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Ku Klux Kourt Kills King’s Dream Law, Replaces Voting Rights Act With Katherine Harris Acts
Greg Palast: They might as well have burned a cross on Dr. King's grave. The Jim Crow majority on the Supreme Court just took away the vote of millions …
What is Raza Studies and What is it Good For?
A few days ago, the media reported that a mother was found dead in the hot, scorching desert, purportedly while attempting to cross into the United States. Underneath her …
Banned in Phoenix: How the Arizona State Bar Association Considers Analysis of International Law in the Middle East Too Controversial
This past week, the Arizona State Bar Association (SBA) held its annual convention. It appears that the ban on my participation is still in effect.It was exactly ten years …
The IRS Non-Scandal “Scandal“
Even the mainstream media - after much initial sloppy, knee-jerk reporting - finally realized that they and the American public were being played by the Republican Party.
Click Here to Kick Glenn Beck Off the Air: Web Activism’s Big Wins—and What to Do Next
While online campaigning got Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck's off the air, the real power of Internet activism is what happens after we step away from the screen.
Baffling Budget Numbers: Making Reporters Do Their Jobs
The media routinely fail in their responsibility to report budget numbers in ways that are understandable.
Are They Allowed to Do That? A Breakdown of Selected Government Surveillance Programs
An examination of the legal and practical steps the government may have taken to secretly collect data.
Eight Families Share Stories of Raising Feminist Children
Whether parents are in heterosexual marriages, are LGBT, single, or part of collective households, teaching children living in a misogynist world to respect women as much as they respect …
Speed, Power and the Physics of Finance Capitalism
High frequency trading utilizes new technologies to create an economy of speed that employs mathematics and physics to generate global markets that are neither transparent nor able to be …
The History of Mass Surveillance
In 1791, the English philosopher and death penalty abolitionist Jeremy Bentham published the design for his “Panopticon” prison- a structure Bentham hoped would embody the utilitarian ideals of a …