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Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?
Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans?
From the Chilean Winter to the Maple Spring Solidarity: the Student Movements in Chile and Québec
For both of these movements to move forward, it is important to not only promote informal acts and statements of solidarity between the two movements, but to begin establishing …
The Politics of Mythology
Increasingly, politics is a game driven by often-invented beliefs and myths that are firmly detached from facts and their interpretation. The parties and their factions live not only in …
Québec’s Student Strike Turning Into a Citizens’ Revolt
the ongoing conflict between the provincial government and striking students and their supporters will go down in history as one of the province's - indeed the country's - biggest …
What Fires Young Progressives’ Activism? A New Study Asks Them
While they have many critiques of themselves and others, our participants exhibited an optimism and steadfastness that made me feel the same.
The Rights of the Child, “Adultism” and the Philosophy of Childhood
The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted in 1989 and opened for signatures. As of 2009, some 194 countries have ratified the convention, including all members …
Did Kaplan Lobby to Deregulate For-Profit Colleges While One of Its Schools Defrauded Students?
New information appears to tie Washington Post-owned Kaplan University to this legislation deregulating for-profit colleges at the same time Kaplan was misleading students about the accreditation status of a …
How to Forget on Memorial Day: Whistling Past the Graveyard of Empires
Itu2019s the saddest reading around: the little announcements that dribble out of the Pentagon every day or two — those terse, relatively uninformative death notices.
Messing With Our Minds: The Ever Finer Line Between News and Advertising
Almost every nation needs a controlled mainstream media if it is to regulate and influence its citizenry. By way of the mainstream media, a controlling authority is able to …
Drone Warfare: Killing Our Civil Liberties With a Joystick
Drone warfare is cowardly. A technician jiggles a joystick. Seconds later, thousands of miles away, a Reaper drone robot airplane fires a Hellfire missile, maiming or dismembering unsuspecting, unarmed, …