Jan 06 2009
“Homeland Security USA,” is a new “reality” show that will premiere on ABC television tonight. With 13 shows ordered for its first season, the series claims to be based on the daily tasks federal workers carry out for the government department formed in the wake of the September 11th attacks. The controversial Immigration and Customs …
Jan 06 2009
EMI Drops the Sex Pistols by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Thirty-two years ago on this day in people’s rock history, the EMI record label terminated its contract with the British Punk Band “The Sex Pistols.” On January 6th 1977, the raucous quartet headed by lead singer Johnny Rotten was fired only three months into their …
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Jan 06 2009
“Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” -– Noam Chomsky …
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Jan 05 2009
More than 500 Palestinians have died in the Israeli attack on Gaza, now in it’s second week. The invasion has expanded from an air war to sea and land, with Israeli forces surrounding Gaza and its ground troops slicing the strip in two on Sunday. Hospitals are overloaded with injured patients that cannot get proper treatment because …
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Jan 05 2009
On New Years Day, Cuba marked the fiftieth anniversary of its watershed revolution. On January 1st 1959, Fidel Castro’s armed rebels triumphantly marched to the nation’s capital of Havana after having defeated the dictatorship of Flugencio Batista. Current President Raul Castro declared at a celebration in the city of Santiago de Cuba that the revolution marked the …
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Jan 05 2009
When election officials in Minnesota finished their vote recount on Saturday, Al Franken, the comedian-turned-politician was leading incumbent Norm Coleman by 225 votes for the state’s Senate seat. Minnesota’s canvassing board is expected to sign off on the results of the recount today – however, it will be a week before it is certified. New …
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Jan 05 2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Understanding the Invasion of Gaza.
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Jan 05 2009
“The Indictment of Dr. Benjamin Spock” by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman
Forty-one years ago on this day in people’s history, Dr. Benjamin Spock alongside four others was indicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Services Act of 1948. On January 5th, 1968, the influential pediatrician and author of the best-selling book “Baby and Child Care” …
Jan 05 2009
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.” –- Franklin Delanore Roosevelt …
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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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