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Charter School Explosion: Follow the Money
Although Florida law prohibits charter schools from issuing bonds, Charter Schools USA has found a way.
This Is Madness
Tears and grief, anger and helplessness all come naturally in the face of insanity.
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USAF Chief of Staff Welsh and the Crisis of Gutless Leadership
A slowly-simmering frying pan of searing religious repression is frittering away at unit cohesion, morale, good order, and discipline within the Air Force.
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Rojava Revolution: Building Autonomy in the Middle East
Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region.
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No Hate, No Fear: The State of Black Music in the US
Black music sounds the way it does because musicians are not at the table trying to make 21st century music. Musicians need to stop hating and get busy creating …
The Language of Expulsion
Whether the long-term unemployed in the global North or the long-term displaced in the global South, people are being expelled from economy, society and nation in increasing numbers.
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Australia Threatens to Jail Citizens Who Embarrass Repressive Governments
There is nothing like a free press in Vietnam, Malaysia and Indonesia, so it's unlikely journalists there will report on a multimillion-dollar corruption case involving senior officials. But why …
The “Washington Post” Fails in Gaza
This is the way the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been presented - the Israelis are real people whom you can see and know, as individual stories, versus an amorphous …
Clean, Green and Hypocritical
What does it mean when clean, green and safe are nothing more than words to paint a politician as good for the people when, in reality, their actions are …
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An Inquiry Into the 9/11 Commission’s 10th Anniversary Report: How to Read a Government Commission Report
The September 11th Commission's 10th anniversary reprise is a jumble of circular argumentation, faulty reasoning and naive gullibility about the claims of senior officials.