“What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith.” — Gary Taubes

Vermont passes an historic bill for Single Payer Health care. The Supreme Court orders California to relieve its inhumane prison overcrowding. And, a local activist gets raided by the FBI. Plus this week’s edition of The Right Hook.

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These days obesity and its related health problems are a national obsession for doctors, politicians, and public health officials. Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. in recent years, with obesity rates sharply increasing for children as young as six months old. With higher obesity rates more prevalent among poorer Americans, obesity, and all the public health consequences of it, becomes an issue of social and economic justice. Now, a new book by science journalist Gary Taubes synthesizes ten years of research into the reasons behind obesity. The book is simply called Why We Get Fat. In it, Taubes makes a damning case about how the science linking dietary fat to heart disease and obesity was seriously misreported, leading to government agencies prescribing a low-fat, and in-effect, high-carbohydrate diet, that is precisely the recipe …

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” –- Albert Einstein

Why We Get Fat and what to do about it. We’ll have an hour-special on the science and origins of obesity with award-winning science journalist and author Gary Taubes.

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One of the nation’s leading prosecutors, Vincent Bugliosi, has a new book called ‘The Divinity of Doubt: The God Question.’ As the title suggests, Bugliosi tackles the controversial subject of God, the Christian faith, and atheism. Claiming that there is no way to ever know whether there is indeed a God, and that there is also no way to know whether there is not a God, Bugliosi makes the case for Agnosticism – that the only logical approach to God is to assert that there is no way of knowing whether God exists. He lays special emphasis on the Christian faith, pointing out glaring contradictions about the existence of God through the concepts of an all-knowing, all-powerful being, as well as the power of prayer and whether humans have free …

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Mumia Abu Jamal is an award winning journalist and political prisoner. Today’s commentary is on Memorial Day.

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This week on Uprising:

* Vermont Makes History with Single Payer Healthcare Law
* Supreme Court Orders California Prison System to Relieve Overcrowding
* Dilip Hiro on Miscalculating the Pakistan-China Connection

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Vermont Makes History with Single Payer Healthcare Law

The state of Vermont made history on Thursday when its Governor, Peter Shumlin, signed into a law a bill that would establish a single payer healthcare system. Advocates for equitable health care reform have for years, been organizing for such a system, which is modeled on the government’s …

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On the last day of our Spring-into-Summer funddrive, we’re pleased to once more feature the important radio series, Building a Powerful Left. Earlier this year, KPFK’s interim Program Director Alan Minsky, set out to pick the best progressive brains in the U.S. to ask them how they envision constructing a powerful movement. The resulting 16 hour broadcast series, called Building a Powerful Left, features interviews with and talks by luminaries like Noam Chomsky, Francis Fox Piven, Ralph Nader, Cornel West. Benjamin Barber, Dolores Huerta, Richard Wolff, Dean Baker, Isabel Garcia, Vijay Prashad, , Tom Hayden, James Lawson, Glen Ford, John Nichols, and many others.

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An hour-special with Vincent Bugliosi, leading American prosecutor, about his newest book, Divinity of Doubt: The God Question. Bugliosi is best known for prosecuting Charles Manson about which he wrote the best-selling book Helter Skelter, which went on to sell over 7 million copies and become the biggest selling true crime book in publishing history.