Oct
04
2013
One of the most important issues in society is how children are educated. And yet, it is the one thing that parents, teachers, and policy makers can rarely agree on. While most would agree that today’s public educational system is “broken,” prescriptions for improvement vary wildly. Today’s educational model has succumbed to the desire for testing every imaginable variable in …
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Oct
03
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:
On day 3 of a federal government shut down, there is still no end in sight. Congress continues to play a game of political football, …
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Oct
03
2013
A series of murders in 3 Mexican cities have prompted fears over the resurgence of a new turf war in the on-going deadly Mexican drug war. Gunmen killed at least 9 people and injured 6 in the cities of Cuernevaca, Fresnillo, and Monterrey. It is not yet known if the shootings were related.
The death toll of the war has …
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Oct
03
2013
Massive protests have been going on in major cities around Sudan this past week over rising fuel prices. Police have arrested up to 800 protesters and reportedly killed at least 200 demonstrators.
Although the protests were provoked by the spike in fuel prices caused by an end of government subsidies, demonstrators also denounced President Omar al-Bashir’s brutal rule which has …
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Oct
03
2013
The latest round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks overseen by US Secretary of State John Kerry are continuing despite frequent roadblocks. At last week’s UN General Assembly meeting, Kerry affirmed that he was seeking a final solution to the conflict, not an interim one.
Any examination of the disagreements between the occupier and the occupied in a war that has lasted …
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Oct
03
2013
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.” — Albert Einstein …
Oct
02
2013
While the debate around President Obama’s Affordable Care Act presents the issue of healthcare reform as a battle between socialism and capitalism, in reality the legislation benefits for-profit insurance companies while putting in place some consumer protections. The Health insurance industry in fact helped craft the bill using a combination of slick PR moves outwardly supporting reform, and behind-the scenes front groups that viciously …
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Oct
01
2013
Dr. Paul Song is a radiation oncologist and a member of the faculty at the Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He is also a visiting fellow with the California Department of Insurance on healthcare policy and on the board of Physicians for a National Health Program, and People for the American Way and he is the Executive Chairman of the Courage Campaign.
On October 1, 2013, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spent the hour with Dr. Song and took listener calls about the Affordable Care Act’s online health insurance exchanges.
Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/4ypiTlJveFo
Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
Oct
01
2013
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:
Members of Congress fail to come to an agreement over funding the government as hundreds of thousands of federal workers find out whether to remain at work today. For the first time since 1996, the …
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Oct
01
2013
The majority of bankruptcies among Americans stem from unexpected medical expenses. Uninsured people being struck by serious illnesses are often driven out of their homes, lose all their assets and savings, and/or fall deep into debt to pay doctor’s bills.
That could change within the next year as uninsured Americans will be able to purchase individual health plans through state-run …
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