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GUEST: Eva Golinger, author of “The Chavez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela,” and her newest book, “Bush Versus Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela”

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez suffered an electoral setback for the first time since he was elected president in 1998. Last Sunday, Venezuelan voters narrowly rejected proposed constitutional reforms by a vote …

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GUESTS: Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the Washington Legislative Office of the ACLU, Robert Weitzel, freelance writer whose recent essay about the Homegrown Terrorism Act is entitled “A Tutorial in Orwellian Newspeak”

This October the US House of Representatives passed HR 1955, “The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007,” in a 404-6 …

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GUESTS: Cristina Vasquez, Vice President of UNITE Here International and Managing Director of the Western Regional Joint Board, Hector Aguilar, laundry worker

As the holiday season approaches, laundry workers continue their more than two-month-long strike. Hundreds of laundry employees, union and non-union alike, are accusing Prudential Overall Supply of unfair labor practices. The …

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GUEST: Leslie Lefkow, Senior Researcher at Human Rights Watch

The top humanitarian official at the United Nations, John Holmes, has urged more aid for Somalia, where serious violence has killed hundreds this year and sparked a dire humanitarian crisis. Somalia is considered one of the world’s worst developing humanitarian crises but very few aid agencies …

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GUEST: Ali Ahsan, Pakistani lawyer and son of leading dissent lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan

As upcoming parliamentary elections approach in Pakistan, two former Prime Ministers are divided whether to participate or boycott them. Benazir Bhutto has said that her Pakistan People’s Party will take part in the January 8th elections under protest while reserving the …

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GUEST: Michele Waslin, Senior Policy Analyst with the Immigration Policy Center

According to a new study, undocumented immigrants are half as likely as U.S. born Latinos to visit emergency rooms in California. Published in the Archives of Internal Medicine journal, the study’s findings contradict rhetoric that blames undocumented immigrants for …

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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 on Venezuela’s Referendum Defeat.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org. …

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GUEST: David Waskow, Policy lead on Oxfam America’s Climate Change campaign

Earlier this month Bangladesh was struck by the worst cyclone since 1991. Cyclone Sidr hit the impoverished South Asian country on November 15 with winds of 155 mph and a 5-foot tidal surge, killing around 3,500 people, leaving thousands missing or injured, and displacing …

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GUEST: Jason Ope?a Disterhoft, Domestic Human Rights Campaigner, Amnesty International USA

An officer outside a police department in Ohio used a stun gun yesterday to subdue a pregnant woman after forcing her to the ground. Authorities claim that the woman’s pregnant condition was not made known to the officer until after she was taken to …

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