A lily-white Ohio suburb is doing everything it can, including risking millions in federal highway funding, to keep mostly minority bus-riders from a nearby city from entering their community.

The showdown began in 2010 when the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority proposed adding three new bus stops in Beavercreek, a largely white suburb 15 minutes east of Dayton. These new stops would give Dayton bus-riders access to Beavercreek’s major shopping mall and nearby businesses, as well …

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We’ll examine the prospects for reconciliation between Iran and the US as the new Iranian President Hassan Rouhani takes office. And, a new study on happiness finds that people with meaningful lives have better health prospects than those who simply pursue happiness. Plus, a new investigative report on fracking has found that the controversial practice is actually happening offshore right here on the West Coast. …

Many months before the explosive revelations of widespread spying were made public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Guardian newspaper, a local coalition of activists here in Los Angeles was blowing the whistle on the spying tactics of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has helped bring to light the LAPD’s use of so-called Fusion Centers to share intelligence from federal agencies, as well as what is …

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A special report by USA Today, found the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (ATF) has poured significant resources into luring former criminals and low-level drug dealers into large-scale crimes in order to convict them with long prison sentences.

Basically, agents identify people they think would have a propensity to carry out armed drug robberies, offer them an opportunity to rob a fictional drug house with thousands, sometimes millions …

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Uprising’s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, Author and Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin., analyzes today’s news headlines:

American unmanned drones dropped a bomb in Yemen today, killing four men in a car – the fourth such attack in less than 2 weeks. The men killed in the car were suspected of being members of …

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US-Russia relations have in general been tentative. In recent weeks, that relationship has once more appeared to devolve into hostility after the Russian government granted temporary asylum to the most wanted American of our time: NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden.

Ironically Russia is no haven for civil libertarians, with a penchant for spying on its own citizens. Snowden’s revelations have …

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Many months before the explosive revelations of widespread spying were made public by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden and the Guardian newspaper, a local coalition of activists here in Los Angeles was blowing the whistle on the spying tactics of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Stop LAPD Spying Coalition has helped bring to light the LAPD’s use of so-called Fusion Centers to …

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Republicans are accusing television network of partisanship over two planned films about Hillary Clinton.

Reince Priebus, the Chairman of the Republican National Committee sent a letter to NBC and CNN this week threatening to pull the plug on debate coverage in the next primary elections. Preibus accused the networks of “promoting” Clinton for the Democratic nomination and fomenting “a thinly-veiled …

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“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” — Louis D. Brandeis …

Uganda’s parliament on Tuesday passed a contentious bill that critics say will make it impossible to stage street protests against the country’s long-serving president, following months of confrontation between the authorities and activists who had mounted a campaign to have the legislation jettisoned.

The “Public Order Management Bill” was passed five days after opposition lawmakers staged a fierce attempt to filibuster its passage amid concerns it gives Ugandan police dictatorial powers to decide who can …

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