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Mass Incarceration Creates Costly Disaster Across America
Herman Garner doesn’t dispute the drug charge that slammed him in prison for nine years. Garner does dispute the damning circumstance that doing the time for his …
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Military Tribunal May Hide 9/11 Motives
The Likud Lobby and their allied US legislators can chalk up a significant victory for substantially shrinking any opportunity for the accused planners of 9/11 to tell their side …
Ten Everyday Acts of Resistance That Changed the World
The Arab spring of 2011 has already changed the region and the world. Ordinary people have lost their fear and shattered the perception that their rulers are invincible. Whatever …
The 10 Best Things We Can Do For Animals
1. Rejoice that we are part of the Animal Kingdom. WHAT TO DO: Create an ecological garden, encouraging bugs, butterflies, and birds. 2. Respect …
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Seventeen Rooms and What Do You Get? Apparently, a Workforce in Rebellion
Statistics are one thing; people are another.
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Opposition Forces Move on Ivory Coast Strongman
Takoradi, Ghana - Opposition forces in Ivory Coast said Wednesday that they had begun an assault to dislodge the nation’s strongman, Laurent Gbagbo, from a bunker under his residence …
The Buying and Selling of the Pentagon (Part I)
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) For the last seven weeks, we have been running Solutions columns on how to fix the Pentagon. With the DoD budget ballooning …
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US Sees Array of New Threats at Japan’s Nuclear Plant
United States government engineers sent to help with the crisis in Japan are warning that the troubled nuclear plant there is facing a wide array of fresh threats that …
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Such Elegant Ideas, but Not Always Simple
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) One question that comes up occasionally from readers is: What would make me change my mind about how …
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Sacrificing Teachers and Firefighters to Hoovernomics
(Photo: AMagill) America owes a debt of gratitude to such insightful Republican governors as Scott Walker of Wisconsin, John Kasich of Ohio, Rick Snyder of Michigan and …