Category: News Wire
Portland Educator Gives Away Math Textbooks to Help Families Improve Student Achievement
| August 3, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
Portland Educator Gives Away Math Textbooks to Help Families Improve Student Achievement. Check out my piece in The Skanner. We need more people doing this, especially when the system is making painful cuts to education.
Highlights from HuffPo Story on Sugar Daddies
| August 1, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
Check out this Huffington Post story on the emerging sugar daddy business in colleges and how many students are selling their bodies to pay of their debt. You could call it the answer to Chris Rock’s assertion that he’s never got a smart lap dance. Here are some highlights: ” ‘It’s a very expensive job,’…
Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya | Common Dreams
| August 1, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
Why the West is Committed to the Murderous Rebels in Libya | Common Dreams. I’ve been saying this for a minute but check out this excerpt: “In one respect, the foreign media has been more culpable than governments in giving credibility to the TNC as an alternative to Gaddafi’s regime. Official rebel statements and claims…
Portland Schools Administrator Offers Free Math Books for Kids and Families
| July 29, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under Journalism, News Wire |
Portland Schools Administrator Offers Free Math Books for Kids and Families. Check it out. My first piece in The Skanner. Also, be on the lookout for an update following the book giveaway.
Shooting Crabs in a Barrel with a Kalashnikov
| July 27, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under Musings, News Wire |
I thought I was having an 80s flashback when I heard U.S. tax dollars were going to the Taliban. It’s 2011 right? Perhaps we’re taking this Reagan worship thing a little too far. At least in the 80s we could defend funding and training them because it was to take out the Russians. After all,…
Huffington Post Discusses Truman Revision of Hiroshima Movie
| July 27, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
Checkout this Huffington Post column on the 1947 film Beginning or the End and how President Harry Truman personally had the script re-written to make the bombing of Hiroshima (Nagasaki wasn’t included in the film) look better. Here’s a telling excerpt: “After protests from the White House, the MGM screenwriter James K. McGuinness deleted the…
Don’t Believe Everything You Hear About North Korea
| July 25, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under Musings, News Wire |
The AP recently did a report inside North Korea, both confirming and countering many of the stories we’re told about the country through our media. If there’s one passage from the story that sums it up it’s this: “The common thinking is that North Koreans are shut off from the rest of the world. But…
Why Can’t They Investigate Malcolm X’s Murder?
| July 24, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
According to a blurb on The Root, the Justice Department has decided it won’t investigate the controversial murder of Malcolm X. Affidavits have implicated four men besides the three that were arrested, and out of those three, two are widely suspected of being set up. Many suspect the FBI and local police at least knew…
No Let Up by Hunger Strikers in Pelican Bay | Common Dreams
| July 23, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under News Wire |
No Let Up by Hunger Strikers in Pelican Bay | Common Dreams. For all these prison officials care, men losing 20-35 pounds isn’t enough. What these inmates are doing is the ultimate sacrifice just to be treated like humans.
Saudi Arabia = Don Corleone of the Middle East
| July 22, 2011 | Posted by brucepoinsette under Musings, News Wire |
While Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving has dominated international news coming from the country, here are some other stories that you might’ve forgot. Remember, when you want to get to the bottom of a situation, follow the money. The US completed the largest ever arms sale to Saudi Arabia to the tune of $60…
