Jan 26 2016
GUEST: Robert Jensen, professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, and author of several books.
With just a week left before the Iowa caucus, Republican front runner Donald Trump is so confident of himself that he made an outrageous statement: “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, ok? It’s, like, incredible.”
Trump’s normalizing of fascistic …
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Jan 26 2016
GUEST: Dr. Howard Mielke, research professor at Tulane University working on the state of urban environments. His work on lead emissions exposure has found a strong correlation with violent crime. I spoke with him before the Flint Water Crisis began. It is important to note that in Flint, children have been exposed to lead by ingestion, not respiration.
*NOTE: This is a re-broadcast of an interview …
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Jan 25 2016
GUEST: Courtney Morris, assistant professor of African American and Women’s Studies at Penn State University and a regular guest on Uprising.
Daniel Holtzclaw was once a police office with the Oklahoma City Police Department. During his time he raped and assaulted many women, mostly African American, ranging in age from 17 to 57. Last month he was convicted on 18 out of 36 counts – four of …
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Jan 25 2016
GUEST: Chris Albin Lackey, Senior Legal Advisor at Human Rights Watch and author of the new report, Rubber Stamp Justice: US Courts, Debt Buying Corporations, and the Poor.
Our legal system is supposed to have checks in place to ensure we all get due process when being sued or charged. But of course often due process is sidelined. And, in the case of debt buying corporations, injustice …
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Jan 25 2016
GUEST: Andrew Hanauer, campaigns director for Jubilee USA.
We’ve heard of the terrible fiscal crisis in Michigan and its impact on residents of Flint and Detroit. But we haven’t heard as much about Puerto Rico’s financial crisis. The residents of Puerto Rico, who are of course US citizens, are struggling with major service cuts as a prolonged debt burden has crippled the local economy.
According to the …
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Jan 25 2016
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder insisted on Friday that the water crisis in Flint that poisoned the African American dominated city, had nothing to do with race. Mumia Abu Jamal, a political prisoner and an award-winning journalist filed this commentary about the crisis.
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Jan 22 2016
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, a sociologist and author of Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond, and a frequent guest on Uprising.
Satellite pictures are showing that Iraq’s oldest Christian monastery has likely been demolished by the Islamic State group. The monastery, located in Mosul which ISIS captured, was estimated to be 1,400 years old. It is thought to have been destroyed in late 2014.
But …
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Jan 22 2016
GUEST: Kevin Kumashiro, dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, and author of numerous books, including Bad Teacher!: How Blaming Teachers Distorts the Bigger Picture.
President Obama is visiting Detroit for an auto-show this week. But he will be getting more than just an eyeful of car parts. Teachers from the struggling city’s public school system are planning a major protest. Most of …
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Jan 22 2016
GUEST: Jessica Karp Bansal, litigation director at NDLON.
The Supreme Court is hearing a legal challenge to President Obama’s executive actions on immigration this week. Obama’s program, created just over a year ago, allowed for the deferred deportation of undocumented parents of legal residents. The program is called DAPA, or Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents. Immigration advocates had criticized the president for …
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Jan 22 2016
Published by Telesurtv.net on January 22, 2016
As Senator Bernie Sanders continues to surge ahead of Hillary Clinton in the polls, establishment liberals are attacking the self-described democratic socialist candidate en masse.| Photo: AFP
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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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