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Business Booms For Charter Schools As Cuts To Education Continue

Rally in downtown on fourth day of Chicago Teachers Union strike on Sept. 13, 2012. (Photo/via Wikimedia Commons). (MintPress) – If Democrats and Republicans in Congress fail to come together before their March 1 deadline, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. would collectively see $29 million in cuts to public education — enough to leave nearly 400 […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

(MintPress) - If Democrats and Republicans in Congress fail to come together before their March 1 deadline, Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. would collectively see $29 million in cuts to public education — enough to leave nearly 400 employees in the area without jobs. New York alone would see cuts of $42.7 million, leaving 150 teachers

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Banks Keep Payday Loan Industry Alive Despite Gov’t Deeming It Illegal

Front Window of a financial institution in Illinois which offers payday loans. (Photo/via Wikimedia Commons) (MintPress) – The battle over payday loan operations is growing, as America’s largest banks engage with the service, providing the link needed to debit accounts, even in states where payday loan operations are banned. The Federal Insurance Corporation, along with […]

Trisha Marczak
بواسطة Trisha Marczak

(MintPress) - The battle over payday loan operations is growing, as America’s largest banks engage with the service, providing the link needed to debit accounts, even in states where payday loan operations are banned. The Federal Insurance Corporation, along with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, are looking into the banks’ cooperation

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Academi (Formerly Blackwater) Executives Receive Misdemeanor Charges For Gun Trafficking

In this April 4, 2004 file photo, plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in the Iraqi city of Najaf. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File) (MintPress) – Two employees of Academi, a […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels
In this April 4, 2004 file photo, plainclothes contractors working for Blackwater USA take part in a firefight as Iraqi demonstrators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr attempt to advance on a facility being defended by U.S. and Spanish soldiers in the Iraqi city of Najaf. (AP Photo/Gervasio Sanchez, File)

(MintPress) - Two employees of Academi, a mercenary army formerly known as Blackwater, pleaded guilty to reduced misdemeanor charges last week, a slap on the wrist for the security firm alleged to be involved in extensive illegal arms trafficking. Academi received more than $100 million in government contracts to assist with security work in

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An Iranian’s Perspective On Argo: Pure Propaganda

This undated publicity film image released by Warner Bros. Pictures shows Bryan Cranston, left, as Jack O’Donnell and Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez in “Argo,” a rescue thriller about the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis. (AP Photo/Warner Bros., Claire Folger, File) (Mint Press) – The runaway Hollywood hit Argo brought in $206 million in ticket sales worldwide […]

Martin Michaels
بواسطة Martin Michaels

(Mint Press) - The runaway Hollywood hit Argo brought in $206 million in ticket sales worldwide and $129 million from the U.S., winning the Oscar for Best Picture and two other awards Sunday. The popular film depicting the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis garnered a bevy of positive press in 2012, at a time when U.S. Iranian relations sank to a low

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A Modest Proposal: Cut Federal Budget By Eliminating Redundant Military Bases Across US

Two A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft pilots fly in formation during a training exercise March 16, 2010, at Moody Air Force base, Georgia. (Photo/via Wikimedia Commons) Last year the Department of Defense (DoD) proposed to downsize the reserve component of the Air Force, but Congress, always protective of local pork, resisted the cuts. If the Republicans […]

Ed Felien
بواسطة Ed Felien

Last year the Department of Defense (DoD) proposed to downsize the reserve component of the Air Force, but Congress, always protective of local pork, resisted the cuts. If the Republicans are truly serious about eliminating waste in government spending, then here’s a couple of good places to start: The Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona trains

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Palestinians, Blacks, Native Americans: The Parallels Of Oppression

Police wait to advance after tear gas was used to disperse a crowd Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, druing a protest for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. As night fell Sunday in Ferguson, another peaceful protest quickly deteriorated after marchers pushed toward one end of a street. […]

Edward Rhymes
بواسطة Edward Rhymes
Ferguson

No two or three stories are exactly the same and most assuredly there are differences in the African/Native-American and Palestinian narratives. Nevertheless, the similarities are too striking to ignore. These three groups are linked by the commonalities of their pain, dehumanization and betrayal.   The universal disempowerment

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