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Education, Inc.; US Drones over Syria Prelude to Bombing? Anti-GMO Law Struck Down
Education, Inc. ”Reform” mechanisms are a huge success for the profiteers who are responsible for designing and implementing them. These profit-driven education policies are systematically undermining democratic control of our schools.
US Drones over Syria Seen as Sign of Looming Airstrikes. “There is no decision yet to do strikes,” one senior Pentagon officials told the Wall Street Journal on Monday, “but in order to help make that decision, you want to get as much situational awareness as possible.” In a joint news conference last week, both Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Martin Dempsey indicated that striking targets inside Syria is an option now under high-level consideration within the Pentagon and the White House.
Federal Judge Rejects Kauai Anti-GMO Law. The suit was brought against the county by four multinational agriculture companies—DuPont, Syngenta, Agrigenetics Inc. (owned by Dow Chemical), and BASF Plant Sciences—which for decades have been dousing their GMO test crops on the island with some of the most toxic pesticides available at a rate higher than most farms in the nation.
