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Venture Capitalists Are Poised to “Disrupt” Everything About the Education Market
Venture capitalists and for-profit firms are salivating over the exploding $788.7 billion market in K-12 education.
Corporations Are Not Going to Save Us From Climate Disruption
The Global Alliance for Climate Smart Agriculture, SEFA and the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative are among many public-private partnerships.
Terrorism Serves the State
Continual attention to non-state terrorism helps justify state power.
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Understanding Our Many Fergusons: Kill Lines – the Will, the Right and the Need to Kill
There is a race war raging in the US that pits the right of African-Americans to have their young people live with dignity against angry white policemen and vigilantes.
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We Need to Listen to the Founders and Stop the Forever War
War without end poses a very real threat to our democracy.
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Anti-Imperial Feminist Musings in Morocco
Though there is nothing new in saying the US is imperial, racist, misogynist, and militarist, we may be in a newer, more vengeful phase of it, with unknown consequences …
Uruguay’s Legalization of Marijuana Makes Sense in a Senseless Drug War
In December of last year, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalize and regulate the cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana.
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Pledges Can Work, But It Will Take International Law to Fight Climate Change
The world must find a way of having a climate treaty without US ratification.
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It’s Time for a Real Debate on Reader Privacy
Promises regarding reader privacy is increasingly important and all too rare.
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Africa Pays the Price of Low Harvests Thanks to Costly Fertilisers
Africa is paying the price of low productivity because of limited use of commercial fertilizers by smallholder farmers who produce the bulk of the continent's food.