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GUESTS: Christopher Hitchens, author of God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, and Chris Hedges, author of American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America

We spend the morning hearing the full length debate between Christopher Hitchens and Chris Hedges on religion that was recently recorded in Berkeley and briefly featured on KPFK’s last funddrive.

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… about Fidel Castro and the Nationalization of US Enterprises .

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GUESTS: Sherman Austin and Joaquin Cienfuegos, organizer with Cop Watch LA

Addressing the fallout from this past May’s MacArthur Park immigrants rights rally, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced that internal camera crews will now film major police actions. Devised by Deputy Chief Mike Hillman, the plan’s stated intention is to keep a documented …

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GUEST: Miho Kim, Information Activist at the Oakland-based Research Support Organization and US coordinator of the Tokyo-Bay area based organization “Trans-Pacific Research & Action Institute for the Hisabetsu Nikkei

An opposition party member will be named the leader of Japan’s Upper House of Parliament for the first time in a special session tomorrow. …

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GUEST: Orbal, member of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), currently visiting the US

In an interview this weekend with Wolf Blitzer, Afghan president Hamid Karzai was pessimistic about his country’s future. He asserted that the security situation has “definitely deteriorated” over the last two years and that US and …

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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’s commentary is on Obama and Hiroshima.

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GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco

Senator Barack Obama, one of the top two leading 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls, has shown his true colors. In a recent speech he called on the US to pull out of Iraq and focus on what he calls “the real sources …

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GUEST: Kellie Copeland, Executive Director of NARAL Pro-choice Ohio

Republican legislator, John Adams in Ohio, has proposed a new law that would ban pregnant women from seeking an abortion without written consent from the father of the fetus. In cases where the identity of the father is unknown, women would be required to submit a …

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