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GUEST: Walter Williams, Distinguished Fellow at the Center for American Politics Public Policy, Professor Emeritus at the Daniel J Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, co-author of “The Politics of Bad Ideas”

Republican Senator and presumptive Presidential candidate, John McCain has centered his platform for the US economy …

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GUEST: Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, assistant professor of political science, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Ikaika Hussey, convenor of the Movement for Aloha No ka Aina (MANA)

The US Army recently made a final decision to station its 2/25th Stryker Brigade on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu permanently, saying that it’s for the sake of maximizing national security. …

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… about the Brown Beret’s Newspaper, La Causa

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GUEST: James Rucker, Executive Director of Color of Change

Following last Tuesday’s Democratic primaries, the Obama campaign for the presidency gained superdelegate votes and an influential union endorsement. All but eviscerating Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead, Obama inched within three votes, according to the Superdelegate Transparency Project, of tying Mrs. Clinton’s once significant lead, …

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GUEST: Carmen Balber, Consumer Advocate with Consumer Watchdog

In 1988 California voters passed a proposition to regulate the auto insurance industry to keep premiums reasonable and fair. The group Consumer Watchdog, formerly known as the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer rights, estimates that Proposition 103, which is enforced by the state’s Department of Insurance, …

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GUEST: Amanda Martinez, Pete Micek, New American Media

Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents caused panic in the communities of Oakland and Berkeley last week by stationing vans near various schools while conducting raids. As ICE conducted surveillance in multiple East Bay School Districts, parents and family members alerted their children in school about the …

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

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

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

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… about the Mayagüez incident

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GUEST: Rami El Amine, founding member of SUSTAIN (Stop U.S. Tax-funded Aid to Israel Now), Lebanese American with family members still in Lebanon

Three days of clashes between Hezbollah and the U.S.-backed Lebanese government highlight on-going tensions in a country that has functioned for the past five months without a head of state. As of …

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GUEST: Eric Marshall, Campaign Manager with the National Campaign for Fair Elections, which is an Initiative of the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Eric is also a member of the Election Protection Coalition and the National Network on State Election Reform

Activists seeking to ensure fair elections …

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