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GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is about a recent Zogby poll on racism. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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GUEST: Patrick McElwee, Policy Analyst at JustForeignPolicy.org

US forces in Iraq claimed to have killed 32 suspected militants in a raid in eastern Baghdad earlier this week. But Iraqi police and witnesses said that the raid killed nine civilians, including two women, and wounded six others. The death toll in Iraq keeps mounting daily. Researchers …

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GUESTS: Ruben Koroma, Ashade Pearce, Black Nature, Idrissa “Malam” Bangora, four of the nine band members of Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

The Sierra Leone Civil war which started in the early 1990s, resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and more than 2 million refugees. It was a brutal 11 year long conflict that …

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GUEST: Jim March, Board of Directors of Black Box Voting

Last Friday California Secretary of State Debra Bowen decertified three voting systems widely used in this state. She made the decision in response to studies showing that the machines could be hacked. It affects systems made by three of the four largest voting machine …

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… about The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki .

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GUEST: Britta Belli, managing editor of E, the Environmental Magazine, and author of the new article, “Nuking Food: Contamination Fears and market Possibilities Spur an Irradiation Revival”

During President Bush’s recent visit to India to cement a nuclear agreement with the US, he commented on an impending new agricultural deal to import Indian …

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GUEST: John Farrell, Research Associate at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and author of the report, Wind and Ethanol: Economies and Diseconomies of Scale

Last Saturday the US House of Representatives passed its version of an energy bill that has a potentially ground-breaking requirement – that the nation’s utilities get 15% of …

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GUEST: Anna Arutunyan, news editor for The Moscow News – an English-language weekly in Moscow, she is also a contributor to Foreign Policy in Focus

Georgia accused Russia yesterday of violating its airspace and firing a missile at a village deep in its territory. Russia has denied carrying out the attack. The incident has …

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GUEST: Mumia Abu Jamal, political prisoner and award winning journalist

Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is about Ward Churchill.

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