{"id":9305,"date":"2009-08-07T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2009-08-07T13:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:03:29","slug":"weekly-digest-080709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/07\/weekly-digest-080709\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Digest – 08\/07\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our weekly edition<\/a> is a nationally syndicated one-hour digest of the best of our daily coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n

Audio Stream<\/a> | Podcast<\/a> | Mp3 Download<\/a><\/p>\n

This week on Uprising: <\/p>\n

* Iran\u2019s Green Revolution Going Strong; Ahmedinejad Weak
\n* Black Agenda Report on John Conyers, Barack Obama, and Health Care
\n* Right-wing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform
\n* Empire Notes: Global Environmental Strain and New Thinking
\n* New UK Study Reignites Debate Over Organics<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Green Revolution Going Strong; Ahmedinejad Weak<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"greenIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, after a much disputed presidential election on June 12th, was inaugurated in early August in Tehran with several members of parliament and senior officials boycotting a ceremonial endorsement by Ayatollah Khamanei. The two main opposition candidates in last June\u2019s election, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as well as former Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani decided against attending the inauguration event which was not televised on Farsi television channels in Iran. Protesters had attempted to assemble but were dispersed by authorities. But since the inauguration, they have once more taken to the streets in smaller numbers denouncing Ahmedinejad’s election as fraudulent and keeping his government on edge. Meanwhile, a trial of reformist activists and dissidents accused of directing the massive protests this past June, that came to be known as the \u201cGreen Revolution\u201d has resumed this week. Defendants include former Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi, Mohsen Mirdamadi, the secretary-general of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, and Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Laureate. The trial has been roundly criticized as similar to those under Stalin’s Russia in the 1930s. <\/p>\n

GUEST: Muhammad Sahimi, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Southern California and a regular columnist for Tehranbureau.com<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Black Agenda Report on John Conyers, Barack Obama and Health care<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"GlenGlen Ford is a writer and radio commentator and the Executive Editor of The Black Agenda Report<\/a>. This week’s commentary is about John Conyers, Barack Obama and Health care Reform.<\/p>\n

Visit www.blackagendareport.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

Right-wing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conservatives are already celebrating the delay in health care legislation as a victory to quash reform. Now that Congress is on recess touring their districts to interact with constituents, the fight has been moved to localized town hall meetings. Right wing groups like Americans for Prosperity, and their front groups, like Patients United, have descended on Congressional Democrats supporting a public health care option, including Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, Tim Bishop of New York, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Steve Kagan of Wisconsin, and Steve Driehaus of Ohio. A video of a right-wing mob facing down Representative Doggett in Austin, Texas has gone viral. The activists are largely the same groups that organized the so-called Tea Party demonstrations earlier this year around the economic stimulus legislation. Their defacto allies in the health insurance industry are busy monitoring their progress by sending staffers to 30 town halls meetings in states across the country. Meanwhile, a new online video<\/a> produced by Brave New Films exposes the mind-bogglingly vast salaries and stock options of health insurance CEOs, juxtaposed with the routine denial of life-saving patient services. <\/p>\n

GUEST: Lee Fang, blogger at ThinkProgress.org<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Empire Notes: Global Environmental Strain and New Thinking <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/a>Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is called Global Environmental Strain and New Thinking.<\/p>\n

GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Visit www.empirenotes.org<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n

New UK Study Reignites Debate Over Organics<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"organics\"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 organic agriculture immediately began refuting the study, pointing to its narrowness and selectivity. The study discounted several instances of organic foods having greater amounts of nutrients than conventional as “statistically insignificant.” Additionally, it only compared beneficial chemicals rather than toxic additives, which conventional produce is more likely to contain since it is grown with the use of pesticides and artificial fertilizers. Here in the United States, an important moment is approaching for those invested in organic foods: the US Department of Agriculture is on the verge of announcing new members of the National Organic Standards Board. The Cornucopia Institute, a farm policy group has urged the USDA to make the process of selection to this influential board public and transparent. <\/p>\n

GUESTS: Paula Crossfield, managing editor of Civil Eats, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post’s Green Page, Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute<\/em>. For more information, visit www.cornucopia.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Read Paula Crossfield’s article here: http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2009\/07\/31-10<\/a><\/p>\n

Sonali’s Subversive Thought for the Day<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cStudy nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.\u201d \u2014 Frank Lloyd Wright<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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