Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

The anti-Ethnic Studies measure

The measure bans schools from teaching hate, anti-Americanism and the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Horne, 2281’s “intellectual author,” claims that Raza Studies advocates these things, and promotes “ethnic solidarity” and results in racial segregation in schools.

The Draconian measure and Orwellian effort does not call for the outright elimination of Raza/Ethnic Studies. Instead, it calls for the withdrawing of 10% of district funds every month that a program is found to be out of compliance. For TUSD, that would amount to $3 million per month, a sum it can ill-afford to lose.

Unchecked development, and the widespread, unregulated pumping of groundwater throughout Siem Reap city, has raised concerns that the temples, including the world's largest religious monument, Angkor Wat, could crack or crumble if too much water is drained away.

The temples and towers of the 402-square-kilometre Angkor site sit on a base of sand, kept firm by a constant supply of groundwater that rises and falls with the seasons, but which is now being used to supply a burgeoning city.

With the number of visitors to the northern Cambodian province approaching 2 million a year, increasing pressure is being put on the scarce water resource.

Thousands of illegal private pumps have been sunk across the city, pulling millions of litres of water from the ground each day.

The Tillman Story

The Tillman Story

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Pat Tillman gave up his professional football career to join the Army Rangers in 2002 -- and became an instant symbol of patriotic fervor and unflinching duty. But the truth about Pat Tillman is far more complex, and ultimately far more heroic, than the caricature created by the media. And, when the government tried to turn his death into propaganda, they took on the wrong family. From her home in Santa Cruz mountains, Pat's mother, Dannie Tillman, led the family's crusade to reveal the truth beneath the mythology of their son's life and death. "The Tillman Story" not only shines a light on the shady aftermath of Pat's death and calls to task the entire chain of command but also examines themes as timeless as the notion of heroism itself.

El legado de Tony Judt

La necesidad de ser críticos con quienes nos gobiernan.

La disposición al desacuerdo, el rechazo o la disconformidad -por irritante que pueda ser cuando se lleva a extremos- constituye la savia de una sociedad abierta. Necesitamos personas que hagan una virtud de oponerse a la opinión mayoritaria. Una democracia de consenso permanente no será una democracia durante mucho tiempo.l

The pop-psych foolishness of our era

Now that we’re so connected, we struggle to connect. We want to go home, but we’re spiritually lost. Fractured stories reflect our fractured selves. Modern life is an Edward Hopper painting, with everyone everywhere staring off into the distance, texting into the void, and muttering about the media and the U.S.

The face of facebook

The site is a directory of the world’s people, and a place for private citizens to create public identities. You sign up and start posting information about yourself: photographs, employment history, why you are peeved right now with the gummy-bear selection at Rite Aid or bullish about prospects for peace in the Middle East.

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Sperm donor mix-up: Where do these two girls come from?

Einstein's theory is proved

Time is a relative concept and the higher you live above sea level the faster you should age.

Einstein's theory of relativity states that time and space are not as constant as everyday life would suggest. He suggested that the only true constant, the speed of light, meant that time can run faster or slower depending on how high you are, and how fast you are travelling.

Black agenda forum 2010

The Black Agenda is the American Agenda." They focused on challenges facing the African-American community and the nation, the question of whether America was in a "post-racial" era after the election of President Barack Obama, and the future of race relations.

State of the black union 2009

Tavis Smiley’s symposium on the State of the Black Union held in Los Angeles, CA.

"Making America As Good As Its Promise."

Mike Davis

Why the U.S. working class is different

Tea With Frankenstein

Democrats are the very reason for the tea party, this latest episode of American idiocy. Had the party done something with the grand historic opportunity handed to them two years ago, none of this would be happening. Had they not booted so badly a rare alignment of the stars that gave them crises allowing real, serious solutions, along with a despised opposition allowing the final crushing of the conservative disease for a generation or more, we wouldn’t be sitting here today laughing at serious candidates for the United States Senate who have staked out firm positions on the societal perils of onanism.

If Barack Obama had channeled Harry Truman instead of Neville Chamberlain, this show would have been over a long time ago. But the president instead decided to make nice with vicious thugs, even though he never needed to, and even though they were publicly excoriating him in the ugliest and most deceitful terms, just as he was negotiating with them. And negotiating. And negotiating some more. The Fool Down The Hill spent a year cutting deals with Republicans in Congress on his health care debacle, giving in to them at every turn, and stiff-arming the progressives who had made him president, only to achieve exactly what anyone who has been remotely conscious since Joe McCarthy’s day knew would be the outcome: no Republican votes for a bill they themselves had helped water down to near insignificance. Add to that Republican obstruction on every other issue, the almost complete absence of GOP votes on anything – even legislation they had previously sponsored – the Democrats favored, along with the right’s continuous assault on every real or (mostly) imagined personal characteristic of the president, and now you see a huge part of the explanation for the tragicomedy that is American politics at this moment.

What’s worse, Obama’s stupidity is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time. By means of his actions in the White House so far, he has nearly guaranteed that he cannot recover in the coming years, no matter what. He has done one of the few things that more or less assures his presidency of being finished. The right will never let up on him, even if he were to adopt their agenda wholesale. And let’s be clear about this – he more or less already has. If you lay out the positions of the Obama administration on everything from civil liberties to gay rights to economic policy to national ‘defense’ and more, there’s hardly a damn shred of difference between his positions and George W. Bush’s. It’s a ludicrous lie to call this milquetoast regressive in a Democratic suit a liberal, let alone a socialist. And we’ve only just begun with Bad Barry, folks. After he gets his ass royally kicked in November, Obama will lurch even further to the right. But that will engender even greater scorn from the sickos living over there under their slime-infested rocks, as well as endless congressional investigations of bogus administration scandals, likely including an impeachment. Or did you miss the 1990s entirely, Barack?

