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The California Air Resources Board approved new regulations late last week that will impact the state’s environmental future. On Thursday, the board unanimously approved a plan to implement California’s Global Warming Solutions Act. The key provisions aimed at reducing the state’s greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by the year 2020 includes …

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As the corruption controversy regarding the filling of President elect Barack Obama’s vacant Senate seat continues, an attempt is being made to strip Governor Rod Blagojevich of his seat. The governor was arrested by FBI agents last week on the basis of taped conversations that revealed Blagojevich being willing to use his position to offer …

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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 “Iraqi Ingratitude.”

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

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The Assassination of Chief Sitting Bull by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

One-hundred and eighteen years ago on this day in people’s history, Chief Sitting Bull was murdered by Lakota police. On December 15th, 1890, the symbol of enduring Native American resistance was shot in the head following an attempted arrest. After a …

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Defense Secretary Robert Gates has just arrived in Afghanistan to further his case for 20,000 extra US troops by next Spring. The increase in troops has been a foreign policy center piece of the incoming Obama administration during the election campaign and after. There are currently 34,000 troops in the country, fighting …

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Among the remaining top posts that President Elect Barack Obama is expected to name in the remaining weeks of this year is Secretary of Agriculture. That post, which requires confirmation by the Senate, is a crucial one, heading the US Department of Agriculture, overseeing the entire US food supply including organic standards, farm …

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According to the late French author and historian Daniel Guerin, “the word anarchy is as old as the world.” Since that time, the political ideal has faced contesting definitions and notions from both the right and the left. Proving over time not to be relegated to romanticized thought, anarchism instead has been a …

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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 about Black colleges.

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The Batang Kali Massacre by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman

Exactly sixty years ago on this day in people’s history, the Batang Kali Massacre occurred in Malaya. On December 12th, 1948, twenty-four unarmed villagers were killed by the Scots Guard regiment of the British Army. The massacre occurred six-months into what would become …

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As the United Nations Climate Change Conference continues in Poznan, Poland, environmental activists are warning climate financing should not be the domain of the World Bank. More than 160 citizen groups from dozens of countries presented a joint statement today calling for a UN global climate fund to help poorer countries construct low-carbon …

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