Truthout
Op-Ed
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Envy and Jealousy? Gag Me With a Silver Spoon
Try to change your tune, plutocrats. Contrary to your fantasies, we are plagued by reality, not envy.
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Is Rick Scott Guilty of Murder?
Republicans say that they're pro-life, but that's a bald-faced lie, because they refuse to let low-wage working Americans have access to life-saving Medicaid.
Obama’s “Humane Deportation” Policy Review Lacks Humanity
The US immigration system, in particular the detention and deportation system, does not treat immigrants with humanity, dignity and respect.
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Fear of the Welfare State: How a Conservative Invention Became a Marxist Utopia
Even some otherwise well-informed people still grapple with myths and half-truths about the European welfare state, and what is sometimes labeled European socialism.
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BDS: Non-Violent Resistance to Israeli Occupation
A system based on inequality and oppression cannot survive.
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Dying To Give Back To the Earth
The funeral industry is, by and large, a $20 billion for-profit enterprise, whose environmental impact has been greatly overlooked.
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With Hippocratic Oath, Doctors Pledge Allegiance To Patients, Not Profits
It's pretty unusual for two-thirds of a group of doctors to agree on something as controversial as a single-payer health care system.
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Oh, the Humanity
There are now some 5.66 million missing workers in the United States, neither counted nor accounted for. To notice them would be to raise the unemployment rate to at …
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Recalled to Life
The poor in America usually get only one chance. Then it is over. Those who were on the street with Christine Pagano in Camden will most likely never have …
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To Infinity and Beyond: Navigating the Global Void
Disappearance is the most tortuous form of violence, because it lives on in our imaginations as a resilient psychosis of loss, says James Fennell.