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GUEST: Emira Woods, co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus

As millions of people in the United States will be tuning into the Super Bowl this Sunday, a controversy has emerged around the sporting event’s halftime show. More shocking than any possible “wardrobe malfunctions,” this year’s halftime show is being sponsored by the Bridgestone Firestone …

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GUEST: Sebastian Sanchez-Retana, university student and anti-CAFTA activist from Costa Rica

Earlier this week, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias acknowledged that his nation will miss its deadline to fully comply with a free-trade agreement with the United States. Implementation of the Central America Free Trade Agreement or CAFTA, has been slowed by thirteen laws needed …

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GUESTS: Richard Stapler, Communications Director for the “Yes on 93” campaign, Kevin Spillane, Communications Director for the “No on 93” Campaign

In our on-going coverage of California’s ballot propositions which voters will decide on next Tuesday, we’ll take a look at Proposition 93 regarding limits on legislators’ terms in office. The current terms are …

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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 the Democrats’ Fear of Bush. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about Black History Month

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GUEST: Carl Freedlander, Los Angeles College Faculty Guild, Eric Heins, 4th grade teacher at Pittsburgh United School District in Contra Costa County, Board member of the California Teachers Association

Proposition 92 on Tuesday’s ballot could affect two and a half million students on over a 100 community college campuses statewide. If passed, the measure would mean …

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GUESTS: Quanah Brightman, Vice President of United Native Americans Inc, John Gomez Snr, Vice Chairman of the American Indian Rights and Resources Organization

When Californians head to the polls this Tuesday for the state’s primary elections, they will also decide on four American Indian gaming propositions on the state ballot. Originally compacts signed by Governor …

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GUEST: V J Foster, Associate Artistic Director at The Actors Gang, plays the character of Reverend Cotton Slocum

Twenty years ago, a play called Carnage, a Comedy, poked fun at the religious right, back when it was barely entering the American consciousness as a formidable political movement. The play was written by Adam Simon, and …

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… about the Mae West play, The Drag

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GUEST: John Miller, National coordinator for the East Timor and Indonesia Action Network

Indonesia’s long time former dictator, Mohamed Suharto, is dead at the age of 86. He was given a state funeral with full military honors. Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron fist for 32 years before being overthrown in an uprising sparked by …

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