Privatizing California’s Community Colleges – Part 1
Guest post by Dr George Wright (This is Part 1 of a 3-part post on the systematic privatization of community colleges, paralleling efforts by Bush, Obama and Wall Street neoliberals to privatize US...
View ArticleReducing Students to a Commodity
This is the third of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic Classes and What Standards?) he originally published in Daily...
View ArticleAre Schools Creating Citizens? Or Workers and Consumers?
US schools train kids for jobs that have been shipped overseas This is the second of a series of guest posts by Dr Danny Weil from an article (World Class Standards: Whose World, Which Economic...
View ArticleGreece: the New Haiti
Haiti (pre-Isaac) Aug 24, 2012 Someone has leaked to the UK Guardian an email the “troika” (consisting of the European Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund) recently...
View ArticleThe Demise of “Current Affairs”
I have recently returned from a week in Australia, where I was pleasantly surprised by the extensive coverage of “current” (government) affairs on mainstream TV and in the major newspapers. Current...
View ArticleHow the Sustainability Movement Defies Conservative/Liberal Labels
The late Barry Goldwater My decision to focus my activism in the sustainability movement has nothing to do with the horror stories climate change and Peak Oil aficionados tell about the horrible future...
View ArticleThe Origins of the Club of Rome
Famous Diagram from Limits to Growth (This is the second of four blogs about the Club of Rome, which along with Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, is an...
View ArticleReclaiming Adam Smith
Book Review The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith Abridged Version by Laurence Dickey, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Hackett Publishing 1993) The Wealth of Nations consists of...
View ArticleI’m Okay, Thanks
I’ve been at WOMAD for the last three days collecting signatures on a Green Party petition opposing government plans to privatize four of New Zealand’s state owned energy companies. Most people sign –...
View ArticleObama’s Neoliberal Stance on Charter Schools
Of the last five presidents, Obama has clearly been the staunchest ally of the school privatization movement. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised. Our first black president has already clearly...
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