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This week on Uprising:

* Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire with John Pilger
* Empire Notes on “A Unique Opportunity”
* A Young People’s History of the United States with Howard Zinn
* Black Agenda Report on Impeachment

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Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire

Guest: John Pilger, award winning journalist and film maker, author of “Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire”

In his new book, Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire, award winning journalist and film maker John Pilger has examined the state of empire and people’s resistance in 5 different former, and current colonies: Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian territories, South Africa, India, and the island of Diego Garcia. Through eye-witness reporting and a crucial historical context, Pilger lays bare the promises of freedom and democracy yet to be fulfilled in all five cases. John Pilger began his career in his native Australia before moving to London in the 1960s. He started front-line war reporting in the Vietnam war in 1967. He has won Britain’s highest award for journalism, “Journalist of the Year,” twice. He is also a film maker and has made about 60 documentaries for Britain’s ITV. For the past 20 years he has been a freelance reporter, writing for the Guardian, the Independent, the New York Times, the LA Times, The South China Morning Post, the Mail & Guardian in South Africa, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age in Australia and many more.

Empire Notes on “A Unique Opportunity”

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade

Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is is called “A Unique Opportunity.”

Empire Notes is online at www.empirenotes.org.

A Young People’s History of the United States

When Howard Zinn first published, “A People’s History of the United States,” twenty-five years ago, it challenged traditional historical narratives of U.S. history by focusing on the people and not the powerful. Zinn’s seminal work was groundbreaking insofar as it was an antidote to the American history that has been taught for so long in our public schools. Teachers and parents who have sought to bring Zinn’s social perspectives to young people have been at a loss for books until now. Rebecca Stefoff has adapted Zinn’s history book to create a two volume set for young adult readers ages 10-14 called “A Young People’s History of the United States.” “A Young People’s History,” is complete with full page illustrations, a glossary, and primary sources and is a valuable teaching tool. Volume one takes young readers through the days of Columbus to the Spanish-American War of 1898. Volume two covers the class struggles of the twentieth century and ends with the present so-called war on terror. In the introduction to the first volume of “A Young People’s History,” Zinn writes, “We should be able to tell the truth about people whom we have been taught to look upon as heroes, but who really don’t deserve that admiration.”

Uprising was among the first to interview Howard Zinn last week, about this two volume history book.

Black Agenda Report on Impeachment

GUEST: Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report

This week’s commentary is on Impeachment. Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day:

“Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.” — Anonymous