Sep 21 2011
President Obama addressed the United Nations’ General Assembly this morning making clear the US’s opposition to the Palestinian Authority’s bid for statehood. While hailing the pro-democracy movements in the Arab world, he asserted that Palestinians would have to make peace with Israel before pursuing statehood. He said, “[p]eace will not come through statements and resolutions at the U.N. If it …
Sep 20 2011
We’ll look at what days of violence in Yemen mean for the pro-democracy movement with Stephen Zunes. And, a conversation with local journalist Matthew Fleischer on the systemic inmate abuse at Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles. Plus, long-time activist and Congressional candidate Norman Solomon joins us to discuss Obama’s election campaign and his own. …
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Sep 20 2011
Death Row prisoner Troy Davis has just lost his bid for clemency. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, which alone has power within the state to commute Davis’ death sentence, denied clemency after hearing many hours of testimony on Monday. His execution by lethal injection is set for Wednesday at 7 pm in Jackson.
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Sep 20 2011
President Obama in yet another speech yesterday, outlined his plan for how the government can reduce $3 trillion of the federal deficit. The President’s plan includes raising $1.5 trillion in revenues, primarily through letting Bush-era tax cuts for couples making $250,000 a year or more expire, and adjusting the tax rates for millionaires so that they pay the …
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Sep 20 2011
Up to 60,000 Japanese protesters rallied on Monday in Tokyo to demand an end to the nuclear power industry in Japan. Recalling the events of the massive radiation fallout caused by the meltdown of the Fukushima Da-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant, protesters demanded that all 54 of Japan’s nuclear reactors be shut down. Despite the protests, the Japanese Government …
Sep 20 2011
Today marks the end of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, a policy that for more than 17 years prohibited gay men and lesbians from serving in the military and publically disclosing their sexual orientation. Don’t Ask Don’t Tell – or DADT – was signed into law in 1993 during the early days of the Clinton Administration. Last December, Congress passed a …
Sep 20 2011
Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. …
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Sep 20 2011
Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan— Former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani was killed by a suicide bomber on Tuesday in his home in the capital, the latest in a series of high-profile assassinations to rock the country in recent months.
Rabbani was the head of a government panel set up last year to try to begin negotiations with the Taliban, and his death was seen as a serious blow to those still-nascent efforts.
The bomber, who apparently had explosives …
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Sep 20 2011
An 18-year-old law that prevented serving US military personnel from disclosing that they were gay has been formally repealed.
At one minute past midnight eastern time (0401 GMT), the controversial don’t ask don’t tell (DADT) law was abolished after its repeal was signed into law some nine months ago.
Introduced by President Clinton in 1993 as a compromise step to full equality, DADT allowed gay and lesbian members of the military to serve only if their sexuality …
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Sep 20 2011
ATLANTA — Troy Davis, whose death row case ignited an international campaign to save his life, has lost what appeared to be his last attempt to avoid death by lethal injection on Wednesday.
Rejecting pleas by Mr. Davis’s lawyers that shaky witness testimony and a lack of physical evidence presented enough doubt about his guilt to spare him death, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles ruled on Tuesday morning that Mr. Davis, 42, should …
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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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