It was one of the earliest acts of media activism, and it would have ramifications beyond what we could have imagined at the time it came to be known: on March 3rd, 1991, in Los Angeles, George Holliday used his camcorder to capture evidence of at least four LAPD police officers assaulting African-American Rodney King, and the footage became a hot...
Hilarious news today, as Barack Obama speaks out on the election results and aftermath in Iran, the country known - in the War on Terror™ - as The One That Got Away. The irony is incredible. Back when the United States were friends with The Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein (while he was gassing thousands of Kurds, but going along with Western...
"I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it." - then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright, when asked if half a million dead children under sanctions in Iraq can be justified. In Vietnam, young Americans fought for what they were told was a "good cause," dying there in their thousands,...
"The things you own end up owning you." - Fight Club Post-war, 1950s, everyone was enjoying the extravagance of having financial freedom again. Forget rationing, forget sacrifice for the war effort, it was time for television sets, fancy clothes, and nice cars! In the decades following, people were told to capitalize on the opportunity to make...
Strange days indeed. Not too long ago I'd settled in a home in the city of Kitchener, Canada, and now here I am back in Doncaster, England, the town in which I was born but haven't spent much time around for years. And in both, kids celebrate this date of 4:20 by smoking pot at 4:20pm to defy authority. Unfortunately in Kitchener, formerly known...
"(Milton) Friedman created this crisis! He is dead and, really, it's too bad. I'd like to see him arraigned before the International Court of Justice for crimes against humanity. With his idea that market operation is perfect, he let all greed, all human voracity, express itself openly." - Michel Rocard, former Prime Minister of France Let's go...
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