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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:

The Syrian death toll reaches 191,000, more than double the number from just a year ago. The grim toll of the Syrian civil war …

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• Listen to this segment with James Moore

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Texas Governor Rick Perry was booked on Tuesday on charges of two felony counts.

This is how the Washington Post described the charges: “At issue is a threat Perry followed through with to veto funding to an anti-corruption agency. Perry vetoed $7.5 million for the Public Integrity Unit after Travis County District Attorney Rosemary …

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• Listen to this segment with Hakim Bellamy

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A cell phone video of the police shooting of 25 year old African American man Kajieme Powell was released by St. Louis police yesterday. Police shot and killed Powell in broad daylight in St. Louis, near Ferguson, just days after, and 3 miles from where Michael Brown was killed. Brown’s killing has sparked some …

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• Listen to this segment with Michele Sutter

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Did you think the Citizens United ruling in 2010 which allowed corporations to donate unlimited amounts of money to influence our nation’s elections was a bad idea? Well, Democratic Senator Ted Lieu thought that question would be worth putting to the voters of California. Lieu’s Senate Bill 1272 which morphed into Proposition 49, was …

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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” — Aristotle
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We’ll speak with James Moore author of a book whose subtitle is, Why Rick Perry Will Make America Miss George W. Bush. Of course, we’ll be discussing Texas Gov. Perry’s recent indictment on two felony counts. Plus, part 2 of our two part conversation with poet Hakim Bellamy on his art and activism. And, why the California Supreme Court has thwarted a grassroots statewide effort to derail the Citizens United precedent on campaign finance. …

• Listen to this segment with Arun Gupta

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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:

After confirmation of the American journalist James Foley’s beheading by ISIS, it is now revealed that the US refused to …

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• Listen to this segment with Rosa Clemente

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The situation in Ferguson, Missouri, overnight, was relatively calm with six people arrested by police. United States Attorney General Eric Holder arrived in the area yesterday to meet with the FBI and community leaders twelve days after the killing of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of White police officer Darren Wilson. …

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Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the site of some of the worst police violence in the US, even though it is often eclipsed by New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and these days Ferguson, Missouri. The most high-profile incident took place in March when an officer from Albuquerque’s police department fatally shot a homeless man …

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• Listen to this segment with Laura Carlsen

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Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto on Monday signed into a law a set of rules that ends 76 years of a state-monopoly on oil, gas, and electricity industries. The new rules will open up Mexico’s energy sector to private companies, including foreign transnational corporations.

The state-run company, Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, was created in …

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