Apr
16
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Rahul Mahajan, a sociologist and news analyst and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The nation’s largest police department has just announced that it will end its surveillance program aimed at Muslims. The New York Police Department had come under fire both …
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Apr
16
2014
Recent senate hearings on a planned merger between Comcast and Time Warner raised the ire of Senator Al Franken who called it “a disaster.” Franken’s opposition to the fusing of two telecommunications giant is based on his assertion that there lies no “up side” for consumers if the $45 billion deal goes through. …
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Apr
16
2014
A major Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s use of torture during the Bush years has been at the center of major controversy. Now, soon after the committee voted to release portions of the report, some sections were leaked to McClatchy news, increasing tensions between the agency and Senators to near-breaking point. …
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Apr
16
2014
“The most revolutionary act one can engage in is… to tell the truth.” ? Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History …
Apr
15
2014
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” — Ernest Hemingway
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Apr
15
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, author and a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
News reporting on the NSA’s spying program has garnered top journalism honors for the Guardian and Washington Post. Ten months after reporters like Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, and Ewen MacAskill reported revelations …
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Apr
15
2014
A creative new art collaboration between Pakistani activists French street artist JR, has attempted to humanize the victims of US drone bombings. The project involves laying out a photo of a young child who was apparently orphaned by drone strikes in a Pakistani village. The photo is large enough to be visible by …
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Apr
15
2014
Jeremy Scahill is the national security correspondent for the Nation Magazine and a Fellow at the Nation Institute. He’s the author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army, which won the George Polk Book Award. He is producer and writer of the film Dirty Wars and author of the book Dirty Wars. He is also a Senior Editor with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras of a new media venture called The Intercept, a Project of First Look Media.
Watch an in-depth conversation between Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar and award winning investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill: http://youtu.be/OBy14aDw5QAM
Bipasha Shom recorded this interview.
Apr
14
2014
We’ll spend the hour with award winning investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill about the US drone program, and its so-called War on Terror, as well as about the new media venture Scahill has embarked on. …
Apr
14
2014
“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.” — Muhammad Yunus …
