We’ll examine what’s behind rising oil prices and how Republicans are attempting to make political hay out of it. And, the Supreme Court decides to curtail the rights of Americans to bring class-action lawsuits. Plus, Rula Jebreal, author of Miral, which Julian Schnabel’s recent film was based on, will join us in studio to discuss Palestine and politics.

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This week on Uprising:

* The Guantanamo Papers and What They Do Not Say About Torture
* Twenty Five Years After Chernobyl, Nuclear Power Still Unsafe
* Black Agenda Report on Michigan’s Financial “Emergency”
* JUSTICE Act Undoes Worst Aspects of PATRIOT Act

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The Guantanamo Papers and What They Do Not Say About Torture

The whistleblowing website Wikileaks, in tandem with the New York Times, last Sunday published another treasure trove of classified government documents. The documents are part of the large cache obtained last year by Wikileaks. …

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Intense storms have battered the South, Southeast, and South-central U.S. on and off for nearly a week. Thunderstorms have led to flash floods, hail has come crashing down from the sky, and hundreds of tornadoes have wrought havoc on unprepared populations. This past Saturday tornadoes killed at least 23 people in North Carolina. Wednesday brought the most violent weather, leaving a climbing death toll on Friday of over 300 people. Alabama was hardest hit on Wednesday, with tornadoes devastating entire towns and leaving at least 195 dead. Howard Brooks of the Storm Prediction center estimated that some tornadoes were up to a mile wide, with wind speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. In some cases they hit ground for tens of miles. A tornado ripped through Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for three …

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A recent study by psychologists at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of South Carolina, Columbia found that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were significantly more likely to develop drug addictions as adults. Compared to children without the disorder, researchers concluded ADHD made addiction to nicotine three times more likely, cocaine twice as likely, and marijuana 1.5 times more likely. One UCLA researcher estimated 5 to 7% of school-age children are affected by the condition. The rise in ADHD among youth has been a major source of concern and speculation for the past few years. There is no medical consensus on the cause or effective treatments for the disorder. Likewise with drug addiction, which has long been declared a major social problem. Those who suffer from an addictive …

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The Vietnam war officially ended in 1975. But here in the United States, where there was a significant Vietnamese refugee immigrant population, the war continued for a few more years. It’s first known casualty was 27 year old Lam Duong, the founder of the first Vietnamese youth center in the U.S. Because he was seen as a communist sympathizer, he earned the ire of segments of the Vietnamese population in San Francisco, where he lived. On July 21, 1981, he was gunned down in front of his apartment building. A few days later, an anti-communist organization calling themselves the Anti-Communist Viets Organization, took credit for Lam’s murder. To this day, no one has been charged or convicted of the crime. And, since Lam Duong’s murder, several other Vietnamese American journalists …

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Veteran journalist and author Chris Hedges is on his way to Los Angeles this evening for a KPFK event at All Saints Church in Pasadena. Chris Hedges is a regular columnist for Truthdig.com. He was for nearly two decades a foreign correspondent for The New York Times. He is the author of many books, including: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning, What Every Person Should Know About War, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, and the Death of the Liberal Class. His latest book, just published by Truthdig, is called The World As it Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.

On Friday April 29, Chris Hedges will speak at the Forum …

The Vietnam war officially ended in 1975. But here in the United States, where there was a significant Vietnamese refugee immigrant population, the war continued for a few more years. It’s first known casualty was 27 year old Lam Duong, the founder of the first Vietnamese youth center in the U.S. Because he was seen as a communist sympathizer, he earned the ire of segments of the Vietnamese population in San Francisco, where he lived.

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.” — Mark Twain

We’ll look at the destruction wrought by extreme weather across many American states and links to global warming. And, a conversation with acclaimed physician Gabor Maté, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. Plus, Enforcing the Silence, a new documentary about the 1981 murder of a young Vietnamese immigrant in San Francisco who was labeled a communist sympathizer. And this week’s Rethink Reviews.

Gerardo Torres is a representative of the International Commission of the National Front of Popular Resistance of Honduras, General Secretary of the Political Organization Los Necios/Las Necias (Organización Politica Los Necios — OPLN). Torres is also a member of the Analysis Commission of the FNRP and Ideological Education of the National Front of Youth Movements in Resistance of Honduras.