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Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization
Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and normalize such wealth transfers in the name of “school choice,” “parent empowerment,” “accountability,” “competition,” and […]
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China’s Ten Noes: Sun Tzu Has Swallowed the Frog and Is Keeping His Smile to Himself
In a conversation lasting one hour and forty minutes according to the Chinese stopwatch– “a long meeting” on President Donald Trump’s clock — President Xi Jinping first knocked the stuffing out of Trump’s warmaking threats, then forced him to beat a retreat behind a 12-month ceasefire with the man the Pentagon has designated its principal enemy but whom […]
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How a Fed Overhaul Could Eliminate the Federal Debt Crisis, Part II: Curbing Fed Independence
There has been considerable discussion in recent years about reforming, modifying, or even abolishing the Federal Reserve. Proposals range from ending its independence, to integrating its functions into the U.S. Treasury Department, to dismantling it and returning monetary policy to direct congressional or Treasury oversight. The Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act (H.R. 1846 and S. 869, 119th […]
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Taps
Who will place coins on the sightless eyes of American democracy when the river Styx carries it to the door of Hades where Charon awaits his due to ensure a serene eternal rest? It has been a shameful/ignominious ordeal and a cowardly demise. This would be the last chance for an act of grace. Will […]
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Trump: Sincerity and Verisimilitude
US president Donald Trump is apparently trying to burnish his Christian bona fides on Truth Social: If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic […]
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From Strip Mall USA, to Gaza, to Venezuela: An Architecture of Lies
So begins the revolution in behalf of soul: The world is primarily and always an aesthetic phenomenon with which our animal senses and innate reactions are attuned. — James Hillman, Healing Fiction We tell white lies to avoid conflict or embarrassment. We tell ourselves wholly subjective tales in order to cope with crushing realities. Nations […]
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Nobel Prize or Not, Trump is the Winner!
Venezuela’s opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, and the United States President Donald Trump IMAGE/semana.com/Duck Duck Go Trump Some crave fame, recognition, medals, and honors persistently, more so in competitive cutthroat societies, one may say it is widely prevalent in the US — the most capitalist country in the world. President Donald […]
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Faith, Fire, and the Table We Build
Our assembly here transcends mere consensus; it is an urgent summons to awakening. We speak of a table, not hewn from material wealth or embellished by status, but forged in the crucible of collective memory. Its surface is etched with the silent pleas of the forgotten, the poignant elegies of the disenfranchised, and the unyielding […]
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Accomplishing Change
Accomplishing change in the institutions that control and manipulate society for their personal benefit has been difficult. Inability to succeed in the endeavor is due to the inability to create the organizations that can effectively oppose the powers that exercise control. This control is maintained by investment. Protecting the investment by preventing alternative teaching and […]
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