Nov 20 2009
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This week on Uprising:
* Matthew Hoh on Resigning in Protest of the Afghan War
* Black Agenda Report on Afghan President Hamid Karzai
* Multinational Companies Win Big Oil Contracts in Iraq
* Empire Notes on Nidal Malik Hasan
* Army Corps Found Liable …
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Nov 20 2009
The campus of UCLA yesterday was rife with activity as Regents took a final vote to pass a whopping 32% fee hike. They met at Covel Commons, where students and union workers surrounded the area after news of the vote, and blocked the Regents from leaving for two hours. Over at Campbell Hall, several dozen students took over …
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Nov 20 2009
Late this past Wednesday Senate Majority leader Harry Reid released the Senate’s version of the highly anticipated health care bill. According to analysts, the bill is designed to appeal broadly to moderates, and also to reduce the government deficit. Senator Reid referred to it as a jobs bill. But details of the bill reveal that it is fairly …
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Nov 20 2009
A federal judge’s ruling on Wednesday against the Army Corps of Engineers has finally confirmed what many Gulf Coast residents have known for the past four years: that the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was in fact a man-made disaster. In his 189 page ruling, Judge Stanwood Duval wrote, “The Corps’ lassitude and failure to fulfill its …
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Nov 20 2009
Iraqi oil officials are scheduled to meet with a consortium of Japanese companies on Sunday to finalize a development deal on the Nassiriyah oil field. The negotiations follow a first round of bidding for lucrative contracts earlier this summer by several multinational oil corporations. Only the consortium comprised of British Petroleum and the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation emerged …
Nov 20 2009
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
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Nov 20 2009
The Occupation of Alcatraz
Back in the day on November 20th, 1969, a group of nearly eighty Native peoples sailed to the abandoned island of Alcatraz and occupied it. Once upon the grounds of the former federal penitentiary, the activists issued a proclamation to the ‘Great White Father and his People.’ The words of the document read, “We …
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Nov 20 2009
“The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is ‘the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you.'” – Bernard Madoff …
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Nov 19 2009
We’ll take a look at the recently unveiled Senate Health bill, and what it means for the future of healthcare reform. And, the significance of a federal ruling to hold the Army Corps of Engineers liable for Katrina flooding in 2005. Plus, Antonia Juhasz on whether Big Oil ended up winning in Iraq. And this week’s Black Agenda Report.
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Nov 19 2009
Breaking ranks with the President and Stanley McChrystal, General Wesley Clark told Congress this Tuesday that the US should begin planning an exit from Afghanistan. Clark’s voice is part of a growing chorus within the ranks of the military and government calling for a reality check on the war. Last week leaked memos revealed that Karl Eikenberry, …
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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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