Aug 16 2013
Uprising’s Friday guest expert Adele Stan, longtime chronicler of the right wing, and senior Washington correspondent for RHRealityCheck.org., analyzes today’s news headlines:
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Aug 16 2013
As the sentencing hearing phase of Bradley Manning’s court martial wraps up, Manning’s lawyers are pressing hard for a shorter sentence.
They’re doing so by putting Manning himself on the stand, who this week issued an apology saying, “I’m sorry that my actions hurt people and I am sorry that I hurt the United States.” Manning added that he had …
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Aug 16 2013
“All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.” — Edward Snowden …
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Aug 15 2013
We’ll get an update on the sentencing hearing of Bradley Manning’s court martial with Nathan Fuller, of the Bradley Manning Support Network, and hear from The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald about who Edward Snowden is and why he became a whistleblower. …
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Aug 15 2013
“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” — George Orwell …
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Aug 15 2013
Uprising’s Thursday guest expert Arun Gupta, Independent journalist and regular contributor to The Guardian, In These Times, The Progressive, and Truthout, and co-founder of the Occupied Wall Street Journal and The Indypendent, analyzes today’s news headlines:
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Aug 14 2013
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar is out sick today and hopes to be back live on the air on Thursday August 15th. …
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Aug 13 2013
As Americans reel from the extent of the NSA’s domestic surveillance program, a feeling of overwhelming helplessness can accompany the flood of information.
What can we do in the face of so much unchecked power?
On August 13, 2013, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Reverend Rick Hoyt of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles about why his church has joined a broad coalition of groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Green Peace, the Council on American Islamic Relations, Free Press, Human Rights Watch, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee to sue the NSA over violations of Americans’ First Amendment Rights.
Watch a video of the interview here.
Aug 13 2013
Uprising’s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, author of a number of books and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
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Aug 13 2013
Even before whistleblower Edward Snowden released the explosive documents about the extent of the NSA’s domestic spying program, civil libertarians like Heidi Boghosian were sounding the alarm on how government and corporations surveill us all.
In her brand new book Spying on Democracy, the head of the National Lawyer’s Guild lays out the myriad ways in which, under the guise …
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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