Sep 04 2014
President Obama has vowed to respond swiftly and strongly to the Islamic State’s video taped beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff. Vice President Joe Biden did not mince words either. He said in a speech, yesterday, “When people harm Americans, we don’t retreat… They should know we will follow them to the gates of …
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Sep 04 2014
All across California, the effects of the drought are being felt. A golf course in San Jose may face closure. Cemeteries are foregoing grassy lawns. More than 80% of the state is under extreme or exceptional drought conditions and futurists are predicting a mass exodus of residents out of the state. Gov. Jerry Brown …
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Sep 04 2014
One of the most dangerous places a young woman can be today is a college campus. It’s estimated that 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted at colleges and universities in the United States each year and rape is the most under-reported crime among students.
At Columbia University, a student by the name of …
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Sep 04 2014
“Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” — Helen Keller
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Sep 04 2014
Published by Truthdig.com on September 4th, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
As fast food workers are walking out Thursday yet again for higher wages and the right to union representation, they can count some lawmakers and President Obama as being on their side, verbally championing a higher federal minimum wage. And they have the support of a majority of Americans.
But when it comes to corporate decision makers such as those represented by the U.S. Chamber …
Sep 03 2014
We’ll turn to journalist Dahr Jamail about the specter and spectacle of ISIS – what the group is trying to achieve and how the US is likely to respond. And, Professor Julia Cole joins us to discuss her latest study on drought in the Southwestern United States – and yes – it is worse than you think. Plus, we’ll examine California’s newly proposed sexual consent law in an effort to combat rape on college campuses. …
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Sep 03 2014
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.” — Charles de Montesquieu
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Sep 03 2014
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:
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko has announced he is making headway on a ceasefire with Russia. Following a phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Ukrainian leader sounded optimistic, …
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Sep 03 2014
President Obama on Labor Day this Monday, addressed a group of workers in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, drawing a line in the sand over low wages. As part of his push to increase the federal minimum wage, and as an opening salvo in the mid-term election campaigns of his Democratic Congressional colleagues, …
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Sep 03 2014
A US Border Patrol agent fired several rounds of ammunition toward a private armed US citizen vigilante over the weekend near the Mexico border in Texas. The mix of an already well-staffed agency with a thousand National Guard troops which were deployed by Gov. Rick Perry, and right wing vigilantes from groups like Oathkeepers …
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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