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Workin’ For The Man is the long awaited new album from Nadir.

Packed with revolutionary funk, soul, rock, hip hop and house, Workin’ For The Man is a high powered political barn burner.

Bob Davis at www.soul-patrol.com calls Workin’ For The Man “The Most Relevant Album of 2008″. Bob says:

“Imagine if you could listen to an album that sounded like it was James Brown + Gil Scott-Heron + Public Enemy?”

And…

- Nadir is a revolutionary artist
- Nadir has a revolutionary agenda
- Nadir thinks that it is ok to HAVE FUN and THINK
- Nadir’s new album Workin’ for the Man makes you do both”

And finally…

“This is clearly one of the best new releases of 2008 and something that is truly worthy of your attention at this time.”

But don’t take Bob’s word for it…  Click the player in the sidebar to your left to hear the unadulterated funk of Workin’ For The Man and favorites from Distorted Soul 2.0 and Slave: The Remixtape.

Or…

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Originally published at Think.MTV.com

On January 25, 2008, Congressman Dennis Kucinich dropped out of the US presidential race. Because the media painted him as a fringe candidate, and because he was excluded from six debates, his views were not given the opportunity to be heard. Nadir interviewed Kucinich when he was campaigning in Michigan. This piece presents the conversation in its entirety.

Originally published at www.think.mtv.com/Nadir/

Michigan’s Democratic Primary was panned as “meaningless” by critics in the media. In fact, it was quite “meaningful” because of what this says about the current primary system. The two small states of Iowa and New Hampshire have a greater say in who the presidential nominee is going to be than the other 48 states. Michigan’s residents (and those of many other states) don’t think this is fair.

When Michigan chose to move its primary election to January - before its assigned “Super Tuesday” February 5 date - the state’s Democratic Party violated national party rules. As a result the Democratic National Convention stripped the state of its 154 delegates to the national convention in August. The move was intended to gain Michigan more influence, but had the opposite effect. Michigan now has no voice. (more…)

Cynthia McKinney introduced articles of impeachment against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Condoleeza Rice before she left Congress. No member of the House of Representatives picked up the baton in the new session. Until now…

Answering those critics who say, “If you impeach Bush, we’ll end up with President Cheney”, presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced articles of impeachment against Cheney first. Now it’s up to us to pressure our congress members to support Cheney’s impeachment. Maybe we can dismantle this embarrassing and destructive regime one brick at a time.

Here is the transcript of Kucinich’s press conference courtesy of the Washington Post: (more…)