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The Rhetoric of Entitlement » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
There’s been a lot about affirmative action in the media recently because the Supreme Court is considering a case that challenges the constitutionality of any consideration of race in university admissions decisions. The poster girl for the case is 23-year old Abigail Noel Fisher who charges that she was denied admission to the University of … Continue reading
Religious Trauma Syndrome: How Some Organized Religion Leads to Mental Health Problems | Alternet
Mexikaresistance.com Editor’s Note: Religion is a mental disorder! At age sixteen I began what would be a four year struggle with bulimia. When the symptoms started, I turned in desperation to adults who knew more than I did about how to stop shameful behavior—my Bible study leader and a visiting youth minister. “If you ask … Continue reading
Tea Party Leader Defends Membership In Fascist Group (VIDEO) | Addicting Info
*Mexikaresistance.com Editor’s Note: Fascism and the Tea Party, as Amerikan as apple pie! Nothing says patriotic like good old-fashioned Fascism, at least according to the president of the Greater Fort Bend County Tea Party, James Ives. As reported by the Texas Tribune, Mr. Ives’ title before he joined the Tea party was quite different: the … Continue reading
Are Americans Too Stupid For Democracy? | Alternet
In 2011, Newsweek asked 1,000 Americans to take the standard U.S. Citizenship test, and 38 percent of them failed. One in three couldn’t name the vice-president. A 2009 study in the European Journal of Communications looked at how informed citizens of the U.S., UK, Denmark and Finland were of the international news of the day, … Continue reading
Yankwik Xiwitl: Ze Kalli (2013)
Sorry for being late with this, but here is an 11×17 color PDF of this year’s calendar. Feel free to print and share! CLICK TO DOWNLOAD
Idle No More: Where the Mainstream Media Went Wrong
You didn’t have to look hard to find racist comments and biased coverage on the Idle No More movement and Chief Theresa Spence’s hunger strike over the past couple of months. Christie Blatchford’s racist column in the National Post on December 27, 2012, referred to Chief Spence’s fast as “hideous puffery and horse manure.” A … Continue reading
The Neo-Confederate Supreme Court Gearing Up to Restore White Rule Over America | Alternet
*Mexikaresistance.com Editor’s Note: Interesting article. Of course, the blind worship of the “framers of the constitution” as some sort of noble heroes is a bunch of bullshit, but it’s worth a read. I would argue, however, that “white rule” has been part and parcel of the very fabric of this country. It is the default … Continue reading
Monsanto Conquest Meets Aztec Resistance – CIP Americas
Monsanto has a map for conquering the world and Mexico is in the center of it. For nearly two decades the transnational corporation that manufactures the pesticides used across the planet has been trying to take over the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) seed. If successful, most of the food we grow and … Continue reading
“I hate illegals” | mexmigration: History and Politics of Mexican Immigration
“I hate illegals.” That is what Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told an 18 year-old undocumented college student who was visiting him during his office hours. Jessica Bravo, a DREAMer from Mexico, had gone to the Representative’s office to share her life experiences with the hope of persuading him to vote for comprehensive immigration reform with … Continue reading
Futurity.org – Ancient DNA opens Aztec ‘cold case’
For centuries, the fate of the original Otomí inhabitants of Xaltocan, the capital of a pre-Aztec Mexican city-state, has remained unknown. Researchers have long wondered whether they assimilated with the Aztecs or abandoned the town altogether. Anthropologists sampled mitochondrial aDNA from 25 bodies recovered from patios outside excavated houses in Xaltocan. They found that the … Continue reading
