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Just Before the Revolt
Two stories that make such great bookends in WaPo today on the American oligarchs and their minions. Not only have the oligarchs’ front men paid for the executive salary caps to be taken out of the...
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The Age of the Education Oligarchs: Nip It in the Bud
Last updated: 12:55 pm (U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and the misanthropist Eli Broad at an inauguration party courtesy of Broad (and the taxpayers). (Via Flickr)) The many millions that the...
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Chris Hedges On Casino Capitalism and Moral Bankruptcy
From Truthdig.com: America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout Posted on Mar 23, 2009 By Chris Hedges In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to...
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Dunc Goes After "Status Quos" with $5 Billion for Bribes
From WaPo: “States that are simply investing in the status quo will put themselves at a tremendous competitive disadvantage for getting those additional funds,” Duncan said in a conference call with...
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EEP: Front Group for Business Roundtable
The New York Times had the story about the recent neo-lib and neo-con party in New York to put together a strategy so that profiteers of all political stripes can cash in on part of the Dunc’s $5...
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Ohanian Responds to the Funding Race Beyond the "democratic handout"
From Susan O: Ohanian Comment: AGHHHH! Here we have it: The Democratic Leadership Council, corporate power, and the Broad Foundation joining hands to destroy public education. Bill Gates must have...
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Children Hungry, Schools Broke: Corporate Reformers Blame School Boards and...
Yesterday the Washington Post had a story of increasing hunger and insecurity among school children, realities that until last fall were largely not seen because they were real for the invisible...
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Why I Closed My Facebook Account: Zuckerberg Going Oprah
Last updated 9/23 8:49 I just closed my Facebook account with this reason: Your CEO wants to get into the school privatization game with other oligarchs. I am not interested in supporting your efforts...
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Sanity Will Not Be Restored Quietly
A couple of vets recently walked across the country as an act of protest against the Oligarchy that now owns Washington, DC. With Oprah, Inc. now behind the March to Restore Sanity and with the big O,...
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce Laundering Unlimited, Anonymous Wall Street Cash...
Part I from GritTV: More GRITtvFiled under: SHAUN JOHNSON, PHD: Musings from the Chalk Face Tagged: fascism, oligarchy, plutocrats, U. S. Chamber of Commerce, Wall Street
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Oprah and Eli
For some it has been a mystery why someone with Oprah’s public image would be up to her neck in corporate education reform built on planned segregation and exploitation of the poor and the brown. Yet...
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When the Spirit of Cairo Comes to America
As New York City converts itself from world capital of commerce to the world capital of unrestrained opulence and greed (with a NYCDisney version thrown in for the tourists), the great gnawingly-hungry...
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