Sep 30 2014
Daily News Flash with Robert Jensen on Reagan-Era Order As Basis for Obama Spying, Supreme Court Decision on Ohio Voting, and New California Sentencing Law
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:
Newly released documents by the ACLU demonstrate that the Obama administration is relying on President Reagan’s spying protocol to justify mass surveillance. The documents were obtained in response to a Freedom …
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When US Attorney General Eric Holder announced his resignation late last week, it came as a shock to many, if only because Holder was on a bit of a roll. After having announced two major investigations into the events of Ferguson, Missouri this summer, he was also fresh from announcing historic …
The battle over raising the minimum wage scored a big victory last week as hotel workers in Los Angeles County secured a base rate of $15.37 an hour starting next summer. In a 12 – 3 decision, the LA City Council voted to enact the new minimum wage by July 1st 2015 for hotels …
Just one week after the US launched airstrikes against targets in Syria, President Obama said on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday that the US had underestimated the effectiveness and strength of the group of Sunni rebels calling itself the Islamic State. Mr. Obama echoed statements made earlier by National Intelligence Director James Clapper, and …
The fight for universal health care has a long history in the United States with many individuals and organizations incorporating the right to decent healthcare into their larger struggle for social justice and human rights. 
Forget about abortion, gun control and voter ID, the latest political battleground for conservatives is the school curriculum. A new Advanced Placement History course created by the College Board, for high school students to obtain college level credit has enraged the right wing for placing greater emphasis on the role of women and minorities …
