Truthout
Op-Ed
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Why Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald’s Fight Against Tyranny Follows in Gandhi’s Footsteps
Snowden didnu2019t ‘betray’ his country, but his courageous act follows Gandhi's model of inciting people to rebel against an unjust state.
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How Boehner Gets a Win-Win
Immigration reform has put Speaker John Boehner between a rock and a hard place.
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Charter Schools, the Invisible Hand, and Gutless Political Leadership
The commitment to charter schools is a coward's way out of facing reality and doing something.
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The High Road to 21st Century Economic Success
On the high road to the future, we would use government institutions to put people to work in support of the common good.
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The Fossil Fuel Industry Must Pay for Its Sins
The deaths on Sunday of 19 wildfire fighters in Arizona is just the latest example of the overwhelming negative externalities associated with this nationu2019s addiction to fossil fuels.
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Sadism as Politics: Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Anti-Abortion Politics and Kicking the Poor
The common denominator in redistricting, austerity policies, voter restriction policies, criminal justice and anti-abortion policies is the privileged (pathological) need to maintain power and control.
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A Concise Answer to Ido Aharoni’s Query “Why Boycott Israel?”
Ido Aharoni, Israel's Consul General for New York, and also “the founding head of Israel's brand-management team and the originator of the Brand Israel movement” recently wrote an op-ed …
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Howl Now: The Beaten Masses & Mass Disaster
The costs of education and student loan debt are used as weapons to enforce a neo-feudal caste system that sentences us to a lifetime of wage slavery. With the …
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When Activist Burnout Meets Anxiety and Depression
As a committed feminist and social justice activist, I am constantly in touch, in communication, online, on alert, engaged. There is rarely a moment where I am away from …
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Facebook, Hate & Trayvon Martin
Week one of the trial of George Zimmerman was a trying and often painful week to watch. From the visible pain of Sabrina & Tracy, Trayvon's parents, to watching …