Happy Memorial MLK Birthday Day. Have you wondered what Dr. King would think of the presidential candidates if he were alive?
Barack Obama gave a speech took the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - the same church where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. helped rev up the civil rights movement.
“If we’re [...]
Here’s a video that gives a pretty good idea of how America is currently viewed in much of the world. It may have an unfamiliar flavor to an American audience, but it’s worth watching the whole song. The imagery is striking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlMnf7t4t4
(Thanks to JR)
Don’t miss an American video response.
Here is the original version of the editorial that ran on Op-Ed News. They had an exclusive for at least 48 hours on the pithier version - and it ran five days ago.
Note the current status of the situation:
1. There is now a video that shows that Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians [...]
What Crocker and Petraeus Didn’t Say - CommonDreams.org
The Iraq Study Group Implementation Act of 2007
Pentagon Slides Shows 50,000 US troops still in Iraq in 2011
Mission Accomplished? Nope
CNN Poll: September Iraq Report Irrelevant To Views of War
An overwhelming majority of Iraqis believe that security has deteriorated across the country, despite the US military surge, according to [...]
No End in Sight, looks like it deserved the special jury documentary prize it received at Sundance. I’m looking forward to seeing the film, if it shows in Atlanta.
Here’s the trailer (or see it on the home page of the movie site)
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From the director:
“But I had no idea how incompetently the occupation was being planned, [...]
I stumbled across a great post at live. laugh. love.
As a person trying to do things to make this world a better place, it makes me very angry to read the glorification of violence and death in violence as something done out of love and endorsed by God. Loving your neighbor as yourself does [...]
Tori Amos - “Yo George” (Speedbliss bushwacked mix)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCsojSpdMyw
Enjoying Music
