Visa says it has suspended all payments to WikiLeaks pending an investigation of the organization's business. Visa's decision is a powerful blow to the loosely knit organization, which relies on online donations to fund its operations. Popular online payment company PayPal, Inc. has already ... Read more...
Tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees. Violence erupted as thousand of protesters battled police and stormed the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party. Over 50,000 students, lecturers and s... Read more...
There’s a record shop just down from Notting Hill Gate tube station in London. If you dig through the racks (‘Hip-Hop/Rap, section P’), you’ll come across a particular marked-down seven-inch record. It shows a bemused-looking Pharoahe Monch, dressed up in an Elvis jumpsuit and stunner shad... Read more...
Sarah Baartman (1789-1815), also known as Saartjie Baartman or the Hottentot Venus, was an African woman who became a sideshow in London and Paris. She was almost completely naked and had a very large behind, even for the part of Africa she came from – near Cape Town in South Africa. Those wh... Read more...
From W.A.R. (We Are Renegades.) Pharoahe Monch took to the London airwaves on Kiss 100s, Hip Hop Show on Sunday, hosted by Shortee Blitz and DJ MK, with a spontaneous live in-studio premiere performance of his new song, titled ‘Clap’. Produced by M-Phazes and featuring Showtime on the choru... Read more...
Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and morally unfit should be sterilised. Professor David Marsland is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow in Sociology... Read more...
Scientists now admit that emissions from aircraft are forming artificial clouds that block out the sun, precisely what geoengineering advocates like top eugenicist and White House science advisor John P. Holdren have called for, but the article tries to insinuate that the effect is caused by natur... Read more...
Astonishingly, as Wall Street reform enters its final hours a tired, generic corporate refrain against regulation is gaining traction. As bigwig bankers and their lobbyist brethren fight to defeat tough new rules on derivatives—the crazy casino that brought down AIG—all their sloganeers can co... Read more...
M.I.A., the provocative British-Sri Lankan rapper, is famous for supporting righteous warfare in her highly-political lyrics. Now, she's engaged in a pitched battle with a celebrity journalist over an unflattering profile that appeared in the New York Times Magazine. This weekend, she hit back ... Read more...