The Media as a Reinforcement of Racism

May 2 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, CULTURAL POLITICAL ISSUES, GUEST AUTHOR, INEQUALITY |No Comments

By Tiara Cline In America the struggle for racial equality has become an every growing battle with no end in sight. This can’t be blamed completely on Americans and their lack of knowledge about racism and the actual definition of race, though it does play a role. The main factor that I’m focusing on is [...]

Systematic Injustice Against Sundiata Acoli

April 26 2011 by rowan wolf in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, INEQUALITY, Stephen Lendman, TOXIC CULTURE |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman In her book titled “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Michelle Alexander cites Martin Luther King in 1968 highlighting the need to shift from civil to human rights advocacy, saying initiatives for it just began. In fact, it’s truer now than then with Blacks and Hispanics comprising [...]

Flip sides

April 23 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, EDITORS NOTES, FEATURED, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, IMPERIALISM, Rowan Wolf - Editor in Chief |No Comments

By Rowan Wolf I am publishing two excellent student papers simultaneously as they are almost the flip side of the same issue – namely privilege and what comes tripping off the tongues of the privileged. The first paper is “Divorcing a Friend” and looks at the sad experience of racism in a group of friends [...]

Divorcing a Friend

April 23 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, GUEST AUTHOR, IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT, INEQUALITY |1 Comment

By Devryck Weaver – Spring 2011 I realized quickly when I knew I should That the world was made up of this Brotherhood of Men For whatever that means. ~ Linda Perry I do not know what the process of permanent separation is for a long term friendship. I have only ever lost touch with [...]

Environmental Racism

March 21 2011 by rowan wolf in CULTURAL POLITICAL ISSUES, GUEST AUTHOR, INEQUALITY, THE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, TOXIC CULTURE |No Comments

By Nicholas Scott [Image: High-Level Atomic Waste Dump Targeted at Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah] Even with the vast improvements to environmental protection over the past few decades, there are still more than 1.3 billion people worldwide that live in hazardous and unhealthy physical environments. The generation and transportation of unsafe waste has [...]

The Phenomena of Race

February 18 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, FEATURED, HISTORY, INEQUALITY |1 Comment

By Adam Barlow I remember so vividly my history books in elementary school. The smell of the stiff glossed pages only added to the mystique of the over sized pictures of countless heroes and villains. Yet, thinking back on these moments, I never really perceived these monolithic figures as being white, male, or even American [...]

MLK: a domestic terrorist by today’s slippery standards

April 6 2008 by helsingfors in IDEOLOGICAL COMBAT |No Comments

Dr. King on the fateful balcony, 4 April 1968. Martin Luther King: A Domestic Terrorist? By Ira Chernus If Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were alive today, he might well be leading acts of civil disobedience against the war in Afghanistan. And he would probably be charged with domestic terrorism, under the new anti-terrorism act. [...]

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