May
22
2014
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:
Thailand’s military has announced it is seizing power in that country’s 19th coup in 82 years. The coup is …
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May
21
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 Justice Department has decided to make public a secret memo that was used to justify drone assassinations of US citizens. Responding to a court order the Obama …
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May
21
2014
If you’ve lived in California for any length of time, you know we’re overdue for “the big one.” From the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that resulted in 3,000 people dying from the actual quake and related fires, to the 1994 Northridge earthquake in Southern California that killed nearly 60 people and injured 5000, …
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May
21
2014
“The public would like scientists to predict earthquakes. We can’t do that. We might never be able to do that. What people and government can do is work to make sure our houses, schools and hospitals don’t fall down when the next big one strikes, and that we’re all prepared for the difficult aftermaths. We can look around our homes and our workplace and think about what would happen to them if the terra firma …
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May
20
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Just days after Thai Prime Minister Yingluck was ousted, Thailand’s army has declared martial law and deployed troops in the capital, Bangkok. The Thai Army’s move to assume temporary power is the …
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May
19
2014
“The truth is always something that is told,not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.” — Susan Sontag, The Benefactor …
May
19
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The US Justice Department has brought the first ever cyber-espionage charges of its kind against China. An anonymous official, speaking to the Associated Press, reported today that Attorney General Eric Holder will announce …
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May
16
2014
Published by Truthdig.com on May 15, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
Is it true that atrocities in Africa garner little international attention because the victims are black?
The recent kidnapping of hundreds of Nigerian girls has generated empathy and outrage worldwide, undermining such a claim. The international shame and guilt over Rwanda’s genocide, despite coming too late, also proves that global concern for African lives is not negligible. Indeed the news media often cover stories like the …
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May
16
2014
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There are still tickets available for the Uprising TV Launch party on Tuesday June 10th at 7 pm at Cafe Club Fais Do Do,5257 W Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016, featuring Grammy award winning band Quetzal.
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Everyone who pre-purchases a ticket to the event will get a signed limited edition poster of the campaign, PLUS be entered into a free raffle to …
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May
15
2014
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:
Fast food workers around the country are once more walking off their jobs in a coordinated effort to protest …
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