DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
ANOTHER “HUMANITARIAN CRISIS” IN LIBYA IS PLAYING OUT IN THE DARK OF WORLD PRESS COVERAGE. Lizzie Phelan details the little-known reality that the “Misrata rebels” whose plight was so much agonized over when they faced “government” extermination while the “Gaddafi regime” was still in place, are now the terrorists in Libya: the targets of [...]
AS LIBYAN GOVERNMENT HESITATES TO ARREST ANYONE IMPLICATED IN LETHAL ATTACK ON U.S. CONSULATE, AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS PREPARE A NEW “TARGET LIST” FOR BRINGING THE CULPRITS TO JUSTICE: “BIN LADEN IS DEAD” STYLE. The New York Times reports on how politics in both the U.S. and Libya have stymied aggressive action against the perpetrators [...]
THE AWESOME POWER OF “A SMALL GROUP OF UNION ACTIVISTS WITHIN THE CHICAGO TEACHERS’ UNION?” WE’LL SEE AS SHOWDOWN TIME APPROACHES. “Race to the Top” version of educational reform of the Obama administration is writ large in Chicago, whose Mayor is now Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s former chief of staff. Emanuel is the driving force [...]
AMERICAN PRIORITIES: MORE MONEY FOR PRISONS, LESS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION. An alarming trend that has taken hold in the United States is a startling divergence in the amount of public money earmarked for the sustenance of the nation”s system of higher education versus that spent on incarceration. America is now a place where [...]
HOW DOES A CAPITALIST COUNTRY DEAL WITH A CRISIS IN EMPLOYMENT? BY CUTTING UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS, OF COURSE. (World Socialist) A political “deal” between the Obama administration and a Republican congress is now coming home to roost as some 200k American workers are slated to be cut off from “extended” unemploymet benefits—half of them in the [...]
ALL I EVER NEEDED TO KNOW TO RUN ATLANTA’S SCHOOL SYSTEM, I LEARNED BY SERVING ON THE BOARD OF BRITISH PETROLEUM. (Black Agenda Report) Errol Davis, head of Atlanta school system, has the kind of “background” in public education that is typical of other school chiefs in other cities as well as Secretary of Education Arne [...]
PORTUGAL: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AUSTERITY DOESN’T WORK… (New York Times) Greece is in flames, with hundreds of thousands of citizens taking to the streets and clashing with authorities over more mandated austerity measures that bankers and financiers claim are a vital step on the path to economic recovery for Europe. Greece is in bad shape, [...]
FIDEL CASTRO: LOOKING INTO THE ABYSS. (Global Research) The former head of the Cuban government, still ostracized as a “dictator” by world governments and media, pens for Global Research a message for the year 2012, the year of the 50th anniversary of the October 1962 revolution that swept his movement into power. The 85-year-old Castro [...]
FIVE WORST STORIES OF 2011: REMEMBERING WHAT YOU HOPED TO FORGET ` MAY 1: DING, DONG, THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD. Happy celebrations, from a triumphant “mission accomplished” White House appearance of President Obama to spontaneous dancing in the street, greet the news that Osama bin Laden, generally labeled as the force behind the 9/11/01 [...]
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