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Primer for Ed Reformers (or, It
Just about everybody who’s ever been to school has a theory about what’s wrong with education. And a good many of them have a theory about what would make …
BP Wants Experts to Keep Quiet; House Says No Way
BP's headache continues to get worse. In a July 29 letter to BP America's President Lamar McKay, Reps. Henry A. Waxman (D-California) and Edward J. Markey (D-Massachusetts) have demanded …
Dallas Darling | Appeasement and the Politics of Flexibility
At the Senate Armed Services Committee, when General David Petraeus said keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan to fight was an “enduring” mission and that the July 2011 deadline for …
Top Democrats Pressure White House on Afghan War as WikiLeaks Reveals Bloody Realities
The Afghan war is coming under renewed scrutiny as web surfers across the world browse through the bloody battle scenes and military follies described in the thousands of classified …
Gareth Porter | Zombie Neocon Strategy Behind Israel’s “Bomb Iran” Campaign
Reuel Marc Gerecht’s screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of House resolution 1553 …
Alexander Cockburn | Will WikiLeaks Help End the Afghan War?
The brave hope of the soldier who sent 92,000 secret documents to WikiLeaks was that the disclosure of willful, casual slaughter of civilians by coalition personnel (with ensuing cover-ups), …
David Sirota | The Deception of Real-World Inception
For all of its “Matrix"-like convolutions and "Alice in Wonderland” allusions, the new film “Inception” adds something significant to the ancient ruminations about reality's authenticity — something profoundly relevant …
Henry Giroux: “Youth in a Suspect Society” (Audio Interview)
Allen Ruff, host of the listener-supported radio program “A Public Affair,” WORT, 89.9FM, Madison, Wisconsin, interviews Henry Giroux to discuss his new book, “Youth in a Suspect Society.” Press …
Did Iran Attack Japanese Oil Tanker in Strait of Hormuz?
A sea mine may have been responsible for denting a 160,000-ton Japanese oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz this week, investigators in the United Arab Emirates said Thursday, …
Our Complicity
We rather be ruined than changed. We rather die in our dread, than climb the cross of the moment, and let our illusions die. -W.H. Auden, excerpted from “The …