March 2012
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I am forever in love with this mashup.
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All History Is Black History →
If a people has a past worth learning about, then they also must have a future worth caring about. This is true whether one is talking about black Americans or Native Americans, Palestinians or Kurds, Roma or Tibetans, or any of the other dozens of peoples whose pasts, presents, and futures have been systematically deprived of them by more powerful peoples and governments.
At least that was the...
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The Biggest Lie in PoliSci
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“The central ideological conflict in the United States is over the size and scope of government”
This is something you’ll probably hear if you take US Politics & Government at the college level or AP Gov in highschool. It’s also completely false.
It’s not only wrong in terms of how it cuts off extra-establishment discourse, totally erasing radical thought from US politics....
February 2012
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Endangered Beats
Click the image for the full set.
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Santorum And Harvard Anarchist Agree: Public... →
When evaluating schools, as Marshall McLuhan asserts, “the medium is the message.” All of school pathologies make sense when you understand that people – which include children – do not enjoy or respond well to being subjected to a repressive environment. While it is possible for a North Korean POW to learn calculus under duress from their prison guard, it is reasonable to assume they will: A....
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As Santorum and Romney Battle for the Loony Right,...
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My father was a Republican for the first 78 years of his life. For the last twenty, he’s been a Democrat (he just celebrated his 98th.) What happened? “They lost me,” he says.
They’re losing even more Americans now, as the four remaining GOP candidates seek to out-do one another in their race for the votes of the loony right that’s taken over the Grand Old Party.
But the rest of...
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WikiLeaks Releases "Global Intelligence Files" →
futurejournalismproject:
WikiLeaks released today what it’s calling “The Global Intelligence Files.” The document dump comes from over five million emails from STRATFOR, a Texas-based intelligence firm that offers subscription-based geopolitical analysis to its clients.
Via WikiLeaks:
The emails date from between July 2004 and late December 2011. They reveal the inner workings of a company...
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The Oscar Is Mexican: Academy Award Statuette...
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The story behind the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette is itself one fit for the movies.
It starts in the 1920’s during the Mexican Revolution. Emilio Fernández was studying in Mexico’s military college when he decided to take up arms and help support the revolutionary cause of Adolfo de la Huerta.
In 1924, a defeated De la Huerta was forced into exile and left Mexico to open a...
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Mexico: Chivas hires Barcelona legend, Johan...
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On its website, Chivas de Guadalajara already invited fans to welcome Johan Cruyff (right) to the team. On Thursday, team manager Ramon Vergara announced that Cruyff was hired to coach the team. (photos: chivascampeon.com, JNNdigital.blogspot.com)
By MANUEL RUEDA Channel: Sports
What do you do if your soccer team has gone seven games without winning, and is currently last...
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autentico-decadente:
Aterciopelados -...
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Meet Eureka The Butcher: Low End Theory’s Man in...
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Née: Marcel Rodríguez-Lopez Raíces: El Paso, TX Sounds Like: Is psychedelic desert-dub a genre? You should listen to Eureka The Butcher because: There aren’t enough sick beats in your life. By Ivan Fernandez
I’m pretty sure that you, dear readers, are familiar with the Rodriguez-Lopez family of musicians so, when I inform you that Eureka The Butcher is Marcel’s production...
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BBC Article: American 'illegals' in Mexico →
leftist-linguaphile:
thenoobyorker:
So it begins…
and about damn time.
Global Post ran a similar story two years ago.
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Anonymous asked: May I ask what is your stance on...
servile-masses-arise:
I think that the meat industry is excessively cruel and bad for the environment. I also think that about every other industry. I don’t boycott the products of these industries because it’s ineffective as a tactic, diverts attention from the true cause of hunger and institutionalized cruelty, and it encourages bourgeois liberal ‘consumer’ politics. The nature of the industry...
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Bernardo Ruiz's documentary, 'Reportero,'...
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In Mexico, investigative journalism can sometimes be a life-threatening occupation. (Photo: Facebook)
By ARTURO CONDE Channel: Entertainment, Latin American Affairs
“There have been times when some Mexican media outlets have opted not to publish narco-related stories,” the investigative journalist Sergio Haro Cordero tells the camera as he drives his white Nissan pickup truck to...
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WatchThe best “short film within a feature film” of all time.
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