Boondocks vs. BET, Round II
By GREG BRAXTON
Los Angeles Times
http://www.kansascity.com/entertainment/story/655893.html
The battle between “The Boondocks” creator Aaron McGruder and Black Entertainment Television is about to get a lot more animated.
Two second-season episodes of the biting...
The Post-Black Man's Burden
By Ta-Nehisi Coates - June 17, 2008, 10:58AM
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/17/the_postblack_mans_burden/
This is why Obama's Father's Day speech leaves me ultimately cold. To see people whose understanding of hip-hop doesn't extend past a few random...
Charging by the Byte to Curb Internet Traffic
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: June 15, 2008
Some people use the Internet simply to check e-mail and look up phone numbers. Others are online all day, downloading big video and music files.
For years, both kinds of Web surfers have paid the same price...
Your Whiteness is Showing:
An Open Letter to Certain White Women
Who are Threatening to Withhold Support From Barack Obama in November
By Tim Wise
June 5, 2008
This is an open letter to those white women who, despite their proclamations of progressivism, and supposedly because of their...
By some kind of fluke I noticed something strange - see bolded colored text
Someone's editor isn't working very hard or else this lady really pissed some people off.
Flood-related road closings called unprecedented...
Seriously?
If I ran a country or was involved in the UN I would tell them to fuck off. If you can't/won't take care of your own people first don't be messin with other people.
The U.S. should just give em the $325 mil for doin their dirty work over in Somalia...
"This unit sets up this traffic control point, and this 18-year-old kid is on top of an armored Humvee with a .50-caliber machine gun," remembered Sergeant Geoffrey Millard, who served in Tikrit with the 42nd Infantry Division. "And this car speeds at him pretty quick and he makes a split-second...
Pentagon blocked Cheney's attack on Iran
By Gareth Porter
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials firmly opposed a proposal by Vice President Dick Cheney last summer for airstrikes against the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) bases by insisting that the administration would have to make clear...
Destroying African Agriculture
Walden Bello | June 3, 2008
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5271
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the...
This forum is generally quite anti-Israel. Israel pretty much gets rooted against in every conflict it is involved in. Palestinians tend get the benefit of the doubt and the lion share of the support & sympathy. For some it seems if you put policy, religion, race, etc to the side a number of...