Democracy Now! Headlines 12-12-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González]
READ: Senate Committee’s Report on the CIA’s Use of Torture [Amy Goodman & Juan González]
Senate torture report confirms CIA had ‘black site’ at Guantánamo, lied to Congress. Are they still operating it? [Xeni Jardin]
America Is Built on Torture, Remember? [Noah Berlatsky]
Fighting for the Climate in the Heart of the World [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan]
Democracy Now! – Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More Jobs Than It Creates
Democracy Now! – Pablo Solón on COP 20 and Carbon Markets: This is a New Mechanism to Commodify Nature
Dave Chappelle says police choked him on his own movie set [German Lopez]
Mafia Sweep Nets Reputed Gambino Underboss [Aaron Katersky]
Ben Edelman, Harvard Business School Professor, Goes to War Over $4 Worth of Chinese Food [Hilary Sargent]
Korean Air executive apologizes after nuts incident sparks national outrage [Ju-min Park]
Couple Wins $1M Suit Against Major Bank for ‘Outrageous’ Robocall Harassment [Brian Ross, Stephanie Zimmermann and Randy Kreider]
Time capsule removed from Massachusetts Statehouse [Rodrique Ngowi]
Golden Gate’s Deadliest Shipwreck Located [Megan Gannon]
Controversial Illustrations By Spanish Artist Mirror The Ugly Side Of Society [Dovas]
World’s Biggest Pilgrimage Now Underway, And Why You’ve Never Heard of it! [Sayed Mahdi al-Modarresi]
US Christian terrorism: the other white meat [Corry Doctorow]
Median white household in U.S. has 13 times more wealth than median black household, 10 times more than median Latino [Xeni Jardin]
Tim Wise on Racism and Policing: From “Cracking the Codes” (2012)
Tim Wise on the Rock Newman Show – Race and Racism in America 12/10/14
Tim Wise on Whiteness and Southern Identity – Lexington KY, December, 2014
Tim Wise on Whiteness and the Historical Trick of Racial Privilege
Tim Wise on Movement Building and the Importance of Youth Activism – Lexington, KY, December, 2014
Tim Wise Speech – “Racism, White Denial and Criminal Justice: Ferguson and Beyond,” 12/5/2014 – Lexington, KY
Why Break Windows? [b. traven]
From Ferguson to Oakland [b.tavern]
Black congressional staffers stage walkout over police killings [Philip J. Victor]
Justice for All: Thousands march on Washington to protest killings by police, racial profiling [Xeni Jardin]
Eric Garner’s daughter leads march through NYC to site of her father’s killing by NYPD [Xeni Jardin]
Undercover cop who pointed gun at Oakland protesters just doin’ his job, says CHP [Xeni Jardin]
Autopsy report declares police shooting of Tamir Rice, 12, to be homicide [Xeni Jardin]
Georgia cops pay $100K for jailing woman who said “Fuck the police” [Corry Doctorow]
Meet the Police Chief Who’s Bravely Protesting Police Brutality [Steven Rosenfeld]
Richmond Police union criticizes chief for wearing uniform to protest [Henry Lee]
‘Fresh Off The Boat To Premiere February 10, 2015 On ABC [Phil Yu]
In San Francisco and Los Angeles, Ethnic Studies on Its Way to Classrooms [Julianne Hing]
Teachers describe the terrible state of American education [Corry Doctorow]
Historic Kyoto temple first in Japan to offer gay weddings [Jessica]
The ‘KTown Cowboys’ Are Back! Watch The New Teaser Trailer. [Phil Yu]
Meet Mark Wahlberg’s Hate Crime Victim, 26 Years Later [Phil Yu]
Jeremy Lin wears “I Can’t Breathe” shirt [Phil Yu]
The Huangs are suit the employer that sent them to Qatar [Phil Yu]
C.S. Lee (Vince Masuka from Dexter) joins season two of ‘True Detective’ [Phil Yu]
Stop trashing artists who disclose their finances [Cory Doctorow]
U.S. agency infiltrated Cuba’s hip-hop scene, U.S. taxpayers paid millions for “stupid” covert op [Xeni Jardin]
Own original art from In Real Life! [Copy Doctorow]
Who Killed Wikipedia? [Virginia Postrel]
‘Sit On My Face’: Pro-Porn Protest Goes All Monty Python Outside Of Parliament [Martin Schneider]
Satanic Christmas Sweaters Let You Flip The Bird (Or The Goat Horns) At The Holidays [Ron Kretsch]
Inside the Underground World of Neo-Nazi Biker Gangs: VICE INTL (Germany)
The Greeks Who Pray to Zeus: VICE INTL (Greece)
Polar Bear Man Returns to the Arctic: VICE Reports (Full-length)
Best Music Journalism: November 2014 [Piotr Orlov]
Goody Gone: In Memory of Graeme Goodall – David Katz remembers an unsung hero of Jamaican music. [David Katz]
In Search of Les Rallizes Dénudés – Grayson Haver Currin renews the quest to find out more about Japan’s mysterious psych rock group. [Grayson Haver Currin]
Organized Noize: Odds and Sods from the Atlanta Production Giants – Phillip Mlynar goes deep with the Southern hip hop hitmakers, finding out more about their work with Eric Clapton, Curtis Mayfield, and more. [Phillip Mlynar]
Interview: Dommune’s Ukawa Naohiro [Kiki Kudo]
Top 10: Danceable Kayou-kyoku [Crystal]
The Artisan: The Inimitable Genius of Tatsuro Yamashita [Tetsuro Yokegawa]
Interview: George Benson [Michael A. Gonzales]
Revisit D’Angleo’s 2014 RBMA Lecture
NPR Microphone Check – Rick Ross: ‘It Was Just So Powerful To Me’
– Via NPR Microphone Check
NPR Microphone Check – T.I.: ‘We Make Music That Come From The Heart’
– Via NPR Microphone Check
Midwest Real Podcast – Episoded 57 – 32nd Degree Freemason Author and Brain-Melter Robert W. Sullivan Exposes the Occulted Layers of Iconic Films
Author, 32nd degree Freemason and scholar Robert W. Sullivan IV is back to blast more hidden knowledge! This time, he takes a scalpel to your favorite films, exposing the cloaked allegory, messages, symbols and archetypes that fuel man’s most popular and powerful narratives.
– Via Midwest Real
Chris Rock Names Top 5 Best Rappers & Comedians on Sway in the Morning
