Jul 10 2014
Coming up on July 11, 2014
As all eyes are turned toward Israel and Gaza, we’ll explore the latest situation in Iraq, amidst reports of Sunni militants capturing nuclear and chemical weapons materials, and women facing greater repression. And, we’ll explore the idea of public banking here in the US through the US Postal Service. Plus, we’ll go live to Rio de Janeiro as the World Cup wraps up – what happened to anti-World Cup protests and what’s in store for …
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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:
Nearly 80 Palestinians have been declared killed as a result of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge launched earlier this week. Among the dead were 8 members of a single family, five of whom were children. Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon said on his Twitter feed, “We have long days of fighting ahead of us.” …
The International Labor Organization touts the fact that child labor worldwide has “declined by one third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million children.” The numbers are still too high, and some of the highest rates are seen in Asia and the Pacific. India alone has more than 10 million child workers. The …
As the summer heat settles in on the city of Detroit, over four thousand families are currently living without running water. The Detroit Water and Sewage Department has been shutting off water for the past four months to residential and commercial accounts which have either not paid their bills in 60 days or are …
Sixteen people were killed including children, foreign soldiers, and Afghan police in a suicide bombing in an Afghan province North of Kabul on Tuesday. The bombing happened near a school at a time when US soldiers were handing out school supplies to students. It is not known if any US soldiers were killed. 
