The Teach For America Bait and Switch: From ‘You’ll Be Making a Difference’ to ‘You’re Making Excuses’
A report from an insider on organization dedicated to scabbing known as Teach for America.
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Why Bernie Sanders Should Add a Job Guarantee to His Policy Agenda
Bernie has unapologetically rejected sclerotic visions of what is ‘politically possible’. And now he should add the Job Guarantee to his list of issues.
Read more...Robert Reich: Having a Life (Sort of) as a New Perk for “Talent”
If “talent” gets only itty bitty relief from extreme workplace demands, and that due to media pressure, imagine what it’s like for the help.
Read more...Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon on #BlackLivesMatter and the Black Misleadership Class
Glen Ford and Bruce Dixon of Black Agenda Report discuss how BlackLivesMatter seems to be abandoning its campaign against police brutality to become a tool of the black misleadership class.
Read more...Tom Engelhardt: Where Did the Antiwar Movement Go? War, Vietnam and Today
How shocking images of the Vietnam war helped stoke the antiwar movement of the 1960s, and how we’ve since become inured to them and the horrors of war generally.
Read more...Days of Revolt: The Black Prophetic Tradition
Cornel West: “How do you straighten your back up? How do you tell the truth? How do you bear witness? How do you organize? How do you mobilize? How do you generate forms of resistance and resiliency in the face of some very, very ugly forms of terror and trauma and stigma?”
Read more...Don Quijones: Businesses Flee Catalonia, Foreign Investment Plunges, as Confrontation with Spain Comes to a Boil
The issue of Catalan independence is no longer one based on pragmatic realities; as tensions have festered, it has become an almost purely emotionally driven issue, not just in Catalonia but throughout Spain.
Read more...Dealing With Mass Killings in America: Funding Our Children, Not Our Wars
As mass killings become more common in the US, law enforcement agents fixate on and unduly publicize cases with jihadist links. As this post describes, that serves as an excuse for even more intensive surveillance.
Yet as Mark Ames described in one of the first works on these rampages, in his book “Going Postal,” there were no obvious similarities among the perps. They weren’t all, or even often, isolated losers. They did not typically come from broken homes. They were generally of above average intelligence. Aside from being disproportionately male, the other common thread was that they had been bullied.
If Ames’ observations still hold true, the lack of distinctive demographic or behavioral predictors of those who go on rampages means that heightened surveillance is at best another form of security theater, and at worst an excuse for Stasi-like dossier-gethering.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Rorschach Candidacy of Hillary Clinton
What you can learn from applying the Hillary Clinton Rorschach test to friends and family!
Read more...How Big Corporations Are Starving Public Schools of Billions of Dollars
How big corporate tax avoidance hurts local schools.
Read more...Sharp Pencils vs. Sharp Politics: The 2015 Social Security Trustees Report
Social Security does face long term demographics issues….as will any approach to making sure retirees have income.
Read more...Michael Hoexter: Climate Defeatism is as Much a Threat to Human Survival as Climate Denial – Part 1
Human beings face the choice whether to preserve parts of our present civilization or create elements of a new one or alternatively, head towards self-extinction.
Read more...The Augean Stables – How Corruption Has Amended the Constitution
The institutionalized elements of corruption in America are so powerful that they’ve been able to gut the Constitution.
Read more...John Helmer: What is the Price of Suppressing the Truth in the Info War Against Russia?
Most people don’t think too hard about the fact that there is a price for secrecy, and when the truth is dangerous, the price is high.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Clinton Campaign Notices the Sanders Campaign, or How to Read the Media
Unexpectedly strong poll momentum and event turnout for Bernie Sanders has the Clinton campaign starting to get concerned.
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