Oct 06 2010
KPFK Fund Drive Day 2
In a talk given at KPFA, our sister station in Berkeley, British journalist Robert Fisk laid bare the language of empire. Speaking to a packed audience on September 22nd, just a few weeks ago, the veteran war reporter deconstructed the words that journalists and the media use on a daily basis: terror, peace process, and surge, among others. His talk, …
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Oct 06 2010
The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett
Delaware Tea Party senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s first campaign commercial is out. In it she proclaims: “I’m not a witch. I’m nothing you’ve heard. I’m you.” …
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Oct 06 2010
“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.” — Robert Fisk …
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Oct 05 2010
Dr. Vandana Shiva, physicist and winner of the Right Livelihood award, and founder of Navdanya will be speaking on Sunday October 17th at 6:30 pm at 5000 Clark Avenue, Lakewood, CA 90712 at an event called The Seeds of Hope. Suggested donation is $100 per person. Vegetarian meals will be available upon request. The event is organized by Friends of Navdanya
Navdanya has brought to light the plight of the small and marginal farmers, and …
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Oct 05 2010
KPFK Fund Drive Day 1
A bomb damaged a NATO oil tanker en route from Pakistan to Afghanistan yesterday. It was the fifth such attach in six days. The Pakistani Taliban, Tehreek-e-Taliban, have claimed responsibility for most of the attacks, which came on the heels of the Pakistani government closing off a major supply route used by the US and NATO in it’s Afghan war …
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Oct 05 2010
While pundits and economists worry about Wall Street’s well-being, Americans worry about losing their jobs, paying their bills and the health of the planet. The capitalist marketplace promotes the exploitation of people and natural resources as cheap fixes. But you don’t have to abandon your values to save a buck. Welcome to the People’s Marketplace.
Election season is closing in …
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Oct 05 2010
“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. …
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Oct 04 2010
A recent spate of gay teen suicides has left many in the LGBT community and its allies reeling in shock. An 18 year old Rutgers University student named Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington bridge on September 22nd, ending his own life after learning that his roommate live-streamed a sexual encounter he had with another male in …
Oct 04 2010
On Thursday, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa was trapped in a hospital and held for at least 10 hours by police. The police were reported to be rebelling against austerity measures passed a day earlier by the nation’s Congress. Ecuador’s police forces stopped patrolling the streets, and instead coordinated controlled takeovers of their barracks across the country, as well as a …
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Oct 04 2010
President Barack Obama’s notoriously caustic Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel resigned on Friday, receiving a dead-fish as a good-natured farewell gift. There is widespread speculation that Emanuel left the White House to run for Mayor of Chicago, and that he will be succeeded by Peter Rouse, a long-time adviser to the President. Emanuel’s departure is only the latest in …
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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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