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Occupy the Department of Education: Just What Education Activists Were Looking for
On behalf of the people of New York City, the Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) assembled on the evening of February 9. On behalf of the people of New …
With Mass Child Freezing Deaths, Proof of Mass Starvation, US in Violation of Geneva Conventions in Afghanistan
A little known aspect of World War II history is that immediately after the end of major hostilities, as Europe lay in ruins, millions of Germans in Ally-occupied Germany …
Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control – and Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About It 100 Years From Now
What's happening in Congress this week, as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) bars any women from testifying at his so-called “religious freedom” hearings, is so familiar and expected that it …
Oil: In Perpetuity No More
An offshore drilling rig. (Photo: L.C.Nøttaasen) Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clothing, electronics, …
How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street
A truck with a black flag, which is displayed in protest of moves by the Greek government to opening the trucking profession, on a road in Elefsina, Greece, on …
We Are All Greeks Now
Occupy Wall Street rallies in New York's Zuccotti Park in support of Greek resistance to austerity on February 18, 2012. (Photo: Sunset Parkerpix) They chanted, "We. Are. …
How North Carolina’s Shock Doctrine Artists Are Resegregating Higher Education
Thom Tillis, a Republican North Carolina state representative, at the Northstone Country Club in Huntersville, North Carolina, October 12, 2010. He's led a push to promote ALEC's privatization agenda …
What if the Next Steve Jobs Is Chinese?
As Apple's stock continues to hit record highs and its sales and profit reports exceed all expectations, Steve Jobs' reputation as an entrepreneurial genius grows ever larger. He succeeded …
Mad, Passionate Love – and Violence: Occupy Heads Into the Spring
When you fall in love, it’s all about what you have in common, and you can hardly imagine that there are differences, let alone that you will quarrel over …
Economic Alternatives to Capitalism
Occupy Wall Street protesters stage a demonstration at Foley Square, in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) Richard Wolff: My …