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Unit 3 of the San Onofre nuclear generating station remains shut down today after a leaking steam generator tube was discovered this week. On Tuesday Southern California Edison, the nuclear station’s operator, announced it shut down unit 3 as a precautionary measure. Since then the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which has been criticized for lax regulation of nuclear …

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California’s State Attorney General Kamala Harris has refused to sign on to a national foreclosure settlement deal with big banks, saying it was “inadequate for California.” The deadline to sign onto the deal is today. To support her decision, members of Occupy Los Angeles are planning a rally at 10 am outside the Los Angeles office of …

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Americans around the country are gearing up for this weekend’s annual Football extravaganza known intriguingly as the Superbowl. This year’s commercially saturated athletic event takes place on Sunday in Indianapolis, with the New York Giants set to play the New England Patriots. Indiana’s governor Mitch Daniels signed into law just this week, a so-called “Right to Work” …

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After the close of a two-day hearing in London this week, the co-founder and editor of the whistle-blowing website, WikilLeaks, Julian Assange now waits to hear if he is either to be freed after over a year of house arrest in Britain or extradited to Sweden on sex assault charges. Regarded a champion for open government by …

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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos …

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Casualty reports from Syria yesterday put the number of dead at close to 60 people as fighting continues between government forces and Syrians who have mounted a nearly one year long effort to oust President Bashar al-Assad. The fighting took place at the same time that the UN Security Council was debating competing resolutions on Syria. One resolution, …

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Los Angeles County Judge Michael Nash on Tuesday issued an order to open up some children’s court hearings to journalists and reporters. They will now be allowed inside the dependency side of juvenile court to cover cases of child abuse, neglect or adoption provided that the child’s parents or legal guardian do not give compelling evidence that media …

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As 2012′s Black history month kicks off, we turn today to an author who has chronicled a little examined history of childhood in the United States. Robin Bernstein, in her new book “Racial Innocence” examines the ways in which race was used to configure different ideas about childhood from the time of slavery to the civil rights era. …

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In the days following this weekend’s action by Occupy Oakland that resulted in the arrest of 400 people and during which Oakland City Hall was vandalized, the bay area group maintains police initiated violence and created chaos. Occupy Oakland police are seen in videos using batons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and flash-bang grenades protesters. Occupy Oakland …

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In his annual newsletter for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, billionaire Bill Gates took a public position in favor of Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs, as a solution for world hunger. His explanation for world hunger used the following logic: “The problem is that …farms…don’t produce enough food for a family to live on.” GMOs have been …