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US Higher Education: The New “Treasure Island” for Investors
Education “reform” is threatening to gut and loot US universities, while the fact that American democracy has been devolving into oligarchy is not a serious enough matter to address …
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NYT Endorses Imaginary TPP Deal
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade deal that is being negotiated completely in secret.
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Monsanto Calls Out the Dogs in St. Louis: New Anger, Old Crimes Point to Reparations
The struggle against Monsanto is intensifying as a new awareness emerges that it must make up for the harm it has done.
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The Future Must Be Green, Red, Black and Female
The human species must acknowledge that any future that allows us to retain our humanity will jettison capitalism, patriarchy and white supremacy - and be based on an ecological …
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Obama Must Be Called Out, Not Coddled, on Keystone XL Bait-and-Switch
Now is the time to support the efforts of courageous Texas landowners who could stop Keystone XL's southern leg in its tracks.
The Brutal Past and Present Are Another Country in Secret Australia
Suppressing racist truths, while venerating Australia's servile role in the colonial wars of Britain and the United States, has almost cult status in Canberra today.
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To Gov. Christie, From the Teacher He Screamed at
“I wanted to know why Gov. Chris Christie portrays New Jersey public schools as failure factories. Apparently that question struck a nerve.”
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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state.
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What Happens When Parents Stand Up and Say No to Testing?
When parents there learned of a plan to give multiple choice tests to children as young as Kindergarten, they decided enough was enough. They refused to let their children …
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Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Citizens and Hibakusha
How nuclear weapons have been legitimized, the new ethic required to ensure planetary security and what can be accomplished by anti-nuclear activism.