Truthout
Op-Ed
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Climate Deniers’ Strategy of Confusion
The fossil-fuel industry has invested billions of dollars in propaganda - funding phony ‘scientists’ and bankrolling politicians - to confuse the public about the threat from global warming.
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Richard Nixon Knew Family Planning Saves Taxpayer Dollars, but Today’s GOP Doesn’t Care
As the Affordable Care Act helps more Americans get health insurance, it's time to increase funding for Title X, because the need for family planning services is only going …
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Good Riddance to Good Government and Good Jobs?
Employers who pay low wages and provide low quality or no health insurance shift costs to the taxpayers in the forms of welfare, food supplements, health care and wage …
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Hubris Versus Wisdom
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation President David Krieger warns, 'We can follow wisdom and live together as humans ... or we can ... perish together stuck in our apathy, our …
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Inside the Psyche of the 1%
The unsuccessful psychopath might go to jail for swindling dozens of people with home improvement scams while successful psychopaths might swindle millions with bank deals, get bailed out by …
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Are Those Companies’ Charitable Proceeds Actually Going to Charity?
While initially their goals might have been to prepare statements for annual reports about where all the company's charitable donations were going, marketing departments recognized that they also had, …
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Five Crazy Things Cuccinelli’s Surrogates Have Said (So He Didn’t Have to)
In the final days of the Virginia governor's campaign, both candidates are bringing out every gun in their arsenal to woo last minute voters and convince their bases to …
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Republicans, Unhinged
The current crisis of American democracy centers on the craziness that has engulfed the Republican Party, once considered home of the responsible ‘adults’ but now more like an island …
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Governing in the Dark
The NSA scandal isn't going away, and each leak tears a bigger hole in our current governing structure.
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Toward a WMD-Free Middle East: The Israel Hurdle
Action from Israel could bring about important progress in the banning of weapons of mass destruction.