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Auntie Bees Knees continues her countdown of the top ten worst corporations of 2003, with a list that includes Exxon Mobil, Dow, Bechtel, Halliburton and Boeing. 18 minutes 48 seconds.
Mark Grossman, communications director for the UFW, talks to Illinois Labor Hour host Peter Miller about Bush's migrant worker plan. 13 min 20 sec, 64 kbps mp3, 6.2 MB.
The US military apparatus consists of over half a million troops, stationed on some 400 bases, in at least 35 countries positioned in strategic locations. What are the true motivations for this far-flung military prescence?? Do we live in an age of American Empire?? Today on Rockin' the Boat we'll pose these and other questoins to my guest, William Blum, the author of Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II and more recently Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower. 29:30
