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GUEST: Jonathan Cohn, author of “Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crisis and the People Who Pay the Price,” Senior Editor at The New Republic, contributing editor at The American Prospect, and a senior fellow at the think-tank, Demos

Writer and reporter Jonathan Cohn has written a new book detailing the dire …

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GUEST: Peter Montgomery, Vice President of Communications of People for the American Way

Last Thursday, the “Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act” passed the House of Representatives by a 237-180 vote. The bill would expand the scope of existing federal hate crime categories to include a person’s sexual orientation, gender, gender …

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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 Azmi Bisharra and the Israeli Ethnocracy.

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GUESTS: Atossa Soltani, Director of Amazon Watch, Marco Simon, Legal Director of Earth Rights International and one of the authors of the report on Oxy

A report released yesterday accuses the LA-based oil corporation, Occidental Petroleum of deliberately allowing environmental pollution of indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. The corporation has been drilling for …

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GUESTS: Sahar Saba, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)

An Afghan government investigation recently revealed that a US military bombing in Western Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of between 42-50 civilians, including women and children. About 1600 families have been displaced and many others …

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GUEST: Palestinian Film maker Hanna Elias

Last Wednesday, tens of thousands of Palestinian government workers staged a one-day strike demanding their full wages be paid by the newly established unity government. Union officials cautioned that the demonstration was merely a warning and that should their demands go unheeded, a full on strike would follow. …

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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 the recent Democratic Debate. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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GUEST: James Brudney, Professor of Law at Ohio State University, Moritz School of Law

The United States Senate is currently discussing a labor bill that is being considered the most important piece of legislation by union officials this year. The bill, called the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), would streamline the process of unionization by …

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