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![Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates participates in a promotion ceremony during a visit with the Marine Corps' 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment March 9, 2010, at a forward operating base in Afghanistan.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/11/6306730139_65039d2acc_o-400x300.jpg)
Against the Militarized Academy
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion …
![President Barack Obama chats with students during a visit to Viers Mill Elementary School in Silver Spring, Maryland, on October 19, 2009.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2008/11/GettyImages-91990783-400x300.jpg)
Obama and the Promise of Education
The Obama administration will fail badly if it does not connect the current financial and credit crisis to the crisis of democracy and its poisonous undoing by commanding market …