Truthout
Op-Ed
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Treating Sick Rich Folks
Nancy Hemenway, a senior financial services executive and hospital patient, reads a newspaper in the library of the Eleven West wing at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, …
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A Real Job for the Vice President: Leading Congress
The vice presidency has been a joke for most of the nation’s history. The first vice president, John Adams, said it was “the most insignificant office that ever the …
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Un-Cheating Justice: Two Years Left to Prosecute Bush
President George Bush at the Oval Office, in Washington, March 25, 2008. (Photo: Doug Mills/The New York Times) Elizabeth Holtzman knows something about struggles for justice in …
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Free Trade or Democracy, Can’t Have Both
Recent stories about the conditions of Apple's contractors in China have opened many people's eyes about where our jobs, factories, industries and economy have been going, and why. The …
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Was Occupy’s “Shut Down the Corporations” Action a Success?
The Occupy movement's national day of action — "Shut Down the Corporations" — is a difficult action to assess. Was the action a success or a failure? The first …
Fired Up! A Call to Boycott “Repulsive, Misogynistic” Limbaugh and His Sponsors
Rush Limbaugh is a repulsive misogynistic blowhard. By now, no one should expect more than neanderthal grunts from him. But, his radio program is owned by a syndicator, premiere, …
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Mass Burnings of Korans at Bagram Fuel Anti-Americanism
(Photo: Tyler Hicks / The New York Times) As the streets of Afghanistan ring out with cries of anti-American outrage, one is compelled to pause and reflect …
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Labor’s Fight Is Our Fight
Unions have been fighting the 1% vs 99% fight for more than 100 years. Now the rest of us are learning that this fight is also OUR fight. The …
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Are Bankers Capitalists?
The phrase “Wall Street” is evocative in American culture. For generations, it has referred to the showcase of American capitalism: our financial services system that ensured the efficient use …
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Witnessing the Death of the Republican Party
A week ago, Rick Santorum looked as though he might give Mitt Romney a thrashing in the Michigan primary, which would have unleashed a wave of grim assessments of …