Truthout
Op-Ed
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Obama’s Victory Should Settle a Bitter Argument
Last night, after months of asking the American people to make a choice, Obama was reelected, proving that citizens want a new agenda.
Vietnam, Afghanistan: War, Karma, and Peace
Often times, indeed, when we mention the word Vietnam in the United States, we don't mean Vietnam as a country. Vietnam is unfortunately not like Thailand or Malaysia or …
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Barack Obama’s Carefully Crafted Economic Populism Carries the Day
To take swing states, Obama had to win blue-collar votes. He did it by painting his opponent a remote rich guy, and Romney helped.
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So Obama Wins the Election: What Does It All Mean?
Obama's victory was a triumph over a policy of obstruction from the Republican Party that continued throughout his first term.
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William Rivers Pitt | Winning the Outside Chance
All we won on Tuesday night was the outside chance of not losing. What is made of that very slim margin is entirely up to you.
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Community Organizers Fill a Large Gap in Superstorm Sandy Relief, but It’s Not Enough
Four years after “community organizer” became a slur laced with all the racial venom that Sarah Palin could invoke, it is community organizers who are doing the real relief …
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The Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse: Hurricane Sandy Rides In
First, 9/11. Next, Katrina. Then Wall Street. Now, Sandy erases once and for all the line between man-made and natural disaster.
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Decisions 2012: End of “Our” World?
I vote, but I never endorse. Seems a bit presumptuous for people in media to go around making endorsements. Ideally, media should inform, and the readers should decide. As …
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Before the Post-Mortems
This weekend, activist list-serves and web-sites were crackling with furious debate over whether or not progressives should be voting for President Obama this time around or helping to build …
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The Test of a Presidency
When should a sitting president be re-elected? Gone is the audacity of hope.