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GUESTS: Norman Solomon, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, author of several books including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death,” and his latest, “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State;” Teresa Montano, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies, Board Member of California Faculty Association, Gabriel Gutierrez, Chair …

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GUESTS: Norman Solomon, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy, author of several books including “War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death,” and his latest, “Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America’s Warfare State;” Lamont Yeakey, Associate professor of History at Cal State LA and former member of the KPFK …

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GUEST: Emira Woods, co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus

As millions of people in the United States will be tuning into the Super Bowl this Sunday, a controversy has emerged around the sporting event’s halftime show. More shocking than any possible “wardrobe malfunctions,” this year’s halftime show is being sponsored by the Bridgestone Firestone …

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GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”

Yesterday we did the first part of an interview with investigative journalist Sarah Posner about her new book, “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.” We learned what the so-called Word …

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GUEST: Sarah Posner, investigative journalist and author of “God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters”

Republicans have counted on evangelical voters to put them in office for several years now. The George W. Bush presidency in particular has embraced the religious right like no other president before him. But this …

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GUEST: Elaine Brown, former leader of the Black Panther Party

Last Sunday, candidates seeking the Green Party nomination for President of the United States debated one other before a crowd of hundreds in San Francisco. Former Chair of the Black Panther Party, Elaine Brown, was not among them. Though Brown declared her candidacy with the party last year, she recently …

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GUEST: Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, author of several books including “Citizens of the Empire,” “The Heart of Whiteness,” and his latest, “Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity”

The 2008 Adult Entertainment Expo just wrapped up after three days in Las Vegas. The event is the largest of …

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GUEST CO-HOST: Hamid Khan, Executive Director of the South Asian Network

A suicide bomber blew himself up today outside a Lahore High Court in Pakistan, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 70. The incident is the latest in a wave of violence to hit the country ahead of Parliamentary elections on February 18th. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, Benazir’s heir to …

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GUEST: Rob Richie, Executive director of FairVote

If you’ve been following the election news from Iowa last week into New Hampshire and beyond this week, you may be wondering just how this complicated American system of electing presidents works, from caucuses to primary elections, party conventions and the electoral college. On Uprising, in addition …

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GUEST: John Entelis, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University, co-author of “The Algerian Civil War”

The death toll in the wake of Tuesday’s twin truck bombings in the capital of Algeria has continued to rise. Yesterday’s government figures placed the number of dead at 31 …

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