Truthout
Op-Ed
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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.
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Political Economy of Federalism in Pakistan and Movement for Self-Determination in Sindh
Pakistan is at a crossroads, its federal structure severely threatened by provincial independence movements fueled by ethnic tensions, structural political failures and the allocation of tax revenues.
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In Yemen, Let’s Redeem President Obama’s War on Terror Reform Speech
Following President Obama's speech on war reform, Robert Naiman will travel to Yemen in the hope of redeeming this promise. Petition in hand, Naiman will call for the release …
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William Rivers Pitt | In Defense of Raised Voices
William Rivers Pitt: Hecklers have been loud in the news of late. It is because of hecklers that I know I am free.
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Rabbits, Holes & Child Abduction
Throughout US history, we have wronged people, identified the problem and in time corrected it. Slavery and prison camps are joined by a modern epidemic: Wrongfully stripping children from …
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Rape Culture at the US Naval Academy
When I attended the US Naval Academy in Annapolis as an undergraduate from 2000-2004, male midshipmen used the acronym “WUBA” to refer to their female counterparts. According to historian …
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Israel in Motion
We stood in a meadow somewhere in Northern Israel, a middle-aged American man and two young women. We smiled at each other and exchanged pleasantries in Hebrew and English, …
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Conspicuous by Their Absence: What Was Missing from Obama’s National Security Address
Most conspicuous by its absence from the new Obama Doctrine was any mention of climate change. We should not be surprised by its exclusion. At the Copenhagen Climate Conference, …
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Just Begin: A Graduation Day Speech for the Post-Post-Docs of Life
Tom Engelhardt gives some inspirational advice to the remaining members of his 1966 graduating class.
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Creating a New Class of Keynesian Villain
Paul Krugman: Ken Rogoff, who recently wrote a Keynes-bashing article, must subscribe to the myth that a reasonable centrist can be won over by hippie-bashing.