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The Garfield High School Assessment Committee VS the Testocracy: We Know How to Run the Schools Better Than Billionaires
A teacher pushes against standradized testing.
Stealing Our Sympathy
There is a growing sense among the public that life on our planet is being threatened by our careless misuse of its resources.
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The Stiglitz Code: How Taxing Capital Can Counter Inequality
The American economy is at a crossroads. One of the questions that will determine which path we take is whether and how the government can use taxes to meet …
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Premature US Victory-Dancing on Ukraine
Washington's role in the coup in Kiev on Feb. 22 has brought the US a Pyrrhic victory, with the West claiming control of Ukraine albeit with a shaky grip …
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Samsung’s Broken Apology App
Once in a while, corporate chieftains actually step forward to apologize for the abuse they inflict on workers, consumers, communities, and the environment.
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Global Climate Change and Nuclear Abolition: One Urgent Issue
The Marshall Islands are filing lawsuits against the nine nuclear powers to get them to step up to their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to negotiate total nuclear …
Is Elliot Rodger Our 21st Century Version of Holden Caulfield?
Of course, our modern day version has to include a gun. Holden with a gun where instead of holing up in a hotel room with a prostitute, he holes …
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Germany’s 74% Myth Busting Renewable Energy Record
Sunday May 18, 2014 marked an historic day in the all-time energy hallmarks of the world. Germany had 74% of its electrical power, just about 3/4, of all its …
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Jeju Island: A Pivot on the Peace Island
Since 2007, activists have risked arrests, imprisonment, heavy fines and wildly excessive use of police force to resist the desecration caused as mega-corporations like Samsung and Daelim to build …
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Global Food Security Needs States to Ally With Family Farmers
A small number of agriculture businesses control a very large portion of the world's food supply.