Truthout
Op-Ed
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Lean In or Stand Up?
Things worked out great for Sandbergu2019s friendu2014she took the job and her husband learned to buy groceries. Things didnu2019t work out so well for the Newark schools.
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The Oliver Stone Interview, Part II: JFK
When I chatted with Stone about it recently, he betrayed no false modesty on the subject. u201cJFK was staggeringly complex and beautiful.
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William Rivers Pitt: Please Don’t Take the “2016” Bait
Midterm elections are by orders of magnitude more important than presidential elections on every meaningful level, and when they get ignored, we get the kind of congressional disaster zone …
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Paul Krugman | Alan Greenspan, Doing His Best to Make Things Worse
Paul Krugman: Mr. Greenspan isn't just being a bad economist, he's being a bad person, refusing to accept responsibility for his errors in and out of office. And he's …
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Health Care in the US as Seen From Down Under: “Mens Sana in Insanus Patriae“
Aussies' Medicare treats health care as a human right, offering better outcomes than the United States for much less cost, and insurers even offer plans for pets that many …
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GMOs for Profit: The Missing Context of Industrial Agriculture
GMOs lead to corporate control over the food system.
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Stifling Activism, the Bureaucratic Way
I am writing and raging. Raging because I am tired, oh so tired, of my activism being repressed or limited by bureaucratic minutia and ridiculous protocol. I am even …
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Recognizing the Gates…and the Gatekeepers
In his book, The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson writes: "I was told by some New Zealand sheep farmers …
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Privatize Everything in the Universe?
I wrote this song, “Privatize Everything,” back in 2000. The song was meant as political satire, but unfortunately, many of these lyrics have already become reality in recent years, …
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Five Things Everyone Should Know About Albuquerque’s Proposed Ban on Abortions After 20 Weeks of Pregnancy
On November 19, people in the city of Albuquerque will vote on whether to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The very fact that a fundamental right of …