The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time.

Raymond Davis has been the subject of widespread speculation since he opened fire with a semi-automatic Glock pistol on the two men who had pulled up in front of his car at a red light on 25 January.

Pakistani authorities charged him with murder, but the Obama administration …

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Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar is out sick and will be back live on Tuesday February 22nd. …

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* George Lakoff on the Politics of Language in the Mid-Term Elections
* Joshua Holland on his new book: The Fifteen Biggest Lies about the Economy: And Everything Else the Right Doesn’t Want You to Know …

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While the rolling revolution in the Middle East continues with Bahrain, Yemen, and Libya, buoyed by the success of Egypt and Tunisia, one unassuming American figure is emerging as providing the inspiration for a range of tactics used by Arab organizers. His name is Gene Sharp, he lives in Boston, and you’ve probably never heard of him. Considered “the …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on comparing Egyptians and African Americans.

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“Nonviolence is the constant awareness of the dignity and the humanity of oneself and others; it seeks truth and justice; it renounces violence both in method and in attitude; it is a courageous acceptance of active love and goodwill as the instrument with which to overcome evil and transform both oneself and to others. It is the willingness to undergo suffering rather than inflict it. It excludes retaliation and flight.” — Wally Nelson
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We’ll spend the hour on the work of Gene Sharp, the most influential American political thinker you’ve never heard of, whose writing on strategies of non-violent revolution have inspired people across the Middle East to overthrow their dictators. …

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Iranian dissidents organized their biggest demonstrations since the 2009 post-election uprising. Hundreds of thousands of people marched in major cities across the country challenging the rule of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad on Monday. Security forces and police in Tehran forcibly dispersed the largely peaceful gathering using paintball guns and tear gas shells. Two people were killed, including Sanee Zhaleh, apparently a …

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President Obama’s just-released federal budget continues his “winning the future” narrative, which he debuted during the State of the Union address last month. For America “to win the future,” Obama explains, “we have to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.” Cresting the ‘out-build’ portion of this rallying cry is what Obama describes as a 21st Century communications …

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We spend the last part of our program today asking for your support as we’ve just kicked off KPFK’s Winter pledge drive. Today we’re featuring one of my favorite speakers, acclaimed intellectual Cornel West, whose voice and words are preserved in the Pacifica Radio Archives and stored on a fully loaded USB memory stick as part of 60 hours …

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