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A statement on the current and enduring crisis, by the coordinating committee of WorldBeyondWar.org
By Vera Graziadei
Emperor Obama's Old New Clothes and The US Energy War Criticism of Obama's UNGA speech in the context of the war in Ukraine
By David Swanson
First 13 Years in Afghanistan Big Success, Next 10 Promise Joy and Prosperity Here comes another October 7th, time once again for celebrating the International Day of Wars-Start-Easy- But-They're-a-b*tch-to-End. That is, if we can spare a few moments away from celebrating the new wars we're starting.
Documentary video of Kievs atrocities on civilians up to September.
By Linn Washington
Police Seek To Censor College Commencement Ceremony National police union bashes Goddard College for not blocking the selection of "cop killer" Mumia Abu-Jamal as a commencement speaker.
President Abbas, who for decades placed his faith in U.S. good will, has finally reached the conclusion that it is futile to continue to depend on the U.S. and that now is the time to stand up to Washington and turn to the international community to sponsor his negotiating strategy.
Either the CIA cannot risk America's adversaries learning how many "finished intelligence reports" were reviewed because they might use this detail for some terrorist algorithm for their next plot or else this should be considered information that is being over-classified.
By Andrew Schmookler
The Right-Wing Trolls Have a Strategy. What's Ours? To engage with right-wing trolls is to play into their hands.
By Sherwood Ross
Is Obama Regime Planning Mass Arrests? Developments taking place to give Obama regime the tools it needs for possible mass roundup of American citizens.
Mike Klonsky's SmallTalk Blog: Chicago's legacy of top-down school reform
Mike Klonsky documents the disastrous history of school reform in Chicago. It started when Secretary of Education Bill Bennett came to town and said Chicago's schools were the worst in the nation. One reform followed another: Paul Vallas, Arne Duncan, Rahm Emanuel....and a legacy of failure. Rahm closed more public schools than any public official in history (not counting Hurricane Katrina). He loves to turn neighborhood high schools into selective-admission schools. This promotes gentrification and disperses the neighborhood kids. His current plan is to do this to Hancock High School: Read how they do it in Chicago because they are doing this in the 15,880 districts in 50 states while the public is fed lies, and the public schools are privitized. The road to opportunity ends when this happens.
Peace was in the hearts and minds of the majority of people around the world. We were poised for a different future. What happened, and why we should remember.
Perdido Street School: Cuomo Will Lead A Witch Hunt Of "Failing" Teachers In His Second Term
Cuomo Will Lead A Witch Hunt Of "Failing" Teachers In His Second Term. Ravitch says: Cuomo is fully in line with the failing national "reform" movement that relies on test scores to grade teachers. Despite a solid base of research that shows that this method is inaccurate and unstable, Cuomo will force through a statewide rating system based on test scores. The problem is that Cuomo has no knowledge of research; he never heard of the American Statistical Association statement on value-added methods, nor of the work of Edward Haertel at Stanford, or Jesse Rothstein at Berkeley, or any of the many others who have closely studied VAM and found it deeply flawed. He has, however, heard from Arne Duncan and the Wall Street hedge fund managers who generously support his campaign. They want experienced teachers gone and replaced by young things who will not stay long enough to want a pension.
By Bob Burnett
What Do Women Want? Many themes have featured in the interminable run-up to the 2014 mid-term election: Obamacare, Obama's use of presidential power, Iraq/Syria, fracking, to mention only a few. But the theme that is perhaps most central to the election -- the role of women in our democracy -- has gotten little press attention. Yet it's women who will decide the outcome on November 4th. What do they want?
Sometimes freedom means allowing people to learn by sticking their fingers into the fan. This is our nature, Darwin was an optimist, there wouldn't be a warning sticker on the gas pump advising us not to take internally, if someone hadn't done it. Should you give your chainsaw to your eighty year old grandmother or a 300 horse power motorcycle to a teenager?
