Apr 30 2008

U.S. – Czech Missile Defense Plans Delayed

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Missile DefenseGUEST: Victoria Samson, Research Analyst, Center for Defense Information

Dozens of Greenpeace activists occupied a military site south of Prague on Monday where the United States has plans to construct a missile defense radar base. News of the action came as the U.S. State Department informed the Czech Republic that Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice …

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Apr 30 2008

Radical Day in History – 04/30/08

… about George Washington

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Apr 29 2008

Who Speaks for Islam?

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Who Speaks for IslamGUEST: Dalia Mogahed, Senior Analyst and Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, coauthor of the book Who Speaks for Islam?: What a Billion Muslims Really Think, member of Women in International Security, serves on the leadership group of the Project on U.S. Engagement with the Global Muslim Community, …

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Apr 29 2008

Dyson on Sean Bell and Reverend Wright

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Michael Eric DysonGUEST: Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and author of several books including “April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Death and How it Changed America”

Barack Obama’s former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, confronted the recent controversy over his past sermons at the National Press Club in Washington DC yesterday. …

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Apr 29 2008

Supreme Court Upholds Indiana’s Voter ID Law

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Voter IDGUEST: Garrett Epps, Orlando John and Marian H. Hollis Professor of Law at the University of Oregon, author of Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America

A week before Indiana’s presidential primary on May 6th, the Supreme Court upheld the state’s controversial Voter ID law. …

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Apr 29 2008

Radical Day in History – 04/29/08

… about Rodney King

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Apr 28 2008

Hedges: I Don’t Believe In Atheists

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I don't believe in AtheistsGUEST: Chris Hedges, award winning journalist and writer, former foreign correspondent for the New York Times, the Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio, author of several books including “War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning,” and “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War …

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Apr 28 2008

British Teachers Strike for Better Pay

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NUTGUEST: Christine Blower, Acting General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers

British teachers took to the streets by the tens of thousands demanding fair pay last Thursday in the country’s first national strike in more than twenty years. The National Union of Teachers, with a membership of 200,000, was joined in solidarity by lecturers …

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Apr 28 2008

Empire Notes on Blaming Iraqis

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

Empire NotesEmpire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is about blaming Iraqis.

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Apr 28 2008

Radical Day in History – 04/28/08

… about Benjamin Linder

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