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Four important mythbusters about the common core target
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Reform of the Reform
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Public School Shakedown
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Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools
Category: Web Reading List
Web Reading List #13 [12-13-2013]
Web Reading List #11 [10-04-2013]
Criminalized poor are swelling Britain’s slave labor private prisons
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Amazon Workers In Germany Strike For Higher Wages
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Fast-food workers strike for higher pay
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The Impact and Echoes of the Wal-Mart Discrimination Case
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Workers’ protest forces shutdown of Dhaka garment units
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Workers in Cambodia Take to the Streets to Demand Higher Wages
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Thousands of garment workers stop Bangladesh, demanding higher wages
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Bangladesh garment workers stage biggest wage hike protest
Web Reading List #10 [10-03-2013]
Enron billionaire’s diabolical plot to loot worker pensions
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The global upper class makes 32 times as much as the global lower class
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Rising wealth-to-income ratios, inequality, and growth
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The American dream has become a burden for most
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America’s Jobless Generation
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Crumbling American Dreams
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U.S. Textile Plants Return, With Floors Largely Empty of People
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In Mississippi, America’s most revolutionary mayor
Web Reading List #9 [9-21-2013]
University of Oregon to Faculty: You Belong to Me!
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Margaret Mary Vojtko, an adjunct professor of French for 25 years, died underpaid and underappreciated at age 83
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Faculty to University of Oregon: Oh No We Don’t!
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Ralph Ellison’s race classic “Invisible Man” banned in North Carolina
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Uncertain Times in India, but Not for a Deity
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Most of us will have to work until we drop
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San Francisco split by Silicon Valley’s wealth
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I’m Gen Y, and I’m Not a Special Snowflake. I’m Broke
Web Reading List #8 [9-20-2013]
Wolf Richter: Housing Bubble In Full Bloom, Zany Price Increases, And Now A Sudden Slowdown
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Wells Fargo announces layoffs in mortgage unit
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Workers’ rights ‘flouted’ at Apple iPhone factory in China
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Journalist & Filmmaker Saul Landau, 77, Dies; Chronicled Cuban Revolution For Decades
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Did you know John Roberts is also chief justice of the NSA’s surveillance state?
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Janet Yellen Urged Glass-Steagall Repeal And Social Security Cuts, Supported NAFTA
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No Child Left Untableted
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Bill Black: SEC Flacks Paint Lehman’s Looters as the Victims of a “Political” SEC
Web Reading List #7 [9-20-2013]
TPP in the USA Is Why We Occupy
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“Final” TPP Round Not Final: Are Even More Secretive Talks Ahead?
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US super-rich hit new wealth record five years after financial crisis
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Employment Inequality: Job Gap Between Rich And Poor Widest On Record
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Top 1% Getting 95% of Income Gains: Is Washington Responsible?
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This is a complete list of Wall Street CEOs prosecuted for their role in the financial crisis
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Hundreds of Wall Street Execs Went to Prison During the Last Fraud-Fueled Bank Crisis
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If you think you know what ‘debt’ is, read on
Web Reading List #6 [9-17-2013]
Guardian Story on Israel and N.S.A. Is Not ‘Surprising’ Enough to Cover
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WHAT’S BECOME OF THE GERMAN GREENS?
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The Suicide Detective
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The Progressive Movement is a PR Front for Rich Democrats
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We Must Hate Our Children
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How Does the Ruling Class Feel When It Rules?
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My Technology, My Self; When we talk about technology, aren’t we really talking about ourselves?
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Fear and Loathing in Modern Media: Hunter S. Thompson on Journalism, Politics, and the Subjective
Web Reading List #5 [9-11-2013]
Web Reading List #4 [9-11-2013]
Economic Update: Your Weekly Dose of Revolutionary Economics (Audio)
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Pennsylvania Judge Sentenced To 28 Years For Selling 4,000 Kids As Young As 10 Years Old To Prison System For $1.2 million
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Tomgram: Nick Turse, AFRICOM’s Gigantic “Small Footprint”
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Exclusive: CIA Files Prove America Helped Saddam as He Gassed Iran
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Religious people are less intelligent than atheists, according to analysis of scores of scientific studies stretching back over decades
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Bradley Manning and the Gangster State
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New Snowden Leak Reports ‘Groundbreaking’ NSA Crypto-Cracking
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If you care about education, we would like to encourage you to stop.
Web Reading List #3 [9-11-2013]
Wal Mart’s newest scheme to ruin the middle class
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Income inequality: Top 1 percent took record share of 2012 U.S. income
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An Obituary for the American Middle Class
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Mississippians are the fattest people in the nation, and also have the hardest time getting fed
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The strange death of the British middle class
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Domestic workers celebrate rights breakthrough
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It’s a Myth That Entrepreneurs Drive New Technology
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On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
Web Reading List #2 [9-11-2013]
‘Mesh’ Your Way to a Safer Internet
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Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet
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Google and the NSA: Who’s holding the ‘shit-bag’ now?
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F.T.C. Says Webcam’s Flaw Put Users’ Lives on Display
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Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes
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NSA and Israeli intelligence: memorandum of understanding – full document
Web Reading List #1 [9-11-2013]
The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA
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Why the NDAA is Unconstitutional
The NDAA Makes It Harder to Fight Terrorism
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ACLU’s NDAA page
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The 1 Percent Have Won 95 Percent Of The Recovery, So Let’s Cut Food Stamps!
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Low-paid Germans mind rich-poor gap as elections approach
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This chart shows why $270 billion in housing aid hasn’t solved homelessness
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THE LUCKY COUNTRY: Index Shows Australians Need To Work Least To Buy A Big Mac
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