Greenland Ice Sheet more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought -- ScienceDaily
A new study finds that the Greenland Ice Sheet, which covers 1.7 million square kilometers and contains enough ice to raise sea levels worldwide by seven meters, is less stable and more sensitive to climate change than previously thought.
Support for controversial Darwin theory of 'jump dispersal'
More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, or in the case of plant seeds, in the plumage of birds. Though many were skeptical of Darwin's 'jump dispersal' idea, a new study suggests that Darwin might have been correct.
Satellite measurements reveal gravity dip from ice loss in West Antarctica -- ScienceDaily
Although not designed to map changes in Earth's gravity over time, ESA's GOCE satellite has shown that the ice lost from West Antarctica over the last few years has left its signature. More than doubling its planned life in orbit, GOCE spent four years measuring Earth's gravity in unprecedented detail. Researchers have found that the decrease in the mass of ice during this period was mirrored in GOCE's measurements.
By Paul Craig Roberts
UK Citizen Hands Himself Over To The Police For Doubting The UK Government's Word 
A British citizen turns himself in to Scotland Yard; says he has been declared a danger because he is an independent thinker and doubts the UK and US governments' word. He said he has come to the police station to comply with the prime minister's declaration.
Hong Kong is the same cookie cutter CIA "color" revolution system used to destabilize governments around the world, in order to install stooge Western puppets.
A former Cuban exile anti-Castro militant told a conference audience Sept. 26 in a blockbuster revelation that he saw accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald with their mutual CIA handler six weeks before the killing and there would have been no anti-Castro movement in Cuba without the CIA funding.
I've come to the difficult but unavoidable conclusion, based on the evidence of repeated regime change "failures" - as they seem to any sane person - that what Obama and the neo-cons really want is to break the Middle East.
The loss of a child is a pain few parents can imagine. For those whose children were brutally murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School (SHES) on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, that incalculable grief has been made worse by a group of conspiracy theorists who have accused them of being actors in an elaborately staged hoax.
By Zin Linn
Burma: Conflicts carry on as President urges nationwide ceasefire for 2015 election Even though there have been quite a lot of meetings between the government delegates led by Union Minister Aung Min and the Representative of the Ethnic Rebel groups one by one or jointly, the bargaining result for peace is no trouble-free topic. And after several decades of fighting for better self-determination, the distrust between the ethnic rebels and the Burma army -- the Tatmadaw -- goes on with uncompromising. Latest Articles
The Free Speech Movement marked its 50th Anniversary this week at an event at UCB.
Our economy, and financial sector has changed considerably over the last 54 years. We no longer have a closed economy. We are the largest economy in a global economy. Our GNP affects other countries economies, and visa versa. Our monetary and fiscal policies affect other countries monetary and fiscal policies, and visa versa. We have been using outdated monetary, and fiscal policies for too long.
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Lamar Alexander, Wherefore Art Thou?; by Diane Ravitch
"Sadly, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander has forgotten is pushing vouchers in Tennessee, which will decimate the public schools in communities across the state. I worked for Lamar Alexander when he was Secretary of Education in the first Bush administration. He is my kind of conservative: he didn't think he should shove his ideas down other people's throats. As Secretary, he knew he had to obey the law and not intrude on the right of states and localities to make decisions. He had a gut sense that other people had good ideas. Lamar's Little Plaid Book spells out his principles but I didn't read it closely, so I didn't know that Entry # 84 said this: "Read anything Diane Ravitch writes about education"... a radical ideas that will destabilize communities.Vouchers will be used to send children to little backwoods church schools with uncertified teachers.That's what happened in Louisiana...
A Secret Service agent jeopardized President Obama's security by leaking where the president was going to be ahead of time to the Romney campaign during the 2012 election. With each day, the Secret Service scandal gets worse. The scandal has moved beyond agency incompetence, and into political corruption. The Secret Service can no longer be considered only unreliable.
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