Nov 19 2010
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REBROADCAST: Max Blumenthal, Republican Gomorrah
The Senate Finance Committee this week rejected a government-funded public health insurance option as part of the massive overhaul of the American healthcare system. The move is seen as the direct result of vocal and sustained efforts over the summer by well-organized right wing groups mobilized indirectly …
Nov 18 2010
REBROADCAST: Les Leopold, The Looting of America
The monthly jobs report for February indicated that while Americans lost another 36,000 jobs, the rate of unemployment remained at 9.7%, the same as January and slightly less than December’s figure of 10% The fact that Wall Street firms are reporting fairly robust gains, even while new jobs aren’t being created has provided fodder for populist …
Nov 16 2010
Join us on November 16-17 for a two day campaign to support the Pacifica Radio Archives!
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Nov 16, 2010 – A Tribute to Edward Said, Seven Years After His Death
Just over seven years ago, the world lost one of the most important progressive thinkers of our time: Edward Said. He died on September 25th 2003 after suffering leukemia for about 12 years. Said …
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Nov 15 2010
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REBROADCAST: Charles Bowden, Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields
A city dreamed up from a dusty border mountain pass by promoters of the NAFTA, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, now typifies the failure of the so-called “war on drugs.” Directly across the border from El Paso, Texas, the …
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Nov 12 2010
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This week on Uprising:
* Federal Commission on Oil Spill Agrees 90% with BP’s Own Assessments
* Parents Disturbed by Scholastic Books’ Promotion of Artificial Drink Sunny D
* Legal Case of Mumia Abu Jamal Continues
* Black Agenda Report on the Black Caucus and …
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Nov 12 2010
President Obama is retreating from his stated deadline of July 2011 to begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. McClatchy broke the story this week after interviews with military officials who told the newspaper that the new plan for the longest war in US history will be announced next week, during a NATO conference in Portugal. The revised timetable does not yet …
Nov 12 2010
When Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun first debuted in 1959 she did not expect it to be a success. But the story of the a Chicago-based African American family called the Youngers, resonated deeply with Americans. The title of the play is taken from a poem by Langston Hughes called Harlem: “What happens …
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Nov 12 2010
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviews Rolling Stone Contributor Matt Taibbi about his new book Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America.
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Nov 12 2010
“[P]olitical power is simply taken from most of us by a grubby kind of fiat, in little fractions of a percent here and there each and every day, through a thousand separate transactions that take place in fine print and in the margins of a vast social mechanism that most of us are simply not conscious of.” — Matt Taibbi …
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Nov 12 2010
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines the word “grift” in this way: “to obtain (money) illicitly (as in a confidence game).” The title of Rolling Stone contributor Matt Taibbi’s new book is then fairly straightforward, sort of: It’s called Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con that is Breaking America.” Tabbi is perhaps best known as the astute, if brash, journalist …
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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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