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GUEST: Nezua, The Unapologetic Mexican

Nezua is a blogger at www.theunapologeticmexican.org: Where Manifest Destiny Goes to Die. Today, he reviews the new film, “Redacted.”

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… about The Columbine Mine Massacre

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GUESTS: Klee Benally, volunteer with The Save the Peaks Coalition, Howard Shanker, Shanker Law firm

The Ninth Circuit Court has allowed for a review of its previous decision to protect the San Francisco Peaks of Northern Arizona. Located just north of Flagstaff, the mountain had been designated for an expansion of a small privately owned …

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GUESTS: Reverend Billy and Savatri D of the Church of Stop Shopping

As retails workers brace themselves for the shopping frenzy called “Black Friday”, some social activists are preparing for “Buy Nothing Day”. Organized as a time to examine the issue of over-consumption, the informal day of protest falls on one of the busiest shopping days …

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… about The Plan de San Luis Potosi

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GUEST: Jeremy Scahill, Independent Journalist and Author of “Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army”

After a two-week investigation in Baghdad last month, the FBI has found that the killing of 14 Iraqi civilians by Blackwater Security in September was unjustified under the State Department’s regulations for private security contractors. They say that …

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GUEST: Freddie Monroe, Hurricane Katrina Survivor

Hundreds of homeless people have camped out in front of New Orleans’ City Hall to protest the lack of affordable housing since the Katrina disaster more than two years ago. Pitching pup-tents, the homeless demonstrators are calling on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to address the problems of rental assistance …

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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 Iran and Coercive Diplomacy.

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GUEST: Dahr Jamail, Independent Journalist, Author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatched from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq”

U.S. forces claim that they killed 25 so-called suspected insurgents last Tuesday in air strikes north of Baghdad. Sunni council leaders counter the official claim and say that 45 people were killed and that they were pro-U.S. allies. …

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GUEST: Richard Zaldivar, Executive Director of The Wall – Las Memorias

The Wall Las Memorias project is inviting interested parties to join a trip to an AIDS hospice in Tijuana, Mexico tomorrow. People are being asked to donate food, clothes, medicine and money for Tijuana’s only ADIS Hospice, Casa Hogar Las Memorias. Just 30 miles away from …

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