Truthout
Op-Ed
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After Rana Plaza: Let’s Bring Humanity Back Into Our Stuff
We all know our stuff doesn't grow on store shelves. Here's how we can rehumanize our relationship with our things - and the people who make them.
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Manning Did Not Hurt the United States
The disturbing truths about our own nation's manipulations and abuses around the world may have been uncomfortable, sobering and embarrassing. But many times it's important for Americans to see …
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The NSA: “The Abyss From Which There Is No Return“
Whether or not the surveillance is undertaken for ‘innocent’ reasons, surveillance of all citizens gradually poisons the soul of a nation.
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Private Gain to a Few Trumps Public Good for the Many
As the “public good” has morphed into the “public investment” the American people are suffering from an overly privatized government.
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AP Goes Off the Deep End With Deficit Scold David Walker
The Associated Press' profile of David Walker, the former head of the Government Accountability Office, ignored the basic tenants of journalism for a misinformed fluff piece.
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Audacity of Dope? Yes We Scan?
This president has become a tragic figure, more so every day with each new revelation of how far the surveillance state has been developed and implemented under his watch. …
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Audacity of Dope? Yes We Scan?
This president has become a tragic figure, more so every day with each new revelation of how far the surveillance state has been developed and implemented under his watch. …
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O Little Town of Washington
Michael Winship reflects on his life living in Washington DC and how the capital has changed for the better, and worse.
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In Deference to Great Men: Aaron Sorkin vs. the Occupy Movement
HBO's “The Newsroom,” in examining the Occupy movement, operated exactly like the media it is trying to critique.
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Things to Know as Collapse Becomes Hip
Economists never seem to connect the eco in economy to the eco in ecosystem; but as financial, economic, and climate collapse continues, people must rise to change our world's …