• Listen to this segment with Courtney Morris

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Uprising’s guest expert Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and women’s Studies at Penn State University, analyzes today’s news headlines:

Citigroup has settled with the Justice Department over the subprime mortgage crisis to the tune of $7 billion. After months of negotiations, Citigroup has agreed to pay the lump sum to settle the case …

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While many people the world over were watching the World Cup finals over the weekend, the besieged Gaza strip continued to be bombarded by Israeli forces. On Saturday Israel struck a center for people with disabilities, and, in a separate incident, killed 17 members of a single family including several children. According to the …

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• Listen to this segment with Nichelle Harriot

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It all starts with the birds and the bees, but now, it may all end there as well.

Neonicotinoids, which are a class of pesticides that scientists have found are responsible for Colony Collapse Disorder or the massive dying off of bees, are now being linked to declining bird populations as well.

A new …

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• Listen to this segment with Antonia Juhasz

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The World Council of Churches, a fellowship which represents an estimated 590 million people in over 300 churches, just announced their support of fossil fuel divestment. The global movement to divest from oil and gas companies in order to weaken them is an increasingly popular tool in the fight against climate change.

To that …

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“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” — John Lennon …

We’ll speak with long-time activist Huwaida Arraf about the continued Israeli strikes on Gaza, how US policy supports it, and how the media covers it. And, we’ll examine a rapidly growing movement to divest from fossil fuel industries. Plus, a new study finds that the same toxic pesticides that are thought to be killing bees, are also apparently killing birds – we’ll examine the details. …

• Listen to this segment with Maya Rockeymoore

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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:

On day 4 of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, the number of Palestinians killed has reached 100. There have been many children among those killed …

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• Listen to this segment with Yifat Susskind and Juan Cole

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While the world’s eyes are turned toward Israel’s bombing campaign against Gaza, the situation in Iraq continues to unravel.

Even as Sunni militants organizing under the umbrella organization the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), have halted their march toward Baghdad, disturbing new allegations are emerging. Among them are reports …

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• Listen to this segment with Marc Armstrong

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There was a time in the United States when you could walk into a post office to mail a letter and also do your banking. The Postal Savings System started in 1911 and allowed millions of Americans, many of them new immigrants, to save money. Although postal banking was shut down in 1967, at …

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• Listen to this segment with Maria Luisa Mendonça

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The world’s most watched sporting event is just days from wrapping up. While there have been reports of protests, vandalism, and robberies after Brazil’s shocking 1-7 loss to Germany, actions against the World Cup itself are still continuing, albeit at a lower level.

Earlier this week one Brazilian protestor told the IB Times …

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