Mar 21 2008
We’ll take a look at the recent protests in Armenia and the just-lifted-state of emergency. Plus, John McCain’s recent Al Qaeda gaffe reveals just how easily the mainstream media have let him off the hook. And progressive populist and everyone’s favorite Texan, Jim Hightower, joins us in studio to discuss his new book, “Swim against the Current: Even a Dead Fish Can Go With the Flow.” …
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Mar 21 2008
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This week on Uprising:
* US Economy Nosedives
* Empire Notes on the Iraq War: Five Years Later
* New Report on Iraq’s Shocking Humanitarian Crisis
* Despite Mounting Evidence to the Contrary, Bush Maintains Success in Iraq
* Nanotech Materials Found in Groceries
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Mar 21 2008
GUEST: Shelly Tochluk, educator with background in psychology, assistant professor of education at Mount St. Mary’s College, author of “Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps toward an antiracist practice and culture”
Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s moving speech on race in America this Tuesday addressed a fundamental issue in US culture that is rarely addressed in a …
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Mar 21 2008
GUEST: Eileen Applebaum, labor economist at Rutgers University
More news of the weakening U.S. economy surfaced yesterday as reports indicated slumping factory production and rising unemployment claims. According to new data, factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. economy has continued to shrink for the fourth consecutive month. This has been the worst …
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Mar 21 2008
GUEST: Ladd Everitt, Director of Communications at the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence
This week, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case involving gun control. The highest court in the nation, which has stayed out of the controversial issue for decades, will be ruling on the Second Amendment for the first time since …
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Mar 21 2008
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Mar 21 2008
“You don’t have to be part of the world of the lynchers. You do have a choice. You can join the other America. The other America has always been here. From the time the first slave ship arrived. It is the people who fought against slavery. Against injustice. The people who fought for humanity. It was Black and it was white.” — William Paterson, an African American activist …
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Mar 20 2008
We’ll take a look at the state of the US economy, and the Supreme Court takes up a gun rights case and the how far reaching the Second Amendment really is. Plus, a conversation with Shelly Tochluk, author of a new book called “Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture.” …
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Mar 20 2008
GUEST: Phyllis Bennis, Middle East analyst for Foreign Policy In Focus, a senior analyst at the Institute for Policy Studies
Speaking on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq war, President Bush yesterday defended US policy saying it had made the US and the world a safer place. He also acknowledged the high cost and …
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Mar 20 2008
GUESTS: Zahir Janmohamed, Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa with Amnesty International; Hicham Hassan spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross, Iraq
As the invasion and occupation of Iraq enters its sixth year, the humanitarian situation remains disastrous. This week the International Committee of the Red Cross and Amnesty International released …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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