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I am an author and investigative journalist who has written more than four hundred articles for Truthout, Counterpunch, Dissident Voice, Daily Censored, Project Censored and more. I received two awards from Project Censored, one in 2010 and one in 2012. http://www.counterpunch.org/2009/08/24/obama-and-duncan-s-education-policy-like-bush-s-only-worse/ http://www.projectcensored.org/10-hr-347-would-make-many-forms-of-nonviolent-protest-illegal/ I am part of Truthout's "Public Intellectual" project. I have written seven books on education, most recently: Charter School Movement: History, Politics, Policies, Economics and Effectiveness (http://books.google.com.ec/books/about/Charter_School_Movement.html?id=Fk8kAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y). I have been a federally certified public interest attorney for more than 30 years. I have been a tenant organizer and educational worker and organizer for 40 years.
I lived for one year in Nicaragua during the war, 1985,and worked for The Sandinista Ministry of Culture under Ernesto Cardinal. I now live in Ecuador.OpEd News Member for 540 week(s) and 2 day(s)
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Friday, February 19, 2021
Racism is used by ruling class to turn working people against each other Racism is used by the ruling class in America to turn working people against each other so that they do not see the larger issue of capitalist inequality and exploitation, argues Danny Weil. This interview was first published by The Balkan Post on June 11, 2020
Friday, February 19, 2021Racism is used by ruling class to turn working people against each other Racism is used by the ruling class in America to turn working people against each other so that they do not see the larger issue of capitalist inequality and exploitation, argues Danny Weil. This interview was first published by The Balkan Post on June 11, 2020
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Monday, January 5, 2015
A Dickensian nightmare: New York City and the Great Economic Divide Homelessness is increasing all over America but the numbers from New York are shockingly high compared to most of the US Empire's failing cities. This is the Dickensian nightmare that litters America, the stark reality of American capitalism and it only promises to get worse under the tutelage of banksters, media sophists, philanthro-pirates and their supplicant coin-operated politicians.
Monday, January 5, 2015A Dickensian nightmare: New York City and the Great Economic Divide Homelessness is increasing all over America but the numbers from New York are shockingly high compared to most of the US Empire's failing cities. This is the Dickensian nightmare that litters America, the stark reality of American capitalism and it only promises to get worse under the tutelage of banksters, media sophists, philanthro-pirates and their supplicant coin-operated politicians.
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Saturday, January 3, 2015
The Blood on the Blade: Global Inequality and War As 2015 unfolds, we sit in a crumbing America at the seat of global inequality, fastened to violence and cruel and punishing wars.
Saturday, January 3, 2015The Blood on the Blade: Global Inequality and War As 2015 unfolds, we sit in a crumbing America at the seat of global inequality, fastened to violence and cruel and punishing wars.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014
The Social and Psychological Roots of Machiavellian Thinking and Sophistic Thought Perhaps the most accurate and useful definition of humans is that of 'the self-deceiving mammal'. For deception, duplicity, sophistry, delusion and hypocrisy are the foundational products of human nature in its 'natural', primal and untutored state; but it is not instinctive and subjected to fate. But, rather than reducing these negative tendencies, most 'schooling' and socio-cultural influences redirect them.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014The Social and Psychological Roots of Machiavellian Thinking and Sophistic Thought Perhaps the most accurate and useful definition of humans is that of 'the self-deceiving mammal'. For deception, duplicity, sophistry, delusion and hypocrisy are the foundational products of human nature in its 'natural', primal and untutored state; but it is not instinctive and subjected to fate. But, rather than reducing these negative tendencies, most 'schooling' and socio-cultural influences redirect them.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Hedge Funds cannibalize public-teacher pension funds If you are a public-school teacher in the state of Kentucky, you should be aware that the state has a memorandum in place for you: You have no right to know the details of the investments being made with your retirement savings, how they are being managed, by whom and why. Your investments and contributions to your pension funds for your retirement are now controlled by the Wall Street financial cabal.
