Syrian Anarchist Challenges the Rebel/Regime Binary View of Resistance Joshua Stephens, Truthout: Syrian anarchist activist Nader Atassi explores the non-fundamentalist and truly democratic resistance to the Assad regime. Read the Interview Flow Chart Exposes Common Core's Myriad Corporate Connections Candice Bernd, Truthout: Morna McDermott has mapped the Common Core State Standard Initiative's corporate connections in a chart that illustrates the corporate takeover of public education. Read the Article George Lakoff | Obama Reframes Syria: Metaphor and War Revisited George Lakoff, Truthout: George Lakoff analyzes Obama's language and framing of the Syrian crisis and argues that we need to keep track of the metaphors and scenarios that lead to real-world consequences. Read the Article We Spend More Than $50 Billion a Year on Pets, but Aid to the Poor Keeps Getting Cut Mark Karlin, Truthout: While discussion of poverty has been nil since President Reagan railed that the poor were responsible for their own plight, new signs of concern and fresh thinking have emerged, according to author Sasha Abramsky, who offers possible solutions in The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. Read the Interview Another War Is Not the Answer David Krieger, Truthout: Where we are now in a potential war with Syria; why entering a war would be illegal, immoral and imprudent; and what we should do instead, according to David Krieger. Read the Article Could Online Giant Avaaz Help Us Stop the US Bombing of Syria? Robert Naiman, Truthout: The NAYS are multiplying, but the YAYS are pulling out their big guns. Could online organizing giant Avaaz help us stop the US bombing of Syria? Sign this petition to find out. Read the Article Economy Added 169,000 Jobs in August, but Downward Revisions Cloud Picture Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research: Bad jobs are increasing because in a weak labor market, workers can't find anything better. Dean Baker analyzes the unemployment rate and job growth for August. Read the Article California Prison Hunger Strike Ends After 60 Days Victoria Law, Truthout: California's mass prison hunger strike ended on Day 60 after two state legislators issued statements of public support for reform of conditions that have had hundreds locked in solitary confinement for more than a decade. Read the Article A Call to Be Treated "Justly and Humanely" Lorenzo Benton, Truthout: Pelican Bay Prison hunger striker Lorenzo Benton deconstructs and lambastes California Department of Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard's contentions that the hunger strike (which ended Thursday), is gang-instigated and enforced, that solitary is not solitary and that prisoner privileges are many. Read the Article Fracking in Paradise Ramon Galindo, RT America: After an investigation by Truthout revealed that oil companies have been fracking off the coast of Santa Barbara for more than a decade, Big Oil is ready to fight California's attempts to regulate fracking. Watch the Video Syria: Six Alternatives to Military Strikes Sarah van Gelder, YES! Magazine: Many of the legal and diplomatic processes that led to peace in other times of conflict haven't even been tried yet in Syria. Read the Article |
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