WALL STREET JOURNAL– For the second time, Icelanders voted down a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros lost in the island nation’s 2008 financial collapse—at once a bold popular rejection of the notion that taxpayers must bear the burden for bankers’ woes and a risky outcome that will complicate Iceland’s efforts to rejoin global markets. The … Read More
Media Roots Music- Atop Set #2 by Media Roots MEDIA ROOTS– With my second set for Media Roots Music, I continue to explore my different musical obsessions. At the beginning of the mix there is a sense of technology’s distance and coldness with the sounds. The end of the set ends with the more tangible essence of hands on instruments … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- If anyone had any doubt that the morals of our governors in Washington are as flexible and flimsy as a half-chewed rubber band, then they need look no further than Obama & Co.’s disparate, polar-opposite approaches to the twin tyrants of Egypt and Libya. When democracy ‘threatened’ (as Washington political elites saw it) to break out in Egypt … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS – In the glory days of Rome, Julius Caesar came to understand that the masses could be pacified so long as they had plenty of food to eat and games to entertain them. It is said that while barbarians crashed at the city gates, Romans sat mesmerized by the displays of gratuitous violence in the Coliseum. Rome, like … Read More
BET– As the 2012 presidential elections draws closer, the arguments for and against President Obama grow more heated. Last night, an outright shouting match between two of America’s most notable Black leaders—Cornel West and Al Sharpton—gave an indication as to just how important this election will be. West, a Princeton professor and author, and Sharpton, a controversial civil rights icon, … Read More
