Sep 06 2013
The conflict between the US and Russia over a Syria military strike is playing out on a world stage at the G20 summit this week in St. Petersburg. Both President Obama and President Vladimir Putin kept an arms length from one another, with the Guardian newspaper characterized the meeting with the headline: “frosty stares betray anger and mistrust over Syria.” …
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Sep 06 2013
In our on-going weekly coverage of the Women of Alexandria House, part of our Real People, Real Stories series, Uprising producer Bipasha Shom brings you the stories of women who have lived in transitional housing. They all come from different places and have experienced a variety of challenges, but what ties them together is the courage and resilience they find …
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Sep 06 2013
The August jobs report released yesterday shows a slower than expected growth in job creation in an economy that is still recovering from the worst recession in decades. In this context, a push for military action in Syria is not just undesirable for a war-weary public, but also unaffordable.
Secretary of State John Kerry said at the House Foreign Affairs …
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Sep 06 2013
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 …
Sep 05 2013
Two Syrian exiles, Jihad Jay Abdo, and his wife, Fadia Afashe, are currently in living in the US, having fled the Syrian government’s repression. Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with them about their complex views on the impending military strike in Syria.
Click here to watch a video of the interview: http://youtu.be/VPDExLphsKU
Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
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Sep 05 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:
President Obama backs for the first time, the need to set limits on the NSA spying abilities. At a press conference in Stockholm, Sweden, …
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Sep 05 2013
A day after a highly publicized hearing, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday passed an amended resolution to authorize the Obama administration to use military force in Syria by a vote of 10 to 7.
Senator John McCain successfully amended the draft resolution to include that the goal of military action should be “a negotiated settlement that ends the conflict …
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Sep 05 2013
Missing in the Congressional debate entirely, is what ordinary Syrians think of President Obama’s plan to strike Syria. While it is difficult these days to contact Syrians abroad, and because the atmosphere for journalists there is extremely dangerous, Syrian voices are not easy to come by. But here in the US, a number of Syrian expatriates and exiles are watching …
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Sep 05 2013
California prisoners have entered their third month of hunger strike to protest inhumane conditions like indefinite solitary confinement, but Governor Jerry Brown remains unmoved by their plight. The US Supreme Court has ordered Brown this past month to uphold a lower court ruling to reduce California’s prison population by close to 10,000 inmates by the end of this year.
Rather …
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Sep 05 2013
“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” — Angela Davis …
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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