Sonali Kolhatkar, host of Uprising, is on jury duty Tuesday and Wednesday and hopes to return to regular programming by Thursday. Tune in Wednesday for a special presentation by Eduardo Galeano. Thank you for your patience! …

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A new survey has found that more than half of Republicans either think that President Obama was born outside the United States or doubt his actual birthplace. Some of these Americans, called ‘birthers’ have been making their case for Obama’s ineligibility to be President since before last year’s election. A lawyer named Orly Taitz even filed lawsuits and canvassed …

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Recent violence in Northern Nigeria has left nearly 700 people dead after a battle between police and a radical Muslim sect. The violence began a week ago when men from the group called Boko Haram allegedly attacked police stations, churches and government buildings. The police soon retaliated killing about a hundred members of the sect and going door to …

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A new British scientific review claiming that organically grown fruits and vegetables are not nutritionally superior to conventional foods, has generated a heated debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Alan Dangour of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reviewed 162 scientific papers over the last 50 years to come to the conclusion. But many supporters of …

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The Wheatland Hop Riot

Back in the day on August 3rd, 1913, the Wheatland Hop Riot took place in Northern California. Nearly two-thousand agricultural hop pickers toiled at Durst Ranch working long hours in the hot sun for low pay. Many of the workers slept a mile from the ranch in the open air without blankets in cold …

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Economists are pointing to an 11% surge in new home sales in the US this past June, boosted by tax credits, as an indicator that the housing market may have bottomed out and is starting to revive. But the National Housing Trust Fund, enacted a year ago, remains unfunded. Signed into law by then President George W. Bush, …

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President Obama met yesterday at the White House with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to discuss “counter-terrorism cooperation.” But activists both here in the US and the Philippines have urged the President to bring up government-sponsored human rights violations, in particular the persecution of activists like Philippino-American Melissa Roxas, a Los Angeles based volunteer who was abducted and tortured …

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Dirt! The Movie, a new documentary by Gene Rosow and Bill Beneson, digs deep into the story of the soil covering our planet. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, the film traces the history of earth’s living skin, while highlighting its destruction through industrial agriculture and mining, and what ordinary people are doing to reclaim and nurture …

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Glen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report. This week’s commentary is on Racism in Firefighter Hiring

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Columbus Arrives in Trinidad

Back in the day on July 31st, 1498, Christopher Columbus didn’t discover the Caribbean island now known as Trinidad, but descended upon its shores anyway. As part of his Third Voyage to the Americas, Columbus claimed the land days later for the Spanish crown in spite of its original inhabitants and renamed it in …

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