http://globalgrind.com/discovered/calltoactionen-ushttp://globalgrind.com/content/39764/EXCLUSIVE-TO-GLOBAL-GRIND-Nas-vs-The-Fox Big Deez Yo, these guys are on top of it. It sounded really powerful too.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/39764/EXCLUSIVE-TO-GLOBAL-GRIND-Nas-vs-The-Fox?sc=1#socialBig Deez7/23/2008 4:40:32 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38587/What-happened-to-Hip-Hops-Social-Consciousness xfactor213 Rap music has undergone drastic changes in the last 20 years. Considered the golden era of the music and culture, the '80s to mid-'90s, is when many Hip Hop purists came of age. Fans of that era blissfully reminisce of the days when one could tune to BET's Rap City in the afternoons and view videos by seminal "gangsta" rap group NWA, but then be sobered by the anti-violence message in a video by KRS-One. For some "old-school fans," such days are long gone.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38587/What-happened-to-Hip-Hops-Social-Consciousness?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/18/2008 5:42:16 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38256/Russell-Simmons-Is-Still-Doing-Big-Things Kdollaz1 One of the hottest events of the summer is back for another year. The Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation’s Ninth Annual Art For Life East Hampton benefit gala is finally here. This annual fundraising event is held at Russell Simmons’ East Hampton, N.Y., estate on Saturday and will be hosted by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38256/Russell-Simmons-Is-Still-Doing-Big-Things?sc=1#socialKdollaz17/16/2008 10:46:25 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/38097/Bush-Gave-Taliban-43-Million-Four-Months-before-911 xfactor213 With their $43 million corporate sponsorship of the Taliban in 2001, the Bush Administration failed to take the Taliban seriously enough in 2001 (as we learned four months later) and they do not take the Taliban seriously enough now, as we’ve seen with the spiraling violence this summer.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/38097/Bush-Gave-Taliban-43-Million-Four-Months-before-911?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/15/2008 12:15:57 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37249/Are-Female-Soldiers-Being-Killed-for-Reporting-Rapes Ryan517 It appear as if PFC Lavena Johnson was murdered after reporting that she had been Sexually Assaulted. How many more have met her fate for reporting rapes?]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37249/Are-Female-Soldiers-Being-Killed-for-Reporting-Rapes?sc=1#socialRyan5177/10/2008 3:55:21 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37162/FBI-Plans-To-profile-Muslims-Like-They-Havent-Already xfactor213 The U.S. Justice Department is considering a change in the grounds on which the FBI can investigate citizens and legal residents of the United States. Till now, DOJ guidelines have required the FBI to have some evidence of wrongdoing before it opens an investigation. The impending new rules, which would be implemented later this summer, allow bureau agents to establish a terrorist profile or pattern of behavior and attributes and, on the basis of that profile, start investigating an individual or group.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37162/FBI-Plans-To-profile-Muslims-Like-They-Havent-Already?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/10/2008 4:07:32 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/37068/Jesse-Jackson-Jr-To-Sr-STOP-HATING Kaboom Last year, U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., wrote in the Chicago Sun Times: "You're wrong on Obama, Dad." This week, he has also released his own statement regarding the elder Jackson's comments About Obama: "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed in Rev. Jackson's reckless statements about Sen. Barack Obama," said the younger Jackson. "His divisive and demeaning comments about the presumptive Democratic nominee — and I believe the next president of the United States — contradict his inspiring and courageous career."]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/37068/Jesse-Jackson-Jr-To-Sr-STOP-HATING?sc=1#socialKaboom7/10/2008 6:47:59 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36935/China-Predicted-to-Surpass-US-as-1-Economy-by-2035 streetknowledge China’s economy will overtake that of the United States by 2035 and be twice its size by midcentury, a study released Tuesday by a US research organization concluded.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36935/China-Predicted-to-Surpass-US-as-1-Economy-by-2035?sc=1#socialstreetknowledge7/9/2008 1:59:55 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36930/Iraqis-Say-You-Aint-Gotta-Go-Home-But streetknowledge Iraq’s national security adviser said Tuesday his country will not accept any security deal with the United States unless it contains specific dates for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36930/Iraqis-Say-You-Aint-Gotta-Go-Home-But?sc=1#socialstreetknowledge7/9/2008 10:53:00 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36790/Iraq-Government-VotesFor-Obama Osman Eralp This is big folks: Iraq insists on withdrawal timetable for US troops. McCain attacks Obama on withdrawal - while the IRAQIS are demanding one. You do the math!]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36790/Iraq-Government-VotesFor-Obama?sc=1#socialOsman Eralp7/8/2008 4:17:59 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36738/Obama-Clinton-Shirley-Chisholm T Baby Conversely, Obama doesn’t appeal to me simply because he is black. It helps, of course, but that’s not the core of it. He is just plain the right person for the job at this troubling stage in our history.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36738/Obama-Clinton-Shirley-Chisholm?sc=1#socialT Baby7/8/2008 3:02:42 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36718/VP-Cheney-Deleted-Revised-Environmental-Testimonies xfactor213 Centers for Disease Control Director Julie Gerberding saw her testimony last October on the health impacts of climate change revised. A former EPA official says Vice President Dick Cheney's office was illegally involved in that process.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36718/VP-Cheney-Deleted-Revised-Environmental-Testimonies?