Rotten to the Core: How an Apple mega-deal cost Los Angeles classrooms $1 billion
Bad business and worse ethics? A scandal is brewing in L.A. over a sketchy intiative to give every student an iPad
 Technology companies may soon be getting muddied from a long-running scandal at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the nation’s second-largest system. A year after the cash-strapped district signed a $1 billion contract with Apple to purchase iPad
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by Steven DFollow
From Daily KOS
No, I'm not making a prediction. She hasn't lost the nomination battle for 2016, not yet anyway. However what she did do today, or what I should more accurately say, is she lost my respect. Back in 2011, at a speech she, in her capacity as Secretary of State, was giving for international internet freedom, a worthy cause. During the speech, Ray McGovern, a retired CIA agent who became a political activist against the wars fought in our name in the Middle east, stood up and tuned his back on her, a silent form of protest. For that he was arrested for disorderly conduct. From the transcript of the Democracy NOW broadcast about the incident:
RAY McGOVERN: Well, I was pounced upon. I was blindsided, really. I was looking straight to the back, minding my own business, the only offense being standing up when everyone else was sitting down. And without any warning, I was pounced upon by and wh
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“The Pentagon Won’t Be Holding a Bake Sale Any Time Soon”
 Last night, Rep. Alan Grayson was invited onto “All In With Chris Hayes” on MSNBC to give his perspective on Congressional approval of military action against ISIS, and the military’s request for more war funding. The host explained that Republicans were attacking the President for not calling Congress back in session to debate a declaration of war against ISIS, when only GOP Speaker Boehner can call the Hous
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“The roads were cracking, the crime rate was rising”: What happens when fracking takes over your town
Director Jesse Moss talks to Salon about "The Overnighters," his haunting portrait of a fracking boomtown gone bust
 North Dakota is sitting on gold. The oil-rich Bakken formation, thanks to the advent of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, produces hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil each day; in one month this year, it produced as much oil as it had in all
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Bernie Sanders: Longterm Democratic strategy is “pathetic”
Senator Bernie Sanders sits down with Salon to talk inequality, the GOP, and whether or not he'll run for president
 Bernie Sanders is a legendary political independent from Vermont. Over the years, he has served as mayor of Burlington, the largest city in that state; as a member of the House of Representatives; and (currently) as a United States Senator. We met last week in his office in one of the Senate office buildings in Washington, D.C., and discussed the Clinton years, the way to beat the Rig
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