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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 Pakistan. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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… about the Mattachine Society.

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GUEST: Shannon Young and Vladmir Flores, Correspondents for Free Speech Radio News

Earlier this week, fighting erupted between protestors and police forces in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. At least forty people were injured and twenty police wounded in the worst outbreak of violence since November of last year. The confrontation with police occurred when …

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GUESTS: Carolina Briones, Co-Director of Research with LAANE, and co-author of the report, “Under the Radar”

According to a new report by the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, or LAANE airline contracting systems at LAX result in poor security and services. Co-authored by Carolina Briones and Aiha Nguyen, the study, “Under the …

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GUEST: Tim Karr, Campaign Director of Free Press

Last Wednesday, the Board of Directors of Dow Jones voted to approve Rupert Murdoch’s five billion dollar News Corporation bid to acquire the company. The proposed sale still needs the approval of the Bancroft family stockholders who will meet this coming Monday. Descendants of Clarence Barron …

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… about the Sandinista Overthrow of Somoza .

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GUEST: Tom Hayden, Author of “Ending the War in Iraq”

Tom Hayden was a founding member of the Students for a Democratic Society, or “SDS,” and in 1962 helped author its visionary call, the Port Huron Statement. Throughout the sixties, he participated in civil rights work in the South as well as in the black community of Newark. In the late sixties he shifted his …

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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: Leonard Isenberg, public school teacher

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Despite already lagging test scores, this year, data showed that LA Unified High School students scored even lower in the past year, dropping 20 points below compared to the previous year. The new LAUSD superintendent David Brewer III said that high-school scores are attributed to a stubborn gap between white and minority …

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GUESTS: Julie Ann Fishel, Western Shoshone Defense Project, Steve Lopez, Fort Mojave Indian Tribe

Corbin Harney, an anti-nuclear weapons activist and spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone Nation, died earlier this week at the age of 87. Harney was a well known spokesperson who traveled the globe educating people about the dangers of …

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