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New Campaign for a Treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons Gains Momentum
Achieving a ban treaty negotiated without the nuclear weapons states would give us a cudgel to hold them to their bargain to negotiate for the total elimination of nuclear …
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Piketty in Elysium
If inequality sells in bookstores and box offices, it will sell at the polls as well.
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The Last Commencement Address: Surveilling the Class of 2014
“All I can do, graduates of the Internet class of 2014, is wish you luck and say that what you do (or don't do) will matter.”
One Size Does Not Fit All: Fighting the Common Core Curriculum
Corporate interests are pushing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in an attempt to privatize public elementary and secondary schools throughout the United States and impose a one-size-fits-all curriculum on …
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Fear of a Brown Planet: Watch This Stand-Up Comedian Explain “Reverse Racism“
Bullying, police brutality, and everyday insensitivities are regularly lampooned with Australians Aamer Rahman and Nazeem Hussain's weapon of choice: comedy.
House Voting on Bipartisan Amendment to Stop Federal Medical Marijuana Raids
The US House could vote on a bipartisan amendment to the Commerce-Justice-Science spending bill that would prohibit the federal government from wasting taxpayer money interfering with state medical marijuana …
Cut-Throat Capitalism: Welcome to the Gig Economy
Turns out that life with no health benefits, vacation pay or retirement plan is not a rosy picture.
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Newark Rejects $100 Million School Scam
Charter schools have been foisted upon black and brown children across the country, and in the process fired thousands of black teachers, closed schools, and stolen resources from public …
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The World Health Organization in Thrall to the Nuclearists
The International Atomic Energy Agency, whose mandate is the promotion of everything nuclear, has - for the last 55 years - prevented the WHO from carrying out its public …
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Ruben Salazar and the Filmmaker in the Middle
The new documentary ‘Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle’ fails to address the questions raised about a possible assassination of the Chicano journalist in 1970 - or to assuage …