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… about The Charleston Race Riots.

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GUEST: George Monbiot, weekly columnist for the Guardian Newspaper, author of “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning”

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Most KPFK listeners know well the reality and danger of the warming of the planet, and that this global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning …

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GUEST: Jeb Sprague, Co-Editor of Haitiananalysis.org

Weeks after his disappearance, human rights activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine remains missing in Haiti. A leader of an organization that advocates for victims of the 1991 and 2004 coups against former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Pierre-Antoine has not been seen since August 12th. Police found his car abandoned outside of his home in …

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GUEST: Gustavo Arellano, Staff Writer for the OC Weekly, author of “Ask a Mexican,” Amin David, President of Los Amigos of Orange County

Last Thursday, Harald Martin resigned from the Anaheim school board rather than face a recall in a special election. Martin, who was appointed by a 3-1 vote last July to replace a deceased trustee, …

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GUEST: Aaron Glantz,author of the book How America Lost Iraq and has just set up a new web-site WarComesHome.org to spot-light conditions for American soldiers and veterans

According to a White House official, President Bush plans to ask Congress this month for an additional fifty billion dollars to fund the Iraq war. The request is expected to …

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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 the documentary “No End in Sight.”

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

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… about The Founding of Los Angeles.

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GUEST: Sarah Anderson, co-author of “Executive Excess,” Director of the Global Economy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies

According to a new report CEOs “collected as much money from one day on the job as average workers made over the entire year.” Authored by the the Institute for Policy Studies and United for a Fair …

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GUESTS: Rosana Cruz, co-director of Safe Streets Strong Communities and Robin Templeton, author of the article, “Locked Up in New Orleans,” which is published in the most recent edition of The Nation

On the second anniversary of Katrina, a forty-three year old inmate became the fourth person to die in Louisiana’s Orleans Parish Prison this year. …

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GUEST: Jason Kohn, Director of Manda Bala

Mandala Bala is a new documentary about corruption in Brazil. Going beyond Brazil’s sun-drenched beaches this documentary explores the connections between government corruption and the kidnapping industry in Sao Paolo. Through stunning imagery the doc weaves the interviews of kidnap victims, kidnappers, frog farmers, plastic surgeons, police, and even …

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