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Nov. 2: The Death Knell of Corporate Liberalism | The Progressive - 0 views

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Nov. 2: The Death Knell of Corporate Liberalism | Progressive

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Tuesday's slaughter at the polls was not unexpected. It marked the death knell of corporate liberalism, and it signed the death certificate of petty gradualism.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Tuesday's slaughter at the polls was not unexpected. It marked the death knell of corporate liberalism, and it signed the death certificate of petty gradualism.</div>

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Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy | David Graeber | Comment is free | guardian.c... - 0 views

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Occupy and anarchism's gift of democracy | David Graeber Comment is free guardian.co.uk

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The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires them

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The US imagines itself a great democracy, yet most Americans despise its politics. Which is why direct democracy inspires them</div>

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Brainstorm: factors of Civil War 20 Nov'11 - 1 views

So far I know that the players in the civil war were the gentry, the land and urban capitalists forming the bourgeois revolutionaries, the commoners and the peasantry were usually against the king ...

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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf | Comment is free | guard... - 0 views

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The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | New York Review Books

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Ordinarily, documentaries about education attract little attention, and seldom, if ever, reach neighborhood movie theaters. Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman" is different. It arrived in late September with the biggest publicity splash I have ever seen for a documentary. Not only was it the subject of major stories in Time and New York, but it was featured twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was the centerpiece of several days of programming by NBC, including an interview with President Obama.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Ordinarily, documentaries about education attract little attention, and seldom, if ever, reach neighborhood movie theaters. Davis Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman" is different. It arrived in late September with the biggest publicity splash I have ever seen for a documentary. Not only was it the subject of major stories in Time and New York, but it was featured twice on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was the centerpiece of several days of programming by NBC, including an interview with President Obama.</div>

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US embassy cables: The job of the media is not to protect the powerful from embarrassme... - 0 views

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thinkahol * on 28 Nov 10

It is for governments - not journalists - to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">It is for governments - not journalists - to guard public secrets, and there is no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks' revelations </div>

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