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GUEST: Derrick O’Keefe is an activist and journalist based in Vancouver, Canada. He is a founding editor of Ricochet Media.

Canada’s new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau headed to Turkey on Friday to attend the G20 Leaders Summit. Ahead of his trip, he told press why he has chosen to accept tens of thousands of refugees fleeing wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq, into Canada. In the few …

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GUEST: Joshua Holland, Writing fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute and Host of Politics and Reality Radio, author of The 15 Biggest Lies About the Economy, and Everything You need to Know About Taxes, Jobs, and Corporate America.

Tuesday’s night’s GOP debate, sponsored by Fox Business News and Wall Street Journal, saw a narrowed field of candidates, dramatically pared down …

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GUEST: Marisa Franco, Director of #Not1MoreDeportation Campaign.

An appeals court this week finally made a decision on a major lawsuit brought by more than 2 dozen states against President Obama’s signature immigration orders, DACA and DAPA. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, and its companion policy, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, were opposed almost from the start by Republicans. Now they’ve been stopped …

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GUEST: Simon Billenness, Executive Director of the US Campaign for Burma.

Myanmar just wrapped up historic elections that were declared free and fair. The party of Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy, has won a majority of seats in the lower house and has a commanding lead in the upper house. The Myanmar military, which had long ruled the country, …

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Published by Truthdig.com on November 11, 2015

Gravestones on Veterans Day at San Francisco National Cemetery. (Jeff Chiu / AP)

On Veterans Day, we are told to remember soldiers who fought in wars. We are expected to fly flags, march in parades and, perhaps most importantly for corporate America, shop at a Veterans Day sale.

In a White House proclamation to mark the occasion, President …

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GUEST: George Monbiot, s a well known environmental and political activist based in the UK, and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper; his book is called “Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning.”

Most of you know well the reality and danger of climate change, and that global warming is happening as a direct result of human behavior through the burning of fossil fuels and the …

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GUEST: Evan Greer, campaign director at Fight For the Future.

US military whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who is serving time in a federal prison for leaking documents exposing the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has been busy. Despite her incarceration she has just written an op-ed in the Guardian newspaper denouncing the secret FISA court system. FISA stands for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the …

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GUEST: Ann Jones is an independent scholar, journalist, and photographer, who has reported from Afghanistan for years. She is the author of ten books of nonfiction including, “Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan,” “War is Not Over When It’s Over: Women Speak Out On the Ruins Of War,” and “They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From America’s War – The …

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GUEST: Hart Viges is active with the group Sustainable Options for Youth. He is based in Austin, Texas, and is headed to Northern California later this week.

It’s Veteran’s Day today – a day when the US is supposed to remember soldiers who fought in wars, a day to fly flags, march in parades, and of course, shop in special Veteran’s Day sales. …

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GUEST: Cristina Mislan, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies, Missouri School of Journalism, and a regular guest on Uprising.

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe resigned yesterday amid growing tensions on his campus over black students facing racism. For weeks, students under the banner #ConcernedStudent1950, led a boycott of the campus stores, and recently even launched a hunger strike, calling on Wolfe to resign. At a homecoming …

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