Apr 15 2011
We’ll spend the hour with acclaimed prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. Author of the best-selling book Helter Skelter & of The Prosecution of George W Bush for Murder. Bugliosi tackles the controversial issues of God and religion. His new book is called The Divinity of Doubt: The God Question. Using water-tight logic to expose both theism and atheism as absurd, Bugliosi makes the case for agnosticism. …
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Apr 14 2011
Americans are rushing to file their taxes by the midnight deadline on Monday while the political divide over how to best spend their precious tax dollars deepens. However a bi-partisan group of members of Congress are uniting today to demand cuts to one budget area that made it through the recent budget battles relatively unscathed – war spending. …
Apr 14 2011
President Obama yesterday gave a major speech on deficit reduction in which he lambasted the GOP proposal to cut spending. The speech came days after members of Congress had agreed in principle to a federal budget for fiscal year 2011-2012. The draft of the federal budget includes significant cuts to education funding. In addition to restricting Pell Grant awardees …
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Apr 14 2011
Japanese authorities reclassified the Fukushima nuclear emergency on Monday, raising it from a level five to a level seven on the UN International Nuclear Events scale. The scale only goes from 1 to 7. The reassessment, putting Fukushima on par with the Chernobyl disaster, has prompted two distinct reactions. Some, including Russia’s Nuclear Chief Sergei Kiriyenko, disagree with the …
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Apr 14 2011
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the Acquittal of Posada Carriles.
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Apr 14 2011
“We can sum it up in one sentence: Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests.” — Albert Camus …
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Apr 14 2011
President Obama appointed retired General Stanley McChrystal to co-chair a commission on military families this week, but according to perhaps the most prominent military family of the last decade, McChrystal is unfit for that duty.
Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman, the former professional football player turned Army Ranger who was tragically killed by friendly fire 7 years ago, is angered by McChrystal’s appointment, telling ABC News that he was part of the propaganda effort …
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Apr 13 2011
Members of Congress join war veterans to rally against American tax payers money being funneled into the war in Afghanistan. We’ll get a live report from DC. And, Chris Hedges joins us on the destruction of the American Education System. Plus, an update on Chernobyl-like dangers at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. Plus this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Apr 13 2011
Dominque Stevenson, co-author of “Marshall Law: The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther” spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar on April 13, 2011 about Marshall “Eddie” Conway, a political prisoner, and former Black Panther.
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Apr 13 2011
President Obama’s former Constitutional law professor at Harvard, Lawrence Tribe, has joined hundreds of legal scholars in condemning the conditions of Private Bradley Manning’s detention. Manning is the alleged source of the Department of Defense’s documents to the website Wikileaks. Professor Tribe called Manning’s treatment “not only shameful but unconstitutional.” The letter he signed goes as far as to …
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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