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Two Palestinian boys from the same family are at the center of Israeli retaliation for the kidnapping and murders of three Israeli teens. Sixteen year old Mohammad Abu Khadeir was found dead in East Jerusalem after being kidnapped in a car, his body burned. Autopsy reports have shown that …

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Over the past week Facebook feeds the world over were abuzz with outrage after users learned that more than half a million of them were, unbeknownst to them, the subjects of a covert psychological experiment.

In 2012, for exactly one week, Facebook altered the content that some of its users saw as they scrolled …

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“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?” ? Mahatma Gandhi …

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GUEST: Erin Runions is Associate Professor at Pomona College in Religious Studies and Gender Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. She is the author of several books on the intersection of biblical interpretation and culture. She has also been an activist for many years, working on police brutality and prison injustice, globalization, antiwar activism, feminist and queer organizing.

At a national prayer breakfast …

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We’ll examine recent victories on gay marriage in a number of states and where the movement for equality is headed. And, we’ll discuss the recently published study by Facebook researchers that has users up in arms about being psychologically manipulated. Plus, author Erin Runions joins us to discuss her new book, The Babylon Complex: Theopolitical Fantasies of War, Sex, and Sovereignty. …

We’ll spend the hour with the radical activist, academic, and writer Bill Ayers, famously associated with Barack Obama during the 2008 election, and co-lead member of the Weather Underground. He’ll be discussing his book Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident. …

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The name Goliath is a Biblical reference to “a giant Philistine warrior who was slain by David with a stone and sling.” In today’s colloquial usage we commonly use the battle between David and Goliath as an analogy for a conflict in which one side of a war is so disproportionately and overwhelmingly stronger than the other that it is an unfair fight.

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We’ll spend the hour with investigative award winning journalist Max Blumenthal, author of the best-selling Republican Gomorrah. He’ll be discussing his latest book, Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel. …

Suyapa Portillo is an Assistant Professor of Chicano/a-Latino/a Transnational Studies at Pitzer College. She spoke recently with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about the history and contemporary politics of repression in Central America that may be driving increased rates of migration of children.

Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/UZ4Y0qfpBBI

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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:

Newly released documents from Edward Snowden reveal that a FISA court authorized the NSA to spy on almost all the nations of the world. The Washington Post published an …

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