Royce White is an NBA player with a cause. The first round draft pick of the Houston Rockets sat out the first half of the season in protest of the ways the team handled issues related to his mental health. Now he is back, playing for the team’s D-League team, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, but he hasn’t stopped speaking out about the NBA, mental health issues and the way capitalism impacts our world. Yes, you read that last part correctly. I interviewed Royce White for my radio show, Edge of Sports, on Sirius/XM. Read an edited version of our interview below. I’ve edited some of my questions for clarity purposes and cut some questions and answers for brevity’s sake but Mr. White’s answers below are verbatim exactly as given. People can hear the full audio of our interview at this link. Royce White considers himself a “humanist” and as you will see, his humanity shines through.
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The Sports Interview Non–Sports Fans Have to Hear: My Talk With NBA Player Royce White
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Anne Heller on “Ayn Rand and the World She Made” | TTBOOK
Interview with author of Ayn Rand biography.
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John Hancock on Our Capitalist Revolution
John Hancock, Senior Counsellor at the World Trade Organization, delivers a lecture entitled "Our Capitalist Revolution". Together with rapid growth, dazzling technologies and widening circles of development, global capitalism is delivering a turbulent, unequal, out-of-control world, which - Hancock argues - is just what we demanded. His lecture was produced in collaboration with the Literary Review of Canada.
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A Thin Line: Economic Development Or Corporate Welfare? : NPR
In her new series for The New York Times, reporter Louise Story traces the complicated relationship between localities and the corporations they want to lure to their states, counties and cities to help promote economic growth.
http://www.npr.org/2012/12/05/166489199/a-thin-line-economic-growth-or-corporate-welfare
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Noam Chomsky : Media Matters with Bob McChesney | Page 1 of 45 pages | Illinois Public Media | University of Illinois
Noam Chomsky is a US political theorist and activist, and institute professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Besides his work in linguistics, Chomsky is internationally recognized as one of the most critically engaged public intellectuals alive today. Chomsky continues to be an unapologetic critic of both American foreign policy and its ambitions for geopolitical hegemony and the neoliberal turn of global capitalism, which he identifies in terms of class warfare waged from above against the needs and interests of the great majority.
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Journalist Chris Hedges on “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” -Podcast of Media Matters with Bob McChesney
10 September 2012 4:00 AM
Prolific writer and journalist Chris Hedges joins us this Sunday to discuss his newest book, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." In collaboration with graphic artist, Joe Stacco, Hedges investigates the impact of unfettered capitalism on American life. Part graphic novel, part journalistic narrative, "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt," offers a unique glimpse into the American experience living in the capitalist state.
Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey.
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Markets Not Capitalism Audiobook
Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
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Roundtable: The Matter of Contradiction
A roundtable with Nick Srnicek, Bertrand Prévost, Levi Bryant and Tim Morton at The Matter of Contradiction: Ungrounding the Object, Centre International dâArt et du Paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, France 8â9 September, 2012.
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Nick Srnicek: The Matter of Contradiction
A talk by Nick Srnicek at The Matter of Contradiction: Ungrounding the Object, Centre International dâArt et du Paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, Limousin, France 8â9 September, 2012
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Against the Grain: Nuclear Clouds and Facts
If climate change concerns you, consider nuclear power, which, according to many of its proponents, does not involve emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. But is this true? Kristin Shrader-Frechette contests those claims; she also discusses the financial costs of nuclear energy, the risks to human health it poses, the perils of industry-funded science, and the contours of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
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