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

The Islamic State released yet another gruesome video over the weekend apparently showing the beheading of a British aid worker named David Haines. The video, with a similar setting as earlier beheadings of two journalists, was aimed this time at Britain because of its role in collaborating with the US in the war against ISIS. Another hostage named Alan Henning may be next. Both UK Prime Minister David Cameron and US president Barack Obama responded saying they would not back down. Meanwhile, Secretary of State John Kerry’s mission to win over Arab allies to join the US-led coalition claims to have had some success. However those allies apparently cannot be named. Click here for a Newsweek article and here for a Washington Post article about the story.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, Egyptians are pushing back against the draconian efforts of a militaristic regime headed by former Army General Abdel Fatah Al Sisi to curb protests. A widespread hunger strike that began on Saturday to denounce an anti-protest law, is gaining momentum. The strike is being led by activists and journalists who are demanding the release of detainees imprisoned under the law. Meanwhile a blogger and activist who faces one of the harshest sentences under the law was just released on bail. Mr. Alaa Abd El Fattah still faces a retrial. The Egyptian president will be in New York next week for a UN General Assembly meeting. Click here for an Al Jazeera article and here for a Guardian newspaper article about the story.

And finally here in the US, very close to where this radio station is located, Daniele Watts, the black actress best known for her role in Django Unchained, was handcuffed by the Los Angeles Police Department before being released. Watts was with her partner, who is white, when she was detained, apparently on suspicion of prostitution. She was fully clothed and said on her Facebook page that she was “showing affection” to her husband. But LAPD says they were responding to a complaint of “indecent exposure.” Watts wrote, “As I was sitting in the back of the police car, I remembered the countless times my father came home frustrated or humiliated by the cops when he had done nothing wrong.” Click here for an LA Times article about the story, and here to read Watts’ testimony on Facebook.