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Civic Circus with Ankur Patel breaks down local politics, with a weekly report on city, county, and state bureaucracies.

Status-quo power structures don’t want to deal with an engaged, educated, and informed citizenry… that’s one reason why public education suffers. The 6,190,425 k-12 students in 9,888 public schools in the state of California… are organized through the 1,047 school districts, each …

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“Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ” — John F. Kennedy …

Even before Libyan rebels could take full control of Tripoli, Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy said on state television Monday that the Italian oil company Eni “will have a No. 1 role in the future” in the North African country.

Mr. Frattini even reported that Eni technicians were already on their way to eastern Libya to restart production. But Eni quickly denied that it had sent any personnel to the still-unsettled region, which is Italy’s …

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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” — Plato …

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Libyan rebels marched into their capital Tripoli earlier today and arrested two sons of the long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi, in a dramatic turn of events in the on-going battle for Libya. Control of Tripoli essentially means that the Gaddafi regime is near its end. Al Jazeera interviewed Mohammad Gaddafi, one of the arrested sons, just before he was captured. Colonel …

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Americans love sports – we organize get-togethers around them, argue statistics, encourage our children to compete, and spend hours in stadiums, or watching sports on TV. But most people don’t think about sports as being political. In a new documentary, Nation Magazine sports writer Dave Zirin, examine the link between sports and politics. The film, Not Just a Game, takes …

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi remained at large Monday morning, and loyalist forces still held pockets of the city, stubbornly resisting the rebels’ efforts to establish full control after their astonishingly speedy advance into the capital appeared to signal the end of the Libyan leader’s four-decade grip on power.

“We do not know if he is inside or outside Libya,” Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, the chairman of the rebel government, the National Transitional Council, said of Colonel …

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This week on Uprising:

* New Report Exposes Real Impact of CIA Drone Strikes in Pakistan
* Black Agenda Report on how British Police Aspire to Be More Like American Cops
* Hundreds of Thousands Draft a New Contract for the American Dream
* Barbara Ehrenreich on Tenth Anniversary of Nickel and Dimed

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Texas Governor Rick Perry recently announced his candidacy for President amidst praise for his state’s ability to create jobs in a recession. Perry attributed Texas’ success to a cut back in the state regulation of businesses and minimal tax rates. However, the reality behind Perry’s claims of success is a cheap labor supply in a state that according …

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At a recent campaign event, Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney answered a question about taxing corporations with the sentence, “Corporations are people, my friend.” The statement echoed around the internet and generated thousands of blog entries and tweets. What Romney did not point out was that if corporations were people, Walmart’s wealth would …

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