Quake risk to reactors greater than thought
Quake risk to reactors greater than thought by Dina Cappiello and Jeff Down Posted September 5, 2011 The risk that an earthquake would cause a severe accident at a U.S. nuclear plant is greater than previously thought, 24 times as high in one case, according to an AP...Financial Meltdown: The Case Against the Ratings Agencies
Financial Meltdown: The Case Against the Ratings Agencies by Michael Hudson Posted August 22, 2011 In today’s looming confrontation the ratings agencies are playing the political role of “enforcer” as the gatekeepers to credit, to put pressure on...Why one good teacher decided to quit
Why one good teacher decided to quit by Jamie Gumbrecht Posted July 23, 2011 She doesn’t want to go. After 13 years of teaching high-level math, she has a tested stable of learning methods that helped all her students pass the AP calculus exam. Her room is a...The Politics of Education: The Assault on Teachers
The Politics of Education: The Assault on Teachers by Thomas Santone Posted July 20, 2011 According to TeacherPortal.com, a starting teacher in New Jersey can expect an average yearly salary of $38,408. To put that in perspective, a family of four living on that...The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force
The Strange and Dangerous Militarization of the US Police Force by Rania Khalek Posted July 11, 2011 Just after midnight on May 16, 2010, a SWAT team threw a flash-bang grenade through the window of a 25-year-old man while his 7-year-old daughter slept on the couch as...Quotable Sayings
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Ghandi
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Mainstream American liberals think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by Fox and Donald Trump, and mainstream American conservatives think they’re clear-eyed because they can see the propaganda strings being pulled by MSNBC and the Democrats, but the propaganda strings on both trace back to the same puppet master. And seeing that is just the beginning.
Caitlin Johnstone
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You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.
Deepak Chopra
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