But that’s only the start of it. Because Obama was too dumb to recognize that everything hinged on reviving the economy (did you miss the last century, too, Bro?), and because he was too cowardly to move boldly on anything whatsoever that he did, he has also lost ordinary, centrist, independent voters who think both parties are generally worthless but will vote for anyone who can actually produce solutions. It’s possible that you can bring those people back, but it ain’t likely. The first rule of politics is that people vote their pocketbooks. Thus, any prayer at winning again would require an economic recovery. But that isn’t gonna happen, in part because Half O’Bama half-assed the stimulus bill, partly because he was seeking bipartisan support which – wait for it now – never came, despite the compromises which reduced the size of the stimulus and turned one-third of it into ineffective tax cuts that the one-tune-jukebox Neanderthals demanded. It’s also not gonna happen because this downturn is less a one-off event than it is the culmination (we grimly hope – it could get worse yet) of a thirty year grand national downsizing project, and because it is less an economic recession than it is a wholesale and permanent restructuring. No economist I’ve heard of sees any shred of economic recovery anywhere on the horizon throughout all of 2011, and neither do I. In fact, there are good reasons to think it gets worse from here.

Iraq Deaths

The number is shocking and sobering. It is at least 10 times greater than most estimates cited in the US media, yet it is based on a scientific study of violent Iraqi deaths caused by the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003.

Bill Maher: "The People Are Sick!" - Part 3 of 3

Bill Maher On Larry King - Part 2 - Teabaggers Are 'Out There'

Bill Maher in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2010.09.13

Chuck, un sin techo que vive en un túnel de tren en Nueva Yorkve en un túnel de tren en Nueva York.

Billionaires are symbols of U.S. individual prowess and virility

Fantasy Finance:

Wall Street moguls make $900,000 an hour.

Wars Aren't Possible Unless Good People Back Them

The U.S. invaded Iraq because most Americans -- including good liberals like Al Franken, Nicholas Kristof & Bill Keller of the New York Times, David Remnick of the New Yorker, the editors of the Atlantic and the New Republic, Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer and John Kerry -- wanted to.

Of course the actual blame for the war goes to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Wolfowitz because they ordered the "precision" bombing, the invasion, the occupation, and the theft of our national treasury. I have no doubt that history will record that they committed the undisputed Crime of the (young) Century.

But how did they get away with it, considering they'd lost the presidential election by 543,895 votes? They also knew that the majority of the country probably wouldn't back them in such a war (a Newsweek poll in October 2002 showed 61% thought it was "very important" for Bush to get formal approval from the United Nations for war -- but that never happened). So how did they pull it off?

They did it by getting liberal voices to support their war. They did it by creating the look of bipartisanship. And they convinced other countries' leaders like Tony Blair to get on board and make it look like it wasn't just our intelligence agencies cooking the evidence.

Bush & Co. had brilliantly conned the New York Times into running a bunch of phony front-page stories about how Saddam Hussein had all these "weapons of mass destruction." The administration gleefully fed this false information not to Fox News or theWashington Times. They gave it to America's leading liberal newspaper. They must have had a laugh riot each morning when they'd pick up the New York Times and read the nearly word-for-word scenarios and talking points that they had concocted in the Vice President's office.

The pH of Foods

List of Alkaline Foods Are You Getting Enough Alkaline Foods in Your Diet?

Woody Allen on Faith, Fortune Tellers and New York

Banksy

Naomi Klein: Building a Real Left

"We have to build that independent left. It has to be so strong and so radical and so militant and so powerful that it becomes irresistible."

Corporate U.S. flag

Eduardo Galeano

"La paz está en manos de aquellos que fabrican armas".

Elisabeth Roudinesco

Right-Wing Republicans vs. Corporate Democrats vs. Progressive Populists

The necessity of trying to prevent right-wing rule on Capitol Hill should not obscure the need to win more seats for genuine progressives.

"Nos mean y los diarios dicen que llueve"

Eduardo Galeano: llaman contratistas a los mercenarios; llaman catástrofes naturales a los desastres que el mundo sufre, porque la naturaleza no tiene la culpa de los crímenes que se cometen contra ella; se invoca a la comunidad internacional y se refieren a un club de banqueros y guerreros que dominan el mundo.

El futuro de la izquierda según Chantal Mouffe

Slavoj Zizek y Alan Badiou

Hardt y Negri. Virilio.

Laclau: prácticas hegemónicas

Dhaka. Bangladesh

Subase quien pueda

Dismantling racism

Tim Wise: eliminating racial bias

Palestinians as Second-Class Citizens: Terms of Coexistence - one state is lasting solution

Palestinians as Second-Class Citizens: Terms of Coexistence - one state is lasting solution

"Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance"

Critical Psychology

Yannis Stavrakakis. The Lacanian Left.
Lorenzo Chiesa. Subjectivity and otherness.

Bruce Fink. Fundamentals of Psychoanalytic technique