Dec 16 2008
President Bush concluded his two day trip to Afghanistan and Iraq yesterday after meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Bush reportedly assured Karzai that the incoming Obama administration would be as reliable as his own had been in supporting the Afghan presidency, even as violence has sharply risen. The visit to Afghanistan …
Dec 16 2008
President-elect Barack Obama announced the names of his Energy Secretary and other members of his environmental team yesterday: A Nobel-prize winning Physicist Steven Chu is Obama’s choice for Secretary of Energy. Chu specializes in carbon-neutral energy sources and currently heads the Berkeley National Laboratory. Carol Browner, a former Clintonite, is to be …
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Dec 16 2008
As Barack Obama is set to be sworn in as the nation’s first African-American commander in chief, new evidence is suggesting that white supremacists are continuing to fill the ranks of the U.S. army. The ongoing economic recession has been openly cited by the Pentagon as a main reason why re-enlistments and …
Dec 16 2008
On the Roadshow with Che by Gabriel San Roman
The eternal revolutionary nomad Ernesto “Che†Guevara is back on the road once more. The immense historical figure returns not on a motorcycle, nor a small, undersized yacht headed for the shores of an oversized history, but on the silver screen. The massive two-part four hour and …
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Dec 16 2008
The Heroine of the Paris Commune by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
One-hundred and thirty-seven years ago on this day in people’s history, Louise Michel stood trail for her participation in the Paris Commune. On December 16th 1871, the French revolutionary schoolteacher was sentenced to deportation to New Calendonia. The condemnation followed a …
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Dec 16 2008
“Race hate isn’t human nature; race hate is the abandonment of human nature.†– Orson Welles …
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Dec 15 2008
The Senate Republican Minority late last week voted down a bailout for the big three Detroit auto makers, only to be followed by President Bush pledging to dip into the earlier Wall Street bailout to save the companies. Now President Bush wants to use $14 billion of funds from the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief …
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Dec 15 2008
The California Air Resources Board approved new regulations late last week that will impact the state’s environmental future. On Thursday, the board unanimously approved a plan to implement California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. The key provisions aimed at reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by the year 2020 includes …
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Dec 15 2008
As the corruption controversy regarding the filling of President elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat continues, an attempt is being made to strip Governor Rod Blagojevich of his seat. The governor was arrested by FBI agents last week on the basis of taped conversations that revealed Blagojevich being willing to use his position to offer …
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Dec 15 2008
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on “Iraqi Ingratitude.”
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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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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