Truthout
Op-Ed
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Conservatives Benefit From Instant Runoff Voting, Too
We need more voices and more choices in our elections; instant runoff voting (IRV) is used in more than 300 communities across the country, but we need to take …
Stupidest Budget Cuts Ever – or, Why Cutting Contraception Is Not Conservative
The sequester's 86 million dollars in cuts to family planning is especially stupid when we already have the tools to make most unintended pregnancy and abortion obsolete.
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On Heels of Successful Death Penalty Repeal in Maryland, Exonerated Death Row Prisoner, Kirk Bloodsworth, Urges Delaware Senate to Follow Suit
Today, less than a week after Maryland's legislature passed Governor O'Malley's bill to abolish the state's death penalty, Kirk Bloodsworth, exonerated death row prisoner, current advocacy director of Witness …
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Monsanto’s Death Patents
Monsanto is creating a world in which people have to pay the corporation in order to grow or consume food.
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Cyprus…What You Can Learn From Iceland
Hopefully Cyprus will take a page out of the Icelandic playbook, and lock-up the banksters.
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On Black Women Domestic Workers
My presentation last week on the great intellectual and educator Anna Julia Cooper for Women's History Month stimulated some wonderful responses. Among them was a letter from Katherine van …
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Rosa Parks Syndrome in Palestine
Liberals who generally support Israel, have seized on bus segregation because it packages occupation in digestible terms.
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The Final Lie of the Iraq War
More people believe that invading Iraq was right today than in 2003. What do these numbers say about the integrity of the American people.
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Haiti’s Duvalier Needs Company in the Dock
The enablers of human-rights-violating regimes are free to walk the streets of New York and Washington.
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Iraq, Sandy Hook and America
William Rivers Pitt: Cowardice allowed the Iraq war to happen and the assault weapons ban to fail.