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Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Delusions on Afghan Democracy.

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.

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The National Negro Labor Council

Back in the day on October 27th, 1951, the National Negro Labor Council was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. Delegates from across the country approved a program for the newly formed organization that set out to promote civil rights within the labor movement. Labor leader William Hood delivered a speech at the founding convention …

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A government report released yesterday urged the White House to develop a national strategic plan to prepare for the effects of global warming. Citing a lack of cohesion, the Government Accountability Office suggested that federal agencies begin working in tandem with Congress, state and local governments to address potential flooding and other natural disasters resulting from a warming of …

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A golf country club near Boston this week was vandalized with the world “I” followed by an inside-out Swastika, followed by “Obama” carved into the grass near the 18th hole. It’s the latest salvo in the bizarre obsession among the group of Americans dubbed Obama-haters. But now, these Americans have the opportunity to realize their greatest …

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Forty five years ago this year, in the thick of the Vietnam War, a group of draft resisters founded an organization called simply The Resistance. The group grew to national stature attracting members from all over the country including Los Angeles. Now, to commemorate that 45th anniversary, original members of The Resistance will join today’s antiwar groups like …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on the health care debate.

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The First Woman’s Rights Convention

Back in the day on October 23rd, 1850, the First National Woman’s Rights Convention was held in Worcester, Massachusetts. The two-day gathering attracted more than one-thousand attendants from states across the nation. The pioneering convention central to strengthening the national movement for women’s equality was born earlier that year from the discussions of …

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This week the NBC network is teaming up with California First Lady Maria Shriver to present a week of television programming on the state of 21st Century American women. The programming will be based on a new report called The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything.” The Shriver Report reveals that for the first time in …

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Mira Nair is an award winning film maker whose film credits include Salaam Bombay, Mississippi Masala, Monsoon Wedding, and The Namesake. Her newest film, opening this Friday in theaters, is called Amelia, a biopic about Amelia Earhart, the legendary women’s rights advocate and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Nair’s biggest budget film …

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The campaign to elect President Obama last year actively engaged millions of Americans who were previously indifferent or alienated from the political process. But just a mere 9 months after his inauguration, a rightwing backlash hostile to everything Obama-related, seems to have out-organized progressives. Obama’s election campaign infrastructure has remorphed itself into a group called Organizing for America, firing …

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