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GUESTS: Agustin Aguayo, Iraq war resistor, Helga Aguayo, Agustin’s wife

With military recruitment hitting new lows, Iraq war resistors and veterans have reasons to be optimistic. Recently war resister Agustin Aguayo returned home to Southern California after serving 8 months in a military prison in Germany. Aguayo is a former Army medic who …

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… about the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments .

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GUESTS: Savonala Horne Associate director of agricultural policy and administration for the Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP), Jim Lyons, Vice President of Policy and Communication with OXFAM America, Martha Noble, a senior policy analyst with the Sustainable Agricultural Coalition

A newly reformed farm bill for 2007 is set to be debated in the House …

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GUEST: Dave Enders, reporting for FSRN, and the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, live from Baghdad

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Violence continues to plague Iraq. A round-up of police, morgue and hospital officials reported a total of at least 59 people killed or found dead …

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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 about Ryan Crocker’s recent comments.

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… about The US Army’s 25 Infantry Bicycle Corps .

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GUEST:Norm Stamper, former Seattle Police Chief, author of “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing”

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Norm Stamper is the former chief of the Seattle Police Force and deputy chief of the San Diego Police Department. His book is entitled, “Breaking Rank: A Top Cop’s Expose of the Dark Side of American Policing” and features provocatively …

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… about Thoreau’s Resistance to Government Taxes .

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GUESTS: John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, Erik Leaver, policy outreach director, Foreign Policy in Focus, Kevin Martin, Executive Director of Peace Action

The Institute for Policy Studies just released a detailed proposal on US Security, based on what they call “an alternative foreign policy framework.” Given the US’s role …

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GUEST: Barry Nelson, co-author of “In Hot Water,” and co-director of NRDC’s Western Water Project

This week Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been touring California to promote a six billion dollar bond measure to address water shortages. The governor hopes to have his bond measure up for a vote as early as the February 2008 primary. …

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