Mar 26 2009
We’ll examine the latest report card on American Infrastructure by the American Society of Civil Engineers – who assign a D grade to our roads and highways. And, neo-conservatives are gathering their forces with a new think-tank – it’s the Foreign Policy Initiative: an offspring of the Project for a New American Century. Plus, a tribute to the late renowned Black historian, John Hope Franklin – we’ll hear an archival speech. …
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Mar 26 2009
An anniversary that went almost entirely unnoticed in the US press this week marked a war that sought to legitimize humanitarian military intervention in the modern world. Ten years ago on Tuesday, forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO, began a 78-day bombing campaign targeted the Balkan nation, known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in the name …
Mar 26 2009
Halliburton, the Kellogg, Brown, and Root Subsidiary is embroiled in a scandal involving bribery in Nigeria. Two British employees of the company were just indicted in a US district court in Texas of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Their actions took place at the time when former Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton. Yesterday we heard part …
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Mar 26 2009
A Congressional subcommittee held a hearing yesterday featuring testimony by a leading expert on sexual violence against Indigenous women in the U.S. Charon Asetoyer, executive director of the Native American Women’s Health Education Resource Center addressed a disturbing epidemic of sexual violence affecting one out of three Native American and Alaska Native women and stressed the need to create Sexual …
Mar 26 2009
Naturalization Act of 1790
Back in the day on March 26th, 1790, the U.S. Congress passed its first Naturalization Act. As the first immigration policy of its kind for the newly emerging nation-state, it tellingly laid down racial barriers for becoming a citizen. The text of the law read, “Any alien, being a free white person, …
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Mar 26 2009
“Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.” — Fred Adler …
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Mar 25 2009
We’ll mark the 10th anniversary of the US/NATO war on the former Yugoslavia and examine the devastating aftermath of the 78-day bombing campaign. And, we’ll hear why Native American and Alaska Native women are experiencing epidemic levels of sexual violence, one day after a congressional hearing on the subject. Plus, part two of our conversation with Pratap Chatterjee on his book Halliburton’s Army. …
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Mar 25 2009
President Obama went on the defensive yesterday evening in his second prime-time news conference defending his Treasury Secretary’s plan to save the financial sector with $1 trillion of tax payer money. The President took questions from reporters for nearly an hour during a conference that almost entirely focused on the economy. He was grilled about the bonuses received by AIG …
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Mar 25 2009
Halliburton, the subsidiary of Kellogg, Brown, and Root, is in the news again, this time being charged with attempted bribery in Nigeria to buy liquefied natural gas facilities. Two British citizens working for the company formerly headed by former Vice President Dick Cheney, now face charges, according to the US justice department. Cheney’s leadership of Halliburton is only one among …
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Mar 25 2009
The Obama administration recently selected Thomas Perez, Maryland’s Labor Secretary, to run the Department of Justice’s civil rights division. Though Perez, a first-generation Dominican-American, has served on the board of two immigration organizations, the President’s move is being called a “flinch on immigration,” by a New York Times editorial published yesterday. Criticism has centered on why the LA-based civil rights …
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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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