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Just seven weeks after a violent police raid cleared away Occupy Los Angeles’ tent city on the steps of City Hall, downtown LA this week has been the site of evening military drills. The drills are significant because they are being held by the US military, jointly with the Los Angeles Police Department. According to CBS News, …

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The coal company, First Energy Corporation announced yesterday that it will shutter 6 of its aging coal-burning power plants rather than invest in changes to comply with newly passed environmental regulations. First Energy will close plants in Maryland, Ohio, Oregon and Pennsylvania where it deemed retrofits would not be cost effective. Energy companies have 3 years to …

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Five police officers were fatally shot outside Mexico City on Monday as they stopped a vehicle suspected to have been carrying members of a local drug gang. A member of La Familia Michoacana drug cartel was also killed in the attack when a taxi and van pulled up during the officers’ stop and opened fire with high-powered …

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Taking a deeper look at current and past films and how they relate to the world today.

Jonathan Kim is an independent film critic who writes and produces film reviews for Uprising and other outlets. He is a former co-producer at Brave New Films.

Read his reviews online at ReThinkReviews.net. Watch his videos …

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By a vote of 55-44 the Indiana state House yesterday approved a so-called “right-to-work” bill, just two days after it was approved by the state Senate. Governor Mitch Daniels is expected to sign it into law, making Indiana the 23rd state in the nation to adopt the union-busting legislation, and the first since 2001. Indiana state House Democrats …

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In response to outrage over proposed salary increases for Cal State University Presidents, the California State University Board of Trustees unanimously approved a cap on top-level salaries yesterday during a meeting attended by students and faculty in Long Beach. As California’s education system faces one of the worst economic crises in its history, the cap will limit …

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US-Pakistan relations continue to remain strained in the wake of a US strike on the border with Afghanistan which killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers and wounded more than a dozen. The military’s initial reaction included blocking about 50% of all goods from reaching US and NATO troops in Afghanistan through Pakistan, and expelling Americans from CIA bases in …

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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies. This week on Uprising I’ll take a close look at Joe Buscaino the newest City Councilmember for the city of Los Angeles.

Council District 15, which includes San Pedro and the Port of Los Angeles, was previously represented by …

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In his third State of the Union speech last night President Obama articulated a vision for an improved economy, seeking to reclaim control over the Republican narrative that places blame for high unemployment solely at his feet. In an address that Reuters called populist, the President promoted the so-called Buffet Rule, a tax reform that would end tax …

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We turn back today to Glenn L. Carle, a man who spent 23 years in the CIA as a spy and tells the story of how he struggled with the Bush administration’s embracing of detention, interrogation, and torture of thousands of Muslim men, in a new book focused on one man, code-named CAPTUS. Carle held firm to …