It typically takes 22 weeks of training to become an FBI agent. Fourth-graders at Green Elementary will become "junior special agents" in just eight weeks. Once a week, a representative from the Macomb County FBI will visit with students to talk about various aspects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, including evidence collection, gun safety and bombs. Students will also learn about drugs, gangs and c ...

People are dying in Haiti because they can’t get out, Dr. Green said. Shala Dewan, New York Times, January 29 Many of us wanted to think that the dreadful behavior during the Bush administration was some sort of aberration. We had a relatively clean election and ended up with a more intelligent and compassionate president who would reflect our views. There would be no more foreign invasions (wrong); we'd ta ...

Gibson's performance is first rate. He conveys the intensity of the loss and subsequent trauma in a believable way. He's enraged, activated, and confused. Without a lot of help from the screenplay, he conveys the various elements of trauma in a way that tracks with real world reactions. ...

The issue I am about to attempt to analyze is pressing and I call for all of you who wish to protect public education to please contact Yvette Felarca, [email protected], National coordinator of the By Any Means Necessary coalition at www.bamn.com, (510) 502-9072 to oppose the privatization of Berkeley public schools and to resist the first step towards implementing this plan for privatization by the REALM ...

Associate Justice Alito http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/27/alito-not-true_n_439672.html More than 225 years ago the Virginian Patrick Henry famously stated that, ""[p]ower is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we f ...

(Note: This title is borrowed from Karl Marx, who wrote a brilliant piece of this same title. Likewise for much of the content. I don’t think old Karl would mind. As the postal worker told the poet in the film “Il Postino”: “Poems don’t belong to those who write them; they belong to those who need them.”  The same is true for ideas in general.) Many mainstream economists are predicting that if the economy p ...

By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDÉS "If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine  will go far." --President Theodore Roosevelt, 1903 "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men." --Woodrow Wilson, July 4, 1914 What provoked a dozen families last June to conspire to overthrow Hondu ...

We are nothing to them. It doesn't take much to figure that out. We lose our jobs. The insiders have theirs forever. Our wages are flat while Wall Street fat cats get ever increasing bonuses. We lose our health coverage while Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive branches enjoy the best insurance around. Commercial credit for most is tight but the big banks have trillions in credit. ...

Police arresting students at the University of Maryland during the Viet Nam era We demonstrated.  We marched.  We were filmed by the FBI.  Our phones were tapped.  We didn’t care.  We were passionate.  Today all you kids do is blog and tweet.  We got arrested.  Hell, some of us were even shot and killed (Kent State).  I don’t even hear you whine.  You have a dog in this fight and you don’t even seem to be w ...

HAITI CENSORED FROM 1994 TO 2008 HAITI CENSORED IN 1994: Story # 10 Haiti: Drugs, Thugs, The CIA and the Deterrence of Democracy; Sources: The New York Times, 11/1/93; Pacific News Service, 10/20/93 & 11/2/93. HAITI CENSORED IN 1994: Story # 14 Haiti: Under the FTAAA, multinational corporations could leverage exploited workers in Mexico against even more desperate workers in Haiti, Guatemala or Brazil; ...