Truthout
Op-Ed
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When Capitalism Fails, a Job Should Still Be a Right
Every American should have the right to a good-paying job that lets them provide for themselves and their families.
College Athletes’ Academic Cheating A Harbinger of A Failed System
Academic standards for college athletes should be raised, and sports scholarship programs should be ended.
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Social Movements Need To Be Aware of Corporate Influence and Opportunists
Activists should learn from Occupy about the dangers of being co opted.
Democratic Despair
The latest municipal elections in France have been analyzed and interpreted as a rebuff for the so-called “socialist” President Hollande.
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Is It Time To Charge People With Ecocide?
Our public officials, elected representatives and business leaders could all be guilty of crimes against humanity.
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Double Standards? Panel Cites US Human Rights Treaty Breaches
When America calls others to account for human rights offenses, it must be ready to acknowledge and correct its own lapses.
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Could the Supreme Court Re-Legalize Discrimination?
The signals coming out of the conservative branch of the US Supreme Court should give Americans pause.
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Who Gets on the FBI’s Most Wanted List?
What damage was inflicted by Diego truly is all “allegedly” because all that has happened so far is a grand jury has indicted him. A grand jury could indict …
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Chills, Thrills, Skills and Shills
The scams just keep on coming. But as they say in the trade, grifters gotta grift.
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Four Postal Unions Bury the Hatchet To Save Services, Standards
With all these wolves circling at the gates, you'd think the postal unions would have banded together to fight as one. Sadly, for whatever reason, that has not been …