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By David Swanson
A government that works for Wall Street and a war machine will sooner or later create schools that work for the same ends.

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Education, prisons
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Posted on 22 Jul 2011 by the editor

By David Swanson
U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary schools, showing up in humvees with $9,000 stereos, bringing fifth-graders to military bases for hands-on science instruction, and generally pursuing what they call “total market penetration” and “school ownership”.

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Military recruitment, education
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Posted on 10 Feb 2016 by the editor

By David Swanson
It's becoming slightly more common in the Western industrialized world to propose radical cultural change away from consumerism and environmental destruction. It's not hard to find people making the case that in fact nothing else can save us.

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education, environment, industrial extraction
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Posted on 18 Nov 2014 by the editor