Apr 08 2011
President Barack Obama is asking for help. Not to resolve the conflict in Libya, or to persuade Republicans against forcing a government shut-down. President Obama is asking for help to bring him a victory in 2012 and four more years in the White House. On Monday Obama officially launched his reelection campaign. A website is already in place …
Apr 08 2011
The current political stalemate within Congress cannot be easily solved. President Obama, so far content to yield to Republican demands an inch at a time, is now faced with demands to yield a mile. Obama has made compromise a hallmark of his Presidency even as the GOP’s demands move steadily to the far right of the political spectrum. But, …
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Apr 08 2011
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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Apr 07 2011
Malalai Joya, former member of Parliament in Afghanistan, spoke with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar on April 7, 2011, about the war in Afghanistan. Joya is the author of “A Woman Among Warlords.”
Apr 07 2011
Sasha Abramsky discusses his book, Inside Obama’s Brain, and the personal history and governing style of the President, and Eric Alterman, author of Kabuki Democracy, explains how political dysfunction blocks progressive change. …
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Apr 07 2011
Democrats and Republicans are up against the clock to agree on a budget for the upcoming fiscal year before the midnight deadline Friday night. The Republican-dominated House passed the 2011-2012 budget bill HR 1, and the Senate which has a slim Democratic majority, is now battling it out. Meanwhile, the GOPs new budget proposal for Fiscal year 2012-2013, dubbed …
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Apr 07 2011
When a trove of more than 100 photos of mutilated Afghan corpses and U.S. soldiers posing next to them, recently surfaced, it was expected to be a scandal on the scale of Abu Ghraib. But since the publication of the photos by Rolling Stone magazine, there has been little of the type of national disgust that the …
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Apr 07 2011
Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Obama’s Disastrous Presidency.
Visit www.blackagendareport.com for more information.
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Apr 07 2011
“I don’t fear death; I fear remaining silent in the face of injustice, I fear becoming indifferent to the fate of my people.” -– Malalai Joya …
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Apr 06 2011
“The labor movement was the principle force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and above all new wage levels that meant not mere survival, but a tolerable life. The captains of industry did not lead this transformation; they resisted it until they were overcome.” — MLK talking about the labor …
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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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