Apr 07 2009
President Barack Obama in a speech on Sunday, envisioned a “world without nuclear weapons,” committing the US to complete nuclear disarmament. In his speech, delivered in Prague, Obama promised to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and strengthen the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. His speech came only hours after a report that North Korea launched a “multi-stage rocket” many fear …
Apr 07 2009
The Supreme Court yesterday rejected an appeal by Mumia Abu Jamal and his lawyers for a new trial. The former member of the Black Panther Party and award winning radio journalist has remained on Pennsylvania’s death row ever since his conviction in 1982 for the murder of a white Philadelphia policeman Daniel Faulkner. In letting the conviction stand, …
Apr 07 2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is called American Exceptionalism, Obama-Style.
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Apr 07 2009
The Teapot Dome Scandal
Back in the day on April 7th, 1922, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Corporation signed a secret lease. Locked away in Fall’s desk drawer, the agreement between the three completed the transition of control away from the …
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Apr 07 2009
“As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.” — Justice William O. Douglas …
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Apr 06 2009
As the Supreme Court rejects a new trial for political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal, we’ll find out what happened, and what’s next. And, we’ll go to Pakistan to speak with human rights activists working against the Talibanization of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Plus, President Obama calls for nuclear disarmament over the weekend – we’ll look into the details of his plan. …
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Apr 06 2009
Today the Obama Administration is holding its fifth regional health care summit in Los Angeles. Hosted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Governor Gregoire of Washington, the forum will bring together elected officials and health care personnel to discuss what must be done to change the national health care system. President Obama recently told …
Apr 06 2009
The Labor Department released unemployment figures on Friday that showed that the nation’s economy shed yet another 663,000 jobs in March. Since December 2007, the current recession has claimed 5.1 million jobs in the United States bringing the economy to its highest unemployment rate since 1983. Although the majority of job losses are from construction, manufacturing, professional …
Apr 06 2009
The Pentagon announced in March that sexual assaults reported by US military personnel against fellow troops rose in Iraq and Afghanistan by nearly 25% last year. It also estimated that only between 10 and 20 percent of people who were sexually assaulted actually report the crime. According to the BBC, Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the …
Apr 06 2009
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” — Audre Lorde …
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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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