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While the US is desperately negotiating a status-of-forces agreement with Afghanistan, some are drawing comparisons with the US withdrawal of forces from Iraq almost exactly two years ago. That withdrawal was precipitated in part by the Iraqi government’s refusal to grant legal immunity to US soldiers accused of war crimes.

US soldiers were implicated in numerous execution style massacres of Iraqi …

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” — Nelson Mandela
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We’ll get a special report from the fast food workers’ strike in Los Angeles, happening in solidarity with workers around the country calling for fair wages. And, former US Marine Elliot Ruiz joins us to discuss the film Battle for Haditha, which portrays the events of the Haditha massacre in Iraq. Plus, Professor Christopher French discusses the psychology of conspiracists. …

Norman Solomon is co-founder of RootsAction.org and founding director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. His books include “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death” and “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State”.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Solomon about press freedoms under attack in the US and UK and the changing nature of journalism.

Watch a video of the interview here:

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Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.

Thandisizwe Chimurenga is an award winning journalist and founder of the Ida B Wells Institute. She has also been a KPFK programmer, who co-founded Some of Us Are Brave – A Black Womens’ Radio Program. Chimurenga is attempting to self-publish her book No Doubt: The Murder(s) of Oscar Grant, through a crowd funding campaign.

Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Chimurenga. Watch a video of the interview here:

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Visit the book’s website at www.triplemurder.com

Click here to visit the book’s Indiegogo campaign website.

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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:

The Washington Post reports this morning that the NSA is collecting 5 billion cell phone location records a day from around the world. In the latest revelations …

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A day before fast food workers in one hundred cities around the nation went on strike demanding living wages, President Barack Obama gave a speech about the growing income gap between the rich and poor in the United States.

Obama chose to give his speech in Anacostia, one of the most poverty stricken neighborhoods in Washington DC whose predominantly African American …

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Oakland based film maker Ryan Coogler has just won the Best First Film award from the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle for his acclaimed feature film Fruitvale Station. The award has generated a major buzz for an Academy Award nomination for the young film maker.

Fruitvale Station dramatized the final 24 hours of the young black man, Oscar Grant, who …

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The editor of the Guardian newspaper this week faced intense political scrutiny from his own government. Alan Rusbridger was asked to appear for a parliamentary hearing on terrorism on Tuesday and faced aggressive questioning from the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee. At the heart of the hearing was the assumption that the Guardian, by publishing the stories of NSA …

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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.” — George Orwell …