Apr 03 2014
Daily News Flash with Arun Gupta on Fort Hood Shooting, USAID Interference in Cuba, TA Strike at UCs
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:
A shooting at the Fort Hood Army Base in Texas has left four people dead including the shooter and …
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When did General Motors know about fatal defects in their cars and why did it wait so long to do anything about it? Those are some of the questions that members of Congress asked GM CEO Mary Barra this week in a series of public hearings. 
Tens of thousands of Taiwanese have been marching in the streets of Taiwan’s cities following ratification of a trade deal between China and Taiwan. The deal would strengthen Chinese economic presence in Taiwan and potentially destroy local businesses. Hundreds of students have been occupying the Legislative Yuan legislature building since the …
Several outbreaks of Measles in New York, Los Angeles, Orange County, and even Ontario, Canada, has brought increased attention to the anti-vaccination movement. There has also been an unusual outbreak of Mumps at Ohio State University.
The US Supreme Court has ruled in the case of McCutcheon vs. the FEC. In a vote of 5 to 4, the court has just ruled that some of the last vestiges limiting the flow of money into elections should be swept aside. The decision was split along political lines. …
Earthquakes of the kind we experienced in Southern California over the past few weeks are not at all unusual. But, environmental groups, and even the Los Angeles City Council want to know if the controversial practice of “fracking” may have been responsible for our recent seismic activity. 
