Stephen Lendman’s Articles
- The Odd Couple: Russia and Turkey Allied? August 11, 2016
- Neocons for Hillary August 11, 2016
- Three Damning New Reports on Hillary Clinton August 11, 2016
- Trump-Bashing Democracy Now and Nation Magazine August 11, 2016
- ISIS: Created and Supported by America August 11, 2016
When research, history, and allegory all converge to tell us the same story, we must pause to ask why we have ignored the message for so long and why are we likely to continue missing the essential thing before us. The New York Times and Education Week reveal two important lessons in both the message […]
I have been an avid cyclist for almost thirty years now, riding as much as 10,000 miles each year. For many of those years, I have also shaved my head, resulting in hours and hours outside in adverse weather conditions such as extreme cold, rain, and even sleet and snow. When my mother-in-law was alive, […]
Let me try to make this very simple. Social Security and Medicare are not part of the problem. They are part of the solution. They are NOT part of the deficit. Cutting them will not make the deficit less. Cutting them will reduce the revenue side of the equation and make the deficit bigger. Everyone […]
By Saul Landau “There have been charges that it is morally wrong for the U.S. to aid undemocratic regimes to strengthen their security systems, thereby serving to entrench them in power.” But “the U.S. cannot afford the moral luxury of helping only those regimes in the free world that meet our ideals of self-government. Eliminate […]
[Part I: Poverty] Jim Taylor has entered the poverty and education debate by asking U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and billionaire/education entrepreneur Bill Gates a direct question: “I really don’t understand you two, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the world’s second richest man and noted philanthropist. How can you possibly say that public […]
In January 2010, I emailed Diane Ravitch after viewing a video of one of her talks preceding the release of her now often mentioned book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, that signaled some significant changes in her views on education and education reform. […]
Source: Carl Herman, Examiner.com Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, David Cay Johnston (click link for his blog, article at this link) writes: “The incomes of the top 400 American households soared to a new record high in dollars and as a share of all income in 2007, while the income tax rates they paid fell to […]