Jul 30 2013
Army Private Bradley Manning has been acquitted of the most important of the charges against him: “Aiding the Enemy,” while having been found guilty of most of the remaining charges. On Uprising on Wednesday July 31st, we’ll examine what this means and take your calls. …
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Jul 30 2013
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Jul 30 2013
Uprising’s Friday guest expert Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of many books, his latest being, Arguing for Our Lives: A User’s Guide to Constructive Dialog, analyzes today’s news headlines:
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Jul 30 2013
The decision that Military Judge Denise Lind makes today over the fate of Army Private Bradley Manning will have implications not just for Manning himself but for whistle blowers, the media, and possibly the future conduct of war.
After many months in prison, much of it in solitary confinement and under conditions of torture, Bradley Manning’s long-drawn out trial has …
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Jul 30 2013
Five months into his tenure as Secretary of State, John Kerry hosted what may have been the most important dinner of his political career – Israeli and Palestinian representatives of a new peace process broke bread last night ahead of the start of a 9 month long negotiating process fraught with all manner of likely pitfalls.
As a pre-condition of …
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Jul 30 2013
War is an inevitable part of human society – so say political leaders like Barack Obama, philosophers, and even some scientists. Often the inevitability of war is presented as justification for continued war. But does the evidence from our past actually support the theory that war is inescapable?
Two new studies question that conclusion: one involves a survey of thousands …
Jul 30 2013
“If we don’t end war, war will end us.” — H. G. Wells …
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Jul 30 2013
Raleigh, N.C. — Thousands of North Carolina teachers and other protesters on Monday staged one of the largest of the almost-weekly demonstrations opposing Republican policy decisions.
The North Carolina Association of Educators brought busloads of teachers to Raleigh on Monday as the so-called “Moral Monday” protests reached the three-month mark. Thousands of red-shirt-wearing educators listened to speakers on a lawn inside the state government complex, then marched several blocks for another rally outside the antebellum state …
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Jul 30 2013
The headline juxtaposition boggles the mind. You have, on one day, “Detroit Files Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in History.” Then on the next, you have “Detroit Plans to Pay For New Red Wings Hockey Arena Despite Bankruptcy.”
Yes, the very week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder granted a state-appointed emergency manager’s request to declare the Motor City bankrupt, the Tea Party governor gave a big thumbs-up to a plan for a new $650 million Detroit Red Wings hockey …
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Jul 30 2013
At the entrance to the rural settlement of Kleinfontein is a well-kept shrine to the primary architect of apartheid. Nearby rests an old wheelbarrow, a symbol of the white Afrikaners who once ruled the country. Inside the coffee shop, at the bank, everywhere, there are only white faces. A white security guard, wearing grey camouflage, checks cars at a gate on the main road. Race is a key factor for entry. No blacks are allowed …
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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