Aug 15 2007
GUEST: Emira Woods, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus
Crisis after crisis seems to be striking the southern African nation of Zimbabwe. The rate of state initiated human rights violations has doubled since last year to over 5000 in the first six months of 2007 alone. The violations include torture, assault, detention, intimidation, and even …
Aug 13 2007
GUEST: Dean Baker, Co-Director of Center of Economic and Policy Report, author of the report, “Midsummer Meltdown: Prospects for the Stock and Housing Markets”
Last Friday, the Federal Reserve Bank issued a statement saying that it would seek to “facilitate the orderly functioning of financial markets.” Wall Street followed the statement and cash infusions from …
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Aug 10 2007
GUEST: Scott McLemee, essayist with Inside Higher ED
In April of this year, a man by the name of Kenneth Kronberg committed suicide in Virginia by throwing himself off a freeway onto on-coming traffic. It was revealed later that Kronberg was closely associated with eight-time Presidential candidate Lyndon Larouche. Kronberg had run a recently defunct printing press …
Aug 09 2007
GUEST: Patrick McElwee, Policy Analyst at JustForeignPolicy.org
US forces in Iraq claimed to have killed 32 suspected militants in a raid in eastern Baghdad earlier this week. But Iraqi police and witnesses said that the raid killed nine civilians, including two women, and wounded six others. The death toll in Iraq keeps mounting daily. Researchers …
Aug 08 2007
GUEST: Britta Belli, managing editor of E, the Environmental Magazine, and author of the new article, “Nuking Food: Contamination Fears and market Possibilities Spur an Irradiation Revival”
During President Bush’s recent visit to India to cement a nuclear agreement with the US, he commented on an impending new agricultural deal to import Indian …
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Aug 06 2007
GUESTS: Sherman Austin and Joaquin Cienfuegos, organizer with Cop Watch LA
Addressing the fallout from this past May’s MacArthur Park immigrants rights rally, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced that internal camera crews will now film major police actions. Devised by Deputy Chief Mike Hillman, the plan’s stated intention is to keep a documented …
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Aug 03 2007
GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco
Senator Barack Obama, one of the top two leading 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls, has shown his true colors. In a recent speech he called on the US to pull out of Iraq and focus on what he calls “the real sources …
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Aug 02 2007
As temperatures soar over a hundred degrees along the US-Mexico border, nearly three hundred Mexicans attempting to cross over have been found dead. The fates of countless other immigrants who have gone missing remain unknown. The trauma to family members of missing immigrants is imagined in …
Aug 01 2007
GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal. political prisoner, award winning journalist, radio commentator, and author
In a follow-up to our story in May about the case of Mumia Abu Jamal being heard by the 3rd Circuit US Court of Appeals, we present an interview with the man himself. Abu Jamal has been in prison for …
Jul 26 2007
GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College and author of the book, “Cuba Represent: Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures”
The “Granma International” newspaper of Cuba reported yesterday that Raul Castro would give the public address at the annual celebration of the July 26th Moncada barrack …
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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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