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Burning the Candle at Both Ends? Global Warming and the End of Oil

After Santa Ana winds finally subsided, firefighters gained the upper hand on the LA fires that have scorched California this past week – although fires in San Diego continue. The death toll from the inferno has reached at …

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The Money We Owe, And The Bill That’s Coming Due

As the mortgage crisis continues, estimates place the dollar amount of reset mortgages loans to be at 300 billion dollars. It is further estimated that a quarter of all sub-prime loans will be defualted on. Some analysts say that the quickest …

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From Old School to Hip Hop: Women, Diamonds, Blood, and Hip Hop

As Sierra Leone’s leader, Ernest Koroma – who began serving as president just one month ago begins governing, analysts are keeping an eye on how Koroma will tackle corruption, which is often cited as the reason the country’s massive …

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Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Fighting Back

In a new DVD, Democracy University captures four moving talks from education activist Jonathan Kozol, historian Randall Robinson, investigative journalist Robert Dryfuss, and author David Barsamian. Barsamian’s recent at UCLA talk focused on his new book, “Targeting Iran”, part of City Light’s Books “Open …

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L.A. Resistance: From Garment Workers to South Central Farmers

A new documentary follows the political development of three sweatshop workers that labor in LA’s Fashion District. “Made in LA”, directed by filmmaker Alumdena Carracedo and producer Robert Bahar, chronicles the lives of Lupe Hernandez, Maura Colorado, Maria Pineda and other organizers …

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Healthcare Horrors to Doctor’s Confessions

The Democratically-controlled Congress failed yesterday to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would expand SCHIP insurance to four million children. Supporters of the health bill fell 13 votes shy of the two-thirds majority needed to override the president’s veto. The SCHIP bill …

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From Evolution to Unintelligent Design

SPECIAL GUEST CO-HOST: Thenmozhi Soundararajan

With the defeat of Intelligent Design in a Dover, Pennsylvania courtroom two years ago, proponents of the belief are not giving up. The Discovery Institute has recently published the first so-called Biology textbook that prominently presents what is …

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Targeting the So-Called Enemy, What US Imperialism Says, Goes

SPECIAL GUEST: David Barsamian, author of “Targeting Iran,” journalist and radio host “Alternative Radio,” heard regularly on KPFK Fridays at 3pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that US fears that Iran is creating a nuclear arsenal are …

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Encounter Occupation: The Struggle for Peace in the Middle East

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said it is time to establish a Palestinian state. Rice spoke with reporters ahead of a highly anticipated peace conference which is set to take place in Annapolis, Maryland next month. …

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