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Weekly Digest - 06/18/10
Published 18 Jun 2010 at 1:04 pm.
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Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.
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This week on Uprising:
* The Real Story Behind the News of Afghanistan’s Mineral Wealth
* A Critique of Media Coverage of the Federal Deficit
* Black Agenda Report about Obama’s Assault on Union Teachers
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KPFK Fund Drive - Day 7
Published 15 Jun 2010 at 9:42 am.
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South of the Border
Acclaimed Hollywood director Oliver Stone, whose film credits include Platoon, JFK and Wall Street, recently turned his sights on politics in Latin America. His brand new documentary, South of the Border, is a sweeping overview of the dramatic shifts in electoral power all across South [...]
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields (Rebroadcast)
Published 12 May 2010 at 9:01 am.
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Once a city heralded by the promoters of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Juarez, Mexico has now become a global epicenter of the failed so-called “war on drugs.” Just across the border from El Paso, Texas, the northern Mexican metropolis home to 1.3 million people has garnered [...]
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Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
Published 26 Apr 2010 at 10:24 am.
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Once a city heralded by the promoters of the North American Free Trade Agreement, Juarez, Mexico has now become a global epicenter of the failed so-called “war on drugs.” Just across the border from El Paso, Texas, the northern Mexican metropolis home to 1.3 million people has garnered [...]
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Weekly Digest - 01/15/10
Published 15 Jan 2010 at 11:35 am.
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This week on Uprising:
* Time Running Out for Haiti: Emergency Relief and Political Context
* Inside Obama’s Brain: Conversation with Sasha Abramsky on the President’s First Year in Office
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Inside Obama’s Brain - Part 1
Published 7 Jan 2010 at 10:43 am.
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As progressives survey President Obama’s first year in office with mounting dismay, Sasha Abramsky’s new book, Inside Obama’s Brain, attempts to understand the man behind the hype, through a careful analysis of publicly available documents and interviews with family and friends. Abramsky has [...]
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Was Obama Deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize?
Published 12 Oct 2009 at 10:34 am.
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Last Friday,the Nobel committee announced awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace prize to President Obama. In its official statement the Norwegian Nobel Committee states that “it has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for [...]
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US Continues Cozy Relationship with Philippines Despite Human Rights Violations
Published 31 Jul 2009 at 10:18 am.
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President Obama met yesterday at the White House with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to discuss “counter-terrorism cooperation.” But activists both here in the US and the Philippines have urged the President to bring up government-sponsored human rights violations, in particular the persecution [...]
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The Life and Art of Diego Rivera
Published 28 May 2009 at 10:09 am.
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A three-day sale of Latin-American art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York has drawn attention to a rare self-portrait by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The sellers hope to rake in a million dollars for the painting by an artist whose [...]
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Kassim The Dream
Published 14 May 2009 at 9:39 am.
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A former child soldier in Uganda wins a world title in boxing in the US and returns home to confront his demons in a haunting new documentary called Kassim the Dream. At age six Kassim Ouma is kidnapped by rebel forces from [...]
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