by Jana Kasperkevic from the guardian Jan. 17, 2015 A new report found that, at 51%, the number of children who qualified for federal programs for free or reduced-price lunches is the highest in at least 50 years,according to the Southern Education Foundation. In other words, in 2013, more than half of […]
By: Darrin Kerr We are the Great Nation Born of independence Become the oppressor The land of opportunity The opportunity to shiver in the streets while hungry The opportunity to walk in space, but not in our inner cities The opportunity to work hard and remain poor We are laws without […]
from AlJazeera America, Jan. 16, 2015 Israel’s fear that Palestinian recognition by the International Criminal Court would bring unwelcome scrutiny of its military actions took a step closer to fruition on Friday, when the the ICC announced a preliminary probe into possible war crimes committed in occupied territories. Chief […]
from the Guardian, Jan 16, 2015 The groundbreaking memoir of a current Guantánamo inmate that lays bare the harrowing details of the US rendition and torture programme from the perspective of one of its victims is to be published next week after a six-year battle for the manuscript to be […]
from Vice.com Jan 16, 2015 The trial of alleged Silk Road mastermind Ross Ulbricht took an unexpected turn Thursday when his defense team laid the blockbuster claim that Ulbricht was framed by another shadowy Bitcoin heavyweight, Mt. Gox founder Mark Karpeles. In his opening statement Tuesday, defense attorney Joshua Dratel […]
Or the perversion of values and the rise of decadence by Mark Linnhoefer A long day of smoking weed and watching TV comes to an end, and I am feeling more and more disgusted with the garbage that passes for “entertainment” nowadays. I can literally feel my brain cells dying […]
BY ROBERT CHALMERS / JANUARY 14, 2015 / Newsweek We were sitting in a bar in Aspen, Colorado, almost 20 years ago, I remind Ralph Steadman, when he first told me that he’d become a cartoonist because he wanted to change the world. It wasn’t the first time he’d made […]
by Anthony Nowicke – originally appeared on Louisville.com May 8, 2014 Hunter S. Thompson was a talent all his own, a breed of genius rarely seen. Tom Wolfe, the godfather of New Journalism, compared Thompson to none other than Mark Twain, calling Thompson “the century’s greatest comic writer.” Thompson grew […]
from Amnesty International & CNN The Saudi Arabian authorities have an opportunity to improve their appalling human rights record by heeding the international outcry about the public flogging of Raif Badawi and halting it immediately, said Amnesty International. The organization has learned that the imprisoned activist, who was sentenced to 10 […]
by Robert Oldenburg The Capital Theatre was undoubtedly the nicest building in town. Few locals would debate it. It was one of the few buildings that could still be dated back to a more prosperous time. When, with the first moments of the town’s inception not far removed, the monies […]
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