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GUEST: Alex Gibney, director of Taxi to the Darkside and ENRON: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Soon after the American defeat of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, a young Afghan taxi driver named Dilawar, was arrested by pro-US Afghan militias and imprisoned at Bagram airbase. In the 5 days before he died he …

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GUEST: Kehaulani Kauanui, Associate Professor at Wesleyan University, specializing in the contemporary Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement

Last week, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the state government of Hawaii announced a multi-million compensation deal on ceded lands. More than 200 acres of territory once belonging to the Kingdom of Hawaii are set to be transferred from …

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GUEST: Prof ChorSwang Ngin, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology and Director of Asian and Asian American Studies at Cal State LA

Some years ago hundreds of bones of what are thought to be Chinese workers were discovered deep below Boyle Heights, along side intricate ceramics, jade jewelry and opium pipes. Some of the …

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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 Subprime Lending Debacle. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”

Yesterday we did the first part of an interview with investigative journalist Sarah Posner about her new book, “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.” We learned what the so-called Word …

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GUEST: Tim Sparapani, Senior Legislative Counsel for the ACLU

The U.S. Senate will resume debate today on legislation regarding provisions to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as a temporary extension is nearly over. Competing bills from the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Intelligence panel differ on what surveillance authorities should be granted the government. …

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GUEST: Jaydee Hansen, Policy Analyst with the Center for Food Safety

The US Department of Agriculture just released a report confirming that milk and meat from animals produced through cloning is safe for human consumption and does not pose a safety risk to the global food supply. The decision is apparently based on six …

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… about the 1950 minimum wage increase

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