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Not With a Bang, but a Derp: It’s Mitt
The last lingering echoes of the most ludicrous GOP field ever to seek the presidency roared over the gunwales of Romney's campaign battleship like a wall of green water, …
For-Profit Education: Milking Students and the Taxpayers for Corporate Profits
The institutions make a nice profit whether students graduate or not and whether they start a career or not.
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The Price of Democracy
There is one arena in which the United States is a world-class spender where youu2019d be hard-pressed to find anyone who would argue that we get world-class results for …
Obama and Drone Warfare: Will Americans Speak Out?
The fate of people living thousands of miles away is decided by a group of Americans, elected and unelected, who donu2019t speak their language, donu2019t know their culture, donu2019t …
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Aggressive Subprime College Industry Lobby Group Ratchets Down – for Now
The for-profit college advocacy group Coalition for Educational Success (CES) has now dramatically reduced spending on lobbying.
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ACLU Report Shows Abuses in Georgia Private Immigration Facility; CCA Alleges No Knowledge of Bad Conditions
The report detailed widespread lapses in standards as well as punitive treatment of immigrants who were mentally ill or filed grievances about conditions at the detention centers.
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Data Refutes “Structural” Theory in US
How do you assess stories about whatu2019s going on in the economy? The way I usually try to do it is to ask whether the available facts fit the …
John Pilger: Why the Assange Case Is Important
On 30 May, Britain's Supreme Court turned down the final appeal of Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.
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Who Needs Wall Street Giants?
We don't need yet another regulatory Band-Aid, we need Teddy Roosevelt to bust 'em up.
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Is JPMorgan Paying for John Boehner’s Personal Polling Operation? Questions Surround Shadowy Front “New Models USA“
New Models appears to exist for the express purpose of hiding political money.