Michigan: template for neo-feudalism and corporate fascists policies

Picture of Governor Snyder of Michigan.  Are emergency managers to be as ubiquitous as the MI legislature proposes a second assault on Michigan Cities and Schools?  ‘Emergency managers’ is the poll-tested name given to the political supplicants of the Vichy fascists that operate in Michigan.  Much has been left out of both the corporate press and […]

Baltimore Freedom Forum: Can Public Schools Be Saved?

All over the country masses of working people are fighting to save public education from the grips of the privatizers.  The educational agenda for the right wing and their economic masters is ‘school vouchers’ and this movement will and is gaining momentum as more and more ‘online schools’ run for profit proliferate the educational landscape […]

CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME

  CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME    Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications and surveillance satellites, a satellite to test the magnetosphere, one to study […]

Rahm Emmanuel spells out his plan to destroy public education in his bid to become Mayor of Chicago

In his bid to become the next mayor of Chicago, former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is attempting to get voters to focus on his education agenda instead of his lingering residency woes.  Changing the subject is good for politics and Emmanuel’s support for vicious education policies mirror that of Arne Duncan, which […]

TSA and The Junk Man: The Thanksgiving Trojan Horse

This Sunday morning, sitting reading the news at my corner coffee shop, I found myself sitting amidst the News Feeding Frenzy that is the Transportation Security Administration “controversy”:  as I struggled to find an article not focused on TSA screening procedures, two young women next to me worry aloud about being “felt up” at the […]

US Elections

Tuesday’s election results should be seen in their historical context. The general political set-up in the US is as follows: The most powerful sector of the US capitalist class is finance capital (“Wall Street”). Other powerful sectors include the military/industrial complex with manufacturing a distance behind. Through political donations mainly at the national level, as […]

CENSORED IN 1978: ASTROPOLLUTION HITS HOME

CENSORED IN 1978: ASTROPOLLUTION HITS HOME Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications and surveillance satellites, a satellite to test the magnetosphere, one to study propulsion principles, experimental […]

Ontario Teachers’ Federation Hires Lorna Earl Despite Conflict Of Interest

By Guest Blogger George Thompson OTF, the umbrella group for Ontario’s teacher unions has recently hired Lorna Earl, despite the fact that her conflict of interest case has yet to be resolved. The contract, given to her by OTF with money paid by the Ministry to survey teachers about “assessment”, would seem to represent yet another obvious […]