West Point Professor Calls Anti-War Legal Scholars Fifth Column Threats (tags)
anti-war
research material on meth use (tags)
collected material on meth use
US Universities of Shame: Part II (tags)
Israel
US Universities of Shame (tags)
Israel
Research as the Commons: Elinor Ostrom (tags)
Elinor Ostrom was well-known in 2009 when she was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for economics. In her analysis of governance of the commons, she put in question the past economic model that common goods can only be managed successfully by the market or the state.
America's Great Divide Between Rich and Poor (tags)
class war
Trio of Performing Artists Follow Lead of America’s Greats - (tags)
Three musical groups produce songs to help in the funding of the search for a missing college student, Lauren Spierer.
Boston University's Islamophobic Pro-Israeli Conference (tags)
US Islamophobia
Al Gore Urges Masturbation to end War and Global Warming (tags)
It’s more convenient than going extinct.
A way to drive with out ID??? (tags)
Hmmm.... Utah allows the undocumented to drive legally with a "driving privilege card." I bet that would be useful for Americans who don't have the required ID to get a drivers license
A Mom's FYI: Reality Bites (tags)
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Students Say Too Much Press (tags)
One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them, according to a survey being released today.
The EPA and Industry Team Up to Protect Profits in Florida Study, Leaving Children Behind (tags)
POISON, PROTECTION, AND CHILDREN
SCHOLARS URGE U.S., NORTH KOREA TO NEGOTIATE PEACE (tags)
On June 25, the anniversary of the Korean War, the Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea (ASCK) calls for the US and North Korea to negotiate peace, normalize relations, and end the Korean war.
MARCH 5: BOOKS NOT BOMBS! - National Student Strike (tags)
The National Student Strike for Books Not Bombs, will take place March 5th on campuses across the US and the world. The strike is building a wave of campus sentiment against the Bush Administration’s war plans in Iraq. The event was originally called for and is being coordinated by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC), a collection of 15 student and youth organizations whose members organizations represent large and diverse constituencies stretching across the US.
Surprise! The major source of funding for the left is the 1% of richest Americans. They give more to the Democrats than to the Republicans.
Conspiracy Theories and Clandestine Politics (tags)
A useful analysis of distinctions which should be maintained between "conspiracy theory" (a pathological orientation) and "clandestine [or "deep"] politics". From Lobster #29, June 1995.