“I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even – no, especially – when the truth is difficult.” — Ayelet Waldman …

We’ll get the latest on the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan with author Douglas Wissing, author of Funding the Enemy: How US Taxpayers Bankroll the Taliban. And, the next in our on-going series on the Politics of Parenting, we’ll hear from Suzanne Barston, on her book Bottled Up: How The Way We Feed Babies has come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t. Plus, a new report digs into the US’s changing military relationship with Latin …

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Uprising’s 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:

Syrian President Bashar Al Assad says he will turn over his weapons for international oversight even as he maintains he was not responsible for the …

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Two major legislative deadlines are approaching in the next few weeks, affording Republican House Representatives the chance to play political games: Congress has to pass a spending bill to fund the government past a deadline of September 30th, and raise the debt ceiling to prevent a government default before a mid-October deadline.

Over the course of the year, internal fighting …

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Nearly two years ago, Americans across the country watched with bated breath and horror as the minutes ticked on toward the execution of Troy Davis, an African American man whose innocence of the crime he was convicted of seemed apparent to most people who examined his case.

It was his fourth execution date and he had exhausted all his appeals. …

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Adding to the already massive devastation from torrential rains and flooding over the past week in Colorado are highly toxic chemicals which have spilled from countless fracking operations in the area into the flood waters.

Damaged holding tanks, ruptured pipelines and tens of thousands of flooded wells have been the ironic outcome of flooding which has stemmed in part from …

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“Global warming isn’t a prediction. It is happening.” — James Hansen …

We’ll dissect the latest political fight shaping up in Congress as House Republicans dig in their heels to hold government spending and the debt ceiling hostage to their dream of defunding Obamacare. And, author Jen Marlowe joins us to discuss her new book, I am Troy Davis, as we approach the second anniversary of the execution that moved a nation. Plus, climate scientists and activists expose a new study on fracking that greatly underestimates the …

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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:

FISA Court documents show that no telecommunications companies have challenged the government’s bulk surveillance of its customers despite available mechanisms to do so. A FISA Court declassified its decision-making over the surveillance of Americans via …

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Although much is still being investigated about this week’s Washington Navy yard alleged shooter Aaron Alexis, a few facts have emerged that place the shooting firmly within the debate over gun control.

First, although Alexis was reportedly denied from buying an AR 15 Assault rifle, he simply turned to an easily obtainable shotgun which he allegedly used.

And second, …

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