Oct
06
2015
GUEST: Anand Gopal is the author of No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes. He served as an Afghanistan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and The Christian Science Monitor, and has reported on the Middle East and South Asia for Harper’s, The Nation, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, and other publications.
US forces in Afghanistan bombed a hospital …
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Oct
06
2015
GUEST: Grace Lee, film maker, director and writer of American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, and the Grace Lee Project.
Grace Lee Boggs has died at the age of 100 in her home in Detroit. The legendary civil rights activist was best known for her work in the feminist and Black Power Movements and through her friendship with Malcolm X. President Obama and First Lady …
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Oct
05
2015
Published by Truthdig.com on October 01, 2015
President Obama met with King Salman of Saudi Arabia at the White House in September. (Evan Vucci / AP )
Since World War II, the United States has maintained a close friendship with one of the world’s worst human rights violators, Saudi Arabia. Given mounting evidence of the Saudi monarchy’s appalling behavior, that relationship must end in order to start …
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Oct
05
2015
Uprising’s guest expert Cristina Mislan, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies, Missouri School of Journalism, analyzes today’s news headlines:
The Obama Administration is enjoying a major victory with the announcement of a new trade deal with 12 nations, known as the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). Aimed at bolstering US economic dominance in the face of China’s spectacular growth, the TPP faced huge opposition from progressive groups who have cast …
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