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“Hip Hop is Dead.” So says Nas, and so says many others. I grew up on the 1990s hip hop. My best friends auntie used to slide us her own car mixes with E-40, Eazy E, Dru Down, and a number of other early to mid 90s rappers. The first CD I bought was Operation Stackola. In the beginning it was...

FROM NPR RADIO ROBERT SIEGEL, host: We’ve been featuring a variety of views on the fighting in the Mid East. Commentator Adeed Dawisha is an Iraqi-born American, a political science professor at Miami University in Ohio. He says one result of the war is increased satisfaction among Arabs...

The following dispatches are qoutes taken directly from government and leadership and news media in Iran, Syria and Lebanon. *WARNING* This is a very informative read but will take at least 15 min. To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit...

On a short list of American Renaissance men of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, George Shultz's name would inevitably appear. Past holder of three cabinet posts under two presidents, Shultz is presently a business professor at Stanford University and a fellow in international affairs at...

Text of document found in al-Zarqawi house By The Associated Press Thu Jun 15, 6:03 PM ET Text of a document discovered in terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's hide-out. The document was provided in English by Iraqi National Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie: ___ The situation and...

Special Dispatch-Iran June 13, 2006 No. 1184 Ayatollah Khomeini's Grandson: Grandfather's Revolution Devoured its Children, Strayed From Original Course To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD118406 . In an interview with the Al-Arabiyya...

xpanther could you clear some of your PMs I have one waiting for you.

In response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's May 9, 2006 letter to U.S. President Bush, the well-known expatriate Iranian satirist Ibrahim Nabavi published an open letter to President Ahmadinejad, in the online Persian daily Rooz. The following are excerpts from Nabavi's letter: (1)...

*warning long but thorough read* Riots in Tehran Universities: "We Don't Want Nuclear Energy" To view this Special Dispatch in HTML, visit: http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?ID=SD117406 . Several media outlets in Iran reported, albeit in a restricted and censured fashion, that there...

U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll shows just one in five troops want to heed Bush call to stay “as long as they are needed” While 58% say mission is clear, 42% say U.S. role is hazy Plurality believes Iraqi insurgents are mostly homegrown Almost 90%...

WARNING! This is a long read. Policy memo written by Paul Pillar, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and Central Asia, 2000-2005. ABSTRACT HERE: The most serious problem with U.S. intelligence today is that its relationship with the policymaking process is broken and badly needs...

Whatup Im movin out to the East Coast to Washington DC I lived in Frisco and San Diego and Im just wondering where theres some tight hip hop spots in Virginia, Baltimore, DC and that general area. Also Boston and NY. And not somewhere where Im gonna get killed. Somewhere where they play tight...

THE IRAQ ELECTION War experts advise strategy overhaul Authors of downbeat report fear current course risks cataclysm - James Sterngold, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, December 11, 2005 President Bush has framed the debate over Iraq as a series of stark choices -- tyranny or freedom...

How neighbors see Muslim group Some perceive Bey's legacy of progressive action overcome by factionalism and recent violence - Jim Herron Zamora and Meredith May, Chronicle Staff Writers Sunday, December 4, 2005 In the late '60s, Your Black Muslim Bakery was one of the few businesses that...

A quiet move in House to split the 9th Circuit - Zachary Coile, Chronicle Washington Bureau Wednesday, November 30, 2005 Washington -- A little-noticed provision in the massive House budget bill would fulfill the longtime goal of conservatives to split the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of...

Anyone browse through the archives and found some shit you said and just thought "man what the fuck was I thinkin?" The other day I dug up a post I made from about 2 years ago when E-40-Breakin News came out. The thread was titled "Breakin News: E-40 Breakin News is a Bad album!" or something...

A few minutes ago FOX news ran some special on the riots in France. A guest speaks regarding the French African Islamic unemployment rate: "There's 20% more unemployed in these ghettos and in France there's 10% unemployed already, that's 30% unemployed in these areas."

I am currently working with an organization involved in National/International Security at San Diego State University. We have several professors/graduate students and students interested in expressing their views through a Newsletter. The newsletter will be released once a month, with at...

I am currently working with an organization involved in National/International Security at San Diego State University. We have several professors/graduate students and students interested in expressing their views through a Newsletter. The newsletter will be released once a month, with at...

Since MD's death his music seems to have spread everywhere. I have witnessed Mac Dre on the radio all over the bay, in San Diego, even in Mexico. He's on Sirus and other XM radio, there's copies of Cutthoat Committee in Border's bookstore. Yesterday I was at Mission Valley Mall in SD and seen...