Jul
31
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:
Israel refuses to relent, bombing a crowded shopping center in Gaza killing 17 Palestinians and injuring hundreds. The attack on the market came just hours after a UN …
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Jul
30
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:
Human Rights Watch has found that the Syrian government increased its use of so-called “barrel bombs,” on civilian populations this year. HRW released a new report this morning, denouncing the use of what it calls “unguided high …
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Jul
29
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Sixteen hundred people have been killed in Syria in the last 10 days alone, as new gruesome videos emerge. Violence in Syria, which has been eclipsed by the Israeli war on Gaza, has reached a breaking point. On Sunday alone, …
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Jul
25
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Maya Rockeymoore, President of the Center for Global Policy Solutions, a social change non-profit dedicated to making policy work for people and their environment, analyzes today’s news headlines:
More than 800 Palestinians have been killed in the on-going Israeli assault on Gaza. Israeli forces struck 30 homes in Gaza last night, killing an additional 33 people even as international condemnation …
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Jul
25
2014
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” — Dalai Lama …
Jul
24
2014
Israeli tanks hit a United Nations school in Gaza today killing 15 people who were seeking shelter there, and injuring 150 on the 16th day of the internationally condemned Operation Protective Edge. Nearly 700 Palestinians have been killed, a major portion of them children.
The New York Times is reporting this morning that Israel is defending its …
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Jul
24
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:
The government’s criteria for placing people on terrorist watchlists have just been published online. A 166-page government document called the 2013 Watchlisting Guidelines, obtained by The Intercept, was …
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Jul
23
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:
Two Ukrainian planes have been shot down this morning in the same part of the country that the Malaysian Airlines passenger flight was downed last week killing hundreds of people. The aircraft that were downed were war …
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Jul
22
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, an author and a professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The Israeli war in Gaza has continued unabated, with more than 600 Palestinians killed, a third of them children. Operation Protective Edge, whose ground invasion began last week, has been widely condemned by the international community with the exception of …
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Jul
21
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:
A new study has found that a majority of people executed in the United States were suffering from mental illness. The researchers studying the US’s death penalty found, that “the overwhelming majority of executed …
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