An investigation by the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that 90 percent of students affected by public school closings in Chicago are African American, a rate that doesn’t match up with the city’s racial demographics (only 41.7 percent of the district’s student population is black). School closings are the latest trend among privatization and charter school advocates […]
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As the debate over drone strikes and targeted killings finally breaks into the mainstream, there remains a key aspect of the kill program that has been virtually ignored even by its most ardent detractors.
The death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez isn’t the only significant event unfolding in Latin America this week. In a historic trial that has received little attention, former US-backed military dictators and their conspirators are being prosecuted in Argentina for their role in Operation Condor, a brutal campaign involving the disappearance and murder of tens […]
The US establishment loves to hate on Hugo Chavez for his economic policies that favor the poor. Don’t get me wrong, Chavez was not perfect. But he overcame huge obstacles to reduce poverty in Venezuela. That’s no easy feat in Latin America as Naomi Klein demonstrates in the first half of “The Shock Doctrine”. Following […]
Republicans have renewed their calls for drug testing welfare recipients, this time at the federal level despite failed attempts to do so in states across the country, most recently in Florida. Congressman Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn) has introduced legislation mandating random drug testing of 20 percent of recipients of Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF). He’s […]
Just last week President Obama unveiled the historic statue of famous civil rights icon Rosa Parks whose activism helped spark the Montgomery Bus Boycott, credited with propelling the civil rights movement to victory. Meanwhile, Vice President Joe Biden today assured the right-wing pro-Israel lobbying group, the American Israel Political Action Committee (AIPAC), that Obama loves […]
The American public is so detached from the many wars being fought in their name that the killing of civilians abroad often goes unnoticed. The latest victims whose deaths barely registered in the national consciousness were two Afghan boys, identified as 11-year-old Toor Jan and his brother, 12-year-old Andul Wodood. They were walking their donkeys […]
Mainstream media coverage of the Israeli Palestinian conflict gives the false impression that things are just now heating up between the two sides following the torture and death of 30-year-old Palestinian prisoner Arafat Jaradat in Israeli custody. As usual, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney, had his voting rights restored by Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell on November 1 of last year, just before the presidential election. As the Associated Press explains, “[Libby] was convicted in 2007 of perjury, obstruction of justice and making false statements in a case involving […]
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