Nov
02
2015
GUEST: Brian Concannon Jr., Executive director of the Institute for Justice & Democracy in Haiti.
Haitians went to the polls on October 25th for the first round of voting in Presidential elections. The elections were to be held in August but were postponed due to violence. Current President Michel Martelly who has long enjoyed US government support, has campaigned heavily for his favored candidate, Jovenel Moise, an …
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Nov
02
2015
GUEST: Reese Erlich, veteran freelance foreign correspondent who has traveled widely across the Middle East. He has written a number of books including, Conversations with Terrorists: Middle East Leaders on Politics, Violence, and Empire.
The Obama Administration on Friday dropped a major bombshell, announcing that it would send special forces troops into Syria, after years of refusing to send in ground troops. While it is an …
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Nov
02
2015
GUEST: Vicki Abeles, filmmaker whose 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere exposed the detrimental nature of high-stakes testing in public schools. Her new film Beyond Measure, shares its name with her new book Beyond Measure: Rescuing an overscheduled, overtested, underestimated generation.
President Obama in late October, made a surprise announcement on the White House Facebook page against high-stakes testing in public schools. The issue of high-stakes testing, …
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Oct
30
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Lillian Faderman is an internationally known scholar of lesbian history and literature, as well as ethnic history and literature. She is the author of: the New York Times ‘Notable Books, Surpassing the Love of Men and Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers’, ‘Gay L.A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics’ and ‘Lipstick Lesbians.’
Just a few years ago, when California was reeling from Proposition 8 (which many …
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Oct
29
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor of Communications Studies at Clemson University in South Carolina. He has been active on issues of police brutality and closely followed the case at Spring Valley High in Columbia.
By now the video of a black female high school student being brutalized by a white officer has gone viral, prompting the “#AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh” social media hashtag to be used …
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Oct
29
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Joy Ann Reid, National Correspondent for MSNBC, appearing regularly on prime time programs such as Chris Matthews and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. She is the former managing editor of TheGrio.com and her writings have appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Salon, and more.
Activists with the Black Lives Matter movement recently asked the Democratic and Republican National Committees …
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Oct
28
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Shahid Buttar, Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, former Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee.
In an online discussion on Reddit this week, NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden had this to say about a bill being considered by Congress: The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), “isn’t a cybersecurity bill…It’s not going to stop any attacks. It’s not …
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Oct
28
2015
BANNED BROADCAST
GUEST: Dilip Hiro is a leading expert on South Asia and the Middle East, Hiro, has written more than 35 books and is a regular contributor to Tom Dispatch and Yale Global Online.
The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy has become an expert at courting his fundamentalist and caste-ist Hindu base, while employing modern technology to create a cult of personality around …
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Oct
27
2015
GUEST: Stephen Zunes is a Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of San Francisco, where he directs the program in Middle Eastern Studies.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he supports revoking the travel rights of Palestinians living in East Jerusalem. The announcement came amid furor over comments that he made recently over who was really responsible for the Holocaust.
A wave …
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Oct
27
2015
GUEST: Katherine Sawyer, International climate organizer at Corporate Accountability International.
The last round of international talks on climate change ahead of the December United Nations COP21 meeting in Paris just wrapped up in Bonn, Germany. The 5-day Bonn meeting was supposed to result in a draft agreement for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that country representatives would hash out and, hopefully, adopt in Paris.
But activist groups used …
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