Oct
09
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Arun Gupta, a 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:
US war planes hit various parts of Syria near the Turkish border yesterday as well as parts of Iraq, in the latest chapter of the campaign against the …
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Oct
08
2014
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:
More than a dozen people were killed in riots in Turkey as protesters clashed with government forces over perceived inaction against the ISIS takeover of the Syrian border town of Kobani. Kobani is a strategically important Kurdish stronghold, and fears of …
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Oct
07
2014
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:
ISIS flags have been documented flying over parts of the Kurdish town of Kobani, located in Syria on the border with Turkey. US war planes flew over the area late yesterday, dropping bombs to bolster Kurdish forces attempting to defend …
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Oct
06
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:
As the US continued airstrikes in various parts of Syria over the weekend, a senior member of a Syrian Kurdish group has said that the bombing campaign is not …
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Oct
03
2014
Published by Truthdig.com on October 2nd, 2014
By Sonali Kolhatkar
In a recent Op-Ed in the Los Angeles Times, actress Daniele Watts told her story of a controversial encounter she had with a Los Angeles Police Department officer. It was an incident that garnered much media attention, most of it negative. Although the African-American actress, best known for her role as Coco in “Django Unchained,” was eloquent in defending her actions, I believe it is …
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Oct
03
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, sitting in for Maya Rockeymoore – he’s an author and a professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:
Turkey and Australia have jumped headfirst into the US-led war against the Islamic State rebel group controlling parts of Northern Iraq and Syria. Turkey’s government …
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Oct
02
2014
Uprising’s guest expert Arun Gupta, a 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:
A United Nations report this morning has found that 26,000 people have died in Iraq this year alone, from violence. …
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Oct
01
2014
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:
Tens of thousands of protesters in Hong Kong have set up an encampment in the latest configuration of the so-called “Umbrella revolution.” The mass sit-in, called Occupy Central with Peace and Love, …
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