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/8/2008 3:03:36 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/36480/Obamas-Convention-Speech-Moved-To-Stadium Soulfull Vibes (AP) Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination before up to 76,000 people at the Denver Broncos' football stadium instead of the smaller arena where the rest of the convention will be held, party officials said Monday.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/36480/Obamas-Convention-Speech-Moved-To-Stadium?sc=1#socialSoulfull Vibes7/8/2008 3:03:59 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35657/US-Govt-to-Begin-Covert-Operations-In-Iran-God-Help-Us xfactor213 Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh believes that the United States may be closer to armed conflict with Iran than previously imagined. He writes about Congress' funding of covert military operations in the upcoming issue of The New Yorker. Listen to the full NPR interview here.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35657/US-Govt-to-Begin-Covert-Operations-In-Iran-God-Help-Us?sc=1#socialxfactor2137/2/2008 4:33:34 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35588/Wyclef-Brings-Investors-To-Haiti-Upscale-Swagger Sikskillz84 Wyclef Jean recently took a group of foreign investors to Haiti in hopes to pour money into the local economy.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35588/Wyclef-Brings-Investors-To-Haiti-Upscale-Swagger?sc=1#socialSikskillz847/1/2008 10:53:39 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35444/White-House-Blocking-The-Search-for-Bin-Laden Craig Redman The Pentagon has drafted a secret plan that would send U.S. special forces into the wild tribal regions of Pakistan to capture or kill Osama bin Laden and his top lieutenants, but the White House has balked at giving the mission a green light, The New York Times reported today.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35444/White-House-Blocking-The-Search-for-Bin-Laden?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/30/2008 4:46:49 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35389/Africa-under-pressure-to-condemn-Mugabe GG Content African leaders meeting at a summit in Egypt Monday are coming under increasing pressure to reject the results of Zimbabwe's widely discredited presidential runoff.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35389/Africa-under-pressure-to-condemn-Mugabe?sc=1#socialGG Content6/30/2008 4:29:38 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/35302/Mugabe-sworn-in-after-disputed-Zimbabwean-election xfactor213 President Robert Mugabe was sworn in Sunday after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared he overwhelmingly won the country's disputed runoff election.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/35302/Mugabe-sworn-in-after-disputed-Zimbabwean-election?sc=1#socialxfactor2136/30/2008 5:08:03 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/34917/So-Thats-Why-Russell-Simmons-Been-So-Quiet Big Deez He's out in South Africa doing the diamond thing. What do yall think of what he's doing out there?]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/34917/So-Thats-Why-Russell-Simmons-Been-So-Quiet?sc=1#socialBig Deez6/26/2008 12:37:46 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/34891/Zimbabwe-Opposition-Pleads-For-End-To-The-Genocide Craig Redman Zimbabwe's opposition party warned Thursday of growing political genocide at the hands of government supporters, urging the world to intervene immediately before the situation gets worse.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/34891/Zimbabwe-Opposition-Pleads-For-End-To-The-Genocide?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/26/2008 1:01:44 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/34756/Can-Angie-And-Brad-Do-No-Wrong-Dammit-Love-Them SaschasMom Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have just donated $1 million for educational aid to children in Iraq AND the USA impacted by the war, cuz they're better than you. The duo's Jolie-Pitt Foundation has given $500,000 to three groups in the war-torn country which will provide aid for some 5,700 children. Brangelina also gave $500,000 to help children in the United States who have had a military parent killed in Iraq or who are separated from a parent stationed in the country. Nice to see them using their baby pic money for good!]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/34756/Can-Angie-And-Brad-Do-No-Wrong-Dammit-Love-Them?sc=1#socialSaschasMom6/25/2008 8:28:17 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/33656/Oceans-Are-Warming-Faster-Than-Scientists-Thought Craig Redman The world's oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the last 40 years than previously thought due to climate change, Australian and U.S. climate researchers reported Wednesday.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/33656/Oceans-Are-Warming-Faster-Than-Scientists-Thought?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/19/2008 11:14:59 AMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/33560/BET-Green-Lights-NY-Oils-Lynched-Video Craig Redman After having the video of his controversial single banned by YouTube, rapper NY Oil found assistance from an unlikely source... BET.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/33560/BET-Green-Lights-NY-Oils-Lynched-Video?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/18/2008 5:17:09 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/33099/Mandelas-Wife-Warns-Mozambique-of-Possible-Revolt Craig Redman Thousands of destitute Mozambicans who fled anti-foreigner violence in South Africa may revolt against their home government if their needs are not met, according to a woman with a unique perspective on both countries.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/33099/Mandelas-Wife-Warns-Mozambique-of-Possible-Revolt?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/16/2008 4:43:23 PMhttp://globalgrind.com/content/33077/Elian-Gonzalez-joins-Cubas-Young-Communists Craig Redman The Cuban boy at the center of an international custody battle eight years ago has joined Cuba's Young Communist Union. Communist youth newspaper Juventud Rebelde quotes Elian Gonzalez as saying he will "never let down ex-President Fidel Castro and his brother Raul Castro", who succeeded Fidel earlier this year.]]>http://globalgrind.com/content/33077/Elian-Gonzalez-joins-Cubas-Young-Communists?sc=1#socialCraig Redman6/16/2008 4:43:44 PM