Truthout
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Conservatives Offer Americans Empty Stomachs and Empty Rhetoric
Paul Ryan says that “the left” is offering Americans “a full stomach and an empty soul.” The truth is that conservatives like Paul Ryan are offering Americans empty stomachs …
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By the Way, Your Home Is on Fire: The Climate of Change and the Dangers of Stasis
Right now, you can think of the way we're living as an office tower and the fossil fuel economy as a plane crashing into it in very, very, very …
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The Failed Libertarian Experiment in Chile
Chileans have, to put it in terms Americans understand, rejected Reaganomics. And it's time for us here in the US to do the same.
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Learn From the Teachers: Chicago Strike Showed What a Union Is For
The sight of tens of thousands of striking teachers marching through the streets of Chicago in September 2012 was a much-needed shot in the arm for a sagging labor …
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Polio Continues To Be a Major Threat for Millions of Children
This month the WHO and UNICEF will give polio vaccinations to 10 million children across the Middle East.
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Idea or Opinion? Should New Media Make a New Distinction?
In our new media - where articles are archived forever on an instantly accessible world-wide web - we should look for, and begin labeling, some work “idea journalism.”
On International Women’s Day, Show Your Support for the Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in Massachusetts
Nannies and housekeepers are some of the lowest paid workers in the US, facing high rates of exploitation, poor working conditions, and harassment from employers.
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It’s Time for Maryland’s Factory Farms to Pay Their Fair Share
When you have 305 million chickens on the Eastern Shore, that's a lot of poultry waste polluting the Chesapeake Bay.
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Welcome to Daylight Saving Time, a.k.a. Nighttime Stealing Time
The first Monday of DST has been scientifically proven to be the most dangerous day of the entire year.
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Chris Hedges | Welcome to Satan’s Ball
Our elites have established the most efficient system of mass surveillance in history. They have abolished most of our civil liberties.