Mar
16
2009
We’ll examine the situation in Pakistan in the aftermath of major demonstrations, with award-winning veteran journalist and author Stephen Kinzer. And we’ll go to New Mexico where the death penalty may be on the verge of being abolished. Plus, outraged residents protest a private security training facility in Riverside – we’ll go live to a demonstration organized by Citizens Against Private Armies. …
Mar
16
2009
Last Friday, thousands of teachers and their supporters across California protested the more than 25,000 layoff notices recently issued. The day of action, dubbed “Pink Friday,” decried the 8.4 billion dollar budget cuts slated for the state’s educational institutions including community colleges. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who signed off on the state budget plan last month, defended the cuts …
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Mar
16
2009
While the nearly $800 billion stimulus package signed by President Obama has come under intense fire from some conservatives, there has been hardly any comment on the Pentagon’s 2010 budget of $700 billion. Unemployment rates are sky high, record numbers of people are claiming jobless benefits, healthcare costs are bankrupting Americans, and millions are fore-closed out of their homes. Still, the Defense Department’s budget …
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Mar
16
2009
In a sharp about-turn from the Bush Administration, the Justice Department announced on Friday that it would drop the designation “Enemy Combatant” – a category widely used to justify imprisoning terrorism-related suspects over the last 8 years. Former president Bush used his authority as commander-in-chief to unilaterally hold prisoners without charge, indefinitely. The controversial term “enemy combatant” was …
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Mar
16
2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is on Jon Stewart.
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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Mar
16
2009
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Freedom’s Journal
Back in the day on March 16th, 1827 the first black owned and operated newspaper in the United States was established. Edited by Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm, “Freedom’s Journal,” was centered in New York, but grew to be distributed in eleven states as well as numerous other countries including Haiti and …
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Mar
16
2009
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself up in the flag.” — former Texas Congressman Craig Washington. …
Mar
13
2009
We’ll speak with arms expert Frida Berrigan on the stimulus package that has been ignored – the $700 billion Pentagon budget; and, a report back from Pink Friday, when teachers across California protested cut-backs in the classroom. Plus, in a sharp about-turn from the Bush-era the Justice Department announced it’s dropping the definition “Enemy Combatant.” We’ll speak with two law experts about the consequences. …
Mar
13
2009
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:
* Obama is Hit With Accusations of Socialism
* Empire Notes on the End on Capitalism’s Remedy
* Congress Takes Up Food Safety
* Black Agenda Report on the Economic “N-word”
* Women’s History Month Special: A Conversation With Betita Martinez
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Mar
13
2009
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El Salvador is gearing up for a Presidential election this Sunday that could catapult a leader of the leftist FMLN party into power for the first time. Mauricio Funes, a former correspondent for CNN en Español, is a relatively new recruit of the FMLN and leads the conservative ARENA party’s candidate, Rodrigo Avila, in polls. Plagued …
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