By Rosstene Valikhani With Muammar Gaddafi’s demise, understand that the so-called “reporting” done by the mainstream media has been deliberately distorted to legitimize the NATO invasion of Libya. Dan Lieberman writes in “NATO Conquers Libya,” that the pretext for invading Libya was the false claim that Gaddafi was mass murdering Libyan’s prompting NATO to intervene with authorization from U.N. Security Council Resolutions 1970 and 1973. The U.N. Resolutions however, only authorized “to take all necessary measures, notwithstanding paragraph 9 of… Read more

This fall, CBS brought something back to television that seemed long gone: pure, unadulterated racism. “2 Broke Girls,” created by comedian Whitney Cummings and “Sex and the City” creator Michael Patrick King, is a sitcom with a recession-era twist. The show revolves around two white girls who waitress at a small Brooklyn diner. Max, played by Kat Dennings, and Caroline, played by Beth Behrs, work for the foreign-born Korean owner, Han “Bryce” Lee, played by Matthew Moy. It is obvious… Read more

It was 5:32am, on my first morning in Istanbul, when I was awakened by the loud crackle of a speaker. My hotel room was still shrouded in nighttime darkness. I rolled over, assuming what I had heard must have been the rickety air-conditioner, and invited sleep to return. Moments later the speaker crackled again, this time followed by a voice. It started as a low wail, which escaped through the speaker in a short burst. Almost immediately it started again,… Read more

The fact that more people are now familiar with the term “debt ceiling” than “capitalism” is indicative of the level of ignorance or indifference. Capitalism is not the “free market” — we have a not-so-invisible hand giving million dollar salaries, billion dollar subsidies, and trillion dollar bailouts to people that don’t deserve to be called human beings. Capitalism is paper controlling labor. Paper in the form of $,  ¥, €, ? or debt in the form of a mortgage, car… Read more

S urveillance cameras spread across campus may have cut down the time and resources spent searching for the suspected gunman at the Oviatt Library last month.  Although there are security cameras in the Oviatt structure, the remaining university buildings aren’t monitored, which allowed the suspect to walk away, seemingly unnoticed. “Cameras may reduce the likelihood of crime,” said Ellis Godard, a professor of sociology.  “It’s a construct where people do feel safer when cameras are up.  People behave themselves.  They’re… Read more