Tag: Issues in ethics

  • NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    NYS: Why Are Authoritarian Entities Needed to Create Charter Schools if They Are So Popular?

    The charter school industry has been operating in overdrive for several decades, trying desperately to convince everyone that charter schools are amazing, unassailable, and always in high demand. But if charter schools are marvelous and popular why have charter school promoters spent years using top-down heavy-handed entities comprised of unelected pro-privatization individuals to impose charter […]

  • Small Town Politics Imbued with Arrested Development, Retrograde Thinking and a Whole Lotta MAGA

    Small Town Politics Imbued with Arrested Development, Retrograde Thinking and a Whole Lotta MAGA

    Listen here to our talk, airing on my radio show, Finding Fringe: Voices from the Edge. It is a microsm of AmeriKKKa’s large and small communities. Heidi Lambert was voted into Waldport, Oregon’s volunteer mayoral position but was fired, then had to file a state ethics complaint, and now those fifth graders are running a […]

  • The Barr Doctrine, Noriega, and Maduro

    US President Donald Trump might leave an impression of violent novelty, at least for the leader of a nominal liberal democracy, soiling international relations with the gangster’s touch. This sense of iconoclasm is misplaced. While his conduct regarding the abduction of Nicolás Maduro certainly dumps mightily on the precepts of international law, legal advisors in […]

  • Wealth, Authoritarianism, and Media

    It’s official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires. (That number was reached last year.) In October 2025, Elon Musk became the first man to have wealth exceeding half a trillion dollars. These developments could still take alongside the fact that one in four people across the globe face hunger. […]

  • General Strike Can Stop Constitutional Traitors

    Oath to Support the Constitution: Us Constitution, Article VI, Clause 3 The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious […]

  • FIFA Please, Revoke the Peace Prize, Reclaim the Game

    (Image by The White House) In December, U.S. President Donald Trump was awarded FIFA’s newly created “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World” by FIFA President Gianni Infantino. The decision immediately sparked disbelief and criticism worldwide, raising a fundamental question: What does FIFA mean by peace? If football is truly meant to unite the world, then this prize—and the […]

  • Can Charter Schools Be Meaningfully Reformed?

    Charter schools are the main form of school privatization in the United States. As such, they have never been part of a true organic grass-roots movement, that is, they have always been part of a top-down neoliberal agenda right from the start.1 This is why, for example, about 95% of charter schools have not been […]

  • Anti-Democracy

    Anti-Democracy

    Killing Democracy should at bare minimum be a university textbook, distributed to every institution of higher learning in America. Ideally, it would be required reading for every literate citizen of the U.S.  Qualitatively, it is on the same level as Howard Zinn’s monumental work, A People’s History of the United States. Like that landmark work, […]

  • “Teaching Students to Think for Themselves” Starts with Political Self-Awareness

    My nomination for the most predictable platitude invoked by university professors when describing the essence of their job is “teaching students to think for themselves.” During my 26 years at the University of Texas at Austin, where I was sometimes accused of politicizing the classroom, I repeated that phrase many times, not as a dodge […]

  • The EU’s Extralegal Sanctions Regime

    EU Sanctions against the block’s own citizens and residents are a horrible development toward a totalitarian future. Their extralegal nature is what gives them their force. A proffered explanation. It has come as a shock to many of us in the alternative media sphere when, on December 15, the EU put the esteemed analyst, political […]

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