Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Gil Scott-Heron 1949-2011
YouTube - Gil Scott-Heron | Winter in America
YouTube Gil Scott Heron, live in NYC
YouTube - Save the Children- 1971-Gil Scott Heron
YouTube - The Intruders ` Save The Children`
YouTube - Gil Scott Heron Lady Day & John Coltrane
YouTube - Esther Phillips - Home is where the hatred is
Friday, May 27, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Sunday, May 22, 2011
The War on Kids is a 2009 documentary film about the American school system. The film takes a look at public school education in America and concludes that schools are not only failing to educate, but are increasingly authoritarian institutions more akin to prisons that are eroding the foundations of American democracy. Students are robbed of basic freedoms primarily due to irrational fears; they are searched, arbitrarily punished and force-fed dangerous pharmaceutical drugs. The educational mission of the public school system has been reduced from one of learning and preparation for adult citizenship to one of control and containment.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Charges Against the N.S.A.’s Thomas Drake
“We are witnessing the bipartisan normalization and legitimization of a
national-surveillance state,” he says. In his view, zealous leak
prosecutions are consonant with other political shifts since 9/11: the
emergence of a vast new security bureaucracy, in which at least two and a
half million people hold confidential, secret, or top-secret
clearances; huge expenditures on electronic monitoring, along with a
reinterpretation of the law in order to sanction it; and corporate
partnerships with the government that have transformed the
counterterrorism industry into a powerful lobbying force. Obama, Balkin
says, has “systematically adopted policies consistent with the second
term of the Bush Administration.”
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