Jan 16 2014
Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on New Federal Definitions of Profiling, NY Protesters’ RNC-Settlement, And Vatican’s UN Hearing On Sex Abuse
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 Justice Department has announced it will expand its definition of what is considered profiling, after years of pressure from civil rights groups. Under President George W. …
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Seven months after Edward Snowden first blew the whistle on the National Security Agency’s spying network, new revelations continue to mount. Recently leaked information to the New York Times finds that the NSA has been using radio signals to gather information from computers not connected to the internet since as far back as 2008 under a program called Quantum. The spy …
“Net neutrality is dead. Bow to Comcast and Verizon, your overlords.” That was a headline in the LA Times yesterday that encompassed a Federal Appeals Court decision earlier this week on the issue of net neutrality. 
Egyptians voted on a new constitution this week, and unofficial results are putting the figure at a whopping 98% yes votes. The referendum is the latest chapter in an on-going revolution whose end is still quite opaque. Violence has marred the vote with many factions of the population having boycotted, while many of those voting may be grudgingly accepting of …
It might seem puzzling why Egyptians who ousted the repressive 30 year dictatorship of Hosni Mubarak through massive street protests are now at the polls voting on a new constitution which would grant increased powers to the military, police and judiciary. But it might make more sense knowing that this new constitution is the product of a military coup which removed …
Fifty years ago this week the US Surgeon General issued a seminal report linking cigarette smoking to lung cancer. The report became a landmark moment for a war on tobacco that was just taking off. At the time there was a raging public debate about the effects of smoking on our health, but today it taken for granted that smoking is …
