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Crowded Classrooms and Crowded Prisons – Why Is It So Hard to See the Connection?
The Dog Eats Its Tail: Oversized Classes, Overpopulated PrisonsBy Jesse Hagopian / March 7, 2009 One in thirty one. As a public school teacher I am quite familiar with this figure — it’s a typical teacher to student ratio in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Society, Education, Educational Reform, Prison Conditions, Prison Overcrowding
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House Demolitions in East Jerusalem Could Spark More Mid-East Violence
40-year-old Palestinian Mahmoud al-Abbasi stands amid the rubble of his home after it was demolished by the Jerusalem municipality in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. Photograph: Gali Tibbon.East Jerusalem Settlements Ratchet Up TensionsBy Helena Cobban / March 6, 2009 … Continue reading
The Machiavellian Game of Distraction: Will It Continue with Obama?
Bagram Air Force Base, AfghanistanObama’s Guantanamo? Bush’s Living Legacy at Bagram PrisonBy Karen J. Greenberg / March 5, 2009 Just when you think you’ve woken up from a bad dream… When it comes to offshore injustice and secret prisons, especially … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Criminal Justice, Indefinite Detention, War Crimes, War on Terror
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Naomi Wolf’s ‘The End of America’
Naomi Wolf – 2009. Photo by HeyokayMagazine.Naomi Wolf – The End of America Outlines Path From Freedom To Dictatorship – Compares George Bush To Adolf HitlerBy Tom Madison / March 4, 2009 Although many people compared President Bush and his … Continue reading
Baxter Contaminates Flu Vaccine with Live Virus
‘Accidental’ Contamination Of Vaccine With Live Avian Flu Virus Virtually ImpossibleBy Paul Joseph Watson / March 5, 2009 Czech newspapers are questioning if the shocking discovery of vaccines contaminated with the deadly avian flu virus which were distributed to 18 … Continue reading
Middle East Peace: Probably Not This Year
Hillary Clinton meets with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas at his Ramallah headquarters 4 March 2009.Here we go again?By Paul Beckett / The Rag Blog / March 6, 2009 So now it’s Hillary Clinton who begins to shuttle, looking for that … Continue reading
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Tagged Clintons, Israel, Middle East, Palestine, Paul Beckett, U.S. Government
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Like Jeffrey Dahmer Selling Body Parts to a Clinic
Jason Mesnick and his Bachelor’s harem. Photo source: Whitney Port.The Rant ListBy Gail Collins / March 4, 2009 I am having a tough time dealing with news that the former president of Countrywide Financial, the mortgage company that did so … Continue reading
Ethnic Media : Important Voice Seriously at Risk
The danger of losing the ethnic media With their ability to tap into the communities they serve, the ethnic media contribute context, history, and perspectives found nowhere else. By Sally Lehrman / March 5, 2009 AsianWeek, San Francisco’s English-language weekly … Continue reading
Annie Leibovitz and The Gay Tax : The Cost of Love
Susan Sontag. Photo © Annie Leibovitz / Politics, Theory & Photography.Annie Leibovitz and the gay tax Same-sex couples do not have the same privileges as straight married couples when it comes to inheritance. If your partner passes away and leaves … Continue reading
Perhaps BushCo Will Yet Meet Justice
Representative John Conyers Jr. has called for an investigation.Photo: Susan Walsh/Associated Press.Release of Memos Fuels Push for Inquiry Into Bush’s Terror-Fighting PoliciesBy Charlie Savage and Neil A. Lewis / March 3, 2009 WASHINGTON — A day after releasing a set … Continue reading
