http://www.blogtalkradio.com/your-world-news/2011/05/27/cultural-misnomers-americas-planned-cultual-ignorance Please tune into this episode as we deconstructed the roots, causes, and detrimental impact of America’s Cultural Ignorance. We will explore America’s white supremacist history and how it has set the table for the institutionally racist nation that the US is apparently so proud of being today. From ...

Picture of the march to save Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit Voice of Detroit is an independant news zine out of Detroit.  You can read more about Detroit teachers, schools, parents and the struggle to save public education from the pernicious privatizers. You can find them at:  http://voiceofdetroit.net/ ...

source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com I wrote an analogy in 2009 of what the world would look like to Americans if the relationship of the US to Iran were switched to the US having Iran’s position and China having the US position. I’m re-printing the article below to help Americans understand the Orwellian nature of US current wars and threats for expanded war to mass-murder Iranians. This also occurs as the US ...

Picture of Harvard University Part One   I have been following the cascading financial crisis with some interest especially as it pertains to the business of higher education -- and what a business it is!  The Wall Street ‘crisis’, or bankster fraud, has not only changed the economic geography of Wall Street, housing, credit, health care and employment since it reared its ugly head in 2008, but it has gobbl ...

  Believing is better than asking questions, or so says the ruling class and their lap dogs.  Appealing to irrationality instead of rationality is an old sophist trick refined by Edward Bernays, the nephew of Sigmund Freud.  Initially applied to the Creel reports during World War I, Bernays went on to not only show how advertising can engineer desires but also institutionalized ‘propaganda’ which he coined ...

Senator Rand Paul spoke last night on the Senate floor and introduced the Leahy-Paul Amendment [pdf warning] that would force the expiration of the National Security Letters on December 31, 2013. Senator Paul also introduced eight amendments and attempted to filibuster the vote. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmjhk2-ynLo[/youtube] Transcript. Unfortunately, after seven hours of filibustering, Senat ...

I designed my new house to withstand a category 5 hurricane.  If a Hurricane Andrew came through I would probably survive.  But a Tuscaloosa or a Joplin tornado, how do you design for that?  I know my house can take gusts and perhaps sustained 155 mph wind, but 200 mph wind? There was a governmental office that was set up to answer these questions—to help citizens become familiar with the changes and threat ...

Michael Collins The Financial Times reported that French Finance minister Christine Lagarde was the leading candidate for Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). She would replace Dominique Strauss-Kahn, now charged with sexual assault in New York City. (Images: Wiki Commons) Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, has emerged as the leading contender to run the International Monet ...

By Carol Spooner For the past 6 months the people behind "KPFAWorker/SaveKPFA" have run a relentless, dishonest and destructive PR campaign - both on and off the air - against KPFA and Pacifica over the layoff last November of two KPFA staff members - Brian Edwards-Tiekert and Aimee Allison, the former co-hosts of KPFA's Morning Show. Once proud KPFA has become the subject of ridicule in community radio cir ...

Listen to this post HERE. According to political scientist Michael Barkun, conspiracy theory was once a general definition for any conjoint operation of persons, whether it was civil, criminal, or political (Barkun, p. 7). But particularly after the events in the United States on September 11, 2001, the term has become a derisive one for those who believe that some secretive group is responsible for a signi ...