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Education, Inc.
When education becomes an “investment sector” and the sorting mechanism for winners and losers in the global economy, corporate education “reform” has succeeded.
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General Honore, Enviro Groups Call for Strengthening EPA’s Proposed Refinery Pollution Standards
Millions of people living near refineries will be directly affected by a long awaited updates to regulations the EPA has proposed for oil refineries.
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About 620,000 Military Families Rely on Food Pantries to Meet Basic Needs
A new report found that the nation's food pantries serve 620,000 families with a member in the military - an indication that service members battling against poverty must often …
Colonization by Bankruptcy: The High-Stakes Chess Match for Argentina
Argentina is playing hardball with the vulture funds, which have been trying to force it into an involuntary bankruptcy.
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LA Police Refuse to Release Information on In-Custody Deaths, Community Pushes Back
The LAPD refuses to release autopsy reports and the names of officers involved in the deaths of Ezell Ford and Omar Abrego in South Central Los Angeles, frustrating a …
The Fall and Rise of Investigative Journalism: From Asia to Africa, Muckrakers Have Corrupt Officials and Cronies on the Run
There can be no question that, if you're a reader with access to the Internet, you're living in a new golden age of investigative journalism.
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Food Fights: The Contested Terrain of the American Dinner Plate
The United States cannot afford food capitalism, given the interaction between health care costs and the Western diet. Nearly half a century ago, feminists put bodies on the political …
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“This Is a Test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond
When the schools reopen in Ferguson, teachers would do well to close up the jingoistic textbooks.
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If Liberal Zionism Were Dead, What Actions Would That Imply?
Liberal Zionists have been unwilling to fight politically for their stated beliefs or use nonviolent pressure tactics to force the changes in Israeli government policy.
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Bad Decisions Yield Grim Results in Europe
“The sadomonetarists at the Bank for International Settlements and elsewhere continue to have much more influence in Europe than they do in the US.”