Apr 10 2008
GUEST: Paul Waldman, co-author (with David Brock) of “Free Ride: John McCain and the Media”
The presumptive Republican Presidential candidate John McCain, embarked on a week-long “Service To America biography tour” last week, showcasing his military record and garnering local media coverage. The move is part of McCain’s attempt at reinventing himself for this year’s …
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Apr 03 2008
Gore Vidal was born on October 3, 1925. He is a prominent social critic, novelist, playwright, and essayist, and an outspoken critic of the American political establishment. John Keates once praised him as “[the twentieth] century’s finest essayist.” He spent many years living abroad, mostly in Italy and has now moved back to Southern California. Yesterday, over a hundred students, …
Mar 26 2008
GUEST: Ali Ahsan, lawyer and son of leading dissident Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Farhat Haq, Pakistani American teaching at Monmouth College, and expert on political Islam, women and Islam, and contemporary Pakistani Politics
Pakistani President and major US ally, Pervez Musharraf, swore in Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country’s new Prime …
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Mar 25 2008
GUEST: Alma David, San Francisco organizer with Students for a Free Tibet
The torch lighting ceremony for this year’s Olympics Games were disrupted yesterday in Greece by free-Tibet protesters. The recent mass uprising in Tibet and China’s responding crackdown has been the biggest story surrounding this year’s games, which are being hosted by China. …
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Mar 21 2008
GUEST: Shelly Tochluk, educator with background in psychology, assistant professor of education at Mount St. Mary’s College, author of “Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps toward an antiracist practice and culture”
Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s moving speech on race in America this Tuesday addressed a fundamental issue in US culture that is rarely addressed in a …
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Mar 21 2008
GUEST: Eileen Applebaum, labor economist at Rutgers University
More news of the weakening U.S. economy surfaced yesterday as reports indicated slumping factory production and rising unemployment claims. According to new data, factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. economy has continued to shrink for the fourth consecutive month. This has been the worst …
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Mar 13 2008
GUEST: Mark Potok, Director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center
A new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center has found that hate groups in the US continued to proliferate, and that most of them are fueled by anti-immigrant hatred. The Center has counted 888 hate groups in …
Mar 05 2008
GUEST: Antonio Skarmeta, author of the award winning novel, The Postman, and his latest, “The Dancer and the Thief”
Chile’s sprawling metropolis capital of Santiago is the scene of acclaimed novelist Antonio Skarmeta’s latest book, “The Dancer and the Thief.” Set in the wake of Pinochet’s dictatorship, the book’s protagonists struggle to make peace …
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Mar 03 2008
GUEST: Sujatha Fernandes, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College, New York, author of Cuba Represent
In a move that signals real change in post-Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque signed two UN agreements: the International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. Fidel Castro …
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Feb 11 2008
GUEST: Jim Mangia, Chair of IndependentVoice.Org, the nation’s largest organization of independent voters
Illinois Senator Barack Obama won three victories in the primary elections in Washington, Louisiana and Nebraska over the weekend. This puts him in currently in the lead on the number of delegates compared to Senator Hillary Clinton. Much of Obama’s success …
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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