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Massacre of the Week
As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said after the Aurora, Colorado massacre: u201cthis cannot continue.u201d But it is u00adand gun violence in America will no doubt go on …
How Huge Food Corporations Will Make Upcoming Food Price Hikes Even Worse
The entire American food system is built on one crop — corn. And that is really bad news.
Can the Caravan of Peace End the War on Drugs?
If the caravanu2019s call to end the violence diminishes public support for the militarized approach, it could force an open dialogue about alternatives like drug legalization
The For-Profit College Racket
This is an industry that is by and large exploitative to its students and useless to the public good.
Schools Without Playgrounds, Children Without Childhood, a Future Without Hope
Schools are more and more beginning to resemble maximum-security prisons, but at least at most of those institutions, there is one hour of outdoor time.
Election Countdown 2012: The Green Party Just Misses the Cut for Independent Candidates in Connecticut, and More
In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: The chief of education in Louisiana refuses to provide records detailing how schools were chosen for Gov. Bobby Jindal's voucher program; 26-year-old Occupy …
Washington Puts Its Money on Proxy War: The Election Year Outsourcing That No One’s Talking About
While the United States is currently engaged in just one outright proxy war, itu2019s laying the groundwork for the use of surrogate forces in the future, training u201cnativeu201d troops …
World War II: The Good War Gone Bad
So long as we resort to war to settle differences between nations, so long will we have to endure the horrors, the barbarities and excesses that war brings. -British …
Congress as Enabler: The Pentagon Can’t Kill the M-1 Tank, Only an IED Can (Part Two)
We have around 2,300 M-1s stashed around the world and 3,000 M-1s surpluses in the Nevada desert, waiting for the next large country-to-country tank war that may never come.
America’s Syrian Jihad: An Old War in New Clothes
What began on 15, March 2011, with public demonstrations which rapidly accelerated into a national uprising, has now become an armed insurgency complete with suicide bombings - provoked by …