Sep 08 2014
Ahmed Abdi Godane, one of the State Department’s most wanted men was killed by US drone strikes outside Mogadishu last week. Godane, who was also known as Abu Zubeyr was the leader of al-Shabab, an Islamist militant group based in Somalia. He had a $7 million bounty placed on his head by the …
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Sep 08 2014
The events of this summer in Ferguson, Missouri, highlighted an ugly truth to mainstream Americans – that Black men in this country are viewed as so suspicious by law enforcement that they are shot first and questioned later. It is a reality that black men have been living with in the United States since the …
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Sep 08 2014
“You don’t have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.” — Malcolm X
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Sep 05 2014
A Palestinian American lawyer is suing US government officials over that financial support, which he says makes the US complicit in Israel’s killing of his family members.
Akram Abusharar filed his suit about a month ago, against Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. In it he cites the deaths of dozens of family members over the years, as a result of Israeli policies and military actions.
Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar recently spoke with Mr. Abusharar about his lawsuit. Watch a video of the interview here: http://youtu.be/4txJy2kjPN4
Sep 05 2014
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 US has cobbled together a coalition to target the Islamic State in a wider war. Taking advantage of the NATO Summit happening today …
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Sep 05 2014
Hundreds of low-wage employees of major fast food chains were arrested yesterday as demonstrations and one-day strikes were held in 150 cities around the country. Workers are demanding $15 an hour in wages and the right to unionize.
Those who gathered in front of a McDonald’s in Times Square, New York were the first to be …
Sep 05 2014
The shockingly commonplace use of torture techniques like water boarding, electric shock and rape among Mexican police and military is the subject of a new Amnesty International report issued yesterday titled, “Out of Control: Torture and Other Ill-Treatment in Mexico.”
Among its most disturbing findings is the fact that while there has been a …
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Sep 05 2014
The late comedic actress Joan Rivers, who died yesterday at the age of 81, made, as one of her last public statements, vicious comments about Palestinian casualties of Israel’s war on Gaza. She famously told a reporter at LA airport that Palestinians deserved to die.
Perhaps it is fitting that an American’s perspective on …
Sep 05 2014
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” ? Martin Luther King Jr. …
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Sep 04 2014
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:
Amnesty International has released a new report on horrific torture and abuse – in Mexico. The new report by Amnesty, details …
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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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