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the United States. The security pact, which sets a timetable for the removal of U.S. forces from Iraq by December 31st, 2011, is currently being debated before the 275 seat Iraqi parliament. Expected to come to a vote before …
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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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