Feb
26
2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Afghanistan Marja Offensive Aimed At Convincing US Public
* Banks Manage to Sidestep Credit Card Reform
* Black Agenda Report on Police Brutality in New York
* Extreme Right Wing Attempts Takeover of Republican Party
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Feb
26
2010
We’ll examine the US’s latest offensive in Marja, Afghanistan – our guest Gareth Porter thinks it’s meant more to convince Americans to support the war than have strategic value. And, Max Blumenthal reports back from the Annual CPAC conference where he was attacked by a right wing mob. Plus, new credit card regulations aimed at protecting consumers end up being undermined by banks even before implementation. …
Feb
26
2010
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.” — Martin Luther King Jr. …
Feb
26
2010
In one of the first acts of non-violent resistance of the civil rights movement, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus for a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, on December 1st 1955. It was an act that launched a year long successful boycott of the bus system, led by Martin Luther King Jr, and was among …
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