Truthout
Op-Ed
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Guns, Denial and Insanity
Gun violence is surely senseless, but so is our response to it.
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San Francisco’s Youth and LGBTQ Homeless Left with No Answer
What do we teach our youth when we make no effective effort to see that homeless youth are housed?
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Who is Watching the Watchers?
There needs to be a national conversation about an emerging police state, and who is watching the watchers.
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Soccer Is Democratic. The World Cup Is Oligarchy
Thousands of poor Brazilians were evicted from their homes to build multimillion-dollar World Cup stadiums that may never be used again. Now Brazilians are fighting back.
Accountability for the War in Iraq
The current level of violence in Iraq has a single root: the destabilizing act in 2003 of illegally invading and then occupying Iraq ordered by the George W. Bush …
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Dear Defense Contractor CEOs: Why Is the Pentagon Buying Weapons With Chinese Parts Instead of US Parts?
The National Rare Earth Cooperative Act would begin to address Pentagon dependence on Chinese components for US defense material: so why don't defense officials and contractors back it?
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William Rivers Pitt | They Belong in Prison, Not on TV
"I spent the first decade of the 21st century dealing with these blood-sodden bastards from the Bush administration. Now, it appears, I will spend a chunk of a second …
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It’s Official. Big Food Sues Vermont
Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association filed a lawsuit in federal the US District Court to overturn Vermont's recently passed GMO labeling law.
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The President Has No Mandate to Bomb Iraq or Syria
At this writing, President Obama has neither the legal nor the political mandate to conduct airstrikes in Iraq or Syria.
Genocide, Great Wars, and Other Human Depravity
War is, quite simply, the end of the rule of law for a time.