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Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Teachers (Video)
Porter Chair Lecture Eastern Michigan Universitry April 8, 2010 ALSO SEE: Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis
Report Concludes That Thousands of Gulf War Veterans Have “Multi-Symptom Illness“
As many as 250,000 veterans of the first Gulf War have ongoing, unexplained medical symptoms, according to a recent report on physical complaints known as Gulf War syndrome. The …
SEC Charges Goldman Sachs With Fraud
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Goldman Sachs & Co. and one of its executives with fraud today in a risky offshore deal backed by subprime mortgages that cost …
Emerging Powers Eager to Get Down to Business
Rio De Janeiro - Behind every initiative to form an association of nations, there are “strong economic and commercial interests,” said Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim. Members of …
Senators Call For Changes to Troubled, Costly Afghan Police Training Program
State and Defense department officials took a tongue-lashing today, trying to explain to a Senate subcommittee how the government has poured $6 billion since 2002 into building an effective …
Tennessee Cleanup Sends Coal Ash, Anxiety to Alabama Site
Uniontown, Ala. — When the mound of wet coal ash began to rise in the landfill across the road from her pretty yellow house with the peonies and roses …
Conyers Calls For Firing of FBI Officials
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Michigan) has called for the FBI to fire agency officials who violated privacy laws and wrongfully obtained the telephone records of individuals by …
The Game That Goes on and on: A Swiss Bank, a President and the Permanent Government
A little-noted presidential golf outing opens the door to an intrigue-filled world of financiers, murky international interests, money-laundering, tax evasion, and politics as not-so-usual.
Frontline Fronts for Corporations, Not the Public
It was with a sense of deja vu that I watched the latest Frontline documentary about health care. “Obama's Deal” endeavored to reveal the significant influence of health industry …
Eugene Robinson | No Place to Fight a War
Washington - The Korengal Valley in eastern Afghanistan was a transit route and occasional haven for insurgents, so U.S. commanders decided to drive out the enemy and turn the …