1. 22 January 2006

    957 days ago

    Why We Fight - A Film By Eugene Jarecki

    On the military industrial complex. When war gets this profitable, we’re going to see lots more of it. Opening in a week or two around the country.

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  2. 16 January 2006

    963 days ago

    The Last Days of Martin Luther King in Photos

    Martin Luther King in his Own Words.

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  3. A little something to aspire to

    964 days ago

    Martin Luther King, Jr.

    How many americans are there with days named after them, anyway? Presidents day is mostly about Washington and Lincoln. Labor Day oddly enough comes out of those goddamn socialist wishes for reasonable wages and the 8 hour workday. Fuck Columbus, he was the biggest asshole. That leaves Veterans and Memorial days. MLK is the only guy with his own day.

    He deserves it.

    What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

    This is leading a few extremists today to advocate for Negroes the same destructive and conscienceless power that they have justly abhorred in whites. It is precisely this collision of immoral power with powerless morality which constitutes the major crisis of our times.

    And I say to you, I have also decided to stick to love. For I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And I’m going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn’t popular to talk about it in some circles today. I’m not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I’m talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate.

    Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

    All excerpted from Where do we go from here. Read his speeches, sermons, and lectures. Wikiquote.

    And huh, the US federal government conspired, along with the city of Memphis and the state of Tennessee to kill the guy. I hadn’t heard that before. It came out in a wrongful death trial in 1999, and is noted a few places, yet disputed by scholars. Fuckin’ a.

  4. 24 November 2005

    1016 days ago

    Ward Churchill speaks (by L. Proyect)

    I saw five squaws under a bank for shelter. When the troops came up to them they ran out and showed their persons, to let the soldiers know they were squaws and begged for mercy, but the soldiers shot them all…There were some thirty or forty squaws collected in a hole for protection; they sent out a little girl about six years old with a white flag on a stick; she had not proceeded but a few steps when she was shot and killed. All the squaws in the hole were afterwards killed… The squaws offered no resistance. Every one I saw dead was scalped. I saw one squaw cut open with an unborn child, as I thought, lying by her side…I saw quite a number of infants in arms killed with their mothers.” Robert Bent, in US Senate report The Chivington Massacre

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  5. 18 April 2005

    1236 days ago

    FAQ: The Annotated "American Pie"

    Does this much thought go into any sorts of music these days? Amazing, or just over analyzation?

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