Aug 14 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Report from a Healthcare Townhall: The Sound and the Fury
* Black Agenda Report: Clinton Threatening War in the Horn of Africa
* One More Soldier Refuses to Fight in the Afghanistan War
* Empire Notes on Global Environmental …
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Aug 14 2009
The on-going debate on healthcare has revealed much about the state of American politics. President Obama’s efforts on healthcare reform have become an opportunity for conservatives to rail against socialism, even if there is little resembling socialism in the current versions of the Senate bill. Worse, proponents of health care reform have been maligned as Nazis, fomenting the type of historical facism …
Aug 14 2009
“Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” — Adam Smith …
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Aug 14 2009
In late July, Long Phan, a graduate student from the California Institute of Technology, was found dead in his home with the cause believed to be suicide. Before Phan’s death, Caltech experienced two earlier cases of confirmed suicide of students within the past three months; both of whom were young Asian-American males. Despite the stereotype of Asian Americans …
Aug 14 2009
Earlier this week, union members and their allies demonstrated in seven cities across the country in support of Rite Aid warehouse workers and the Employee Free Choice Act. Organized by local coalitions with the group Jobs with Justice, the actions coincided with the release of a new report that argued that Rite Aide’s tactics against workers seeking to unionize and negotiate …
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Aug 14 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is about Clinton Threatening War in the Horn of Africa.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information. …
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Aug 14 2009
The End of the Second Seminole War
Back in the day on August 14th, 1842, the second Seminole War in Florida came to an official end. Prior to the onset of renewed conflict, President Andrew Jackson, who in the first war led army attacks on Seminole villages burning them down to the ground, saw to it that the …
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Aug 13 2009
We’ll speak with historian and author Gerald Horne about how “socialist” has become the racist right’s new code word. And David Bacon will join us to give us an update on the labor movement. Plus, why Asian Americans suffer from the highest suicide rates of all ethnic groups. And this week’s Black Agenda Report. …
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Aug 13 2009
Oscar Arias, the President of Costa Rica, has been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as the Swine Flu. The Central American nation has lost 78 people to the virus with over 700 confirmed cases of infection. On the other side of the globe, there have been 96 confirmed virus attacks in Iraq, with the majority infecting …
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Aug 13 2009
An infusion of thousands of additional ground troops into Southern Afghanistan this July has resulted in the US experiencing its bloodiest month since the start of the war in 2001. General Stanley McChrystal who heads up the US military effort warned earlier this week that the Taliban was winning. It seems likely that the surge in troops and the …
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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