Oct 15 2015

Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance

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GUEST: John Kay, visiting professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St. Johns College, Oxford University. He is also the director of several public companies and a weekly contributor to the Financial Times. His new book is called Other People’s Money: The Real Business of Finance.

If the objective of our global financial system is to organize the …

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Oct 14 2015

Making Sense of Turkey’s Terrorist Attack

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GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, he’s a sociology lecturer at the University of Wisconsin and author of ‘Full Spectrum Dominance: US Power in Iraq and Beyond’.

Turkey experienced what is now being seen as the deadliest internal attack in the nation’s modern history last week. At least 95 people were killed and hundreds injured in two suicide bombings at a peace rally in Ankara on …

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Oct 14 2015

California Closes Loopholes in Alternative Custody Law

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GUEST: Diana Zuniga, Statewide Co-Coordinator of Californians United for a Responsible Budget.

Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law Senate Bill 219, championed by state senator Carol Liu. The bill is intended to close loopholes in an earlier law that was aimed at keeping together families broken apart by mass incarceration. Known as the Alternative Custody Act, the law is aimed primarily at mothers. …

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Oct 14 2015

1968: Soul Power – a New Album That Invokes An Earlier Era of Activism

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GUEST: Rasheed Ali is an award winning musician, artist, and educator.

The year 2014 may go down as the start of a new chapter in the black struggle for equality and civil rights, with the uprising in Ferguson over the killing of Michael Brown. As police continue to gun down Black Americans, many remember past violence of the United States and how another …

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Oct 13 2015

Newsflash: Israeli Violence Against Palestinians, Guardian Report on Cent. American Immigrants, Million Man March 20 Yrs Later

Uprising’s guest expert Robert Jensen, author and a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today’s news headlines:

Israeli forces have seemingly been on a killing spree for the past two weeks, targeting Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza strip. The latest violence resulted in 3 Palestinian youths being killed by an Israeli soldier on Monday. A recent video of a Palestinian …

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Oct 13 2015

Why Portland Now Celebrates Indigenous People’s Day on Columbus Day

GUEST: Reyn Leno, Tribal Council Chairman for the Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde in Portland, Oregon.

While most of the US yesterday marked Columbus Day to perpetrate the myth that Christopher Columbus “discovered” America, a growing number of cities and states also decided to celebrate it as “Indigenous People’s Day.” The city of Portland, Oregon was the latest to join in the trend.

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Oct 13 2015

Until We Are All Free: Imagining a World Free of Bars and Borders

GUEST: Sonia Guiñansaca, Artist Network & UndocuWriting Project Coordinator at CultureStrike.

Two major movements of people of color in the United States are joining forces in Oakland this week. A national migrant rights group called CultureStrike is teaming up with Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV) to, in their own words, “respond to the criminalization of migrants and communities of color, and envision a world beyond borders and …

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Oct 13 2015

Politics of Parenting: Project Fatherhood – A Story of Courage and Healing in one of America’s Toughest Communities

GUEST: Jorja Leap, faculty member with the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. She is an internationally recognized expert in gangs, violence and crisis intervention, and senior policy advisor on Gangs and Youth Violence for the City and County of Los Angeles. Her earlier book is ‘Jumped In: What Gangs Taught me About Violence, Drugs, Love, and Redemption’.

Social scientists love to give parents advice – …

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Oct 09 2015

A Poet Captures the Devastation of the Syrian War

Published by Truthdig.com on October 08, 2015

Omar Offendum performs “Crying Shame” in this still image from the video posted at the end of this article. (YouTube)

Russian forces are bolstering Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with firepower from the sky, ground and sea in a new escalation of the bloody four-year battle in Syria. Although it is hard to imagine a war that has displaced millions of …

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Oct 09 2015

The Drug War’s Targeting of Mothers is Based on Bad Science

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GUEST: Dr. Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychology at the Department of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of Columbia, and the author of High Price: A Neuroscientist’s Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 25, 2015.

Women’s bodies are highly policed in today’s society. Pregnant women’s bodies are …

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