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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Sept. 24, 2021
September 26, 2021
If you think elementary, middle, and high school students know too little history, geography, and government, try asking them about the corporations that command so many hours of their day, their attention, what they consume, and their personal horizons.
with Hakim
Guest Writer
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http://ourjourneytosmile.com
April 3, 2012
ourjourneytosmile on Apr 3, 2012
Love or Enmity in Afghanistan? Are Pushtoons, Tajiks, Hazaras, Uzbeks and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan doomed by geopolitics to hate one another? Is non-violence an ‘obsolete’ concept for Afghans? Can economic self-reliance be built out of a globally dominant capitalism? Is genuine love possible in Afghanistan? Can the Afghan Peace Volunteers find peace in Afghanistan?
Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com
February 10, 2012
How economic inequality destroys opportunity for the millennial generation.
By Peta Lindsay
liberationnews.org
January 4, 2012
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Statement by PSL presidential candidate Peta Lindsay
Recently the Pew Center for research published a poll in which they found that 49 percent of young people in the U.S. have a favorable view of socialism, while only 43 percent reported viewing it unfavorably. The report also revealed that African Americans have a favorable view of socialism at a rate of 55 percent to 36 percent.
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UCtelevision on Feb 7, 2008
Eric Mann, the leader the Labor/Community Strategy Center in Los Angeles, describes his work for what he calls the “think tank/act tank” for democratic, international social movements. Mann was presented to students at UC San Diego who are studying revolutionary activists in labor, poverty and environmental causes. Series: “Growing Activism” [4/2007] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12261]
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by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Sept. 11, 2011
There’s always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. — Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns – or dollars. Take your choice – there is no other. — Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged “
By the Democrats, the Game Has Been Played Like This Since the ’60s
by William Bowles
Featured Writer
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williambowles.info
17 August, 2011
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“At 9.22 the Brixton shopping centre appeared almost calm by comparison to Railton Road. Rubbish was strewn across the main A23 Brixton Road; burglar alarms rang vainly from looted shops; and knots of youths, black and white, drifted along in the almost complete absence of police.” — ‘Eyewitness: Looters moved in as the flames spread’
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aea2011andover on Jun 13, 2011
An event at Andover High School sponsored by the Andover Education Association to promote student, teacher, and community civic action.
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Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
April 5, 2011
Kabul, Afghanistan
davidcnswanson on Apr 5, 2011
Kabul
April 4, 2011
Interviewed by David Swanson
by Joseph Natoli
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
March 4, 2011
“The Oscars tripped in their transition to a hipper, younger, media-mad future, attracting 12 percent fewer viewers than last year in the important 18-to-49 age bracket.” — Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes, “Younger Audience Still Eludes the Oscars,” NY Times March 1, 2001
“European students live in societies where it becomes more difficult to collapse public life into largely private considerations. Students in these countries have access to a wider range of critical public spheres;
politics in many of these countries has not collapsed entirely into the spectacle of celebrity/commodity culture; left-oriented political parties still exist; and labor unions have more political and ideological clout than they do in the United States.” — Henry A. Giroux, Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy Truthout (www.truth-out.org)
By William Bowles
Featured Writer
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williambowles.info
10 February, 2011
“The command of Egypt’s military stepped forward Thursday in an attempt to stop a three-week-old uprising, declaring on state television it would take measures “to maintain the homeland and the achievements and the aspirations of the great people of Egypt” and meet the demands of the protesters. The development appeared to herald the end of President Hosni Mubarak’s 30-year rule.” — The New York Times, 10 February, 2011
by William John Cox
Featured Writer
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www.thevoters.org
November 6, 2010
In one of the most striking political comebacks in U.S. history, the Republican Party marched in lockstep to victory in the midterm elections and seized control of the House of Representatives and state houses across the nation. Republicans made a battle plan, they disciplined their troops, and the corporations paid for the ammunition.
Unless the Democrats do something drastically differently during the next two years, the rich and powerful will cement their victory around the body of democracy and dump the barrel of freedom into the deep dark waters of cash politics where it will be lost forever.
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