There's no quicker way to get a look at income disparity in this country than to look at Wall Street Journal articles gushing over luxury real estates deals. Here are  two items appearing in the  Dec. 30, 2011 paper, offering a fitting close to the year: Mere 110 Million Penthouse Near Carnegie Hall Gets Ever-Higher Asking Price Jenny Craig Sells Home for $6.1 Million The six-bedroom apartment overlooking C ...

  Are you a hedge fund manager or venture capitalist feeling guilty about being in the 1%? Do you need a philanthropic investment to help polish the image of your brand, sullied by the Occupy protests? Or are you a seeking a way to make huge profits off of the government you love to hate? If so, on January 12th in New York City, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to ring in the New Year by delivering ...

 Andrew Hartman, who teaches history at Illinois StateUniversity, had a brilliant piece in the Washington Post regarding Teach for America (TFA), the reserve labor army for the capitalist class in their effort to destroy teacher unions and the teaching profession.  Although the discussion centered around TFA, Hartman did comment about the rampant cheating on test scores that proliferate the educational land ...

When 9/11 first occurred, many people were devastated. Speculations ran around in the early days, but the American government assured us that it was masterminded by Osama bin Laden who had hired and trained Saudi nationals to complete the task. Eventually, it was claimed that Saddam Hussein was also involved and that we needed to invade Iraq, leaving us fighting two fronts in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few yea ...

source: Carl Herman I appreciate my colleagues at Activist Post posting my friend Billy Vegas’ PuppetGov video, Obama and the War Criminals. The video powerfully shows damning testimony of US government “leadership” admitting they can torture any person they dictate as a “terrorist.” Art and academic/professional documentation synergize for the 99% to declare the “emperor has no clothes” obvious facts of th ...

source: Carl Herman Art is in the brilliant video from ovaria; following are the independently verifiable facts that the “99%” are embezzled by the “1%” for over a trillion of our dollars every year. How does the 1% do this? They purchased corporate media to cover their assets, that’s how. This article shows how the Federal Reserve System causes the opposite of their stated goals. This is, obviously, crimin ...

A newly released film, “On the Dark Side in Al Doura” focuses on U.S. Army Ranger John Needham’s experience in Iraq where he witnessed grim atrocities. It includes shocking uncirculated photographic evidence of what appear to be war crimes. The story is presented within the framework of decisions by the Bush Administration to step away from the rule of law and of V.P. Cheney’s call to go to the dark side. C ...

Many readers might be wondering about the incessant coverage of for-profit predatory colleges and universities like Kaplan or the Phoenix University, to name just a few.  The reason for the non-stop coverage is due to the incessant lobbying and profit taking on behalf of the one percent who own these colleges and seek to profit at any cost by allowing them to run roughshod over students, citizen taxpayers a ...

In "Poverty Matters!: A Christmas Miracle pt. 1," I conceded the new refrain that no one is discounting the negative influence of poverty on student learning, specifically on the narrow representation of learning through test scores. I also ventured to identify the broad positions of the education reform debate, acknowledging the problem with suggesting anything has two sides but believing that this charact ...

Something profound appears to have occurred—a cosmic shift in the education reform debate that reflects our larger social debates in the U.S. After Ladd and Fiske published a commentary in The New York Times, "Class Matters. Why Won't We Admit It?," and Diane Ravitch blogged "Scrooge and School Reform," several commentators quickly chimed in about the poverty debate in education. Amanda Ripley commented on ...