”UNLESS YOU CAN AFFORD TO PARTAKE IN OUR CUSTOMS AND CONVENTIONS, YOU ARE NOT WELCOME HERE.“ Damien Shannon describes this as the operative “policy” of Oxford University in England. He was rejected for admission because he could not raise 12,000 pounds a year in personal income available to support the “customs and conventions” which [...]
PROBLEM OF THE DAY FOR PARENTS OF 350,000 CHILDREN IN CHICAGO: HOW TO GET THROUGH A MONDAY WITHOUT SCHOOLS. Chicago Teachers Union begins a strike today as negotiations between school board and teachers breaks down. There is bitter acrimony between the Mayor, Rahm Emanuel and the head of the CTU, Karin Lewis, who calls [...]
` CULTURE CLASH AT UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PORTENDS FUTURE BATTLES AT AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. (Inside Higher-Ed) ` The normally bucolic tranquility of the University of Virginia campus was shattered this week by a shocking turn of events that led to the immediate firing of the institution’s popular president. Students, faculty and alumni engaged in [...]
U.S. COLLEGE STUDENT, WOULD YOU RATHER?—DROP OUT OF SCHOOL OR TAKE ON MORE STUDENT LOANS? (World Socialist) A New York Times article joins the parade of pundits and politicians who blame the “naivite” and irresponsibility of students and their parent for the ever-growing number of Americans facing debts from student loans that they cannot pay. Little [...]
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 [...]
STUDENTS IN QUEBEC AGREE TO BE SCREWED BY THE GOVERNMENT. (World Socialist) Once again labor unions in the province betray the interest of the people whose union they supposedly represent. The government undertakes “austerity” measures to place the burden of deficit reductions on the backs of students through drastic tuition hikes. Violent student protest is finally muted [...]
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 [...]
WAR WITH IRAN “JUST A PROVOCATION AWAY?” (Global Research) Separate articles in Global Research suggest that is a very real possibility. Patrick Buchanan notes the eerie similarity between 1941 and 2011, in both of which powerful forces in U.S. government were intent on drawing another country into a war. Secretary of War Henry Stimson said [...]
THE “ARAB SPRING” OF 2011: NOTHING NEW TO SEE HERE. Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya, who spent harrowing days of reporting from Libya during the NATO siege of Tripoli, writes now of the “geo-political chessboard” being prepared in “revolts” in Arab countries like Libya, Tunisia and Egypt. He sees these events as but a continuation of a [...]
GUNS AND BUTTER: WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO STIMULATE A LAGGING ECONOMY? (Foreign Policy in Focus) Mark Engler takes on this question, reviewing the works of such “military Keynesians” as Michal Kalecki who argue that military expenditures are the most effective way, and such skeptics as Seymour Melman who assert that, morally and practically, [...]
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