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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 called American Exceptionalism, Obama-Style.

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

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The Teapot Dome Scandal

Back in the day on April 7th, 1922, Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and Harry F. Sinclair of the Mammoth Oil Corporation signed a secret lease. Locked away in Fall’s desk drawer, the agreement between the three completed the transition of control away from the …

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Today the Obama Administration is holding its fifth regional health care summit in Los Angeles. Hosted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Governor Gregoire of Washington, the forum will bring together elected officials and health care personnel to discuss what must be done to change the national health care system. President Obama recently told …

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The Labor Department released unemployment figures on Friday that showed that the nation’s economy shed yet another 663,000 jobs in March. Since December 2007, the current recession has claimed 5.1 million jobs in the United States bringing the economy to its highest unemployment rate since 1983. Although the majority of job losses are from construction, manufacturing, professional …

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The Pentagon announced in March that sexual assaults reported by US military personnel against fellow troops rose in Iraq and Afghanistan by nearly 25% last year. It also estimated that only between 10 and 20 percent of people who were sexually assaulted actually report the crime. According to the BBC, Dr. Kaye Whitley, director of the …

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The Murder of Little Bobby Hutton

Back in the day on April 6th 1968, Black Panther Party member Little Bobby Hutton was murdered by the Oakland Police. Coming just two days after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was slain, Hutton, who was the first person to join the Panthers at the age of 16 …

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At their London meeting yesterday, the Group of 20 countries agreed to reform the international finance system through the use of regulations, registries, and executive pay caps. More significantly they agreed to set aside a 1.1 trillion dollar “recovery fund,” the majority of which will be used by the International Monetary Fund. There was also agreement to …

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On Wednesday, Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party was sworn in by the Israeli Knesset after forming the largest cabinet in his nation’s political history. Netanyahu, who was previously the Prime Minister of Israel from 1996 – 1999, formed his coalition government by naming hard-line right winger Avigdor Lieberman of the Yisrael Beiteinu Party as his Foreign Minister …

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Scour the news about online child predators, and you’ll hear that sexual predators are everywhere, increasing in number, and ready to lure your child. Take this local CBS news website headline: “Internet Crimes Increase, While Law Enforcement Budgets Decrease.” One number that has been repeated on network news is that “50,000 predators” are trolling the Internet …

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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 Black-White Income Gaps.

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