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GUEST: Jerry Flanagan, Health Care Policy Director at the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights

SiCKO, Michael Moore’s documentary about the state of health care in the US opened last weekend to full houses across the country. It was the second biggest grossing debut for a documentary in US film history, after Moore’s own Fahrenheit …

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Guests: Tammy Bang Luu, organizer with the Labor Community Planner Center which sits on the National Planning Committee for the US Social Forum, Alice Lovelace, well-known Atlanta based poet and National Lead Organizer of the USSF

As the US Social Forum wrapped up yesterday, the 10,000 or so activists gathered at the …

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Guest: Dr. Mona El Farra, a physician who works and lives in Gaza, and writes for the blog, From Gaza with Love.

Last week the Israeli Army entered the Gaza strip and killed 13 Palestinians, including a 12 year old boy. It was the bloodiest fighting that Gaza has seen since …

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GUEST: Ray McGovern, retired CIA officer, who served under seven US Presidents over 27 years and presented the morning intelligence briefings at the White House for many years.

The CIA recently gave up its stranglehold over secret documents it called “The Family Jewels.” Hundreds of pages of documents were declassified revealing long-secret records that detail …

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Guest: Bianca Encinias, campaign organizer with the Southwest Network for Environmental and Economic Justice

About 10,000 activists from the United States and other countries began gathering last week in Atlanta, Georgia, for the first ever US Social Forum. The USSF is being held in the tradition of the World Social Forum, which in turn …

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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 the slogan, “Support the Troops.”

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War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death

As of yesterday, at least 3,571 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The AP count is a little …

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Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement

Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter is an unlikely person to be offering advice for the antiwar movement. He is Republican who voted for George Bush in 2000. But ever since the Bush administration began making moves toward …

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Maxed Out

Most Americans have gone into debt or are in debt one point or another in their lives. Most of us have run up credit card or other forms of debt and been daunted by the prospect of paying it off. Most of us have one …

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