Truthout
Op-Ed
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With War Crimes Argument Banned, Manning’s Military Trial Is Judicial Lynching
Chris Hedges: The government has effectively muzzled Manning's defense team.
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The Price of Immigration Reform Is Steep
The Senate's proposed bill further transforms our immigration policy into a corporate labor supply system.
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Top Ten Reasons to Legalize Marijuana Now
The war on drugs is like the classic mafia protection racket: our government creates a perpetual problem and then charges us exorbitantly to ‘protect’ us from it.
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It’s Time to Do Away With Homeland Security
Thom Hartmann: Repeal the PATRIOT Act, dissolve the DHS and let's return to sanity.
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Idle No More
What began as a protest against new laws seen as curtailing environmental protections and infringing indigenous sovereignty, quickly grew into a movement for indigenous rights and environmental justice.
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The Metropolitan Education Problem: Why High School Students Are Walking Out
Though we are still living in the legacy of these historical developments, we no longer discuss the structural problems of American cities like Philadelphia.
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Violence: Floods, Drones and Cops
There is almost too much to write about from Berlin! To start off, the uncanny disappearance of 1.5 million residents of Germany, missing since the last census over 20 …
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Violence and the Quest For Identity
David “Deacon” Jones died today. Unless you followed football in the 1970s, you probably never heard of him. I vaguely remember him and his Los Angeles Rams teammates Rosey …
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The End of the Right of Privacy?
As the government continues to monitor citizens, can we even remember the day when our privacy meant something in this country.
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There Is a War on Ordinary People, and Feminists Are Needed at the Front
With honourable exceptions, the bourgeois media club relegates and distracts from the fact that a full-blooded class war is under way.