A State Department employee was scapegoated for linking an already published WikiLeaks document to his blog. On the same day that more than 250,000 unredacted State Department cables haemorrhaged out onto the internet, I was interrogated for the first time in my 23-year State Department caree... Read more...
The word “pioneer” gets used a lot when it comes to hip-hop. But understand this, people: Bobby Robinson, who passed away last Friday, at age 93, defined the words “rap industry pioneer.” He opened up his own record shop in Harlem in 1946 (which is well beyond old school or even ancient s... Read more...
House Minority leader and corporate bankster stooge John Boehner said he thinks taxpayers should help pick up the tab for the clean up. “I think the people responsible in the oil spill — BP and the federal government — should take full responsibility for what’s happening there,” Boehner ... Read more...
"How do you write to a family that your own father hurt so much?" Sebastian Marroquin, son of the infamous Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, posed this question in a letter to the families of two of his father's most prominent victims. Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was Colombia's justice minister in the... Read more...