You’ve got to be taught To hate and fear, You’ve got to be taught From year to year, It’s got to be drummed In your dear little ear You’ve got to be carefully taught. You’ve got to be taught to be afraid Of people whose eyes are oddly made, And people whose skin is a …
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Jun 09 2016
In Memoriam: Mohammad Ali 1942 – 2016
The world lost an icon on Friday June 3 with the death of boxing champion and legend Mohammad Ali. He died at the age of 74 from septic shock due to a respiratory illness in a Phoenix, Arizona hospital. He was buried today in Louisville, Kentucky. Born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr. on January 17, 1942 …
Jun 08 2016
Paying It Back With Caution
In a segment on debt collectors and their predatory practices, John Oliver, host of HBO’s “Last Week Tonight,” stuck it to them by creating his own debt collection agency buying nearly $15 million in Texas medical debt for a mere $60,000. Oliver said it was “disturbingly easy” for his show to set up a company, …
May 26 2016
Drones, Corporations and Assassinations
I recently attended a party for investigative journalist and founding editor of The Intercept Jeremy Scahill’s new book, The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program and party it was. The Intercept staff gave talks interspersed with music and food. Glenn Greenwald, the other founding editor, appeared via live feed from Brazil. In …
May 17 2016
Should You Call Uber In An Emergency?
How good, or bad, is your 911 system? When you have an emergency you want a human voice to answer not a recording to put you on hold. Worse, is when they can’t find you. This has never happened to me, thank the FSM. It has happened to way too many people across the country …
Apr 29 2016
US Exonerates Itself of War Crimes After Bombing a Hospital
I listened, with utter disgust, to the Pentagon’s press conference as it exonerated itself of war crimes after, despite their denial, intentionally bombing the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan last October. The Pentagon said on Friday that its attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, last October was not …
Apr 21 2016
In Memoriam: Prince (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016)
Prince Rogers Nelson (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016), known by his stage name Prince, died at his Paisley Park studio in Minnesota, the state where he was born and raised. He was well known for his innovation and eclectic, flamboyant stage presence and wrote hundreds of songs for himself and other artists. He …
Apr 20 2016
Arrests In Flint Are Not Enough
Two low level Michigan officials and a Flint city employee were charged today for their roll in the poisoning of the Flint water system. The charges are linked both to the handling of a change in the city’s water supply in 2014 and to months of official denials that the change had led to a …
Apr 18 2016
100 Years of the Prize Pulitzer
In his will, the Pulitzer Prize was established by Hungarian born Joseph Pulitzer to be administered by Columbia University in New York City, The first prizes in 21 categories were awarded in 1917. Today the 100th Pulitzer Prizes were announced via YouTube. The 2016 Pulitzer Prize Winners JOURNALISM Public Service – Associated Press Breaking …
Mar 25 2016
Two Tragic Fires That Sparked Major Changes
Today we mark the anniversary of two tragic fires that occurred in New York City. In 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire claimed 146 lives and 79 years later, in 1990, the Happy Land fire killed 87 people, the most deadly fire in the city since 1911. It’s believed that the factory, which had four …
Mar 08 2016
International Women’s Day March 8, 2016
On March 8 in 1911, International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. International Women’s Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on the 8th of March every year. It is a major day of global celebration …
Feb 13 2016
In Memoriam: Justice Antonin Scalia (1936 – 2016)
Associate Justice Antonin Scalia died this morning at a ranch in West Texas. He was 79. Scalia was appointed to the court in 1986, by President Ronald Reagan, as the first Italian American to serve on the high court. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1936 and brought up in New York City. …