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In the pic above Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, accompanies President Barack Obama as they arrive at Cleveland-Hopkins International Airport in Cleveland, Monday, March 15, 2010, en route to Strongsville, Ohio, where the president was to speak about health care reform.

My guess is it was on that while on Air Force One with the president Kucinich got a nice firm hand on the shoulder and an offer he couldn’t refuse. Can you imagine the president menacingly wielding an aluminum baseball bat?

In this video Rep. Dennis Kucinich and perpetual presidential candidate Ralph Nader discuss health care, politics and the war in Iraq.

Democracy Now! is hosted by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. Amy Goodman was nominated one of sofreshandsogreen.com’s Top 5 White People Worth Interrupting Black History Month For which you can read by clicking HERE.

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Ordinarily I enjoy the plethora of Black History Month programming, but this year I haven’t seen much around, even on PBS. Is our new president somehow to blame for this?

Anyway, I used to get upset wen I would see programs about all kinds of other folks during February and I’ve done my best to balance the lack of Black programming out this year. Here we are on the tail end of this month but I’m going to go ahead an interrupt it for these 5 white folks that I think are worth listening to anytime of year in no particular order. (more…)

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When you go through the supermarket, there is an illusion of diversity. So much of our industrial food turns out to be rearrangements of corn. ~Michael Pollan

I know what you’re thinking- Who is this white man on this so fresh blog during Black History Month talking to me about my food?…or not, but here he is…and by the way that corn thing is serious.

Michael Pollan, the author of The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, wants to get all in your business again and talk to you about your food. Again, without being preachy he just wants you to know what you’re eating and how to get that food to do more for you. Isn’t that nice of him?

His latest book is Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual and he sat down with Amy Goodman and the kind of dreamy Sharif Abdel Kouddou of Democracy Now! to talk about it.

First, a few things about this interview: (more…)

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Here are some of Harriet Washington’s words from an interview she did in 2007 with Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! The Medical scholar and author of “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” commented on medical experiments done on Black children in the 1990s with “behavior problems”.

HARRIET WASHINGTON: Right, who are alleged to have behavior problems, yeah. And also on Black boys, specifically, who they think might have a genetic predisposition to violence.

But there’s no rationale for only looking at Black boys.

If you’re looking at predisposition for violence, you should be looking at all boys, and most American boys, of course, are white.

But it’s black boys who have been singled out for these very dangerous experiments, such as a fenfluramine experiment that took place right here in New York City between 1992 and 1997. (more…)

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