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Reasoning with and Resisting Arne Duncan’s Education Reform Agenda: Scribbling Lines in the Sand
There are times when a line in the sand can shift the course of a life – or of history. At other times a line in the sand may …
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Foreclosure Victims Protesting Wall Street Impunity Outside DOJ Arrested, Tasered
Hundreds of foreclosed homeowners and housing rights activists rallied outside the Justice Department on Monday, May 20, to demand that Attorney General Eric Holder prosecute the Wall Street bankers …
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Global Capital and the Nation State
At a time when you'd expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: xenophobia is breaking out all over.
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Voter Vigilante Group Says IRS Targeted Its “Verify the Recall” Effort in Wisconsin
The Texas-based Tea Party group True the Vote is claiming they were one of the groups inappropriately “targeted” by the IRS since their application for charitable status has been …
Austerity Comes to America
Gerald Friedman: The ghost of bad austerity economics continues to haunt - and even to drive - the living.
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Military Quietly Grants Itself the Power to Police the Streets Without Local or State Consent
The lines between the military and law enforcement have blurred even further.
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Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
Operating a workplace democracy in the current business world isn't easy, but co-ops are showing the way.
Teach Your Children Well: Don’t Play Monopoly
You don't have to own Park Place to be a winner.
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto’s Monopolistic Greed
As more people realize the struggle against Monsanto is one for human survival, a movement is building.
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The Federal Government Has Forgotten Freedom of the Press
Slowly but surely, our government is infringing upon the rights of the media, and eating away at freedom of the press.