Truthout
Op-Ed
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How Obama’s Budget Threatens Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid
In the wake of the news that, this coming Wednesday, a Democratic president will make the rollback of social insurance a key aspect of his budget policy.
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Thatcher’s Mean Legacy: The Queen Mother of Global Austerity and Financialization
Since dismantling Britain's public sector was her stated goal, she probably wouldn't object to an epitaph about it.
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The Atlanta Public Schools Cheating Scandal
Calm down, white people. You're going all Michael Vick again. You'd think these cheating teachers were there with Vick when he created the sport of dog fighting. What's that …
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Open Letter on Guantanamo Hunger Strike Released
We are writing to express the deep concerns of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) regarding the hunger strike of the detainees at the detention center at Guantánamo Bay. While …
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Social Security Cuts: More Than Money At Stake
The Obama administration threatens to cut social security benefits under the failed idea that the program is not as important today as it was under FDR.
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Is the Keystone XL Pipeline the “Stonewall” of the Climate Movement?
Bill McKibben: If awareness on climate grows as slowly as it has on gay rights, we'll be rallying in scuba masks.
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When War Hawks Become Human Rights Officials
Chris Hedges resigned from PEN American Center over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel.
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An Israeli Apology Means Little to the Families of the Nine Passengers Murdered on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla
Representatives of IHH, the international humanitarian organization that organized the passengers on the Mavi Marmara in the 2010 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, have told the author that families of the …
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Green Inclined, but Missing the Target
No matter how many light switches we turn off when we leave the room, pounds of food scraps we dutifully compost, and hours spent on public transit instead of …
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Another Poor Black Boy Dead in Haiti
What country would they create?