Truthout
Op-Ed
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What the Soldiers Did on Christmas 98 Years Ago
Frank Richards recalled: "On Christmas morning we stuck up a board with ‘A Merry Christmas’ on it. The enemy had stuck up a similar one. Platoons would sometimes go …
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What If All the World’s Debt Just Went Away
While it might seem impossible, if we could imagine a world without the burden of debt, we might be able to begin the journey to set ourselves free.
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Do You Feel Safe Here? A Teacher Reacts to Sandy Hook
If we're going to talk about school violence, we must talk about all schools, including the ones where violence has become the norm.
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Heroes, Cowards, Loons And Solutions
In face of the heroism showed by the teachers and administrators who gave their lives to protect the students at Sandy Hook Elementary, the actions of the NRA and …
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The Wait-Just-a-Goddam-Second Amendment
Taking a closer look at the Constitution, even the founding fathers did not endorse complete deregulation of firearms.
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Shooting Is Business, and Business Is Good
William Rivers Pitt: It is the way we exist as a nation that has been at permanent war for more than 70 years, the way violence is our calling …
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Back to the trenches
I spent the day at the Capitol today with about 20,000 of my nearest and dearest friends. Labor came out in force to protest the new Right to Work …
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Republicans Debating Republicans: Social Welfare Cuts
President Obama has given in to Republicans over and over again during his first four years in office. We need to remind him that he's the President.
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Nationalists Bask in a Rising Sun
A new day is dawning in Japanese politics, or so its next prime minister, the nationalist Shinzo Abe, whose grandfather served in the Tojo war cabinet, would have us …
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Education and National Security
The last week of September, 1938 was deemed “American Education Week” and for the occasion President Franklin Delano Roosevelt released a message to the citizenry. He noted that there …