Thanks to our guest, Professor john a. powell. The two websites he referenced are the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and National Alliance to Restore Opportunity to the Gulf Coast and Displaced Persons.

“Just When You Thought You’d Seen Everything: Hoekstra’s Hoax”, By Ray McGovern (Truthout.org) McGovern writes about “Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States,” the trumped up report released last week by House intelligence committee chair, Pete Hoekstra. You’ll recognize McGovern as the veteran who spoke truth to power to Secretary Rumsfeld.

Nashville and it’s growing immigrant population is profiled in The Nation. The “nativists” have it so wrong. No one will argue that there needs to be immigration reform. But who gets the blame for that?

An Iraqi Peace activist is forced to change his t-shirt before boarding a plane. Is “Do you feel that Iraq is better now or under Saddam’s rule?” an appropriate question for airport seccurity?

Watch the beauty of Colbert and Stewart at The Emmys.

This post was written by Mary Mancini