Students Demand More Voices In Debate
Students at the University of Mississippi believe more than two candidates should be included in the first presidential debate tonight.
Check out Haley Crum’s MTV Street Team report from Oxford, Mississippi.
Blues Talkin Moves to DistortedSoul.com
But the man say:
Ain’t nothin’ but the blues doin’ the talkin’, baby.
Conspiracy’s all up inside your mind.
But I find it don’t get better for my people.
It’s just a theory, but conspiracy
Keeps f^ck!n’ with me all the time.
After many years maintaining a music website and a separate blog, I’ve decided to merge the political commentary from BluesTalkin.com into my music site at DistortedSoul.com. Continue reading
Nadir Covers RNC for MTV
While the media’s attention is focused on Denver this week and the Democratic National Convention, I’m packing my bags and gearing up for next week. I will be covering the Republican National Convention for MTV/Knight’s Street Team ‘08.
That’s right. MTV is sending me to St. Paul to hang out with my good friends John McCain, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and of course, GDub. I will blog and Twitter all day every day, and I’ll submit video at the end of each night. You will be able to catch my Twitter updates here at DistortedSoul.com and on MTV’s www.chooseorlose.com. Look for video on my profile at Think.MTV.com/Nadir.
I’ll also keep a close eye on the protests that will occur throughout the Twin Cities, and I’ve got plans to slip over to Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic on Tuesday.
It should be an exciting week! I’m looking forward to it!
Nadir Covers RNC for MTV
While the media’s attention is focused on Denver this week and the Democratic National Convention, I’m packing my bags and gearing up for next week. I will be covering the Republican National Convention for MTV/Knight’s Street Team ’08.
That’s right. MTV is sending me to St. Paul to hang out with my good friends John McCain, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and of course, GDub. I will blog and Twitter all day every day, and I’ll submit video at the end of each night. You will be able to catch my Twitter updates here at DistortedSoul.com and on MTV’s www.chooseorlose.com. Look for video on my profile at Think.MTV.com/Nadir.
I’ll also keep a close eye on the protests that will occur throughout the Twin Cities, and I’ve got plans to slip over to Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic on Tuesday.
It should be an exciting week! I’m looking forward to it!
Partisan Politics Trump the Constitution?
I was just checking out Dave Lindorff’s report from the House Judiciary hearing on impeachment. Two items stood out to me immediately.
First:
As Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the committee, made clear more than once during the six-hour session, this was “not an impeachment hearing, however much many in the audience might wish it to be” He might well have added that he himself was not the fierce defender of the Constitution and of the authority of Congress that he once was before gaining control of the Judiciary Committee, however much his constituents, his wife, and Americans across the country might wish him to be.
Yep. Conyers is bowing down to Pelosi’s pressure on this one. He is more interested in keeping his job as judiciary chair than in defending the Constitution. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Continue reading
Partisan Politics Trump the Constitution?
I was just checking out Dave Lindorff’s report from the House Judiciary hearing on impeachment. Two items stood out to me immediately.
First:
As Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the committee, made clear more than once during the six-hour session, this was “not an impeachment hearing, however much many in the audience might wish it to be” He might well have added that he himself was not the fierce defender of the Constitution and of the authority of Congress that he once was before gaining control of the Judiciary Committee, however much his constituents, his wife, and Americans across the country might wish him to be.
Yep. Conyers is bowing down to Pelosi’s pressure on this one. He is more interested in keeping his job as judiciary chair than in defending the Constitution. Oh, how the mighty have fallen! Continue reading
The Green Party’s Hip Hop Power Move: An AUDIO Interview with Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee Rosa Clemente
Part 1 – Nadir’s Audio Interview with Rosa Clemente
(13 mins 25 secs; 12.3 MB)
Part 2 – Nadir’s Audio Interview with Rosa Clemente
(15 mins 23secs; 14.1 MB)
Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, journalist and co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention. In July 2008 she makes history again as the vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party of the United States. Clemente joins Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney to become the first US presidential ticket led by two women of color. Continue reading
The Green Party’s Hip Hop Power Move: An AUDIO Interview with Green Party Vice-Presidential Nominee Rosa Clemente
Part 1 – Nadir’s Audio Interview with Rosa Clemente
(13 mins 25 secs; 12.3 MB)
Part 2 – Nadir’s Audio Interview with Rosa Clemente
(15 mins 23secs; 14.1 MB)
Rosa Clemente is a community organizer, journalist and co-founder of the National Hip Hop Political Convention. In July 2008 she makes history again as the vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party of the United States. Clemente joins Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney to become the first US presidential ticket led by two women of color. Continue reading
Nader, Obama and ‘White Guilt’
In the interest of full disclosure, I’ll admit that I was a staunch supporter of Ralph Nader’s 2000 presidential campaign. In fact a pro-Nader piece I wrote called, “The Lesser of Two Evils or The Greatest Common Good” found its way onto listservs and blogs across the Internet in October of that year.
However, I have become disappointed in Ralph Nader, his decision to abandon the Green Party, and the fight to create a viable option to the nation’s oppressive two party system. His actions since 2003 seem self-serving and divisive to me.
So I had to weigh in when I saw that Nader is catching flack for some comments he made to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain News recently: Continue reading
Is The Surge Working?
From Huffington Post:
The statement is made in the U.S. media, over and over again, as if it is as factual as the sun rising in the morning and setting in the evening: “The surge is working.”
But just because the media has parroted the talking points of the Bush administration and John McCain’s campaign in making such an assertion, it does not make it true. And a report released by the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) yesterday does something that McCain and the White House probably wish would not be done: actually evaluating progress in Iraq against the goals the administration laid out in January 2007 when undertaking the surge.Guess what? In many material ways, the surge isn’t working. Sorry to rain on the parade of CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS, etc. with the facts.