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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 …
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Big Corporation, Tiny Heart
How small can a giant corporation get? I don't mean in size, but in spirit. Once again, America's biggest commercial empire — Walmart — is displaying its …
US Sends a Message to Iran With Arms Sales to Gulf States
The U.S. is not so much ignoring the Arab Spring (since it cannot be ignored), but viewing it in the larger context — i.e., our cold-hot war with the …
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Political Fact Checking That Doesn’t Amplify the Lie
Political fact-checking operations have proliferated over the last several campaigns. The Annenberg Public Policy Center launched the original FactCheck.org. The St. Petersburg Times’ PolitiFact won a Pulitzer for famously …