Wall Street Bonuses Revealed
Posted on April 12, 2012 in Political Cartoons
Knowledge is power…or maybe just depressing.
Winning The Drug War By Creating A Caste System?
Posted on April 12, 2012 in Articles
The Article: How We Created A Massive Racial Caste System In America by Michelle Alexander in AlterNet.
The Text: Ever since Barack Obama lifted his right hand and took his oath of office, pledging to serve the United States as its 44th president, ordinary people and their leaders around the globe have been celebrating our nation’s “triumph over race.” Obama’s election has been touted as the final nail in the coffin of Jim Crow, the bookend placed on the history of racial caste in America.
Obama’s mere presence in the Oval Office is offered as proof that “the land of the free” has finally made good on its promise of equality. There’s an implicit yet undeniable message embedded in his appearance on the world stage: this is what freedom looks like; this is what democracy can do for you. If you are poor, marginalized, or relegated to an inferior caste, there is hope for you. Trust us. Trust our rules, laws, customs, and wars. You, too, can get to the promised land.
Perhaps greater lies have been told in the past century, but they can be counted on one hand. Racial caste is alive and well in America.
Politicians On Minimum Wage?
Posted on April 11, 2012 in Political Cartoons
But how would Newt afford his Tiffany’s?
Crocodiles’ Latest Hit
Posted on April 11, 2012 in Videos
Full of distortion and garage rock bravado, Crocodiles’ latest hit “Sunday” is available for download here.
Islam And The Future Of Liberalism
Posted on April 11, 2012 in Articles
The Article: Islam and the Future of Islam by author Sam Harris.
The Text: I recently had a very enjoyable three-hour conversation with Joe Rogan on his podcast, where the topics ranged from jihad to probability theory to psychedelics. But I subsequently received a fair amount of abuse online for a few things I said about Islam and our adventures in the war on terror.
For instance, I appear to have left many viewers with the impression that I believe we invaded Afghanistan for the purpose of rescuing its women from the Taliban. However, the points I was actually making were rather different: I think that abandoning these women to the Taliban is one of the things that make our inevitable retreat from Afghanistan ethically problematic. I also believe that wherever we can feasibly stop the abuse of women and girls, we should. An ability to do this in places like Afghanistan, and throughout the world, would be one of the benefits of having a global civil society and a genuine regime of international law. Needless to say, this is not the world we are living in (yet).
