Politics

CIA Cables Detail Its New Deputy Director’s Role in Torture

Gina Haspel, President Trump’s choice for the CIA’s number two position, was more deeply involved in the torture of Abu Zubaydah than has been publicly understood, according to newly available…

February 22, 2017
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Trump's Job Promises are Fiction - Free Trade is Fiction, Too

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Economist Heiner Flassbeck tells Paul Jay that neither a high tariff wall or neo-liberal free-trade will provide jobs and higher wages - but there are policies that will.

February 22, 2017
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Whistleblower Teacher Says Defunded Public Schools Vulnerable to Mass Privatization

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In TRNN's ongoing investigation into Baltimore schools, a teacher says the long-term trend of over-testing and starving public schools of funds has made them an easy target for controversial education…

February 22, 2017
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In Sharp Contrast with Flynn, Trump Appoints Establishment Figure to NSC

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Win Without War Coalition's Stephen Miles says H.R. McMaster's appointment is a real break with the recklessness of Michael Flynn, but the truth is that Trump is running a National…

February 22, 2017
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For Automation to Benefit Society, It Must Serve Humans, Not Replace Them

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We face the prospect of an economy with little need for humans. Advances in artificial intelligence call us to revisit basic questions about work, love, and human purpose.

February 22, 2017
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‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System

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School officials nationwide dodge accountability ratings by steering low achievers to alternative programs. In Orlando, Florida, the nation’s tenth-largest district, thousands of students who leave alternative charters run by a…

February 21, 2017
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