Tag Archives: 9/11

Boots Riley of The Coup… on Communism, Corporatism, hip-hop, and the need to beat down scabs

By Mark | November 28, 2012

Last night, I had the occasion to speak with world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley on a wide range of subjects spanning from his childhood in Detroit, spent in a household of Communist organizers, to his current work, organizing people in his neighborhood as a member Occupy Oakland. And, of course, we touched on his equally [...]

Posted in Art and Culture, Civil Liberties, Corporate Crime, Detroit, Economics, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged 21 Grams, advertising, Alex Rivera, American Splendor, anti-capitalist, at-risk youth, Barbara Ransby, Bill Maher, Boots Riley, California, Capitalism, civil rights, class, College of Ethnic Studies, Communism, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, Danny Goldberg, dark comedy, fast food workers union, Five Million Ways to Kill a CEO, foreclosure defense, fundraisers, Greensboro, guillotine building workshop, Happiness, hip hop, ILWU, independent film, International Longshore and Warehouse Union, interviews, Japanther, Jeff Clark, K-Mart, Kev Choice, KKK, Ku Klux Klan, La Peña Cultural Center, labor history, labor movement, Led Zeppelin, Levi's, longshoremen, lunch counter sit-ins, Magic Clap, Me and Jesus the Pimp in a '79 Granada Last Night, militancy, NAACP, Nirvana, North Carolina, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Ohio Players, Oscar Grant, Ozone House, picket lines, police brutality, political hip hop, political organizing, Politically Incorrect, Port of Oakland, Progressive Labor Party, Prop 21, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, rap, revolution, rhetoric of violent revolution, San Francisco, San Francisco State, San Francisco State strike, scabs, SDS, sit-down strikes, Sleep Dealer, social justice, Sorry to Bother You, speaking truth to power, Street Sweeper Social Club, Students for a Democratic Society, sympathy strikes, Taft–Hartley Act, Ted Hope, The Coup, The Guillotine, The Ice Storm, threat of violence, unions, United Steelworkers, USW, Walmart, Walter Riley, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense, we need a revolution, WEFD, Woodruff's, work stoppage, World Trade Center | 25 Comments

The manufactured Republican outrage over the attack of our consulate in Benghazi is not only disingenuous but morally reprehensible

By Mark | November 16, 2012

As I mentioned yesterday, the Republicans, in the wake of last week’s crushing defeat at the polls, are desperately looking for something to cling to. They’re looking for an opportunity to delay introspection, come across to the American people once again as forceful, and, most importantly, weaken the President as he attempts to make the [...]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged American embassies, Barbara Doherty, Benghazi, Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Glen Doherty, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, Innocence of Muslims, John McCain, Libya, national security, Soledad O'Brien, Susan Rice, terrorism | 35 Comments

Here we go again… the Swiftboating of Obama has begun

By Mark | August 15, 2012

A few nights ago, I told you about a family member of mine who had shared a purposefully misleading political graphic on Facebook, and how I responded. The piece, which incorrectly attributed $5 billion of the nation’s debt to the “Democratic majority,” was produced by an organization called Right Change, a fake grassroots entity bankrolled [...]

Posted in Media, Observations, Politics | Also tagged astroturf, Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US, Bush, Bush administration, Dick Cheney, Dishonorable Disclosures, Federal Election Commission, Fred Eshelman, George Bush the Lesser, intelligence, Iraq war, leaks, liberal media, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, Mission Accomplished, national security, Navy SEALS, Obama, OPSEC, Osama bin Laden, Plamegate, political ads, RightChange.com, Romney, Ryan Zinke, special forces, Special Operations for America, Special Operations Political Committee, state secrets, Super PAC, Swiftboating, Valerie Plame | 22 Comments

I love New York, but the corporate pornography of Times Square leaves me flaccid

By Mark | June 16, 2012

After attending the Netroots Nation conference in Providence, I spent $23, and took the Megabus to New York. (I’d wanted to take the train, but I couldn’t justify spending the additional $90.) I met up with Linette and the kids there, and we took over the Brooklyn apartment of Linette’s brother, Neal, forcing him to [...]

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A new Saudi connection to 9/11 surfaces 10 years after the fact

By Mark | September 12, 2011

The following blurb was posted to the Democracy Now website today. Former Florida senator, Bob Graham, is calling on President Obama to reopen the investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks after new information has emerged about the possible role of prominent Saudis in the 9/11 attack. According to recent news reports, a wealthy young Saudi [...]