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Time for a revolution in the way we teach economics?

"The world has changed, the syllabus hasn't" is the rallying cry of the University of Manchester Post-Crash Economics society. Despite barely being around for a year they have already received ...

Nov 10

25th St. Station Walmart "Bait & Switch"

Baltimore Residents Object to "Bait-and-Switch" Design for Walmart Store "It doesn't seem like the same project they got approval for," says Jim Triplett of Baltimore's Remington neighborhood ...

Nov 10

Sometimes it feels like elections are an exercise in futility. We live in a mirage democracy in which major party candidates are vetted by the corporate machine before they get on the ballot and th...

Nov 4

We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger

A new a study from McGill University and the University of Minnesota published in the journal Nature compared organic and conventional yields from 66 studies and over 300 trials. Researchers found ...

Nov 3

Nov 3

NJ Governor Screams at Teacher: 'Do Your Job!'

The New Jersey teacher in the photo below had just asked Chris Christie the following question: "Why do you continue to spread the myth that our schools and teachers are failing?" His reply? "You p...

Nov 3

Ireland: Ground Zero for the Austerity-driven Asset Grab

The Irish have a long history of being tyrannized, exploited, and oppressed - from the forced conversion to Christianity in the Dark Ages, to slave trading of the natives in the 15th and 16th ...

Nov 2

Design panel approves Remington Wal-Mart with more greenery

Just a month ago, Baltimore's architectural design panel criticized the planned Wal-Mart store on 25th Street as bleak. Today the project found favor with the panel through ample additions of ...

Nov 2

Jailed Pussy Riot Member Missing Following Prison Transfer

Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadya Tolokonnikova has disappeared after being moved from a prison in Mordovia 10 days ago, her family said on Friday. Tolokonnikova's father and husband said they last ...

Nov 2

A recent viral video of British comedian Russell Brand taking on a smug and dismissive BBC Newsnight interviewer by the name of Jeremy Paxman, and ending with Brand making a fervent case for social

Time for a revolution in the way we teach economics?

25th St. Station Walmart "Bait & Switch"

Popular Resistance Newsletter - People Power Expressed In Elections

We Already Grow Enough Food For 10 Billion People -- and Still Can't End Hunger

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NJ Governor Screams at Teacher: 'Do Your Job!'

Ireland: Ground Zero for the Austerity-driven Asset Grab

Design panel approves Remington Wal-Mart with more greenery

Jailed Pussy Riot Member Missing Following Prison Transfer

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