California Senate president attacks ‘diseased’ financial system in education...
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/14/california-senate-president-attacks-diseased-financial-system-in-education-reform-speech/ By Eric W. Dolan Sunday, April 14, 2013 California...
View ArticleAcademia’s indentured servants
From Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/20134119156459616.html Outspoken academics are rare: most tenured faculty have stayed silent about the adjunct crisis, notes Kendzior....
View ArticleFrench ‘Senate’ votes to legalize same sex marriage
From Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/french-senate-votes-to-legalize-same-sex-marriage/ By Agence France-Presse Friday, April 12, 2013 France’s upper house Senate voted Friday to...
View ArticleHas NOM’s Work Been Fomenting Anti-Gay Violence In France Over Marriage?
From The New Civil Rights Movement: http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/has-noms-work-been-fomenting-anti-gay-violence-in-france-over-marriage/politics/2013/04/14/65180 by David Badash on April 14,...
View ArticleD.C. shelter drops ban on trans women
From Washington Blade: http://www.washingtonblade.com/2013/04/14/dc-shelter-drops-ban-on-trans-women/ By Lou Chibbaro Jr. on April 14, 2013 A D.C. Superior Court judge on Friday issued a temporary...
View ArticleIt’s Time For the Annual Michigan Women’s Music Festival Controversy
This has been going for some twenty years now. For twenty some years certain lesbians who howl like banshees at any infringement of their rights and privileges due to discrimination and bigotry have...
View ArticleBoston explosions highlight a frightening new reality
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/15/boston_explosions_highlight_a_frightening_new_reality/ We don’t yet know the cause of what happened in Boston, but the fact that it isn’t surprising is...
View ArticleSmall Farms Fight Back: Food and Community Self-Governance
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/news/item/15725-small-farms-fight-back-food-and-community-self-governance By Tory Field and Beverly Bell Sunday, 14 April 2013 Heather Retberg stood on the steps...
View ArticleIndustrial hazards force communities to consider relocation
From Salon: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/15/industrial_hazards_force_communities_to_consider_relocation/ Sinkholes and severe pollution are forcing some communities to consider relocating. Part one of...
View ArticleThe truth about extreme global inequality
From Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/04/201349124135226392.html Jason Hickel 14 Apr 2013 The crisis of capital, the rise of the Occupy movement and the crash of Southern...
View ArticleHow America’s Corporate Overlords Cheat and Screw Us on Taxes
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/how-americas-corporate-overlords-cheat-and-screw-us-taxes They make much of their revenue in the U.S., but claim billions of dollars in foreign profits and...
View ArticleI’m Cutting Posts Short Tonight. Today’s Bombing Has Left Me Feeling Empty
When I heard about the bombing of yesterday’s Boston Marathon my first thought was of Hazel, a friend from high school who lives in the Boston area and runs marathons. I was relieved when I learned...
View ArticleThe Boston bombing produces familiar and revealing reactions
From The Guardian UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/16/boston-marathon-explosions-notes-reactions As usual, the limits of selective empathy, the rush to blame Muslims, and the...
View ArticleAmerican People Fight Obama’s Treacherous Cuts to Social Security and Medicare
From Alternet: http://www.alternet.org/economy/american-people-fight-obamas-treacherous-cuts-social-security-and-medicare The attack on our most basic economic rights may open a new chapter in the...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Shine a Light on the Poverty Creation Industry
From Truth Out: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/15726-its-time-to-shine-a-light-on-the-poverty-creation-industry By Joe Brewer, Alnoor Ladha and Martin Kirk Sunday, 14 April 2013 It’s about time we...
View ArticleGold crash is an instructive whodunit of financial markets
Way back in 1980 I sold off most of my gold jewelry when the right wing in America was under the spell of a guy named Howard Ruff. Gold went up to something like 1300 dollars an ounce before...
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