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GUEST: Chalmers Johnson, author of the Blowback Trilogy — Blowback, The Sorrows of Empire, and Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

In 2003, I interviewed 60 minutes Producer George Crile about his book, “Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History.” The book traced the US …

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GUEST: Patrick Delahanty, Chair of the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

The Supreme Court heard arguments yesterday in a case challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection executions. Called into question is the three-drug method used by many states to carry out the death penalty and the 8th amendment’s ban on cruel and …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is called “Crimes of State.”

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… about Carmen Conde aka Florentina

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GUEST: Gerald Lemelle, Executive Director of Africa Action

After three days of talks between Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga, nationwide protests have been called off. The meeting was apparently brokered by US envoy Jendayi Frazer, and attended by Nobel Peace Prize winner and South African leader, Desmond Tutu. At least 600 …

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GUEST: Rob Richie, Executive director of FairVote

If you’ve been following the election news from Iowa last week into New Hampshire and beyond this week, you may be wondering just how this complicated American system of electing presidents works, from caucuses to primary elections, party conventions and the electoral college. On Uprising, in addition …

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GUEST: Jerry Flanagan, Health Care Policy Director at the Foundation for Tax Payer and Consumer Rights

Last month, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez joined forces to file a much-touted health care reform bill, ABx1 1. If ABx1 1 and its accompanying ballot measure are passed, they would represent the largest public …

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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 commentary is about Barack Obama.

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… about the US development of the Hydrogen Bomb

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GUEST: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Correspondent for Free Speech Radio News

Illinois Senator Barack Obama and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won victories in Iowa’s Republican and Democratic caucuses last night. Obama defeated Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and former Senator John Edwards by a substantial margin. However, Clinton is leading other Democrats in nationwide polls …

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