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- Saturday, Apr 13, 2013
ZNet Article In Venezuela, Hugo Chávez's legacy on poverty is likely to get his chosen successor elected. We can't so easily vote out Margaret Thatcher's war on welfare -
- Thursday, Feb 28, 2013
ZNet Article While still on the caucus roster, three-quarters of the 70-member caucus seem lost in political smog -
- Sunday, Jun 26, 2011
ZNet Article The disability benefits trust fund is a prime and easy target from which to attack Social Security across the board -
- Wednesday, Jun 01, 2011
ZMag Article Savage attacks on social justice and blunted popular revolt -
- Sunday, May 22, 2011
Commentary The picture is hardly as dire as many politicians in Washington are claiming -
- Sunday, Apr 03, 2011
ZNet Article Thomas Friedman was on a roll last week, putting forward one sweeping declaration after another - as he is wont to do. -
- Tuesday, Feb 01, 2011
Commentary I listened to the State of the Union speech. What I heard, though, was not President Obama’s string of irritating platitudes, but the sound of a nation bent on self-destruction. ZMag Article LGBT stategies for families after the Jarrell/Boseman case -
- Saturday, Jan 22, 2011
ZNet Article That is the question that supporters of Social Security should be asking as we brace for President Obama's State of the Union address next week. -
- Monday, Jan 17, 2011
ZNet Article Returning from the sunny climes of Hawaii to the nation's still frigid capital, President Obama will, over the next couple of months, face the greatest challenges of his time in office. -
- Saturday, Jan 01, 2011
Commentary Eight young people, who the Fire Department said were “trying to stay warm,” perished in a raging fire during the night in New Orleans. -
- Sunday, Dec 26, 2010
ZNet Article As students in the United States and Europe protest against soaring tuition and lack of funding for public higher education, the Venezuelan National Assembly has passed an unprecedented law. -
- Sunday, Dec 19, 2010
Commentary So a key part of U.S. President Barack Obama’s health “reform” bill was declared “unconstitutional” last week by the right wing federal district court judge Henry E. Hudson in Virginia. -
- Monday, Dec 13, 2010
ZNet Article Planned is death by a thousand cuts - aka "creeping normalcy," defined as a way to make major changes seem normal if happen slowly, incrementally like boiling a frog unaware it's dinner until cooked. -
- Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010
ZNet Article At a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and quantification, it is all the more important to remember the legacy and work of Paulo Freire. -
- Friday, Oct 29, 2010
Commentary A 12-year old girl I know has spent most of her years in parochial or public schools. This year, she’s got a full scholarship to a very expensive all girls’ school in Boston. -
- Monday, Oct 18, 2010
Commentary In all of the economic issues we are dealing with, there is always a “back story, a deeper context” that is usually missing, “disappeared” like those Allende supporters in Chile in the l970’s who wanted to empower workers, not just rescue them whe... -
- Tuesday, Oct 12, 2010
ZNet Article It’s technically straightforward to eliminate malaria from an area. At least in theory. You reduce the ability of mosquitoes to bite people, treat every sick victim with curative drugs and prevent any infected person from bringing new parasites in... -
- Saturday, Oct 09, 2010
ZNet Article When the current recession hit, California had already fallen from one of the country’s leaders in per-pupil education funding in the 1950s to 49th among the 50 states in the last decade. -
- Tuesday, Sep 21, 2010
Audio This interview explores the the US housing industry and how it helped to cause the current economic crisis, and was so damaged by the crisis that its crippled state now undermines efforts to escape from the crisis. -
- Saturday, Sep 18, 2010
ZNet Article The reasons why public education is suddenly an issue despite years of neglect by politicians and the media are straightforward. -
- Sunday, Aug 29, 2010
ZNet Article Republican leaders in Congress would have us believe that most Americans support cutting Social Security and Medicare payments as a way to cut the federal budget deficit. But don't you believe it. -
- Tuesday, Aug 17, 2010
ZNet Article The Washington Post and most of the important people in Washington want the United States to be like Kazakhstan. Unfortunately, this is not another Borat movie, this is about the central focus of economic policy in the United States today. -
- Friday, Jul 30, 2010
ZNet Article Over the last two centuries corporate lawyers and investment bankers have been central to the undemocratic consolidation of private corporate power. -
- Wednesday, Jul 21, 2010
ZNet Article The passage of financial reform is a good time to ask how much money we should expect to hand to the banks through our efforts to "help" homeowners. The basic story is very straightforward to anyone with more common sense than a Washington policy ... -
- Wednesday, Jul 14, 2010
ZNet Article Last week the IMF told the United States that it needs to start getting its budget deficit down. It put cutting Social Security at the top of the steps that the country should take to achieve deficit reduction. This one is more than a bit outrageo... -
- Saturday, Jul 10, 2010
ZMag Article Some stories from California behind "food insecurity" -
- Wednesday, Jun 23, 2010
ZNet Article Next weekend will feature another milestone in the drive to cut Social Security and Medicare. The organization America Speaks will be hosting a series of 20 meetings in cities across the country. They will ask the people at these meetings, a cross... -
- Monday, Jun 14, 2010
ZNet Article The Texas State Board of Education approved a new social studies curriculum to reflect American History as it should have happened. Board member Cynthia Dunbar (R) elucidated the core of the Board’s premise: America was and should be “a Christian ... -
- Saturday, Jun 05, 2010
ZNet Article Iraq war veteran Eric Jasinski, after seeking treatment for his post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is being punished by the Army. - All Newest Content
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