Kill the Poor: U.S. Military Spending Doubled Since 2001 A new report released by SIPRI, a Swedish think tank, indicates that U.S. military spending has nearly doubled since 2001, report Judd Legum in *Think Progress.* The U.S. spent $698 billion on the military last year, an 81% increase over the last ...
Ruling Class Traitors Want to Tax the Rich *Working in These Times* had an interesting fluff piece this week about wealthy “turncoats” demanding increased taxes on themselves. They were covering a protest outside Manhattan’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel in which protesters rallied against Governor ...
24 Oakland Schools May Fire Half Their Teachers More than two dozen Oakland schools may lose at least half their teachers if proposed budget cuts go through. Three of the schools could lose over 95% of their teachers, reports the *Bay Citizen.** *The schools most affected are in East and West ...
Honduran Violence Against Striking Teachers and Students Honduras is in the midst of a month long general strike. The strike, spearheaded by teachers and the National Front of Popular Resistance, is protesting government repression, attacks on teachers, privatization of the public education system, and the ...