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No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library
Here’s the First Amendment, in full: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or …
Is There a Way to Be Good Again? How to Be a Man After the Penn State Pedophilia Scandal
Students in Penn State University's student center watch a live broadcast of Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly discussing the charges against a former assistant football coach and two university …
How Private Warmongers and the US Military Infiltrated American Universities
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) A matrix of closely tied university-based strategic studies ventures, the so-called Grand Strategy Programs (GSP), have cropped up on a number of …
Vacant or Occupied: Where Do the 99 Percent Go When Nature Calls?
For the Thanksgiving Family Forum, all the GOP candidates except for Mormon Messrs. Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney gathered at a megachurch in Iowa to discuss issues of concern …
Military Detention Versus We the People
An Army spokesman in one of the detainee areas in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 9, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) …
Seven Surveys Make A Trend For Fox And Viewers
The release yesterday of yet another survey indicating the more you watch Fox News the less they know, has once again shone a spotlight on one of the unique …
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not
(Photo: Páll Hilmarsson / Flickr) An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the …
Democracy or Plutocracy? A Chart
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Capitalism and the Spy Market: An Analysis
(Photo: emmma peel / Flickr) The trend toward an ever greater abuse of power through the act of spying has apparently created its own capitalist market. And …
The Jobs Crisis: What Did Roosevelt Do That Obama Should?
(Photo: Pete Souza / whitehouse.gov) The nation is experiencing the most severe economic crisis since the Great Depression. Princeton economist and former Vice Chair of the Federal …