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Sep 03 · Democracy Now's Juan Gonzalez today interviewed:
Karen Lewis, president of the Chicago Teachers Union
Lois Weiner, professor of education at New Jersey City University.
I was especially interested in the comments of Lois Weiner.
From the transcript:
She points out that these reforms are going on worldwide. She discusses the Race to the Top program.
Gonzalez asks her to compare not only what’s happening here in the United States, but around the world, in terms of these s
Sep 03 ·
AlterNet / By Nick Turse
September 3, 2010 | In December 2008, I received an email message from Julian Assange -- the now world-famous public face of the whistleblower organization, Wikileaks. I don’t recall why or how it came about, but he invited me to join a counterinsurgency “analysis team” alongside a number of other academics, journalists and analysts.
~snip~
Those counterinsurgency (COIN) manuals I read and then never wrote about, as well as other related materials, are sti
Sep 03 · A World in Collapse?
"To be fully alive today is to live with anguish,
not for one’s own condition in the world but for the condition of the world,
for a world that is in collapse."
by Alex Doherty , Robert Jensen
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To borrow a phrase from a friend, I wake up every morning in a state of profound grief. We humans have been given a privileged place in a world that is beautiful beyond description, and we are destroying it and destroying each other. I cope with that by building temp
Sep 03 · Last week, I heard an interesting take on the political scene: that both parties seem to be trying mightily to lose the upcoming midterm elections. Republicans, in a natural Republican cycle, are nominating some candidates who are so extreme they may lose races which should have been easy Republican wins. Democrats seem paralyzed with fear, even though populist anger should be working to their advantage, since Republicans have never met a Wall Street bank or gigantic corporation that they coul
Sep 03 · YOU can always tell that the generals believe their wars are faltering when they're making a big show about the number of their 'enemy' they're claiming to have killed or captured. This week, as Defense Secretary Gates was dispatched to Afghanistan to pump up the troops with positivity, his new Afghanistan commander, Gen. Petraeus, has been busy back home extolling the successes to the media of his Special Forces in driving up the body counts of whoever the military deems 'insurgent' or 'militan
Sep 03 · Exclusive: Major human trafficker is huge GOP donor who fought illegal immigration
By Sahil Kapur
Friday, September 3rd, 2010 -- 10:06 am
A business owner indicted for the human trafficking of 400 laborers from Thailand is a frequent donor to the Republican Party and recently waged war against other companies involved with hiring illegal immigrants.
The Associated Press reports that according to the allegations, "the recruiters lured the workers with false promises of lucrative jobs
Sep 03 · If you thought Tea Baggers were about less taxes and no healthcare for Blacks , you were wrong. Everyone knows by now that the Tea Parties are the baby of the Koch Family, a private oil company. Their real agenda is No Cap and Trade . That is why you see Tea Baggers who do not know what Cap and Trade is carrying signs that say they are against it.
Obama was elected with the support of the so called clean energy industries. He promised to deliver Cap and Trade. Cap and Trade is ver
Sep 02 ·
We’ve gotten so used to industry lobbyists writing bills that we no longer think it unusual for an un-elected group packed with announced enemies of SS literally writing a bill in secret which will be voted on by a lame duck Congress without opportunity for amendment or modification.
But will ramming through(under special rules preventing modification) the draconian cuts of the Simpson/Bowles bill (not a word of which will have been crafted by a democratically elected body) by the lame
Sep 02 · The drumbeat of bad economic tidings, both national and personal, is relentless. How much of it is the oligarch-owned "media" trying to make people throw the Democratic bums out in November is hard to determine. Some, definitely. But certainly not all, as anyone who's listened to a relative talk about their adult children having to move in with them because of lost jobs, lost homes, etc., knows. Or anyone who's talked to a bright, ambitious youngster who's heading for the military recruitmen
Sep 02 · Sometimes you have to wonder if the picture painted of our country by the Internet is accurate. Or, does Google show you a Hieronymus Bosch version of reality?
I decided to search the Internet. Here is what I found. Welcome to America. I hope you enjoy your stay. Oh, and do not miss the poll on your way out.
This is out of control. Become disabled in the Military and you get health care. Become "disabled"in the fire department and get half a million dollars, free health care and a fa
Sep 02 ·
Don’t cut Social Security, DOUBLE It
By Steven Hill
In the aftermath of the Great Recession, a debate over Social Security is heating up. This debate raises fundamental questions about the kind of society in which Americans wish to live. So far, the debate has been between deficit-busters who say Social Security must be trimmed back to reduce government indebtedness and others who want to maintain it as is.
But the New America Foundation just released a study that proposes a differ
Sep 02 · Since policemen and firefighters put their lives on the line for the communities they serve….they must be realistic when it comes to the question of whether their pensions can be properly funded.
You are a firefighter. Everyday, you put your life on the line, in order to protect your fellow citizens. While other people flee from the sites of disasters---fires, explosions, earthquakes, terrorist attacks---you rush in.
Due to the physically demanding nature of your work as a firefi
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