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Uprising’s guest expert Rose Aguilar, op-ed writer for Al Jazeera English and host of Your Call on KALW in San Francisco, analyzes today’s news headlines:

The UN has concluded sarin gas was used in the deadly chemical attack of August 21st in Damascus, Syria. A United Nations panel of investigators has announced this morning that they have compelling evidence that …

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The state of Colorado has seen the worst flooding in decades with at least 6 people confirmed dead and hundreds still missing or unaccounted for. Homes and roads have been destroyed, cars washed away, and thousands have been evacuated. Ongoing rain this morning has hampered rescue efforts.

In Boulder alone more than 150 people were missing. A number of fifth …

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It was five years ago yesterday that historians will look back and say was the day the Great Recession officially began. The financial services firm, Lehman Brothers, publicly imploded, sparking the crisis that 99% of Americans are yet to recover from.

But Wall Street has bounced back, with many firms sitting on billions of dollars in cash while keeping a …

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Tomorrow is the second anniversary of the launch of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York City’s Zucotti Park – a space that was transformed into Liberty Square with the setting up of a mass tent city of activists demanding an end to Wall Street-centric economic policies.

The Occupy Wall Street movement spread rapidly all across the nation to …

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We’ll go to Colorado to examine how ordinary people are dealing with the massive flooding, and what the government’s response to it has been, plus links to climate change. Also, a 5 year anniversary look at the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and a conversation with reporter Nathan Schneider on his new book, Thank you Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse. …

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Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen (sitting in for Adele Stan), a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:

Syria has signed on to the international ban on chemical weapons but John Kerry says, the US may still bomb. Syrian President Bashar Al Assad has just signed the 1992 Convention on the Prohibition, Production, …

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More than a hundred women including about two dozen undocumented women, were arrested at the nation’s capital yesterday, calling for passage of a comprehensive immigration bill. The bold act was designed to jump start a stalled bill in Congress, that has been pushed to the back burner because of the debate on Syria, and the upcoming battle over a government …

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The terrible working conditions of Bangladesh’s workers came to light in a horrific manner last year when a fire at Tazreen factor killed hundreds of mostly female workers. And then, this April, a multi-story factory called Rana Plaza collapsed, killing more than 1,200 and injuring 2,500, again, mostly women workers.

An international meeting to discuss compensation for victims of the …

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Progressive activists and media were shocked some years ago when it was revealed that the co-founder of Common Ground, the radical post-Katrina organization in New Orleans, was an FBI informant, helping to convict two fellow activists participating in protests against the 2008 Republican National Convention. Brandon Darby, who had built up strong left credentials, had been working undercover with the …

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“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell …