Truthout
Op-Ed
|
Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Militarization is increasingly the sole method the global 1 percent favors to create and protect its excessive wealth.
|
A New Middle East Agenda for Obama
If Obama wants to make a lasting mark during his second term, he must ensure that US policy in the Middle East is no longer dictated by energy sources, …
|
Give BP the Death Penalty
If corporate charters were contingent on corporations operating in the best interests of the public, as they used to be, then our nation would get some long-overdue for some …
|
Will an Artist Please Render That Scientific Fact?
As a follow-up to my op-ed yesterday, “Science Fiction Science Fact,” I'd like to call to readers' attention the Op-Ed in today's New York Times by Orrin Pilkey. Orrin …
|
After The Flood: Requiem For a Friend, Death Knell for a Dying Paradigm
So much has been lost to the hubris and cupidity inherent to the hyper-industrialization and commercial hustler that defines the Anthropocene Epoch. To take it all in, to allow …
|
Don’t Let Obama Cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security
In order to see the economic growth that President Obama promised throughout the election, the American people must hold him accountable to not proceed with austerity cuts.
|
The GOP’s Listening Problem
After such a massive national defeat one would think Republicans would be rushing to change their formula. Unfortunately, it seems they have not learned their lesson.
|
Wall Street Uses the Third Way to Lead Its Assault on Social Security
Wall Street has always been the enemy of Social Security and its greatest dream is to privatize Social Security.
|
Hold Him to His Progressive Pledges: Make Obama Do It
Those progressive constituencies that supported the President must come together to speak with one voice on key issues.
|
Sandy’s Secret Survivors: Old, Disabled and Invisible in the Rockaways
Stranded in high-rises, running out of heat and food, the most vulnerable survivors of Hurricane Sandy wait for a knock on the door.