All Views Articles for 2014-12-13
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Victoria Law 8 Ways to Support Protests Against the Criminal Punishment System, if You Can’t Get Out on the Street These days, it seems like everyone with a stake in racial justice is out on the streets. Students in high schools across the country, including my daughter, responded to the call for #HandsUpWalkOut... Read more |
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Chuck Collins Racial Wealth Inequality and the Dream Deferred As protesters march through our cities, a new study dramatizes that at the heart of our racially fractured society is a hidden system of racial wealth inequalities. The marches in the streets may... Read more |
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Jim Naureckas Refusing to Take Sides, NPR Takes Sides With Torture Deniers National Public Radio , following the lead of the Washington Post ( FAIR Blog , 12/9/14 ) (and in contrast to the New York Times – FAIR Blog , 8/8/14 ), tries to avoid applying the word "torture" in... Read more |
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Ralph Nader Senate Report Condemns Government Torture Abroad The 528 page Senate Intelligence Committee report on C.I.A. torture may come as a shock to many, but would not have surprised the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY). In 1991 and again in... Read more |
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Ellen Brown Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup On December 11, 2014, the US House passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits and pensions exposed to massive... Read more |
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Jeff Bryant Who's Really Failing Students “Failure is not an option,” has been a popular slogan in public education for years. Although, flight engineers and astronauts in the Apollo 13 program originally coined the phrase as a motivator for... Read more |