Barack Obama waited just three days after Hillary Clinton pulled out of the race to declare, on CNBC, “Look. I am a pro-growth, free-market guy. I love the market.”Demonstrating that this is no mere spring fling, he has appointed 37-year-old Jason Furman to head his economic policy team. Furman is one of Wal-Mart’s most prominent [...]
Jun
19
Naomi Klein: What Does Obama’s ‘Love of Markets’ Mean for Our Economic Future?
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Jun
19
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater is Still in Charge, Deadly, Above the Law and Out of Control
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On June 3, Jeremy Scahill’s bestselling Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army was released in fully revised and updated paperback form. The new edition includes reporting on the now-famous Nisour Square massacre on Sept. 16 of last year, in which Blackwater mercenaries opened fire in a Baghdad neighborhood, brutally murdering [...]
Jun
19
The floodwaters are rising, swamping cities, breaching levees. Tens of thousands are displaced. Many are dead. No, I am not talking about Hurricane Katrina, but about the Midwest United States. As the floodwaters head south along the Mississippi, devastating communities one after another, the media are overflowing with televised images of the destruction.While the TV [...]
Jun
19
SWAGGER THEY GONNA JACK
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Jun
19
Hip Hop / Rap Legend Sadat X Inks Deal with Affluent Records
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Jun
19
Moroccan hip-hop group Fnaïre loses member in fatal crash
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Jun
19
Lee Makes Time for Traveler
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Spike Lee will co-write and direct Time Traveler, based on a memoir by theoretical physicist Ronald Mallett, Variety reported.
The book, Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality, recounts Mallett’s rise from poverty to become one of the nation’s first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. It also lays [...]