Jan
15
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Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Exactly ninety-years ago on this day in people’s history, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were assassinated in Germany. On January 15th, 1919 in the midst of an uprising, the two revolutionaries were abducted, tortured and murdered by the Freikorps. Luxemburg, a Polish Jewish intellectual, …
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Jan
15
2009
“All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …
Jan
14
2009
We’ll examine the new politics of oil in the context of the economic recession with author and analyst Michael T Klare. And we’ll hear how media reform activists are responding to Obama’s choice of FCC chairman. Plus, we’ll speak with the film maker of The Betrayal, a new award winning documentary about a Laotian family’s journey to the US and their struggles with the past and present. …
Jan
14
2009
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Senator Hillary Clinton faced a relatively friendly crowd at her Senate confirmation hearing yesterday. As Secretary of State, Clinton will be the principal spokesperson for the President on US foreign policy. The hearings were framed by the phrase “Smart Power” which Clinton described as diplomacy being at the “vanguard of foreign policy.” While Clinton’s positions …
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Jan
14
2009
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While most workers will get time off next Monday to observe Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, Starbucks baristas will be busy serving coffee and won’t even get holiday pay. Working conditions at the mega-café chain often do not live up to the ideal. In late December a New York judge ordered the reinstatement …
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Jan
14
2009
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As the Israeli offensive in Gaza has entered its nineteenth day, the Palestinian Ministry of Health is reporting that nearly one-thousand lives have been lost with more than three hundred children among the dead. Israel’s military said it carried out its latest overnight strikes on sixty targets as reservists are being prepared for possible …
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Jan
14
2009
“As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled those wrongs would last forever.” — Clarence Darrow …
Jan
14
2009
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Plessy v. Ferguson by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
One-hundred and thirteen years ago on this day in people’s history, the Supreme Court of the United States legitimized “separate but equal” segregationist policies. On January 14th, 1896 justices returned an 8-1 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson ruling that a Louisiana law separating whites and blacks on …
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Jan
13
2009
We’ll look at what kind of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will make, in the aftermath of her Senate confirmation hearings. And, we’ll speak to the author of a new book about Starbucks: Capital, Conscience, Cappucino. Plus, a live report from a demonstration against the Israeli War on Gaza. …
Jan
13
2009
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A massive coal ash spill in eastern Tennessee in late 2008 has resulted in an environmental disaster. About a billion gallons of coal fly ash fell into the Emory River and surrounding areas because of a Tennessee Valley Authority plant failure, making it one of the worst environmental accidents in history. Despite the fact …
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