{"id":1228,"date":"2007-02-16T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2007-02-16T12:51:37","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T20:51:37","slug":"weekly-digest-021607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/02\/16\/weekly-digest-021607\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Digest &#8211; 02\/16\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?page_id=23\">weekly edition<\/a> is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Weekend_Edition\/2\/2007_02_16_uprisingweekly.MP3&#038;m=1\"> <img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Audio Stream<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/uprising.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"graphics\/miniXml.gif\" width=\"25\" height=\"10\" border=\"0\"\/>Podcast<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/uprising.libsyn.com\/media\/uprising\/uprising_2007-02-16.mp3\">Mp3 Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week on Uprising:<\/p>\n<p>An hour special with veteran journalist and war correspondent Chris Hedges, on his latest book, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  <\/p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.salve.edu\/salvetoday\/archives\/images\/031904_280.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>American Fascists: The Christian Right and the war on America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/us.yimg.com\/p\/ap\/20070205\/capt.watw11102052311.war_objector__watw111.jpg?x=380&#038;y=264&#038;sig=Or2TXn79jYnjxwBJTcGXRA--\" alt=\"\" \/><em>GUEST: Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and war correspondent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author, has just released his newest book, on the dangers of the Christian right in the United States. You may know him from his best-selling, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153War is a Force that Gives us Meaning.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d His new book is called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In it Hedges sounds the alarm on the dangers of the Christian right and explains how it embodies most aspects of traditional fascist movements. Most frighteningly, this movement has serious political power and a strong popular base. Hedges points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the US government to subvert it. In researching American Fascists, Hedges attended various seminars and workshops by leaders of the Christian Right, and interviewed several people who were or still are part of the movement. <\/p>\n<p>Chris Hedges spoke recently in Los Angeles about his book, American Fascists. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll hear an excerpt of his talk, followed by an in-depth interview I did with him. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali&#8217;s Subversive Thought for the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Americans \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not only those of faith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d who care about our open society must learn to speak about this movement with a new vocabulary, to give up passivity, to challenge aggressively this movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deluded appropriation of Christianity and to do everything possible to defend tolerance.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Chris Hedges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our weekly edition is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage. 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