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Uprising’s guest expert Arun Gupta, 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:

The South African athlete, Oscar Pistorius, has been found not guilty of murdering his girlfriend. In a case that gripped international …

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• Listen to this segment with Marjorie Cohn and Nabil Al-Tikriti

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President Obama made his case for striking the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) yesterday evening, to the American public, essentially saying he would apply the model of targeted drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia to Northern Iraq and Syria. It was the first time the President openly announced he …

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A new documentary by John Wellington Ennis boldly makes the case that the US political system is a game rigged by the rich to benefit the rich. Featuring such experts as Noam Chomsky, Van Jones, John Nichols, Robert Reich, and even the insider Jack Abramoff, the documentary captures the popular discontent that is fueling activism to reform campaign financing in the wake of the Citizens United and McCutcheon Supreme Court rulings.

John Wellington Ennis is the Writer, Director, and Producer of Pay2Play and spoke recently with Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar about his film. Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/IjmPwB5EkJw

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With every new scientific study, the news around climate change gets ever more grim. This week, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organization or WMO issued a report that had even climate scientists aghast by its findings. By collecting air samples from around the globe, the WMO found that the levels of carbon dioxide in …

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“One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won’t jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.” — Jeff Goodell

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We’ll dissect President Obama’s Wednesday evening speech as he lays out his strategy for responding to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Our guests will include Raed Jarrar and Marjorie Cohn. And, Chris Hedges joins us to put the upcoming People’s Climate March into context. His recent column on the subject is entitled, The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals. …

• Listen to this segment with Rahul Mahajan

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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, analyzes today’s news headlines:

President Obama is ready to begin bombing Syria and could announce it to Americans this evening. The New York Times reports this morning that the President, according to a “senior administration …

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• Listen to this segment with Michael Muhammad Knight

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The shocking videos of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) showing its members beheading journalists, has provided President Obama an impetus to take swift military action in northern Iraq. Obama plans to unveil his strategy in detail on Wednesday evening.

But the videos have also raised the question among Americans of …

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• Listen to this segment with Andrew Solomon

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As part of our series called ‘The Politics of Parenting’ we turn now to award winning author Andrew Solomon. Solomon spent years exploring parent-child relationships for his book entitled Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. …

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• Listen to this segment with John Wellington Ennis

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A constitutional amendment that could undermine the campaign finance-related Supreme Court decisions of Citizens United and McCutcheon, was passed in a procedural vote by the US Senate 79-18 on Monday. In order to become law it still needs a supermajority in the House which is unlikely, a final supermajority vote in the Senate, …

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