Leslie Thatcher | The Educational Deficit and the War on Youth: An Interview with Henry A. Giroux Leslie Thatcher, Truthout: Responding to questions about his latest book, America's Education Deficit and the War on Youth, Truthout contributor and board member and director of Truthout's Public Intellectual Project Henry Giroux outlines what is necessary to turn our schools into laboratories of democracy. Read the Interview Checks, Lies and Bankster Red Tape The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Big banks have reached a new low. Six former employees of Bank of America have come forward alleging that the big bank intentionally denied eligible homeowners mortgage loan modifications and lied to those homeowners about the status of their mortgage payments and documents. Read the Article Guantanamo Prisoner Al-Nashiri's Case Demonstrates Unfairness of Military Commissions Marjorie Cohn, Truthout: This attorney's analysis of the legal issues raised by the Al-Nashiri pretrial hearings in Guantanamo last week concludes that the new, improved military commissions can still put someone to death after a trial that affords a reduced level of due process. Read the Article Contention and Confusion in Guantanamo Pre-Trial Hearings for Al-Nashiri Military Commissions Adam Hudson, Truthout: Pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused of planning the 2000 USS Cole bombing and other crimes, exposed questions of diminished rights of the accused in military commission proceedings and a lack of transparency by a court authorized to cite "classified documents" to shut out the defendant as well as US citizens. Read the Article Divestment Campaigners Look Beyond Fossil Free to Fund Solar Utopias Darwin BondGraham, Truthout: Divesting from fossil fuel companies would allow public pension and other investment funds to finance green energy ventures and assert social and environmental responsibility for an inconsequential risk-and-return tradeoff. Read the Article Supreme Court Strikes Down Arizona Voter ID Law as Voting Rights Battles Continue Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Voting rights advocates are celebrating Monday's Supreme Court ruling that struck down a provision of an Arizona law requiring voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Read the Article School Data Profiteering Dan Schneider, Dollars & Sense: A new nonprofit called inBloom will collect information from student records and provide third-party for-profit companies access to students' data. Read the Article Education in Iceland Sam Knight, Truthout: Iceland is considering a rash of new education initiatives but the reforms being considered there are quite different from so-called education "reform" in the United States. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Food Recycling Program in New York City Will Convert 100,000 Tons of Food Scraps Into Bio-Gas, and More In today's On the News segment: NSA director Keith Alexander and other intelligence officials testified before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence this morning; New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new "food recycling" program which will convert 100,000 tons of food scraps into bio-gas, and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript TransCanada's Keystone XL, the Safest Pipeline Ever - Says Who? Julie Dermansky, Truthout: The southern portion of the Keystone XL pipeline is over 75 percent complete but resistance continues and will likely intensify now that construction anomalies have been revealed by mandatory testing. Read the Article The Terror Diaspora: The US Military and the Unraveling of Africa Nick Turse, TomDispatch: Be prepared once the war in Afghanistan winds down - there will be greater incentive and opportunity to project US military power in Africa. Read the Article |
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