Noam Chomsky On The Turkish Protests
Posted on June 22, 2013 in Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-O0dwHINc4
The amazing anarchy-syndicalist connects Occupy, Latin American Independence, Arab Spring, and the Turkey protests.
Detroit, America’s Next Stop For Intervention?
Posted on June 22, 2013 in Quotes
In sum: send the military overseas to do things that elected officials need to be doing here.
The Cultural Awareness Missing From Miley Cyrus’ Music Video
Posted on June 22, 2013 in Articles
The Article: On Miley Cyrus, Ratchet Culture, and Accessorizing with Black People by Dodai Stewart in Jezebel.
The Text: A lesson from Miley Cyrus’s new video: If you want to look “cool” and “edgy” and “tough,” just steal the styles and dance moves of black people.
The new pseudo-thugged out Miley has been percolating for a while; from her twerking unicorn suit video to her appearance on stage at a Juicy J show, the former Disney darling seems drawn to specific elements of a specific form of hip-hop. Not socially-conscious hip-hop. Dirty South/crunk hip-hop associated with strip clubs, pimps and drug dealers. Juicy J is formerly of Three 6 Mafia, a group who rose to fame with hits like “Slob On My Knob” and “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp.” The track Miley popped her ass to at his show, “Bandz a Make Her Dance,” is specifically about hanging out in the company of strippers. Some key lyrics:
26 Staggering Photos Of The Protests Raging In Brazil
Posted on June 21, 2013 in Images
We seem to be living in an era of what esteemed news anchor Ron Burgundy might describe as “quick escalation”. As with current protests in Turkey, peaceful movements in Brazil rapidly grew violent following a frenzied episode of police brutality and intimidation. What began as a relatively harmless demonstration against an increase in public bus fares soon became a massive, nationwide movement railing against high taxes, corruption within the Rousseff administration, and lavish spending on a superfluous World Cup stadium (costing taxpayers around $30 billion to build) while much of the population could be better served by their tax dollars funding literacy programs, better healthcare and so on.
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The images are truly stunning (especially as it’s estimated that 80% of those participating have never taken part in a single protest or belonged to a political movement before), and the movement–refusing to confine itself to a single objective–doesn’t show signs of stopping any time soon. Check out an incredibly informative video below for more information about what hosting the World Cup in Brazil really means.
Don’t Be Surprised At Obama’s Civil Liberties Failures
Posted on June 21, 2013 in Articles
The Article: Obama is Bad on Civil Liberties, But That Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone by Kevin Drum in Mother Jones.
The Text: I turned on Fox for a few minutes and heard Megyn Kelly talking to someone who claimed that Democrats would all abandon President Obama en masse over the latest leaks about NSA spying. Maybe so. But I’m curious about something: Is anyone really surprised by the recent revelations of NSA surveillance programs? Actually, let me rephrase that. You might be surprised to learn about details of the programs themselves, but are you surprised to hear that Obama approved them?
I can’t figure out why anyone would be. Obama voted for the 2008 FISA amendments, a position that outraged liberals at the time. He continued the Bush-era surveillance of communications networks. He ramped up the war in Afghanistan. He vastly increased drone use overseas. He’s declared a war on leakers. He participated in the assault on Libya. He’s approved the assassination of American citizens abroad. His DOJ has aggressively made use of the state secrets privilege. He’s fought relentlessly to block lawsuits challenging privacy violations and presidential abuses.
