Oct
21
2013
Having done his damage with the government shutdown over Obamacare, Texas’ Republican Senator Ted Cruz has wasted no time in turning his sights over to a new target: the nomination of Tom Wheeler as head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Cruz’s objection to Wheeler is based on his desire to protect the identities of political ad funders.
Cruz’s move is part of an on-going …
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Oct
21
2013
“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control; ‘indoctrination,’ we might say, exercised through the mass media.” — Noam Chomsky …
Oct
18
2013
Published by Truthdig.com on October 18, 2013
By Sonali Kolhatkar
“It was a surreal moment,” said Bill Ayers of the experience of hearing his name first mentioned on live television during the 2008 primary election debate between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
When I met Ayers in person recently for an interview about his new book, “Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident,” he seemed like anything but the terrorist he is often cast as by right-wing …
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Oct
18
2013
As US and NATO forces prepare for their final year of occupation before the war in Afghanistan officially winds down, many are asking, was it all worth it? Even Afghan President Hamid Karzai, considered by Afghans to be the West’s puppet, told the BBC this week that the war “caused a lot of suffering and a lot of loss of …
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Oct
18
2013
“A river is made drop by drop. But if we can unite for justice and democracy, our people will be like a flood that no one can stop.” — Malalai Joya …
Oct
17
2013
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:
After two and a half weeks, the federal government has reopened its services with Congress passing an 11th hour bill into law last night. House …
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Oct
17
2013
“Humanism is the only – I would go so far as saying the final- resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history.” — Edward W. Said …
Oct
16
2013
Acclaimed Afghan human rights activist and author, Malalai Joya, returns to the US this fall for a national tour coinciding with the 12th anniversary of the start of the US war in Afghanistan. Joya’s tour is sponsored by the United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) and Afghan Women’s Mission (AWM).
During her tour Joya will address the following questions:
• Why are Afghan women more vulnerable than ever?
• What is the impact of US drones, bombs, and raids?
• …
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Oct
16
2013
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:
The US Senate attempts yet another bill to fund the government and raise the debt ceiling but will the Republicans bite? A day after a deal on government spending through mid January and an increase …
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Oct
16
2013
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi …
