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How the Neocons Are Distorting History to Pave the Way for War with Iran
Neoconservatives like Charles Krauthammer are promoting the misleading Israeli narrative of the 1967 war in their efforts to sell an attack on Iran.
Categories: Critical Thinking
Low-Wage Workers in New York Come Together to Fight Greedy Bosses
May Day, the Occupy movement and the 99 percent narrative have raised the voices of low-wage workers who joined together under the banner "Organize, Legalize, and Unionize."
Categories: Critical Thinking
Where Are the Missing 5 Million Workers? In the Underground Economy
The “underground†is always with us. For better and often for worse, it’s how marginalized populations tend to survive—often not very well.
Categories: Critical Thinking
Fighting the Corporate Prison Industry: Citizens of One Illinois Town Fight CCA Immigration Detention Facility
Will CCA seal a deal to build a civil detention facility in Crete, Ill., before the legislature votes to bar it?
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Infuriated by 'Valueless' Testing, NYC Parents Vow to Fight Back
Parents from Williamsburg to Riverdale say the state’s high-stakes standardized testing regimen is out of control and a serious threat to their children’s education.
Categories: Critical Thinking
Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace: How "Rolling Stone" Got Her Story (Almost) Right
Amidst the punk icon's celebrity gender transition, a trans woman entertains the hope that change is coming
Categories: Critical Thinking
Journalists, Wiki-Leakers, Anti-War Activists Overturn Domestic Military Detention in Major Civil Rights Victory
The government's conduct in federal court convinced a judge that the newest anti-terror law violated the constitutional rights of journalists and activists.
Categories: Critical Thinking
Giant Tax Loopholes and Tax Breaks: All About the Multi-Billion Dollar Facebook IPO
Shares of the social network go on sale Friday at an initial public offering expected to be one of the largest ever--so how's it managing to get a $3 billion tax break?
Categories: Critical Thinking
Tasing a Pregnant Woman in Front of Her Kid? The Outrageous -- And Dangerous -- Abuse of Tasers by Police
Police often misuse tasers -- with terrible results.
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GOP Version of Violence Against Women Act Tries to Push Women Back Into the Home
By raising barriers to economic assistance and legal recourse, the legislation sends the message to countless women living in violent households that their place is still at home.
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10 Frightening Things That Happen at Conservative Christian Schools That May Be Funded With Your Tax Dollars
Inflammatory anti-choice propaganda? Lies about sexuality? We need to keep in mind what goes on in many Christian schools when we discuss vouchers.
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10 Cool Discoveries You Should Know About
From asteroid mining to HIV prevention, here are 10 things you should know about from the week.
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Ehrenreich: How Corporations and Local Governments Rob the Poor Blind
The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators.
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TED: Even More Elitist Than We Thought
TED curator Chris Anderson seemed most concerned that "business managers and entrepreneurs would feel insulted" by some remarks about income inequality.
Categories: Critical Thinking
How the Auto Industry Completely Lost the Millennials
A veteran auto writer looks at how the world’s automakers got this generation so wrong.
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Occupied Urban Farmland in the Bay Area Highlights Privatization of Public Universities and Corporatization of Public Trust
The arena of struggle revealed by Occupy the Farm is not just organic farming, food justice, and food sovereignty--it's also about an increasingly privatized university.
Categories: Critical Thinking
Toward a More Perfect Student Unionism: Lessons From the Maple Spring
Activists from CUNY hold forth on what the US student movement needs now.
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Press Freedom Declines in the US With Arrests of Journalists at Protests--and More Will Likely Come
Freedom of the press is more important, not less, when anyone with a mobile phone and an Internet connection can act as a journalist.
Categories: Critical Thinking
6 Reasons Conservatives Compare Women to Farm Animals
Republican politicians are rolling back women's reproductive rights based on the norms of animal husbandry.
Categories: Critical Thinking
NYPD Stop-and-Frisk Lawsuit Ruled a Class Action Suit
A Federal judge granted class action status to a lawsuit alleging the NYPD's controversial program amounts to racial profiling.
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