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Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:

A major explosion rocks Benghazi, Libya exactly a year after US Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed. Twelve years after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington DC, and one year after an attack on a US Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, a foreign ministry building in Benghazi was partially destroyed by an explosion. The attack is part of an increasing trend of violence targeting Libya’s security forces and judiciary. Click here for a Global Post article on the story.

In New York City, a mayoral candidate championed by unions and progressives, Bill De Blasio, appears to have won the Democratic Party’s primary election, which means he faces Republican candidate Joe Lhota in a general election this fall. Click here for a Guardian article about the story.

And, finally, the city of Richmond here in California has just approved a resolution to enable the seizing of properties using “eminent domain” in order to save homes with underwater mortgages and other financial problems. The Richmond city council voted 4-3 to approve a collaboration with the group, Mortgage Resolution Partners, in a move that private mortgage and real estate companies are loudly denouncing. Richmond is one of the poorest cities in California and happens to have one of the most progressive mayors – Gayle McLaughlin – who championed the resolution. Click here for a Reuters article about the story.