Is there a such thing as dishearteningly inspirational? I read a blurb on The Root this evening that might fit the term. While discussing 13 year old prodigy Autum Ashante’s push to be reinstated at the University of Connecticut, writer Lynette Holloway stated that one possible reason the school rescinded her acceptance was because of …
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Check out how the city of Sandy is creating its own city-run internet provider. That’s one way to fight back against attacks on net neutrality. http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2011/07/sandy_fiber_internet_project_t.html
Have you ever clicked on a random friend on your Facebook profile that you didn’t recognize, only to have it be an impostor that gets deleted minutes later? It happened to me once and I thought I was having an episode but here’s a column from the Huffington Post that could help explain what really …
Latin America holds one fifth of world’s oil – Features – Al Jazeera English. Good to keep in mind whenever the US does anything in Latin America. Also why they want to dispose Hugo Chavez so badly.
The saying goes, “Behind every great fortune is a great crime.” In that sense, Shawn Carter, aka Jay-Z, is akin to P.J. Kennedy. Kennedy ran a bootlegging operation during Prohibition, which won him popularity and guaranteed him success when he ran for political office. Since, his descendants have accumulated massive wealth and political power (and …
Protests Grow in Solidarity with California Prisoners as Hunger Strikes Enter Third Week. Check out this Democracy Now! story on the 3rd week of California prisoner hunger strikes. These people would rather die than continue to be tortured.
Check out this story on the Huffington Post on how Google banked off subprime advertisements and turned out to be one of the few who profited from the housing bubble bursting. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-newman/the-cost-of-lost-privacy-_3_b_893042.html#es_share_ended
If you could stop murders before they happened, would you? What about job loss and increased poverty? With the Colombian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) still pending you can. According to Arthur Stamoulis, of the Oregon Fair Trade Campaign, there is still a week to urge your representatives to vote against the passage of FTA. 70,000 …
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David and Kevin, who asked to keep their real names off the record, were both convicted of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. For David, a 31-year-old black male, and Kevin, a 21-year-old white male, this is where the similarities end. David comes from an immigrant family in one of the poorer neighborhoods in …
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In what could go down as the most explosive, yet under reported story of the summer, The Independent reported that a prominent human rights group could find no evidence that Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader and despised despot, ordered mass rapes among other shocking crimes during the Libyan protests. According to Amnesty International, there was …