9 January 2014 — FAIR Blog
Columbia University’s Carl Hart reenacted the Marshall McLuhan scene from Annie Hall on the O’Reilly Factor–playing the McLuhan role himself.
It happened as O’Reilly was explaining his latest crackpot theory about why young people are so horrible. According to the Fox News host, texting, marijuana use and videogames are leading the young down an escapist path to destruction. O’Reilly repeated his theory through several iterations: Continue reading
22 November 2012 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: I don’t put human rights on an equal footing when it comes to talking about the oppressed versus the oppressor (inc. transcript) Continue reading
22 November 2012 — The Real News Network
Michael Ratner: I don’t put human rights on an equal footing when it comes to talking about the oppressed versus the oppressor (inc. transcript) Continue reading
15 July 2011 — NACLA
NACLA subscribers should be getting the print edition of our Mexico Drug Crisis issue this week. But for those of you who have not yet subscribed, you can read the stories of four women traffickers and a 16-year-old hit man online for free.
1 July 2011 — RT
The French were always doubtful that Dominique Strauss-Kahn forced a New York hotel maid into oral sex, with a poll published back in May attesting that 57 percent of France thought that DSK was a victim of a conspiracy.
6 June 2011 — Democracy Now
A high-level international panel has concluded the so-called “war on drugs” has failed and that governments should consider legalizing substances, including marijuana. The Global Commission on Drug Policy is comprised of 19 members, including several former heads of state. The Office of National Drug Control Policy at the White House has refuted the findings of the commission’s report. We speak to Dr. Gabor Maté, a Canadian physician and bestselling author of four books, including In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction. “On any level you care to name, the war on drugs is a failure,” Dr. Maté says. [includes rush transcript]
Transcript follows:
15 September, 2010 — William John Cox – The Peoples Voice
For almost 40 years, the United States has waged a war on its own citizens who have used marijuana as a part of a drug culture originally encouraged by the government. The war was commenced despite the government’s own findings that marijuana posed less of a risk to American society than alcohol, and that the greatest harm that would result from criminalization would be the injury caused to those arrested for possession and use. The harm caused by the war extends beyond its 15 million prisoners; its cost has exceeded a trillion dollars, and it has benefitted only those who profit from the illegal cultivation and sale of marijuana.
31 July, 2009 — Joe Bageant
A short history of why we eat oil, can’t smoke pot, and why assault weapons are so expensive in our hour of need
(With running commentary by THE SCREAMING MAN)
Well, for starters, the above title is a damned lie, since this little screed is not a history. It’s just rumination on the tilting point at which Americans started the slide into the deepest sort of cultivated consumer consciousness — which is to say our corporate managed engorgement and swinedom at the service of the rich.
Very rich families and corporatists, to whom, as in earlier articles, we shall refer to as ‘the bastards,’ have always been with us. Even Tom Jefferson thought periodic revolution against wealth and authority was desirable to keep these bastards in check. Which implies that he figured they would inevitably get us by the throat down on the floor from time to time.
The New Dark Age 