Truthout
Op-Ed
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Insanity Extends Beyond the Shooters
A CBS poll revealed about 85 percent of all Americans, including gun owners, support federal legislation to require thorough background checks on all persons planning to buy a gun.
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Three Things You Can Do Today to Participate in the Campaign to Close Guantanamo
“We are inviting you to join WAT's Friday Fast for Justice. If you join the fast, we would ask you to: fast on Friday, in any form you like.”
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Boko Haram a Blessing for Imperialism in Africa: US Training Death Squads
Many tens of thousands more are certain to die in fighting in South Sudan, but few Americans will blame their own country.
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That Surveillance Reform Bill Was Gutted, Passed and Sent to the Senate
Want real surveillance reform? Well, we almost had it. The USA Freedom Act started off with a roar before being slightly weakened (compromised is the word being used) by …
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Our Militarized Police Tossed a Stun Grenade at a Baby
Right now, a 1-year-old toddler with severe burns is clinging to life in a Georgia hospital, after a SWAT team barged into the house where he and his family …
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Noam Chomsky | Edward Snowden, the World’s “Most Wanted Criminal“
Policy must assure the security of state authority and concentrations of domestic power, defending them from a frightening enemy: the domestic population, which can become a great danger if …
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We All Must Become Zapatistas
The transformation by the EZLN is one that is crucial to remember as we search for mechanisms to sever ourselves from the corporate state and build self-governing communities.
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The Veterans Affairs Scandal and Plans for Downsizing the Social Security Administration
Unfortunately the VA system is not the only part of the government where essential services may be threatened by cutbacks. The Social Security Administration has recently disclosed plans for …
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Always Low Wages, More Pollution: Why Barack and Michelle Obama Relentlessly Shill for Walmart
Is this a nasty bug in the Obama presidency, or a corrupt core feature?
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Landscape of Paranoia
The architecture of city today reflects the emphasis on exclusionary privatized space and the limiting of any genuine commons. It is a landscape of paranoia.