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Egyptian authorities opened the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip on Sunday allowing only for permitted entries. The temporary move that expires tomorrow follows the denied entry last week of the vast majority of international activists who had gathered in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry had previously cited a “sensitive …
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Jan
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2010
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In the wake of the botched Christmas day airline attack by a Nigerian man, the Obama administration is meeting with intelligence officials to understand how airport security failed. Already new security measures have been put into place since yesterday that single out nationals from fourteen specific countries including Nigeria, Yemen, and Afghanistan and other majority Muslim countries. The Council …
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2010
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Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by author and analyst Rahul Mahajan. Today’s commentary is called “Summing Up Obama.”
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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The Indictment of Dr. Benjamin Spock
Back in the day on January 5th, 1968, Dr. Benjamin Spock alongside four others was indicted for conspiring to violate the Selective Services Act of 1948. The influential pediatrician and author of the best-selling book “Baby and Child Care” was incredulously charged with aiding and abetting draft resisters. As a pacifist opposed …
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Jan
05
2010
“It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.” – Dorothy Thompson …
Jan
04
2010
We’ll go live to Egypt where hundreds of international activists are waiting to enter Gaza to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Israeli war and to call for justice and freedom for the people of Gaza. And, we’ll have a rare conversation with an Iranian labor activist, currently in the US under an assumed name. Plus, what the ACLU thinks a fair airport security system looks like in the aftermath of another attempted airplane …
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Jan
04
2010
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* All My Bones Shake: Seeking a Progressive Path to the Prophetic Voice – a one hour special with Robert Jensen
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