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The Right Hook, a weekly segment which covers the machinations of the right wing, from the Republican Party to the Tea Party Patriots, and beyond. By Chris Bennett

Nevada’s Senate candidate Sharron Angle made yet another gaffe this week. The Tea Party hopeful stirred up a controversy by telling a group of Latino high school students that …

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“We will have to resist the temptation to fold in on ourselves and to ignore the injustice visited on others, especially those we do not know. As distinct and moral beings, we will endure only through these small, sometimes imperceptible acts of defiance. This defiance, this capacity to say no, is what mass culture and mass propaganda seeks to eradicate.” — Chris Hedges …

Noted Israeli Scholar and Activist Ilan Pappe will be speaking in Los Angeles this weekend on Saturday October 23rd at a benefit for PCRF, the Palestine Children Relief Fund (www.pcrf.net).

The event will take place on Sat. Oct. 23 at 6:00 PM at the Anaheim Hilton in Anaheim. Tickets are $100.00 and $50.00 for students , student ticket is on first come first serve basis.

The PCRF sponsors children from the ME to provide …

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A top UN official warned yesterday that Israel’s settlement building activity is in violation of international law. Addressing the Security Council, UN Assistant Secretary for Political Affairs Oscar Fernandez Taranco pointed to the more than 200 new Israeli building permits in the West Bank saying they were endangering the “brief window” of opportunity with the on-going peace talks with …

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“U.S. journalists I don’t think are very courageous. They tend to go along with the government’s policy domestically and internationally. To question is seen as being unpatriotic, or potentially subversive.” — Robert Fisk …

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This Land is Our Land: The Fight To Reclaim the Commons

Everywhere we look there is corporate control of American lives, from the private stranglehold of our food systems, to the privatization of the internet. A brand new documentary released earlier this month by the Media Education Foundation called “This Land is Our Land”, makes the case for reclaiming …

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“The concept of the commons flies in the face of the modern wisdom that each spot on the globe consists merely of coordinates on a global grid laid out by state and market….Commons implies the right of local people to define their own grid.” —The Ecologist magazine, 1993 …

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This week on Uprising:

* Mark Weisbrot on the Ecuador Police Rebellion and Coup Attempt
* The Confederacy was About Slavery, Not States Rights
* Black Agenda Report on the Privatization of Education
* The Progressive’s Guide to Raising Hell – Part 2

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“A person who is worried about the outcome of his work does not see his goal; he sees only his opposition and the obstacles before him.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

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The tidal wave of corporate cash overwhelming this November’s election is a direct result of a Supreme Court decision earlier this year called Citizen’s United Vs. The F.E.C. which allows for unlimited campaign spending by private entities. So far this year’s election are set to be the most expensive mid-term elections in the history of the nation, totaling a …

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