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How America Became a Third World Country
America is investing in war in distant lands as it crumbles here at home.
AUSL Turnarounds Called Ineffective, Expensive
As CPS use a costly and ineffective program to turn around schools, placing political favor over the needs to students.
Enabling Greed Makes US Sick
A new study from Johns Hopkins shows elevated levels of arsenic in chicken meat.
Welcome to This Generation’s Joseph McCarthy …
California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa is now leading several McCarthy-esque hearings and witch-hunts but the mainstream media is giving him a free pass.
The Worst Crimes in UK history
In a time of peace, the West is permanently at war. Massive standing armies are continuously fed their natural fare. And, incredibly, the myth of the UK being a …
Governance as Sadomasochism: Obama from the IRS to the Associated Press
What's extraordinary about the brewing controversy over the Internal Revenue Service's review of Tea Party groups' application for tax-free status is that the Obama administration enjoys the flagellation, the …
The Collapse of Journalism, and the Journalism of Collapse
The 21st century has been characterized by bad news that keeps getting worse and worse.
Arab Spring Not Over Yet in Bahrain
While the world focuses on the fallout from the Arab Spring in major countries like Egypt and Syria, a seething frustration continues to mount among democracy aspirants on the …
Neglecting to Forget: Lessons from Guatemala
On Friday, May 10, 2013, José Efraín Ríos Montt became the first head of state to be tried in their own country for genocide and found guilty. It was …
Getting Past the Icon – Should Photographers Depict Reality, or Try to Change it?
David Bacon looks back at the history of photography and activism.