There’s a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.
Noam Chomsky, KGNU benefit at the University of Colorado at Boulder, April 5, 2003 (via absurdlakefront)
106Black Panthers, Guns and Star Trek
In the middle of a discussion about better education, I jumped up and said that I was ready to get a gun and kill a white dude. The Panther running the meeting called me up and handed me a stack of books. He “armed me” but not the way I had anticipated.
How Drones Help Al Qaeda
Multiple articles and responses have been written already today to this Op-Ed in the New York Times today. Here is Glenn Greenwald’s who just days ago wrote a good piece about how U.S. foreign policy is the driving force of terrorism and radicalization.
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/14/al_qaedas_best_friend/singleton/
One year ago, Jose Antonio Vargas publicly revealed he’s an undocumented immigrant. In the latest issue of TIME which will hit newsstands Friday, Vargas reports on life in citizenship limbo, and how others are ‘coming out.’
Read the cover story here.
(Photograph by Gian Paul Lozza for TIME)
(via think-progress)
What might cause another 9/11?
Far from believing that another 9/11 can’t happen, I’m amazed that it hasn’t already, and am quite confident that at some point it will. How could any rational person expect their government to spend a full decade (and counting) invading, droning, cluster-bombing, occupying, detaining without charges, and indiscriminately shooting huge numbers of innocent children, women and men in multiple countries and not have its victims and their compatriots be increasingly eager to return the violence?
Austerity Can't Be Just for Regular People
Here’s how the “superstars” of the banking world sometimes earn their bonuses: they borrow trillions from the U.S. Federal Reserve at zero or near zero interest, then they turn right around and lend chunks of that free money to a place like Greece (ex-FDIC Sheila Bair, in a hilarious editorial on the subject, pegged the ten-year yield at 21%), then they pocket the proceeds and call it capitalism.
Honduras: Which Side Is the US On?
Far more than criminal gangs in the streets and drug traffickers acting independently, it is the Honduran state itself that has made Honduras, according to the Associated Press, “among the most dangerous places on earth.”
