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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:04 AM PDT
By John Lawrence
Add Pope Francis to the world's leaders who are calling for immediate action to combat climate change. In the Pope's own words the earth has become a pezzo di merda, a piece of you know what. He has also described unbridled capitalism as the"dung of the devil." Popes are not often given to scatological imagery to describe the predominant American economic system. However, the Pope's words are very important because he wields enormous moral authority. Would that the leading moral authorities from the world's other major religions had the gumption to stand up and add their voices in the fight against climate change. The Pope blames human greed for exploitation of the environment and an economic system that is geared to profit making rather than to rational development of natural resources which would benefit all mankind rather than just those at the top. The Pope's 184 page encyclical is a radical statement: a condemnation of business as usual and a call for a restructuring on political and economic priorities. [Read more...]
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 09:54 AM PDT
By Doug Porter The city of Boston, Massachusetts bailed on its grand plans for hosting the 2024 Olympics yesterday and Los Angeles immediately became the next contender. This development could be a game changer when it comes to the NFL’s thought processes on the future of the San Diego Chargers franchise. An Olympic bid would provide additional impetus towards getting another venue built in LA. The United State Olympic Committee has until September to figure out an alternative location. The chatter in the press is that the best option remaining is Los Angeles, host to the 1932 and 1984 games. LA’s proposed a bid centered on several clusters of venues including Exposition Park, Downtown, one along the LA River, the Westside, Long Beach, and --ta! da! --Carson. [Read more...]
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:04 AM PDT
By Sarah Lazare / Common Dreams A social worker formerly employed at a for-profit family immigrant detention center in Texas blew the whistle this week on the prison's inhumane conditions—from solitary confinement to medical neglect—that she said amount to child abuse and torture. The Karnes County Residential Center is operated by GEO Group—the second largest private prison company in the country that has faced numerous accusations of atrocities and civil rights violations. It is also the site of recent—and repeated— hunger strikes led by mothers incarcerated with their children, in protest of their conditions, detentions, and in many cases, their looming deportations. [Read more...]
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Posted: 28 Jul 2015 04:03 AM PDT
America’s schools are not failing; America is failing its schools
By Salvatore Babones / Inequality.org The 1983 blue-ribbon panel report A Nation At Risk exposed the dire state of America’s schools. The report was commissioned by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell to address “the widespread public perception that something is seriously remiss in our educational system.” The commission included 12 administrators, 1 businessperson, 1 chemist, 1 physicist, 1 politician, 1 conservative activist, 1 teacher — and not a single expert on America’s educational system. The report concluded that “declines in educational performance are in large part the result of disturbing inadequacies in the way the educational process itself is often conducted.” It advocated an expansion of standardized testing to ensure better performance. [Read more...]
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