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Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks Doomed To Fail?
Published 2 Sep 2010 at 10:07 am.
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The first direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks of the Obama administration are set to begin today, with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acting as mediator. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will represent Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas will represent the Palestinians. Hamas, the elected government in Gaza, was not invited to participate. In the lead-up it has been reported that neither …
Chemical Industry Spends Millions to Defeat Two Key California Bills
Published 2 Sep 2010 at 10:07 am.
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The California Legislature rejected two bills this week in a major victory for the state’s chemical industry. A bill AB 1998, to ban plastic bags from the state failed to pass off the Senate floor with a vote of 14-21 on Tuesday. Californians use 19 million plastic bags each year, costing the state $25 million annually to collect and dump …
Robert Jensen on Glenn Beck: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid - And then Get Organized
Published 2 Sep 2010 at 10:06 am.
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Just days after his Washington DC “restoring honor” rally, Fox News Shock-Jock-turned-Televangelist Glenn Beck has launched an online political blog called “The Blaze.” Beck himself describes it as a site that will publish “breaking news, original reporting, insightful opinions, and engaging videos about the stories that matter most.” In a followup to our Tuesday interview with analyst Chip Berlet about Glenn Beck …
BP’s Deep Dark Secrets
Published 1 Sep 2010 at 9:55 am.
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Aspects of the BP oil spill continue to make news. This week it was reported that some Gulf residents began receiving emergency payments for loss of income, but over 90% of all claims files were rejected for lack of proper documentation. The Gulf Coast is currently under a hurricane warning, and until the storm passes, BP will not be able to continue …
Gustavo Arellano on Why The Times Got it Wrong on OC’s Conservatism
Published 1 Sep 2010 at 9:54 am.
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Orange County, California has always been known nationally for its conservative politics, conjuring up images of wealthy white suburban enclaves that faithfully church out voters for the Republican Party. But it has also always been a city of immigrants who have been largely invisible to the national media. Now, that burgeoning immigrant population has grown enough to turn the County …
Pornland: How Porn has Hijacked Our Sexuality
Published 1 Sep 2010 at 9:54 am.
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A new book by scholar Gail Dines asserts that society’s over-consumption of pornography and the ridiculous extremes of today’s mainstream pornography, have greatly undermined our ability to have meaningful sexual partnerships. In Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked our Sexuality, Professor Gail Dines traces the history of the porn industry to today’s brutal fare that can be described as nothing less than …
Beck’s Rally, Not So Honorable
Published 31 Aug 2010 at 10:14 am.
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Fox News Shock-Jock Glenn Beck’s so-called Honor Rally over the weekend in Washington DC, drew, according to Beck, between 300,000 to 650,000 people. Ultra-conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann insisted more than a million people were present. But CBS News hired a firm that estimated the crowd at less than 100,000. The rally was held on the same day and location as …
Work Less So All Can Work: A Progressive Strategy for Fixing the Economy
Published 31 Aug 2010 at 10:14 am.
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Conservative commentator Ben Stein wrote last week that the unemployed are a group of unskilled “complainers and malcontents”. Around the same time former newspaper editor Ira Stoll called for cutting unemployment benefits for many so-called “undeserving” groups, including married individuals whose spouses have a job. And in Sunday’s Wall Street Journal, Harvard Economist Robert Barro blamed unemployment benefits for keeping …
LA Times Series on Teacher Evaluations Provokes Boycott
Published 31 Aug 2010 at 10:13 am.
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In a controversial new series of articles, the Los Angeles Times has begun evaluating Los Angeles Unified School District teachers using a new grading system. This so-called “value-added” analysis attempts to explain student test scores by comparing the student with him or herself as opposed to the presently used Academic Progress Index (API) which compares students to their peers. …
What Iraq Withdrawal?
Published 30 Aug 2010 at 9:39 am.
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“In practical terms, nothing will change”. That was the response of US military spokesman General Stephen Lanza to the New York Times commenting on the withdrawal of thousands of U.S. combat troops in Iraq. President Obama has touted the withdrawal as fulfilling his long-time promise to end the war in Iraq. However, 50,000 US troops remain on 94 military bases in …
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