Truthout
Op-Ed
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The GOP’s Coke Freak-Out
Republicans are outraged that Coca-Cola would dare “tarnish” a patriotic American anthem with foreign languages.
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Talk Show Baloney and Europe’s Future
Lanz, aggressive but not weighty, displayed questionable taste from the start.
Why You Should Care About El Salvador’s Presidential Elections
Like it or not, the past and present of the US is tied to the fate of “El caminito.”
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Protecting What’s White: A New Look at Stand Your Ground Laws
In Temescal, new residents have hired private security firms, whose patrolmen often engage in tactics of racial profiling, to patrol the area.
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They Can’t Tell the Truth
We cannot let the misleaders falsify reality for their own purposes.
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Why Common Core Isn’t the Answer
This is why dozens of other scholars have been saying the same thing for at least the last several hundred years: What we're doing isn't working!
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Ending the World the Human Way: Climate Change as the Anti-News
When it comes to climate change, there is no “story,” not in the normal news sense anyway.
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John Pilger | It’s the Other Oscars – and Yet Again the Winner Slips Away
John Pilger: “Most movies are fueled by money, marketing and something called celebrity, which is different from talent.”
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Chris Hedges | Military Metaphysics: How Militarism Mangles the Mind
Chris Hedges: “The US military has won the ideological war. The nation sees human and social problems as military problems.”
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The Attack of the Robots: Economists’ Silly Fantasies
Dean Baker: “If we adjust patent laws to better serve the economy we can ensure that robots and other technological breakthroughs make most of the world richer not poorer.”