Monday, December 29, 2014Hedge Funds cannibalize public-teacher pension funds If you are a public-school teacher in the state of Kentucky, you should be aware that the state has a memorandum in place for you: You have no right to know the details of the investments being made with your retirement savings, how they are being managed, by whom and why. Your investments and contributions to your pension funds for your retirement are now controlled by the Wall Street financial cabal.
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Monday, December 22, 2014
A Generation of Idiots and the Tools We Worship Worshiping the 'tools' we as humans have been able to manufacture within a framework of 'predatory capitalism' will have far-reaching results that the world cannot really even imagine, although Einstein tried: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
Monday, December 22, 2014A Generation of Idiots and the Tools We Worship Worshiping the 'tools' we as humans have been able to manufacture within a framework of 'predatory capitalism' will have far-reaching results that the world cannot really even imagine, although Einstein tried: "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
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Monday, December 22, 2014
Corporate Democrats aid and abet Ecuadorian Criminals Estefana Isaas was barred from coming to the United States after she was caught fraudulently obtaining visas for her maids. Then, shebang, the State Department under former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton interceded and wrote letters opposing the ban so that Ms. Isaas could work for an Obama fund-raiser with close ties to the administration.
Monday, December 22, 2014Corporate Democrats aid and abet Ecuadorian Criminals Estefana Isaas was barred from coming to the United States after she was caught fraudulently obtaining visas for her maids. Then, shebang, the State Department under former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton interceded and wrote letters opposing the ban so that Ms. Isaas could work for an Obama fund-raiser with close ties to the administration.
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Sunday, December 21, 2014
Why Eric Garner's arrest & death violated his Civil Rights Corporate TV pundits and so-called legal experts have debated minutia in the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police in Staten Island, New York. Questions debated have included whether he was resisting arrest, whether police technically used a chokehold to subdue him and whether he was killed because he was black.
Sunday, December 21, 2014Why Eric Garner's arrest & death violated his Civil Rights Corporate TV pundits and so-called legal experts have debated minutia in the death of Eric Garner at the hands of police in Staten Island, New York. Questions debated have included whether he was resisting arrest, whether police technically used a chokehold to subdue him and whether he was killed because he was black.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Maryland police shoot 15 civilians, but the only cop prosecuted is the one who killed a puppy As I wrote in May 2013: "The contemporary Supreme Court has played a key role in the creation and evolution of the modern corporate police state through rulings which grant absolute immunity for prosecutors, immunity from civil suits for police who lie to grand juries, and the right to strip search individuals charged with traffic infractions and other minor offenses"
Wednesday, December 17, 2014Maryland police shoot 15 civilians, but the only cop prosecuted is the one who killed a puppy As I wrote in May 2013: "The contemporary Supreme Court has played a key role in the creation and evolution of the modern corporate police state through rulings which grant absolute immunity for prosecutors, immunity from civil suits for police who lie to grand juries, and the right to strip search individuals charged with traffic infractions and other minor offenses"
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Friday, November 28, 2014
Can America stomach another Bush in the Whitehouse? It's November 2014 now and according to the Guardian out of London: "It is a view confirmed by close confidants of Jeb, the former Florida governor, who says he would like to run, has backing from senior figures in the party, and is now weighing up the likely impact on those around him."
Friday, November 28, 2014Can America stomach another Bush in the Whitehouse? It's November 2014 now and according to the Guardian out of London: "It is a view confirmed by close confidants of Jeb, the former Florida governor, who says he would like to run, has backing from senior figures in the party, and is now weighing up the likely impact on those around him."
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014
Kanagaroo Kourts: Darren Wilson Prosecutor Defends Police officer, Smears Dead Teen An indeed, CNN (the Corporate News Network) and other news outlets reported Wilson's uncorroborated testimony as if it were a factual account of events. In this testimony Wilson, claimed Brown punched him ten times and grabbed for his gun and that Wilson saw the face of a "demon" in Brown. Nice touch the demon part for it plays right into the hands of the right-wing racist Christian Right.
