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Maxwell’s Hammer Redux: Syracuse University and the Effort to Break Down the Rule of Law
In the wake of President Obama's new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which does away with habeas corpus for those who are labeled “terrorists,” it really shouldn't be all …
Washington Post Annual Report Reveals Widespread Accreditation and Legal Problems at Kaplan University
Kaplan University is the blood bank for The Washington Post and supplies the Washington Post Corporation with 58 percent of its revenue. On February 29, 2012, The Washington Post …
Citing Truthout Report, UN Special Rapporteur “Looking Into” Guantanamo “Suicides“
On Friday, March 9, Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, responded to an inquiry by this reporter regarding new information on the deaths …
Michael Dawson on the Biggest Gulf in American Life
This is the fourth interview in the Black History Month series “Perspectives on Black Politics in the Age of Obama.” It has been selectively edited for print, but the …
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Koch Brothers vs. Health Reform
Do all roads lead to Koch? Conservative activists will rally at the Supreme Court tomorrow to encourage the overturn of the Affordable Care Act. The “Hands Off My Health Care” protest—which …
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Congress Takes a Step or Two Forward, Two Steps Back
Watching some of the news coming from Capitol Hill this week, two old music videos started buzzing around in our heads. One was the classic “I'm Just a Bill,” …
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The 1 Percent’s Doctrine for the 99 Percent
A little over a year ago, while researching the Confederacy's economy, I stumbled across this unnerving graph charting the value of America's “stock of slaves” in the last decades …
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Why Do New York Times Columnists Keep Swooning for Paul Ryan?
After David Brooks last year, now it’s James Stewart who has fallen for Paul Ryan’s rugged good looks. He attempts to defend Ryan’s tax proposals against charges that they favor the rich: "To …
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Burning Ice: The Next Energy Boom?
Set a lighter to an icy block of methane hydrate, a naturally frozen combo of methane gas and water, and flames spew forth at random. However unlikely this fluke …
Pearson’s Peacekeeping
(Lester Pearson's Peacekeeping - The Truth May Hurt. Yves Engler. RED/Fernwood Publishing, Vancouver/Winnipeg, 2012.) This short book, or elongated essay, concerns the political attributes of one of Canada's more …