Truthout
Op-Ed
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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.
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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, …