Wednesday, November 26, 2014Kanagaroo Kourts: Darren Wilson Prosecutor Defends Police officer, Smears Dead Teen An indeed, CNN (the Corporate News Network) and other news outlets reported Wilson's uncorroborated testimony as if it were a factual account of events. In this testimony Wilson, claimed Brown punched him ten times and grabbed for his gun and that Wilson saw the face of a "demon" in Brown. Nice touch the demon part for it plays right into the hands of the right-wing racist Christian Right.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Ready for Hillary PAC: A plutocratic swindle to buy the 2016 presidential election The 'Ready for Hillary PAC' was founded in 2013. The super-PAC said in a statement in July of this year that it received money from 90,000 supporters after holding more than 500 fundraisers nationwide. Supporters? Mmmm, remember Obama's campaign? Sounds familiar doesn't it? These 'supporters' are bundled donations by plutocrats.
Tuesday, November 18, 2014Ready for Hillary PAC: A plutocratic swindle to buy the 2016 presidential election The 'Ready for Hillary PAC' was founded in 2013. The super-PAC said in a statement in July of this year that it received money from 90,000 supporters after holding more than 500 fundraisers nationwide. Supporters? Mmmm, remember Obama's campaign? Sounds familiar doesn't it? These 'supporters' are bundled donations by plutocrats.
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Friday, November 14, 2014
US military establishment hyping attacks by ISIS on American soil So why are a throng of former NSA and CIA officials, along with their paid courtesans, the political reactionaries, howling about ISIS attacks on American soil, just as Reagan and his horde of intelligence officials did back in 1986?
Friday, November 14, 2014US military establishment hyping attacks by ISIS on American soil So why are a throng of former NSA and CIA officials, along with their paid courtesans, the political reactionaries, howling about ISIS attacks on American soil, just as Reagan and his horde of intelligence officials did back in 1986?
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
The Sordid Obama legacy and the plight of the corporate Democrats Now, the corporate democrats are no longer needed and may go the way of the Whigs. One thing is for sure: hope and change turned out to be perfidious and hollow rhetoric from a president beholden to Wall Street. Now that he is a lame duck, this will be just part of the sordid Obama legacy and constitutes the insane policies of the corporate Democratic Party.
Saturday, November 8, 2014The Sordid Obama legacy and the plight of the corporate Democrats Now, the corporate democrats are no longer needed and may go the way of the Whigs. One thing is for sure: hope and change turned out to be perfidious and hollow rhetoric from a president beholden to Wall Street. Now that he is a lame duck, this will be just part of the sordid Obama legacy and constitutes the insane policies of the corporate Democratic Party.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Beacon Global Strategies: Hillary acolytes peddle weapons, neo-con agenda Hilary Clinton and her allies are working with defense and surveillance companies, like Beacon Global Strategies, to assure they can present themselves to the American people, but even more so to the military and the surveillance complex, that they are the most qualified to represent American imperialism and the plutocrats on Wall Street.
Wednesday, November 5, 2014Beacon Global Strategies: Hillary acolytes peddle weapons, neo-con agenda Hilary Clinton and her allies are working with defense and surveillance companies, like Beacon Global Strategies, to assure they can present themselves to the American people, but even more so to the military and the surveillance complex, that they are the most qualified to represent American imperialism and the plutocrats on Wall Street.
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
Gerrymandering & Voter Suppression: How the Supreme Court may have rigged the electoral system While it has been widely reported how the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling open the flood gates of money into politics through Super PACS and other means, what has been largely overlooked is the timing of the 2010 ruling.
Sunday, November 2, 2014Gerrymandering & Voter Suppression: How the Supreme Court may have rigged the electoral system While it has been widely reported how the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling open the flood gates of money into politics through Super PACS and other means, what has been largely overlooked is the timing of the 2010 ruling.
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Sunday, November 2, 2014
The fix is in for the Darren Wilson grand jury People should not be surprised when the grand jury fails to indict police officer Darren Wilson, because this is the predetermined outcome intended. And no one should be surprised when people protest in response to Officer Wilson's acquittal. This too is an intended consequence.
Sunday, November 2, 2014The fix is in for the Darren Wilson grand jury People should not be surprised when the grand jury fails to indict police officer Darren Wilson, because this is the predetermined outcome intended. And no one should be surprised when people protest in response to Officer Wilson's acquittal. This too is an intended consequence.
