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A “Simple Fix” for School Curriculum (and It’s Not Common Core)
For more than 20 years, in language as strong as the editors of mainstream media will allow, I’ve been slamming the stupidities of the education “reforms” dreamed up by …
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Graduating into Debt
Pentagon Disputes Bales’ Account of Friend Being Wounded, Losing Leg
The Pentagon has disputed a contention by Robert Bales' attorney that his client was “upset” over a friend losing a leg to a roadside bomb, in the days prior …
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Occupy Oakland, Workers Back Off May Day Plan to Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California. (Photo: yuzu) Strikes, walk-outs, marches and rallies are part of Occupy Oakland's May Day plans, but the centerpiece, an attempted shutdown of the …
Activists Challenge African “Land Grab”
The World Bank and Wall Street firms targeted for African land deals displacing hundreds of thousands.
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Obama Campaign Grapples With New Voter ID Laws
A voter registration form in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, on March 22, 2012. The Obama campaign has begun national outreach to train volunteers and staff about the new voter …
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Chris Hedges | The Implosion of Capitalism
Picking through scraps in a Kolkata, India, waste dump. (Photo: Sterneck)When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures …
Budget Bunk: The Old Pox-on-Both-Your-Houses Game
In Washington, all serious people routinely write columns in which they set themselves above the political fray and pronounce the Republicans and Democrats equally to blame for political gridlock …
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How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes
The offices of Braeburn Capital, an Apple subsidiary that manages and invests Apple's cash, in Reno, Nevada, February 17, 2012. Nevada has a corporate tax rate of zero, as …