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

Republicans have counted on evangelical voters to put them in office for several years now. The George W. Bush presidency in particular has embraced the religious right like no other president before him. But this …

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GUEST: Kassie Siegel, Climate director at the Center for Biological Diversity

The US government has suppressed a scientific report ahead of the opening up of thirty million acres of the Alaskan Chukchi Sea for oil and gas projects. The study’s conclusions, based on six years of scientific work from eight Arctic nations, reportedly …

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GUEST: Anita Dancs, Research director of the National Priorities Project

Over the course of last year, the U.S. Army failed to meet its benchmark for enlisting recruits by nearly 20 percentage points. According to the National Priorities Project, the Department of Defense fell short of its 90 percent goal, as it only enlisted 70.7 …

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GUEST: Mohammad Omer, freelance journalist from Gaza

Palestinian protesters seeking relief from the Israeli blockade of Gaza, clashed with Egyptian border guards today. Demonstrators briefly broke through the Egyptian border terminal before being pushed back. Tensions in the Gaza strip have mounted since Ehud Barak’s Defense Ministry closed all border crossings and aid …

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GUEST: Arnoldo Garcia, Enforcement Project Director with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights

The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights released last week one of the first reports to document the on-going raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE. The report is entitled “Over-Raided, Under Siege: U.S. Immigration Laws and …

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GUEST: John Zogby, President and CEO of the independent polling firm Zogby International

This past weekend, voters in Nevada and South Carolina chose presidential nominees from their parties. The results were unsurprising and followed poll results leading up to the race: Clinton beat Obama by more than 5% in Nevada, while McCain beat Huckabee by …

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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 about Obama.

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GUEST: Elaine Brown, former leader of the Black Panther Party

Last Sunday, candidates seeking the Green Party nomination for President of the United States debated one other before a crowd of hundreds in San Francisco. Former Chair of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown, was not among them. Though Brown declared her candidacy with the party last year, she recently …

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