Truthout
Op-Ed
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The Question No One Is Asking About Keystone XL
Why is construction of this pipeline allowed to continue?
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Welcome Home: The New Old Evangelicals
As I read Marcia Pally's Evangelicals who have left the right, I've realized that I'm like the old man guarding the family's abandoned homestead. The lights were off; the …
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An Unconstitutional Twofer
New conservative legislation from GOP leaders in the house has changed the national debt from a number to a concept. Alan Grayson reports.
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A New Model Drone Resolution
...Concerns include the following: drones can crash into airplanes, buildings, and each other; drones can fall out of the sky; drones can produce noise pollution; drones can produce visual …
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Envisioning a Frightening New Normal in “Post-Racial” America of Austerity, Insecurity for All But the Very Rich
If the underclass, working class and precariat become dissatisfied with their existence, what will they do?
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Shot by Their Own Men: How the Virginia Senate Inadvertently Predicts Republican Decline
The GOP's gerrymandering spree will ultimately frustrate the party's efforts to stay in power.
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Chuck Hagel and the American Empire
Will Chuck Hagel essentially be a cipher as Defense Secretary?
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Gitmo: A Fight Obama Never Had the Stomach For
Signs point to Gitmo remaining open for the duration of Obama's second term, says Sam Sacks.
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Abuse and Fear of the Natural World
...Despite the value of the Holmes Run Creek, every so often and quite surreptitiously, crews of city loggers would invade the Creek, cutting down most of its luxurious trees …
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The Great Dismal: “What We Speak Becomes the House We Live In.”
The repercussions of our acts - the constructs we create - endure well past the dissolution of our convictions and desires. Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds …