Truthout
Op-Ed
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Rape, Rape Culture and the Problem of Patriarchy
This year's Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April was full of the usual stories about men's violence, especially on university campuses.
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William Rivers Pitt | Cliven Bundy: Clown Car or Trojan Horse?
Mr. Bundy was a Trojan Horse filled with Koch Industries drilling equipment - until he blew it.
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Brown’s Bittersweet Legacy
Public schools are more segregated today than they've been since 1968.
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Noam Chomsky | Red Lines in Ukraine and Elsewhere
This era's most extreme international crime, the US-UK invasion of Iraq, was not a break in world order because the aggressors didn't cross Russian or Chinese red lines. In …
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The Economic Plans of the Kiev Government Will Spell Ruin for a Great Many in Ukraine
Ukraine's “turn to the West,” together with the effects of austerity, will deindustrialize Ukraine and turn it into an agricultural appendage of the EU.
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Tornado Survival Tips
With thousands of flattened homes and numerous devastated communities in the aftermath of this week's widespread tornadoes, it is worthwhile to revisit tornado safety tips.
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The US Should Accept Palestinian Unity
While Palestinians celebrated the reconciliation agreement signed between Fatah and Hamas, the reactions in Washington and Israel were reminiscent of the biblical “weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
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Arne Duncan Has Labeled My School – and Every School in Washington State – a Failure; Cue the Revolt
The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington.
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As Oklahoma Botches an Execution, It’s Time to Talk About Ending the Death Penalty
Isn't it time we take the instance of yet another failed execution attempt to discuss not how to execute people better, but how to get rid of the death …
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Reviving Government Of, By, and For the People
The McCutcheon ruling just made our bad campaign finance system worse.