WHAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT SUPPORT FOR HIGHER EDUCATION?

By Harry Targ - 03.24.15

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels testified March 17, 2015 before a subcommittee of the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Workforce on what he calls higher education reform. He also spoke during that week to the American Council on Education and the Brookings Institute. A centerpiece of his recommendations was “income share agreements” whereby students partner with investors, particularly alumni, who would provide funds for their education in exchange “for a small share of the student’s future income.” 

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We, the People, on Giving up Our Basic Freedoms: “Habeas Corpus,” Who Needs it, Anyway?

By Mickey Walker - 04.12.15

Enablers.  That’s what we have become, alright.  Let’s be honest with ourselves.  We Americans have been a nation that watched baseball, football, and failed to pay attention.  We did not know much about government and did not have time to study it beyond high school courses in history and government.  Government bores us as much as it did in high school.  Our litmus test for government and even truth has come to be something that sounded good, sounded right to us on the television.  Talking heads told us what to believe, who to vote for, and ultimately who we are.  And voting for actors who winked and smiled at the camera (remember the Gipper?) were elected to high office to sit in the White House for 8 years, just because they made us feel good.  They held the voters in the palm of their hands.  With no credentials necessary to govern.  And with less than average IQ’s.

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Likud, Netanyahu, and the Ruling Class Interests in Israel

By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH - 03.26.15

As is well-known, coming from behind, in Israeli terms from way behind “Bibi” Netanyahu has won another term as Prime Minister.  How did he do this?  By being honest.  Although he has in the past said that he was in favor of the “Two-State Solution” in principle, as is again well-known, at the end of the election campaign, he said that as long as he is Prime Minister there will be no Palestinian state, on any terms.  While this clearly has been his position for quite some time, this was the first time he said it in public.  Then, once again as is well-known, he came out with his racist statements regarding Arab-Israeli citizen voters and voting. This had all been proceeded in the final two weeks leading up to the election by a massive scare campaign, about “the Palestinians” and about “Iranian nukes.”

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Greece: Memory & Debt

By Conn Hallinan on 3.14.15

Memory is selective and therein lays an explanation for some of the deep animosity between Berlin and Athens in the current debt crisis that has shaken the European Union (EU) to its foundations.

For German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schauble, “memory” goes back to 2007 when Greece was caught up in the worldwide financial conflagration touched off by American and European speculators. Berlin was a major donor in the 240 billion Euro “bailout”—89 percent of which went to pay off the gambling debts of German, French, Dutch and British banks. Schauble wants that debt repaid.

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THE POLITICS OF THE BRITISH MONARCHY

By Michael Faulkner - 04.12.15

One of the most sedulously cultivated myths about the monarchy in Britain is that it is neutral and stands above politics. In Walter Bagehot’s phrase the monarch is supposedly the dignified servant of parliamentary democracy.  All the powers earlier accruing to its feudal and post-feudal despotic representatives, have been whittled away through centuries of evolving democratization to the point reached sometime in the nineteenth century where no real political power or influence in governance was left at all. That is the claim that needs to be scrutinized.

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THE DETERMINATION OF A WET NOODLE

By Loren Adams, 04.12.2015

There is another factor  -- besides the Republican Party – seldom mentioned as being the murderer’s accomplice of American politics (resulting in the full row of dominoes tumbling down). It is the weakness of the Democratic Party’s upper structure. Yes, the “elite” at the top with its a revolting habit of turning a deaf ear to progressives, unions, and the common grass-roots of the party is as culpable as the oligarch class in polluting American politics to Beijing-smothering levels.

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