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Written by John Reimann / Filed in Daily Journal (Opinion), World News
By John Reimann Within 2 weeks of the first showing of Invisible Children’s Kony2012 video, some 80 million people had watched it and students in over 1200 schools across the US raised over $1 million for Invisible Children. Such icons as P Diddy, Angelina Jolie and Oprah pumped it and US Senator Jim Inhofe [...]
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An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are you f**king kidding me?” she wrote. “I may just quit my job and home-school my daughter.” I wondered what on earth could be so terrible. I soon found out: the New York City Department of Education’s “Common Core–aligned tasks embedded [...]
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Written by Danny Weil / Filed in Lifestyle, Media, World News
Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in Greece has seen a steady rise within the last dozen years. Below are some of the numbers. Prisoners in Greece Year Capacity Population 1998 4,332 6,150 2005 5,584 8,72 2008 7,543 11,243 2009 9,103 11,736 2011 9,223 12,586 http://www.athensnews.gr/issue/13477/52110 Now, with the country [...]
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Written by Michael Collins / Filed in Daily Journal (Opinion), World News
By Michael Collins What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free world. Previously, it was the American cowboy president and the supposedly left leaning Prime Minister Tony Blair. That buddy act helped drag United States into the worst foreign policy disaster in its history. (Image full size) This working partnership between [...]
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Written by kathleenbarry / Filed in Daily Journal (Opinion), War and Peace
By Kathleen Barry, Ph.D. ‘Are our soldiers seeing too much combat?’ as one retired military general asked after the most recent Afghan massacre of 16 civilians. How much combat – organized and spontaneous killing, destruction – is too much? Enough so that US killing in Afghanistan is just short of being caught massacring civilians? Enough [...]
Will the Greek economic collapse lead to private for-profit prison incarceration?
Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in Greece has seen...
Some questions about the Obama – Cameron meeting
By Michael Collins What a lovely photo of the two well-heeled leaders of the free...
HOW THE U.S. MILITARY SPAWNS MASSACRES AND DAILY ACTS OF DEPRAVITY
‘Are our soldiers seeing too much combat?’ as one retired military general asked after the...
UK government has plans to privatize police
The West Midlands and Surrey police departments, among others, are facing budget cuts, so the...
War Criminal Obama threatens unlawful war with Iran (again): who will arrest him?
video here. President Obama criminally threatened to murder Iranians today with fellow War Criminal British...
Lorax 2-minute finale: 99% sing ‘Let it grow,’ 1% sing ‘Let it die’
video of song here. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is...
Dennis Kucinich: heroism to end US economic and War Crimes, initiate peace
A great member of Congress had the intellectual integrity and moral courage to rightly call...
Impeachment for Libyan War of Aggression; 2-minute Pulitzer-cartoonist’s video
video here Activist Post documents and asks the question if enough Americans are prepared to...
New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around
An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention...
Will the Greek economic collapse lead to private for-profit prison incarceration?
Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in...
- Northwestern High School students in DC stage walkout and receive five day suspensions
- Your World News to interview Tim Baldauf, a student at the University of Maryland, who is fighting to help end workplace abuses at the University of Maryland
- The Heartland Institute: Leaked Document Details “Operation Angry Badger” in Wisconsin
- A powerful argument for blocking Wisconsin’s voter ID law
- Four Horsemen movie trailer: “You don’t know what’s been done to you”
Will the Greek economic collapse lead to private for-profit prison incarceration?
Picture of the Prison of Socrates in Greece The prison population in...
Northwestern High School students in DC stage walkout and receive five day suspensions
The Fightback, out of Washington D.C. reported March 14th, 2012...
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...
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...
New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around
An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are...
Northwestern High School students in DC stage walkout and receive five day suspensions
The Fightback, out of Washington D.C. reported March 14th, 2012 that Northwestern High School Principal Edgar Batenga gave...
“Workers rights are human rights and natural rights” — University of Maryland and the New Jim Crow
Picture of University of Maryland worker at a forum to protest racial and sexual harrassment of workers The following...
Separate, Unequal…and Distracted
When research, history, and allegory all converge to tell us the same story, we must pause to ask why we...
Your World News to interview Tim Baldauf, a student at the University of Maryland, who is fighting to help end workplace abuses at the University of Maryland
Picture of the campus of the University of Maryland http://www.blogtalkradio.com/umd-bfsa/2012/03/05/students-fighting-workplace-abuse-at-university-of-maryland This episode we spoke to Tim Baldauf, a student at...
How to Choose a Book
You’re better off choosing a book by its cover than by using the Common Core State Standards exemplary text system....
The Education Games: Reform as Doublespeak
Although we currently live in a world informed by George Orwell’s dystopian unmasking-as-novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four, we seem unable to acknowledge...
U.S. House votes to deregulate for-profit colleges
American Legislative Exchange Council member and wind-up politician and arch-conservative, Virginia Foxx on the congressional floor A...
University of Maryland plans $7.2 million president’s mansion while employees suffer sexual abuse, low wages and students face massive tuition increases and spiraling debt
The “University House” at the University of Maryland is scheduled to open this fall. Also known as the University of...
Teachers: how do you teach US War Crimes, destruction of US Constitution?
with video here. We teach limited government under a constitution that secures unalienable rights of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. This first right...
Georgia & North Carolina for profit college deregulation tied to ALEC
In an article written for Truthout.org, entitled: How North Carolina’s Shock Doctrine Artists Are Resegregating Higher Education, I describe how...
The Reality Behind Invisible Children, the LRA and the Situation in Uganda
By John Reimann Within 2 weeks of the first showing of Invisible Children’s Kony2012...
New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around
An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on Twitter. “Are...
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Business
Thomas Edison & Thomas Jefferson on monetary reform
This is my paper for The Center of Process Studies’ conference, Money-Creation in a Finite...
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Politics
New York’s Common Core Pre-K Standards: They’re Not Kidding Around
An angry New York City parent of a preschooler got my attention on...
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World News
The Reality Behind Invisible Children, the LRA and the Situation in Uganda
By John Reimann Within 2 weeks of the first showing of Invisible...