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GUEST: Tony Benn, retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament, was the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party, which he joined in 1942 – he is also the President of the Stop the War Coalition in Britain

Gordon Brown has been named the ruling Labor Party’s …

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GUEST: Christopher Finan, President of the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression and the chair of the National Coalition Against Censorship, author of “From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America”

Writing the first comprehensive history of the evolution of free speech in the United States, Christopher …

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GUEST: Alexander Robinson, Executive Director/CEO National Black Justice Coalition

This past Tuesday, Yolanda King, the eldest daughter of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, died at the age of 51 in Santa Monica. The King family did not know the cause of her death but relatives think it may have been a heart problem. …

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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 on Chavez and Oil. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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… about Napoleon Bonaparte and the Haitian Revolution .

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GUEST: Hans Bennett, journalist based in Philadelphia, co-founder of Journalists for Mumia

Award winning journalist and political prisoner, Mumia Abu Jamal has been in prison for over two decades for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a white police officer in Philadelphia. Now, after decades of litigation, Mumia’s case will be heard by the …

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GUEST: John Laun, President of the Colombia Support Network, and an attorney

Colombia’s President Alvaro Uribe was forced to defend his government yesterday over newly revealed clandestine wiretapping of his opponents and journalists. A jailed former top paramilitary commander testified that he met Uribe’s vice president and his defense minister in the 1990s, …

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GUEST: Marie Staunton, Chief Executive at Plan International UK

Millions of girls and young women are victim to staggering gender inequalities across the world according to a new report from Plan International. Published in time for the United Nation’s International Day of the Family, the report, “Because I’m a Girl: The …

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… about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas .

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GUEST: David Rose, is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and has worked for the Guardian, The Observer, and the BBC. He has written several books including Guantanamo, and his latest, “The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice.”

In the mid 1970s, in Columbus, Georgia, seven elderly white …

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