Jan 21 2010
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne …
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Jan 20 2010
We’ll find out how US corporations, mercenaries, and the IMF are rushing in to profit from Haiti’s crisis. And, why a 1972 California Law on flame retardants has been used to coat all sorts of consumer products including children’s clothing, with dangerous chemicals. Plus, recently released from prison, Hugo Machuca, a writer, joins us in studio alongside local author and activist Luis Rodriguez, to discuss the importance of incarcerated writers. …
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Jan 20 2010
Republican candidate Scott Brown has won the special election in Massachusetts to fill the seat of the late Senator Edward Kennedy. Brown beat Democrat Martha Coakley 52% to 47% in a victory that seemed unlikely just weeks ago. The Democrats were hoping to hold onto the seat to preserve a filibuster proof 60-vote super-majority in the Senate. …
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Jan 20 2010
On Sunday, Chileans returned a right-wing leader to power for the first time since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. Harvard-educated billionaire Sebastian Piñera claimed victory in the South American country’s presidential election by defeating former President and current Senator Eduardo Frei of the center-left Concertacion coalition. Despite the fact that incumbent Michele Bachelet has enjoyed overwhelming approval ratings, …
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Jan 20 2010
Barely a day had passed after last week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti when rightwing media pundits Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson began issuing some disturbing rhetoric. Limbaugh wasted no time in asserting that the earthquake will “play right into Obama’s hands,” and that the President and his administration will “use this to burnish their, shall we say, credibility …
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Jan 20 2010
Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is about Haiti.
Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted to death row nearly 30 years ago in the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer. He has always claimed his innocence and in 2008 a US Court of Appeals overturned his death sentence, effectively commuting it …
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Jan 20 2010
Hiram Revels Becomes First African-American Senator
Back in the day on January 20th, 1870, Hiram Rhodes Revels became the first African-American to be elected to the United States Senate. Born in North Carolina, the Christian minister and educator was, ironically, chosen to fill the long vacated seat of former Mississippi Senator and one-time President of the Confederacy Jefferson …
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Jan 20 2010
“Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters, cannot be trusted with important matters.” — Albert Einstein …
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Jan 19 2010
We’ll look at the results of the special election in Massachusetts and its implications for healthcare reform and the Democratic Party. Plus, Chileans just elected a right wing president for the first time since Pinochet – we’ll find out why. And, the bizarre response from Fox News and other rightwing media to the Haiti earthquake. And this week’s Who Said That Contest. …
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Jan 19 2010
It has been exactly one week since the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Six days after the disaster, survivors reportedly continued to be pulled from under the rubble by international rescue teams. However, Haitian government officials estimate that tens of thousands remain buried under collapsed structures and have put the death toll between 100,000 to …
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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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