STRAIGHT MAXIN

frontline/pbs and the washington post have done an amazing job with this new investigative project called top secret america.  read below, and also visit these two micro sites: washington post + frontline

FRONTLINE goes inside The Washington Post’s major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11. Coming fall 2010 to PBS.

A major examination by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin is the subject of an upcoming FRONTLINE documentary produced by veteran producer Michael Kirk. The Post’s two-year investigation looks at the top secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001—a world that has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that few know how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or how many agencies duplicate work being done elsewhere.

the end of poverty? is a 2008 documentary describing the methods of the free market enslavement of undeveloped countries.

lol @ all the sterotypes in this movie they call me bruce.  things were “simpler” in the 80s.

mon chinois is an animated short by cedric villain that tackles western stereotypes of the chinese, and asians as a whole.  it’s in french, but you’ll get it by watching the cleverly animated sequences.

on july 17, the california legislature quietly approved a landmark bill to apologize to the state’s chinese-american community for racist laws enacted as far back as the mid–19th century gold rush, which attracted about 25,000 chinese from 1849 to 1852. the laws, some of which were not repealed until the 1940s, barred chinese from owning land or property, marrying whites, working in the public sector and testifying against whites in court. The new bill also recognizes the contributions chinese immigrants have made to the state, particularly their work on the transcontinental railroad.

read the entire article at time magazine.