Truthout
Op-Ed
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Obama’s Willing Executioners of the Fourth Amendment
It’s now painfully clear that the president has put out a contract on the Fourth Amendment. And at the Capitol, the hierarchies of both parties are stuffing it into …
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Obama Is Complicit in Nation’s Violent, Discriminatory Behavior, Laws
The George Zimmerman verdict indicates a need for more than personal soul-searching by Americans. A national conversation about racism is warranted.
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The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act Rebrands Constitutionally Protected Behavior as Terrorism
Sarahjane Blum is lead plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights challenge to the federal Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. She and CCR have appealed the
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The US Military’s Limited Critique of Itself Ensures Future Disasters
Is it possible that the best way to win future wars is to avoid them altogether?
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Larry Summers’ Toxic Trait
James Kwak explains that Summers is not good at charming those he considers to be his inferiors, but he's surprisingly excellent at cultivating people with real power.
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Concentrated, Privatized Wealth or Shared Prosperity and Economic Democracy?
It is going to take action from below to create an economy that puts people and the planet before profits.
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No More Second Chances for Larry Summers
William Grieder: If Obama chooses Larry Summers for Federal Reserve chairman, Wall Street wins again.
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An American Reckoning
In the aftershock of the Boston bombings, there's only two possible avenues of response: revenge, or reckoning.
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How We Are Impoverished, Gentrified and Silenced – and What to Do About It
Momentous change almost always begins with the courage of people taking back their own lives against the odds. Just do it, says John Pilger.
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Time to Send the Crony Banksters to Jail
This morning, in one of the largest insider trading cases in U.S. history, a federal grand jury indicted SAC Capital Advisors, a major hedge fund worth $15 billion dollars, …