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Rise Like Lions after Slumber: John Pilger on Peace
The following is John Pilger’s acceptance speech for the Sydney Peace Prize. It comes to you courtesy of Zcom, where the verbose, informed radicals hang out. “Thank you all for coming tonight, and my thanks to the City of Sydney and especially to the Sydney Peace Foundation for awarding me the Peace Prize. It’s an [...]
Posted: November 10th, 2009 under Media, consciousness, democracy, identity, identity politics, imperialism, indigenous, indigenous culture, inequality, journalism, justice, media bias, peace, politics, race, racial profiling, racism, truth, war, warfare, white.
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Onward, Feminist Soldiers: The Battle of . . . Do We Really Want a Battle?
Jessica Lynch “was born in Palestine, West Virginia,” according to the Wikipedia page about her. It continues, “her family could not afford to send her to college; her older brother had to drop out for financial reasons. Searching for a way to pay for the children’s educations, the Lynch family met with an army recruiter [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2008 under discrimination, female, female empowerment, female leader, feminine energy, femininity, feminism, fight, male worldview, maleness, males, man, masculine systems, masculinity, military, military casualties, misogynisitic, misogynist, misogynistic, misogynists, obama, september, september 11, sexism, sexist, sexual abuse, sexual assault, sexual difference, sexual dimorphism, sexual inequality, stereotype, stereotypes, terrorism, terrorist, violation, violence, war, war on terror, weapons, women, women in the military, women's liberation, women's movement, women's rights, work, working conditions.
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Speak To Me: David Brooks' Speech to the Delegates
My fellow Americans, it is an honor to address the Democratic National Convention at this defining moment in history. We stand at a crossroads at a pivot point, near a fork in the road on the edge of a precipice in the midst of the most consequential election since last year’s “American Idol.” One path [...]
Posted: August 30th, 2008 under America, American, God, John McCain, M&Ms, Senator, acropolis, american dream, american idol, americans, anteater, ants, barack, biden, boulder, bushmccain, candidate, candidates, coca-cola, coke, coke zero, colony of ants, colorado, crocs, democracy, democrat, democratic, democratic national convention, denver, dnc, election, elizabeth edwards, god bless america, hillary, hillary clinton, human race, joe biden, john edwards, michelle obama, middle class, natural gas, obama, party, patton's army, political, politician, politicians, politics, presidency, president, president bush, presidential, presidential candidate, presidential debate, republican, starbuck's coffee, taxi, wolf blitzer.
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Take Some Theory and Call Me in the Morning: Obama vs. Foucault
There’s something fishy going on. Tonight, at dinner, through a mouthful of fried fish, my host brother Julio Cesar said that he was surprised that a Black man had gotten so far in elections in the United States. Julio tried to throw it off casually, but the remark perfectly captures what I think is one [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2008 under Foucault, american dream, american history, obama, power, power structure, repression, the man, theory.
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Faux News: Conservative Media Spin vs. Obama's Rick-Roll
Welp, bro-hemes, it’s no news to most of us that Faux News is not all it’s cracked up to be – for instance, a Google image search for ‘faux news’ turns up a lot of interesting variations on this graphic. Yet at the same time, a newer report on Faux’s antics sees its standard of [...]
Posted: August 15th, 2008 under 80's, Fox News, Media, ellen, media attention, media bias, obama, politician, politics.
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