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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 Bush’s Vietnam Analogy

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… about The Death of Emmett Till.

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GUEST: Camilo Mejia, author of Road from Ar Ramadi

In 2004 Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia was court-martialed by the US military for desertion. A veteran of the US war on Iraq, Mejia had spent 8 years in the military and eventually filed for conscientious objector status, becoming the first publicly known US soldier to do so. Now, his first book and memoir, Road from …

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GUEST:Andrew Mcguire, Health care for All California

In response to a new field poll, Arnold Schwarzenegger came out against a state government-run health care system. In the poll, 69 percent of California voters questioned say they are dissatisfied with how the health care system is working and just 28 percent are satisfied with it. Schwarzenegger, who …

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GUEST: Tom Honore, member of the Steering Committee for ICUJP, Maricela Guzman, Iraq Veterans Against the War and SWAN (Service Women Action Network)

According to a new report on gulf renewal in the wake of the Katrina disaster, federal relief funds are falling short of what’s needed to rebuild. In fact, nearly two years …

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GUEST: Tram Nguyen, Executive Editor of Color Lines Magazine and author of “We Are All Suspects Now: Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities After 9/11”

Earlier this week in Kansas City, Missouri, Bush accepted the Vietnam war comparisons to Iraq. In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the president compared the war in Iraq to …

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GUEST: Bruce Dixon is a writer and radio commentator and the Managing Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about John Conyers. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …

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… about Amelia Earhart.

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GUESTS: Ben Wizner, Attorney with the ACLU’s National Legal Department, Koy Hordynski, UCSC Students Against War

Organizers are applauding Tuesday’s announcement by the Department of Defense that it will shut down its controversial domestic spying database. TALON, or the Threat and Local Observation, Notice, was created in 2002 by then-Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. The official rationale for …

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GUEST: Coral Lopez, Spokesperson for Bienestar

A wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Victoria Arellano charges that she was denied vital medical care at an immigration detention center in San Pedro. Arellano, an undocumented transgender woman set to be deported, suffered from HIV-AIDS while detained. Her condition significantly deteriorated while in custody until she …

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