Truthout
Op-Ed
The Brutal Past and Present Are Another Country in Secret Australia
Suppressing racist truths, while venerating Australia's servile role in the colonial wars of Britain and the United States, has almost cult status in Canberra today.
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To Gov. Christie, From the Teacher He Screamed at
“I wanted to know why Gov. Chris Christie portrays New Jersey public schools as failure factories. Apparently that question struck a nerve.”
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Big Brother’s Loyal Sister: How Dianne Feinstein Is Betraying Civil Liberties
Ever since the first big revelations about the National Security Agency five months ago, Dianne Feinstein has been in overdrive to defend the surveillance state.
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What Happens When Parents Stand Up and Say No to Testing?
When parents there learned of a plan to give multiple choice tests to children as young as Kindergarten, they decided enough was enough. They refused to let their children …
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Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Citizens and Hibakusha
How nuclear weapons have been legitimized, the new ethic required to ensure planetary security and what can be accomplished by anti-nuclear activism.
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Trans-Pacific Partnership: “We Will Not Obey”; Building a Global Resistance Movement
Active citizens working together can overcome transnational corporate power and defeat it.
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Privatizing Our Vote: The Ultimate Crime
Our elected representatives have slowly but surely handed the power to decide our elections over to a handful of giant, mostly Republican-connected corporations. And they've done so by giving …
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So, About Those Cancellation Letters…
It turns out that many of those cancellation letters were misleading, and failed to mention that customers could find better policies at lower prices on a healthcare exchange.
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Who Am I, Really?: The Identity Crisis of the Woman Veteran Returning Home
To the typical American woman in her twenties, we are practically men. To the typical male soldier, we are practically girls. As a result, we find ourselves unable to …
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We Won’t Go Back!
On the 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, with abortion rights hanging by a thread, and in the context of ongoing actions in Washington, DC and San Francisco, …