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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos at www.youtube.com/user/jsjkim, …

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“We need the courage to question the powers that be, the courage to be impatient with evil and patient with people, the courage to fight for social justice. In many instances we will be stepping out on nothing, and just hoping to land on something. But that’s the struggle. To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.” — Cornel West …

We’ll continue our coverage of the uprisings in the Middle East and Muslim world with a look at Iran and Bahrain with Juan Cole, author of Engaging the Muslim World. And, President Obama unveils his new wireless initiative – what does it mean for internet access and freedom? Plus, the words of Cornel West in our on-going celebration of Black History, and Rethink Reviews by Jonathan Kim. …

Rallies in Bahrain to demand democracy and an end to discrimination against the Shiite Muslim majority escalated after the death of a second demonstrator, as unrest in the region also led to clashes between protesters and police in Yemen.

Thousands of Bahrainis gathered at the Pearl Roundabout traffic intersection in Manama, the capital, shouting slogans against the government after the funeral of a protester killed in clashes with police yesterday. A second protester died today in …

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Leila El Haddad is a Palestinian journalist, political analyst, blogger, and author of Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting and Everything in Between.

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The Conservative Political Action Conference or CPAC concluded this past weekend. The three-day event acts as a Republican networking hub where participants — 11,000 this year — can attend workshops and listen to speeches from prominent members of the conservative community, including many GOP presidential hopefuls. Under the watch of David Keene, president of CPAC’s coordinating organization, the American …

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In an apparent response to the revolutionary fever sweeping the Middle East, the entire Palestinian Cabinet in the West Bank resigned collectively yesterday and called for elections. Most of the cabinet members were from President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Party. The President has struggled in recent weeks to retain his legitimacy in the wake of the Palestine Papers – …

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As you all know the month of February each year is designated as Black History month, and over the course of its 60 years in existence, the Pacifica Radio of which KPFK is a part, has covered Black history like no other media outlet, often as history was unfolding. Pacifica covered the civil rights movement, as …

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The Activist Beat with Rose Aguilar, host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco is a weekly roundup of progressive activism that the mainstream media ignores, undercovers, or misrepresents.

This week, environmental activists and members of Kids vs. Global Warming and Generation Hot are in Washington DC confronting what journalist Mark Hertsgaard calls climate cranks. These are the people …

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A judge in a small jungle town in Ecuador on Monday ordered Chevron to pay more than $9 billion in damages, finding the energy giant responsible for the oil pollution that has fouled a stretch of land along Ecuador’s northern border.

The case, which began in a New York court in 1993, has been closely monitored by the oil industry for precedents that might be set for future lawsuits.

The amount in the ruling – $8.6 billion …

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