As those of you who hang out in the left-of-liberal internet world and have any interest in the state of public education in America may have already noticed, a heartening trend is brewing – there is more and more intellectual energy going into a left critique of centrist educational reform ...

Originally posted at All Education Matters. While millions of Americans will join the indentured educated class after graduation this Spring, policy analysts focused their attention on money going directly to the institutions of higher education. The issue at hand last week? Pell Grants. I want to make it clear: I am not against ...

She quietly walked into the classroom from the front and stood there, just inside the door, against a wall.   I continued my lecture, unaware of her presence until my students’ eyes began focusing upon her rather than me.   “Yes?” I asked. Just “yes.” Nothing more.   “You shouldn’t have done it,” she said peacefully. ...

"Black Pearls" is my ode to being tired of being poisoned.  You just can't escape that tainted scent of profit in the air, the water and the food.  Asking people if they know they're being poisoned is like asking if a fish knows the water is wet.  Corporations are, in effect, allowed ...

Researcher Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti said that the model of representative democracy or “corporate power” is in decline. WILLIAMS RAMÍREZ Newspaper Cambio, April 6, 2012   Facing the growing crisis of capitalism, and with it of representative democracy in various Western countries including the United States, participatory democracy projects itself with greater strength, implemented ...

We hope it will not offend the sensibilities of our non-religious readers to share this take on Jesus and Easter from a well-spoken progressive minister: Jesus was executed by the political and religious powers of his day because he and his followers wanted to establish a kind of heaven on earth: ...

There’s nothing to suggest that in his 51 years Kevin June should be a leader. Not from his high school where he dropped out after his freshman year. Not from his job, where he worked as an auto body technician for more than 35 years. Both of his marriages ended in divorce, but ...

Feigned indignation is the only kind left where decency is a threat to the raison d'etre of profit, an impediment, bred out of the masses as much as possible. And a well-established lust for flesh plus professional perception management will make cannibalism as acceptable as neoconservativism, especially when the product is processed. The objection it's actually humans will be subject to a ...

The indocrination of children into the culture of corporate capitalism begins even before they enter school, when their own parents, in effect, bind the feet of their morality by having them join in the guilty and tasty pleasures of murder. The ABCs of Atrocity sow the seeds of future perversity. Animals are the means we ...

Political analyst Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti suggests that reestablishing bilateral relations with the United States, given the impositions of the northern country, calls for a profound national discussion.   La Paz, Bolivia Newspaper Cambio, April ,1 2012 Political analyst Juan Carlos Zambrana made the following analysis following the discovery of armament in a ...