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Mandela’s Greatness May Be Assured – But Not His Legacy
When I reported from South Africa in the 1960s, the Nazi admirer Johannes Vorster occupied the prime minister's residence in Cape Town. Thirty years later, as I waited at …
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Luis Esquivel
Luis Esquivel: 'We want an opportunity to be able to live again, have a visit with our loved ones, give them a hug, shake their hand, like a human …
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Crisis in Education? The Crisis Is with the Critics, and It Is Not an Accident
It is time to fight. Educators in higher education and K-12 must mobilize. Before they can do this however, they must understand the situation. Education is under attack, this …
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America First
The American Empire is at risk of collapse. Will we learn from history so as not to repeat our mistakes.
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North Carolina Rips More Holes in Its Safety Net
If ignorance is bliss, Governor McCrory must be ecstatic.
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A Spoiled KBR Demands More and More From the Army
Iraq and Afghanistan contractors are some of the worse government brats.
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Todd Ashker
Todd Ashker describes how solitary confinement at Pelican Bay prison deprived him of any relationship with his mother.
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Americans Need to See the Violence of War, Police and Torture
We constantly fail to acknowledge the atrocities of war , street violence, and human rights abuses that our own government is committing.
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A Short-Lived Independence Thanks to Nationalism
The thirteen English colonies, which gained independence and formed a loose confederation of states, lost their freedoms to unrestrained nationalism.
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Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers’ Stories: Gabriel Reyes
Working with the Center for Constitutional Rights, Truthout offers a series of profiles of prisoners on hunger strike at Pelican Bay.