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By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Since 1959 Cuba has played a significant world role, quite a feat for a nation of 5 million – 11 million now. Cubans have shown their values, commitment and solidarity in dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters around the world. Between 1960 and 2011, Cuba sent 45 [...]
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Written by Carl_Herman / Filed in Politics, War and Peace
video here. What’s wrong with the world, mama, is the 1%’s criminal wars and rapacious looting. Occupy exposes the 1% that allows a million children to die every month from preventable poverty when just 1% of our income saves their lives while reducing population growth. Occupy documents and proves the 1%‘s fear-mongered, unlawful, lie-started wars [...]
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Written by Danny Weil / Filed in Business, Daily Journal (Opinion), Politics
The 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure grades 15 categories of infrastructure, including levees (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/report-cards). So how is America doing? The report notes, “….. for the second time,America’s infrastructure rates a cumulative grade of D. While not all categories fare as badly or are plagued by the same problems, delayed maintenance and chronic under-funding are [...]
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Written by Carl_Herman / Filed in Politics, War and Peace
with NEW PuppetGov video here. “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some deviation from justice…the rich, if the constitution gives them power, are apt to be insolent and avaricious… In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in [...]
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Written by Danny Weil / Filed in Daily Journal (Opinion), Education
Kaplan University charges the following populations different amounts for a 180 quarter unit Bachelor of Science degree: $30,000 for active duty military, $41,000 for veterans, $50,000 for international students and $68,000 for low income Title IV eligible students. Why do the poor pay more? Kaplan blames it on a government regulation called the 90/10 [...]
Newt Gingrich proposes child labor for US: 13 Year-Olds Working 16 Hours A Day For 70 Cents An Hour in China
Newt Gingrich has recently been lauded by some and under attack by others for his...
Just Short of Treason in Georgia and Kansas
By Michael Collins It’s official. The crazies have arrived for the 2012 presidential race, florid...
Occupy Wall Street: The View from Davos
A British acquaintance has sent me a link to one of the background documents...
2-minute video of Iran’s people: Arrest US War Criminals planning to kill them
Documentation to prove the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts: US constantly violates war law;...
Why Occupy? A government/economics teacher explains why we MUST
with NEW PuppetGov video here. “Constitutional governments and aristocracies are commonly overthrown owing to some...
4-minute video: US war-murders end with US War Criminals arrests
video here. Dr. Dahlia Wasfi’s 4-minute speech powerfully communicates what US wars are: criminal Wars...
How an economics teacher frames Occupy’s economic argument, victory
with video here. (adapted from Open proposal for US Revolution: end unlawful wars, parasitic/criminal economics;...
Humanity’s Great Awakening: our “emperor has no clothes” breakthrough
with great 8-minute video here. Human beings with intellectual integrity and moral courage see, speak,...
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is sponsoring “Good for Wall Street—Bad for Students,” a panel discussion and national webcast on the dangers of for-profit colleges
For-profit colleges–such as The Art Institutes, Argosy University, Brown Mackie College,...
Setting the Stage for a Jeb Bush Presidential Draft
Republicans face a drawn-out nomination fight that could shred the party’s chances...
- 1917: J.P. Morgan bought US media to be 1%’s lying sacks of spin?
- #sixwordessay Helps Teachers Reclaim Education Debate
- Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny
- Some Ugly Details from the Daley/Duncan/Obama Connection
- In court filing, Washington Post admits telemarketing boiler room tactics at Kaplan U “
Police Brutality, Black America, and the US Occupy Movement
by Solomon Comissiong The US “Occupy Movement” continues to raise Americans consciousness...
Judge says blogger is not a journalist: action designed to put fear into the heart of independent investigative journalists and muzzle the internet
Jeff Barnard of the Associated Press published in the Boston Globe...
Black Friday Cyber Monday Sale at Kaplan Test Prep!!!!
For those that didn’t know it, the Washington Post’s blood bank,...
OWS CHALLENGES THE LEGITMACY OF THE SYSTEM
By Saul Landau An advanced university degree can’t help you find a...
Oops, We’re Doomed!
By Michael Collins We don’t have a substantial cushion between today’s climate...
Michigan citizens fight totalitarianism in new proposed zoning laws
picture of the Saugatuck Dunes forest Citizens of Michigan and those following...
Whirlwind in Sonoma and Marin
A few months ago, I was lying in bed enjoying the morning...
At for-profit colleges the poor pay more
Kaplan University charges the following populations different amounts for a 180 quarter unit Bachelor of...
Children should not be forced to recite the Pledge
Every day, millions of American children are forced to start their school day by reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. They...
Students facing class shortages at the public community colleges while the for-profit drive-by colleges move in for the kill
Elizabeth Bucher, 19, who is attending a California community college in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa Junior College), did all she...
#sixwordessay Helps Teachers Reclaim Education Debate
In the last year, the national education debate has been occupied by economists, billionaires, hedge-fund managers, corporate columnists and party-politicians...
Universal Public Education Is Dead (Expanded)
The National Education Association (NEA) received criticism for publishing an Op-Ed with Teach for America (TFA). Ken Bernstein found the...
Paulo Freire’s book, ‘A Pedagogy of the Oppressed’ banned in Tucson: A note from Bill Bigelow and ReThinking Schools
Dear Rethinking Schools friends, Did you see the news last week? On Friday, we learned that our book Rethinking Columbus...
76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Attend Schools that are Wall Street Owned: Drive-by predatory colleges fueled by private and public debt
Did you know that 76 Percent of For-Profit College Students Attend Schools that are Wall Street Owned? Did you know...
Accountability without Autonomy Is Tyranny
When educational research reaches the public through the corporate media, the consequences are often dire. Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff released...
Some Ugly Details from the Daley/Duncan/Obama Connection
It is not my custom to spend time on an article from American Thinker, a conservative publication whose political editor...
MLK Jr. Day 2012: Organizations v. Community
Let me preface this commentary with a confession: I have lived my entire life in South Carolina, a non-union state,...
In court filing, Washington Post admits telemarketing boiler room tactics at Kaplan U “
ON Dec 23, 2011 Judge Barbara Rothstein dismissed a shareholder’s lawsuit against Donald Graham and the Washington Post alleging WaPO...
Environmental internationalism: Cuba’s new mission?
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Since 1959 Cuba has played a significant world...
No Country Left Behind (NCLB) and The Race to the Slop
The 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure grades 15 categories of infrastructure, including levees (http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/report-cards). ...
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Business
No Country Left Behind (NCLB) and The Race to the Slop
The 2009 Report Card for America’s Infrastructure grades 15 categories of infrastructure, including...
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Politics
Environmental internationalism: Cuba’s new mission?
By Saul Landau and Nelson P. Valdés Since 1959 Cuba has played a...
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World News
Setting the Stage for a Jeb Bush Presidential Draft
Republicans face a drawn-out nomination fight that could shred the party’s chances even...