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GUEST: Martin Sheen, actor and activist

In 1946 the US government started the School of the Americas in Panama, with the goal of training military operatives from other states in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. The school was relocated to Fort Benning, Georgia in 1984, and changed …

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GUEST: Dan Cox, award winning journalist and director of Running with Arnold

Now starting his fifth year in office,body-builder-turned-actor- turned-Governor-of-California, Arnold Schwarzenegger has had quite a political career. His movie fans were overjoyed while others were simply embarrassed when he first announced his bid for Governor during the 2003 recall election. But where and when did …

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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 violence in Kenya. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about the Bread and Roses Strike

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GUEST CO-HOST: Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the South Asian Network

A suicide bomber blew himself up today outside a Lahore High Court in Pakistan, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70. The incident is the latest in a wave of violence to hit the country ahead of Parliamentary elections on February 18th. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Benazir’s heir to …

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GUESTS: Lorna Laboso, with the ODM Party, just elected to Kenya’s Parliament, Stella Nyawira, 17 year old student who was raped in the post-election violence, Amie Williams, US based film maker who just returned from Kenya

The man named the winner of Kenya’s recent presidential elections, Mwai Kibaki, appointed half his cabinet yesterday, despite …

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GUEST: Deborah B. Wild, journalist covering the Caucasus region, based in Tbilisi, Georgia

As the final votes of Georgia’s presidential election were counted, a unified opposition has claimed electoral fraud. Official results from the Eastern European nation’s Central Election Commission show pro-western incumbent Mikhail Saakashvili with a decisive victory over his opponent Levan Gachechiladze. Saakashvili, …

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GUEST: Jean Ross, Executive Director of the California Budget Project

In his fifth State of the State speech since taking office, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger yesterday addressed a projected $14 billion deficit for the next fiscal year and warned of the possibility of across-the-board cuts in services from education to health care. He proposed …

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… about a New York public flirting ban

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GUEST: Leigh Ann Caldwell, FSRN Reporter

New Hampshire voters are heading to the polls today in the nation’s first presidential primary elections. Coming off a first place finish in Iowa, Illinois Senator Barack Obama is projected by numerous new polls to emerge victorious over Senators Hillary Clinton and John Edwards in the Democratic race. …

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