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This week on Uprising —

* Analyzing US policy in the Israeli war on Lebanon
* Next steps for Mexican presidential election debacle
* How right-wing churches attract youth
* Radio BC’s Glen Ford on Cynthia McKinney

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Analyzing US policy in the Israeli war on Lebanon

GUEST: Stephen Zunes, Middle East editor for the Foreign Policy In Focus Project, and professor of Politics at University of San Francisco. He is author of “Tinderbox: U.S. Middle East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism,” Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies specializing in the Middle East and in the United Nations

The United States and Lebanon said on Friday August 11th, that a deal on a U.N. resolution to end Israel’s month-old war on Lebanon was in sight. But Israel told the United States it would not automatically accept any such resolution. In fact earlier in the week, the Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a wider ground war on south Lebanon, despite the imminent vote on the UN Security Council resolution. Currently, 10,000 Israeli troops are fighting within a four-mile stretch from the frontier. There are over a thousand Lebanese dead, a significant fraction of whom are children. About a third of the Lebanese population has been displaced. Hezbollah rocket attacks have also killed a little over a hundred Israelis.

Read Stephen Zunes’ article on Hezbollah here.

Meanwhile violence in Iraq continues. About 1,800 people were killed across Iraq in the month of July alone. Yesterday six Iraqis were killed and 17 wounded when a residential building was blown up in central Baquba near Baghdad. Five homemade bombs and a bank robbery left 24 people dead in Baghdad on Tuesday. The Israeli assault on Lebanon has diverted most media attention away from Iraq despite no abatement in the violence in Iraq. Some commentators say that Washington now regards the Lebanon war as central to the whole global war on terror.

For more information on the document “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”, click here.

Radio BC on Cynthis McKinney

Glen Ford, Radio BC

Today’s commentary by Radio BC’s Glen Ford is about Congress woman Cynthia McKinney.

Next steps for Mexican presidential election debacle

GUEST: Nadia Martinez, Policy analyst for Institute for Policy Studies

As part of the on-going controversy of Mexico’s presidential election, thousands of protestors led by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the PRD, or Party of the Democratic Revolution, have occupied the center of Mexico City. Carrying banners with slogans such as “Vote by vote, poll by poll!” thousands of protesters blocked traffic on a boulevard outside the court. They have also taken over toll booths on three Mexican highways and are letting drivers pass through free of charge as part of their protest, now in its sixth week. Mexico’s Federal Election Judicial Tribunal voted for a recount of only 9 percent of the country’s ballots. According to the initial vote count, Lopez Obrador lost by a razor-thin margin to conservative candidate Felipe Calderon. He and his supporters want a full recount, not another election, which is the likely result if the election tribunal can’t declare an official winner by September 6th.

Read John Gibler’s article on Mexico’s Designer Uprising.

How right-wing churches attract youth

GUEST: Courtney Martin, writer and author of the forthcoming “Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters,” due out in Spring 2007

In a new article on Alternet, entitled “Megachurches Court Cool to Attract Teens,” writer Courtney Martin asks the question, “In this climate of isolation and cynicism, how have evangelical megachurches gained such a strong youth following? And more importantly, what can progressives — feminists, democrats, civil rights defenders — learn from their methodology?”

Read Courtney Martin’s article here: http://www.alternet.org/story/39427/

Visit Courtney Martin’s website here: www.courtneyemartin.com

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” – Anne Lamott