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China Commission Report – A Bit Scary
Bear with me here, this gets interesting ... and a bit scary. The 2011 REPORT TO CONGRESS of the U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION has been released. From …
America Edges to Brink of Armed Police Drones
A county north of Houston made news in Europe at the end of October by taking delivery of a new “weaponizable” drone, a squat remote-controlled helicopter called a ShadowHawk …
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Vulture Funds Await Jersey Decision on Poor Countries’ Debts
Jean Ngaigy, the head of a school in Lepaigagone, interprets the words of one of her six-year-old students. The girl is happy to have a school now. Her favourite …
After the Zuccotti Park Raid
It was strange, after all these weeks, to be on the outside looking in at a new set of occupiers who were there because they have the guns and …
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Unaddressed Problems With High-Stakes, Standardized Tests
In 1949, I was a self-employed trucker, buying and hauling timber for shoring up the roofs of coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. A very long …
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Is Europe Over?
Europe has always been a rather tenuous concept. A rump continent, Europe represented the barbarous hinterlands for the Greeks and Romans. The first use of the term “European” occurred …
Wall Street Occupation Live Stream
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Can’t Find the Protest Songs? Check Inside the Movement
On October 18, The New York Times published the article, “At the Protests, the Message Lacks a Melody.”#[i] In the piece, author James C. McKinley Jr. asks us, “Where …
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Haiti Jails US Deportees in Filthy Conditions, Without Cause
Port-Au-Prince, Haiti - The United States has deported more than 250 Haitians since January knowing that one in two will be jailed without charges in facilities so filthy they …
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Occupy Wall Street: Crafting a Constitutional Amendment to Stop the 1%
We’ve seen the signs and heard the chants: “Abolish Corporate Personhood!” I’m very sympathetic to the cause of reducing the power of big business corporations to control …