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GUEST: Leslie Mikkelsen, co-author of the study, “Where’s the Fruit?” Managing Director of the Prevention Institute

According to a recently released study by The Prevention Institute and the Strategic Alliance for Healthy Food and Activity Environments, over half of the most prominently advertised children’s foods featuring fruits in their packaging actually contain no fruit ingredients. The study entitled, “Where’s the Fruit?” also found that thirteen of the thirty-seven children’s food products examined featured packaging that included multiple references to fruit despite having no fruit ingredients. Whereas parents might be drawn to images of fruit or labels featuring adjectives such as “fruity,” as healthier choices for their children, many products studied in the report actually are high in added sweeteners. The authors of “Where’s the Fruit,” warn that such …

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GUESTS: Byron Hurt, film maker, Dr. Cathy Cohen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and Principal Investigator of the Black Youth Project

Byron Hurt’s new documentary “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” will premiere tomorrow in Los Angeles. Hurt’s documentary explores the conceptualizations of manhood, sexism, and homophobia in rap music and Hip-Hop culture. A self-proclaimed Hip-Hop head and anti-sexist activist, Byron Hurt attempts to create dialogue through the film on the misogyny present in mainstream Hip-Hop. “Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” features in-depth interviews with Hip-Hop historians, scholars and male rappers such as Chuck D, Talib Kweli, and Mos Def. Gail Dines, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College said that Byron Hurt’s film “both honors rap for its courage, as …

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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 our ignorance of Muslims.

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

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This week on Uprising –

* Immigration Reform, Bush, and the 110th Congress
* Empire Notes on the State of the Union
* Clinton Announces Bid for Presidency
* Black Agenda Report on Self-Determination
* Blood of the Earth – a Conversation with Dilip Hiro

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Immigration Reform, Bush, and the 110th Congress

GUEST: Bill Chandler, Executive Director of MIRA, the Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance

In the 2007 State of the Union address President Bush pledged to work with Congress to pass “comprehensive immigration reform” which includes his …

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GUEST: Chris Hedges, author of “War is a Force that Gives us Meaning,” and “Losing Moses on the Freeway,” was a war correspondent for 15 years and reported for the New York Times

Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author, has just released his newest book, on the dangers of the Christian right in the United States. The book is called “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.” In it, Hedges calls the alarm on the dangers of the Christian right and explains how it embodies most aspects of traditional fascist movements. Most frighteningly, this movement has serious political power and a strong popular base. Hedges points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval …

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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 called self-determination. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

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GUEST: Jabbar McGruder, Iraq Veterans Against the War

Thousands are expected to take to the streets of Los Angeles this Saturday to send a clear message to the Democratic controlled Congress and President Bush to bring all US troops home immediately and cut off funding for the war in Iraq. The demonstrations in LA and across the US come in the wake of President Bush’s announcement to increase troop levels in Iraq. The march in Downtown Los Angeles will begin at 12 noon at the Democratic Party Office at 9th and Figueroa and will end at the Federal Building. Anti-war activist leader Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in Iraq, will be among the many speakers who will address the rally this Saturday.

“The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that refuse military service.” — Albert Einstein

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GUEST: Dilip Hiro, writes regularly for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Observer, Sunday Telegraph, Guardian, and The Nation. His 28 books include The Iranian Labyrinth, Secrets and Lies: Operation “Iraqi Freedom” and The Essential Middle East: A Comprehensive Guide.

Prolific writer and journalist Dilip Hiro has just released a new book, “Blood of the Earth: The Battle for the World’s Vanishing Oil Resources.” The book is a vivid history of oil, and the way it has revolutionized civilian life, war, and world politics. The switch from coal to oil before World War I heralded a huge change in global politics, comparable to the introduction of gunpowder in 1040. In fact, since then oil became the chief strategic weapon of war. Today petroleum is …