Truthout
Op-Ed
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Afghanistan War May End by 2024…Maybe
Hamid Karzai has let the Pentagon's cat out of the bag - to the displeasure of the Obama Administration. The Afghan president revealed inside information about President Obama's war …
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Reasoning with and Resisting Arne Duncan’s Education Reform Agenda: Scribbling Lines in the Sand
There are times when a line in the sand can shift the course of a life – or of history. At other times a line in the sand may …
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Global Capital and the Nation State
At a time when you'd expect nations to band together to gain bargaining power against global capital, the opposite is occurring: xenophobia is breaking out all over.
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Workplace Democracy: Equality Over Profit
Operating a workplace democracy in the current business world isn't easy, but co-ops are showing the way.
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The Growing Global Challenge to Monsanto’s Monopolistic Greed
As more people realize the struggle against Monsanto is one for human survival, a movement is building.
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The Federal Government Has Forgotten Freedom of the Press
Slowly but surely, our government is infringing upon the rights of the media, and eating away at freedom of the press.
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Economists Unleash a Reign of Error
Paul Krugman: The Great Recession has brought us back into a world of persistent inadequate demand that has unleashed a sort of reign of error among anti-Keynesian economists and …
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Maybe It’s That They’re Not As Free Yet?
Stop——as they say——the presses. We just found out the reason for high black unemployment, bad neighborhoods, and other black problems. Too many black people think black people with "books …
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The Green Shadow Cabinet and a Mental Health Declaration of Independence
In what has become a “psychiatric-pharmaceutical industrial complex,” giant drug companies have corrupted mental health institutions, research, and practice. Most major mental health organizations and institution from which the …
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Anger is a Gift
Public school teachers should be angry. During the last decade, public school teachers in the United States have been forced to realize the brutal truth about their profession: everyone …