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Road to Guantanamo – DVD – $125

In 2001, four young British men of Pakistani origin, Ruhal Ahmed, Asif Iqbal and Shafiq Rasul and their friend, Monir, traveled to Pakistan for a wedding. While there, on a whim, they decided to travel to Afghanistan, which at the time was being bombed by US forces. Once there, they lost their friend Monir in the wartime chaos, and were captured by Northern Alliance fighters. They were then handed over to US forces who transported them to Guantanamo Bay base in Cuba. The three men, unaware of why they were captured and imprisoned, spent three years in Guantanamo, enduring relentless imprisonment, interrogations and torture. Last year, acclaimed film maker, Michael Winterbottom dramatized the experiences of the Tipton three as they came to be called, in a film called …

“Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and … you allow him to make war at pleasure.” — Abraham Lincoln

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A Game as Old as Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption – Hard cover book – $100

GUESTS: Antonia Juhasz, visiting scholar at Institute for Policy Studies, and contributer to “A Game as Old as Empire,” Steven Hiatt, editor of “A Game as Old as Empire”

In 2004, a man named John Perkins wrote a book called “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.” In it, he detailed how “EHMs” like him were tasked with convincing poor countries around the world to accept multibillion-dollar loans for infrastructure projects and to see to it that most of this money from the loans ended up at Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown and Root, and other United States engineering and construction companies. John Perkins spent 20 years writing the book, and …

“During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.” — Howard Thurman

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Witnesses to War – DVD – $50

Bill Moyers has had a long and varied career that includes a stint as deputy director of the Peace Corps (1961–63). A special advisor to President Lyndon Johnson, Moyers also served as Johnson’s press secretary from 1965 to 1967. But Moyers is best known for his journalism, first in print at the Long Island, New York daily Newsday, where he served as publisher from 1967–70, and later in television. Moyers has received more than 30 Emmy Awards in recognition of his contributions in various roles. He and his wife Judith Davidson formed Public Affairs Television in 1986, through which they have produced more than 200 hours of programming, including the popular PBS series Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (1988) and Healing and the Mind (1993). …

“It’s a journalist’s job to be a witness to history. We’re not there to worry about ourselves. We’re there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.” — Robert Fisk

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This week on Uprising:

Independent war reporter, Dahr Jamail exposes the brutality of the war in Iraq. Plus, the Black Agenda Report on Iraq’s oil.

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Dahr Jamail on the Brutality of the Iraq Occupation

GUEST: Dahr Jamail, independent war reporter

We spend the hour today hearing from one of the most courageous young reporters in the US. In 2003, a fourth generation Lebanese American man named Dahr Jamail was working as a mountain guide in Alaska, when the US invaded Iraq. …

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Uprising Celebrates Black History Month

with special guest co-host Thenmozhi Soundararajan

Say it Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches – $100

From Marcus Garvey to Maya Angelou, the 2 CD/Book set, Say It Plain gives listeners a vivid, moving portrait of how black Americans have sounded the charge against injustice, challenging the US to try to live up to its democratic principles. Most of these actual recordings of speeches by the 20th Century’s leading African American cultural, spiritual, and political figures have been tucked away in archives and libraries, and are presented in Say it Plain for the first time. From Booker T Washington’s speech in 1895, to Julian Bond in 2004, the recordings span an incredible era of American History.

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“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” — Huey Newton

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Special hour on Christian Fundamentalism

with special guest co-host Alan Minsky

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Jesus Camp – DVD – $150

Jesus Camp is a documentary released late last year by film makers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady that looks into the often disturbing world of evangelical indoctrination of children in middle America. On Uprising we interviewed the two film makers and since then, Jesus Camp has won more awards and been nominated for best documentary at this year’s Academy Awards. With incredible access to a right wing Christian community, Ewing and Grady follow three children, Levi, Rachael, and Tory as they head to a Bible summer camp called “Kids on Fire.” Becky Fisher, a children’s pastor who runs the camp is unabashed about …