The militarisation of America’s schools

The Military Invades U.S. Schools: How Military Academies Are Being Used to Destroy Public Education
by Brian Roa, Global Research Institute

For the past four years, I have observed the military occupation of the high school where I teach science. Currently, Chicago’s Senn High School houses Rickover Naval Academy (RNA). I use the term “occupation” [...]

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Millions face hunger in absence of immediate climate change action

Three days ago, Oxfam released a 60-page briefing paper under the title: “Suffering the Science – Climate change, people, and poverty”. The report reveals that seasons which were once distinct are shifting, destroying harvests and causing widespread hunger – which is just one of many impacts taking their toll on the world’s poorest people.

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Mainstream economists replace the role of climate skeptics to ensure inaction on climate change

Reposted from Climate and Capitalism
A new book by economist Frank Ackerman, Can We Afford the Future?: The Economics of a Warming World (Zed, 2009), presents an important and startling thesis:
“As the climate science debate is reaching closure, the climate economics debate is heating up. The controversial issue now is the fear that overly ambitious climate [...]

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American Economic Triumphalism Is Over

Not that I would call European governments like those of France, Italy or or Germany ’socialists’, but this piece of American self-reflection the bygone era of US capitalist hubris by Ruth Conniff in The Progressive sounds quite refreshing.
Oh, those silly French. Remember how much fun we used to have at their expense? Back in the [...]

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UFO sightings?

I have to admit, I would never put much effort into finding out a reasonable amount on UFOs, but others do of course. I found this clip on PakAlert, who has another 11 or 12 links to other so-called UFO sightings. While I certainly wouldn’t dispute the high probability of the [...]

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Was the recent uprising in Iran a “colored revolution,” a genuine movement for democracy – or both? (Full Spectrum Dominance and Iran Part 2)

It’s hard to know what’s going on behind the scenes of governments; given Seymor Hersh’s 2008 New Yorker article though on US$400 billion put aside by the US to destabilise the Eurasian region, I would not be surprised if the CIA had some influence of significance in the recent events in [...]

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Full Spectrum Dominance (Part 1)

Full Spectrum Dominance, is Pentagonese for the basic military doctrine in the era of the post-Cold War, since 1990. The idea is that the United States’ military power projection will control the oceans, control the land areas of this planet, will control space, outer space and cyberspace—in other words, control everything [...]

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Uighurs’ struggle to retain cultural identity

The Chinese government has accused Uighur exiles of inciting violent protests in Urumqi in the western province of Xinjiang. But many ethnic Uighurs blame Beijing for systematically destroying their culture and identity. Al Jazeera’s Nazanine Moshiri explores the tense relationship between Uighurs and China’s leaders.
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Honduran coup resistance growing

An interview with Sandra Cuffe, independent journalist reporting from the streets of Tegucigalpa, Honduras on the day the military opened fire on protesters. Tension peaked as unprecedented thousands marched to the airport to welcome the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya, a return that was thwarted by the military.

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Australian economists urge government to establish a people’s bank

I never thought that I have much in common with protagonists of capitalism, such as prominent economists – or should I say I didn’t expect their philosophy having any overlap with my own. Taken at face value though, the suggestion by six influential economists to have the federal government establish a people’s bank to break [...]

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