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Bill McKibben, TomDispatch: 'We have reached the point where we are unfazed by things that should shake us to the core. So, just for a moment, be naive.... I don t want to be hopelessly naive. I want to be hopefully naive. It would be relatively easy to change this: you could provide public financing for campaigns instead of letting corporations pay. It s the equivalent of having the National Football League hire referees instead of asking the teams to provide them.'

http://www.truth-out.org/armed-naivete-time-stop-being-cynical-about-corporate-money-politics-and-start-being-angry/132577596



Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State

Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux, Truthout: 'Much media attention has been drawn to the fact that Penn State pulls in tens of millions of dollars in football revenue, but nothing has been said of the fact that it also receives millions from Defense Department contracts and grants, ranking sixth among universities and colleges receiving funds for military research.'

http://www.truth-out.org/universities-gone-wild/1325615231



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