Archive for October, 2007
links for 2007-10-31
How Racism Affects IQ [AlterNet]
Closing the education gap between races requires a critical look at early education and health care disparities — not unfounded statements that black people are less intelligent.
Mitt Romney: Will Republicans Elect a Bloodsucking CEO? [AlterNet]
Mitt Romney’s endless bragging about his wealth and success has kept him near the top of the [...]
links for 2007-10-26
The Business Press and Me: a Case of Unrequited Love [AlterNet]
Finance journalists have attacked my book, but I remain devoted to their papers. After all, they supplied the facts I used.
Obama Plays to Anti-Gay Sentiment [AlterNet]
Barack Obama takes a page straight from the Bush campaign playbook, touring with a notorious gay basher whose last political [...]
links for 2007-10-21
Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter [AlterNet]
When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system.
Bill Cosby’s New Book Full of Racial Stereotypes [AlterNet]
Cosby’s new book continues to tar black communities and the black poor [...]
links for 2007-10-16
Americans Have Become ‘Good Germans’ [AlterNet]
“Bush lied” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves.
Clarence Thomas, the Anti-Black [AlterNet]
Thomas is often described as a “complicated” personality, but that’s just a euphemism for being a self-loathing ally of the worst sections of the white ruling class.
Always Away [...]
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The Health Risks of Racism [AlterNet]
Is inequality making us sick?
Recording Industry Slams Single Mom for File-Sharing [AlterNet]
Last week, a jury determined that Jammie Thomas, a single mother living in Minnesota, should pay $222,000 to the recording industry for allowing other people to download 24 songs off her computer.
It’s the End of the Road for John [...]
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How Americans Like Their Greed: Supersized [AlterNet]
Wanting everything is not the problem. Always getting what we want is.
Political Absurdity Hits the Iowa Caucuses [AlterNet]
The media following the presidential campaigns in Iowa depict voters as gravely caring about meaningless issues like “likeability” and “electability.”
Absolute, 100 Percent, Unadulterated Free Speech [AlterNet]
It doesn’t matter which holes free speech [...]
links for 2007-10-02
Stop Saying Iraq Is Another Vietnam; It’s Another Enron [AlterNet]
Bush is fighting a war with phony accounting tricks. They fudged the numbers to get us into Iraq and cooked the books to keep us there.
Poverty is Hazardous to Your Health [AlterNet]
A look at the penny-wise, pound-foolish complexities of our bizarre healthcare system.
The Mind-Booty Problem [Slate]
Rethinking [...]
