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GUEST: Uri Avnery, Founder of Gush Shalom (Israeli Peace Bloc), and a former member of the Knesset

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice may meet with ministers of the new Hamas-led Palestinian “unity” government when she arrives in Israel and the Occupied Territories next week. The move will be in accordance with policy guidelines …

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… on 1873 abolishing of slavery in Puerto Rico.

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GUESTS: Mark Vallen, local artist, Laura Nader, Professor of Anthropology at UC Berkeley

On February 1st, the Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley announced an unprecedented $500 million accord with BP, formerly known as British Petroleum. The 10 year partnership will establish the Energy Biosciences Institute to research alternative biofuels and new technologies. Critics …

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GUEST: Conn Hallinan, Analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus and a regular columnist for the Daily Planet

This February 7th, President Bush announced the formation of a new US African military command, or AFRICOM. As a Pentagon command for the continent of Africa, AFRICOM will host its huge base of operations in a country yet …

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GUESTS: Ed Varga, FTM Alliance of LA, Bamby Salcedo, Program Manager, Transgeneros Unidas

This coming weekend, hundreds of transgender community leaders and activists from around California will converge on the University of Southern California campus to plan strategies for furthering transgender rights. The gathering is the second annual California Transgender Leadership Summit. …

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… on the exploitation of Pocahontas.

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GUEST: Giuliana Sgrena, Italian journalist and author of Friendly Fire

Yesterday, an Italian journalist, held captive in Afghanistan for two weeks was released. Taliban insurgents took responsibility for the kidnapping of Daniele Mastrogiacomo who works for the newspaper, La Republica. His story is reminiscent of another Italian journalist kidnapped two years ago in Iraq, Giuliana Sgrena. In fact, Sgrena and Mastrogiacomo …

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… on the 1620 formation of the Dutch East India Company.

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“My goal is to contribute to the understanding of a country that remains largely unknown to international public opinion – not least because it is no longer possible to report on Iraq, and in particular, to report independently. None of the sides participating in the armed conflict want witnesses, so all of Iraqi civil society is forced into isolation. An entire population is held hostage by belligerents. For anyone who has been a hostage, it …

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GUEST: Adil E. Shamoo born and raised in Baghdad is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He writes on ethics and public policy

On Saturday, tens of thousands of Americans marched to protest the Iraq war, just days before the fourth anniversary of the US invasion. One of the …

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