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Why Do Cigarette Boxes Have More Free Speech Rights Than Protesters?
New York City’s Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park were chanting, “Whose park? Our park,” as they were being evicted. But according to the New …
Diversity and the Rise of Majority-Minority Schools
In the “Historical Notes” conclusion of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, the reader discovers through a darkly biting satire of academia that the world of the novel’s main character, …
On State Violence, White Male Privilege and “Occupy“
“I ain’t about to go get arrested with some muhfuhkuhs who just figured out yesterday that this shit ain’t right.” quoted by Greg Tate in The Village Voice
How Income Inequality Undermines Social Security’s Finances
A recent study reveals how rising income inequality is jeopardizing Social Security’s finances. It is by now common to hear Social Security advocates demand that we “scrap …
The Greek Crisis Intensifies
The latest phase of the Greek crisis (a crisis that is only part of the broader European and global capitalist crisis) illustrates the determination of political and economic elites …
Taking Development and Emission Reduction Seriously
As negotiators come together in Durban, South Africa, to discuss the fate of international climate policy, the balance between poverty reduction and emissions reduction is sure to be one …
TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-Ray Body Scanners
The head of the Transportation Security Administration has backed off a public commitment to conduct a new independent study of X-ray body scanners used at airport security lanes around …
China Commission Report – A Bit Scary
Bear with me here, this gets interesting ... and a bit scary. The 2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION has been released. From …
Overcoming Contradictions
At Tabor House Technical College, 21 young people sit in a semicircle looking curiously at Hakim and me. We’ve been invited to speak with them about the practice of …
America Edges to Brink of Armed Police Drones
A county north of Houston made news in Europe at the end of October by taking delivery of a new “weaponizable” drone, a squat remote-controlled helicopter called a ShadowHawk …