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Homeland Security Goes to School
The relationship between war, national security, and public schooling demands more critical and ethnographic attention.
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A Fracking Fortune Gets Political
After Farris and Dan Wilks cashed in their Texas-based gas company a few years ago for more than $3 billion, they became benefactors of religious right, tea party extremists.
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Koch-Tied Youth Group Weighs in on Senate Races
Generation Opportunity (Gen Opp) has shifted its focus from the horrors of affordable health care to an old fashioned bashing of “tax and spend” Democrats.
Truthout Interviews Bill Ayers on the Erosion of Teacher Tenure
Bill Ayers in conversation with Ted Asregadoo about the movement to abolish teacher tenure and what that means for public education.
Sole’s New Album “Death Drive” Takes Shots at Alienation, Capitalism and Liberals
Tim “Sole” Holland's new album “Death Drive” weaves through self-reflection, philosophy and existentialism with an anarchist perspective.
Newspaper Comment Sections Become Cordoned-Off Hate Crime Scenes
The unexpected new locations for hate crime scenes in the 21st century appear to be the comments sections of the nation's leading newspapers, where calls to violence have become …
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A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What’s Changed?
Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …
Pacific Missile Range Facility: Kauai’s Biggest Bang Is Out of Sight
A look at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai and what the increasing military presence in the Pacific means for Hawaii and the world.
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The Poisoners and Their Accomplices
“Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA” takes up where Rachel Carson left off - and the news is not good.
Giant Corporations, Giant Failures
Despite GM's bankruptcy, US taxpayers permit and indeed subsidize continued operation by the same company bureaucracy.