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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about race in America. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about The Battle of Guareca

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GUESTS: Sinclair Roberts, political asylee from Zimbabwe, Gerald Lemelle, Executive Director of Africa Action

Zimbabweans will head to the polls this Saturday in an historic election where President Robert Mugabe will seek to extend his 28-year rule. Capping a politically contentious year coupled with an economy wracked by the world’s highest inflation rates, Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections …

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GUEST: Larry Adelman, Series Creator and Executive Producer of Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making us Sick?

Earlier this week, a new government report revealed a growing gap in life expectancy in the U.S. between wealthy and impoverished classes. Researchers found that life expectancy overall has increased, but affluent sectors of society have made greater gains …

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GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Middle East editor for Foreign Policy in Focus, professor of politics at the University of San Francisco and the author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism.”

Iraq’s oil-rich southern city, Basra, has been the focus of bloody clashes this week between the Iraqi army and Shite militias affiliated …

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… about the first National Chicano Youth Liberation Conference

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GUEST: Ali Ahsan, lawyer and son of leading dissident Aitzaz Ahsan, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association; Farhat Haq, Pakistani American teaching at Monmouth College, and expert on political Islam, women and Islam, and contemporary Pakistani Politics

Pakistani President and major US ally, Pervez Musharraf, swore in Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country’s new Prime …

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GUEST: Bryan Stevenson, Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama and Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law

Dozens of 13 and 14 year old children have been sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole in this nation. In a new report called Cruel and Unusual, the …

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GUEST: Glen Chase, advocate with California Alliance to Stop the Spray and other community groups, has taught environmental economics, statistics, and management at University of Southern California and Cal State Monterey Bay

Earlier this year, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced controversial plans for an aerial pesticide spray aimed at eradicating the light …

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… about the US Naturalization Law of 1790

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