Back in July of 2010, I reported on the New Jersey Teacher's Village taht would combine zoning for three charter schools and corporate labor houses  for corporate teachers. Well, the plan came to fruition and the big sponsors, along with Chris Cristie, who you would expect to pass the begging bowl to corporations is Mayor of Newark, NJ, Corey Booker.  Booker, like Rubio has become the darling of the reactio ...

From Larry Miller’s blog: Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students! May 21, 2012 Milwaukee’s Education Privatization Explained: What’s the Difference Between Public Schools, Voucher Schools and Charter Schools? What’s the Difference? Voucher schools, Charter schools, Milwaukee Public Schools Published in May 2012 by the non-partisan Democracy and Education Research Group. Email: democracy.education.milwauk ...

One can only thank Cliff Kincaid, the Director of the AIM Center for his investigative journalism and he can be contacted at [email protected] for his fine reporting on the current state of the newspaper, the Washington Post.  On Thursday, May 10, 2012 The Washington Post Company held its annual meeting for stockholders.  According to Kincaid: “AIM was there because of our ownership of company stock, e ...

California Governor Jerry Brown claims California has no option but to cut public services to address a state budget deficit of ~ $16 billion: “You name it, and we’ve got to cut it.” He lies. There are three immediate options to completely solve this problem: California could be its own bank to issue interest-free credit to itself to close the budget deficit, similar to what North Dakota does as the only st ...

  If you are not familiar with the proposal coming out of the state government regarding privatizing and fianancializing community colleges in California please go to the website http://nosstf.blogspot.com and familiarize yourself with the issue.  One of the best fact sheets and analysis of the Orwellian named “Students Success Task Force” has been done by No SSTF at: http://nosstf.blogspot.com.  In a ...

The Economics of Happiness (2011) Film Review The term “economic relocalization,” which has been around about four years, describes the global movement of loosely knit Transition Towns and other grassroots networks working to strengthen local and regional economies and systems of food and energy production. I myself was unacquainted with the term until I came across it in the promotional materials for the E ...

I was reading the latest May 2012 issue of Harper’s Magazine, when I noticed on the infamous last page of the magazine under, “Findings”, the following finding: “Rich people are likelier to steal candy from children” (Harpers, May, 2012, Findings, pp.80). I thought about it for awhile and it made sense.  In fact, childhood itself has been stolen.  The rich who run corporate America and indeed the corporate ...

Representative Dennis Kucinich rolled with statements from the AFL-CIO president for renewed infrastructure and jobs to explain in two minutes how monetary reform accomplishes both goals. Monetary reform is accomplished through H.R. 2990, a bill Dennis introduced to Congress in 2011. Monetary and credit reform can be understood with three simple areas of facts taught in basic economics: The US does not have ...

Benito Mussolini on the cover of Time Magazine Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for.  He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. Only the other day, Il Duce in "International Conciliation," the publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "And above all, Fascism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from politic ...

Snowe’s For-Profit Sponsors The Educational Management Corporation (EDMC) is the second Largest for-profit college chain in the United States. It owns and operates over 100 schools through its subsidiary branches: The Art Institutes, Argosy University, Brown Mackie College, and South University. John McKernan, former Governor of Maine and Senator Snowe's husband, is currently EDMC’s board of directors chair ...