Truthout
Op-Ed
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No Minimum Wage for the Mariana Islands?
As head of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Ralph Reed boasts heu2019s building a political dynamo of five million members with a massive database, an annual budget of $100 …
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South Africa’s Mine Massacre Reveals Ugly Realities
Thirty-four South African platinum miners were killed by police because of an inter-union spat. The reality is that the massacre reveals far more troubling fault lines.
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Capitalism’s Ideological Crutches
The mainstream ideology that works best as capitalism's crutch is blame the government.
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The Things That are the Richest are the Least Valued: New Orleans and Haiti, Post-Catastrophe
While art, history and culture may be some of the connections that link New Orleans and Haiti, the two are also connected by disaster, both natural and political.
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Not On Our Land: Land Recovery Kicks Off in Honduras
Globalization threatens the survival of indigenous and small-farming communities all over our world. Carla Garcia speaks about the ongoing land struggle in Honduras with the Afro-Indigenous Garu00edfuna communities.
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Fairer Sex
While feminism has evolved with the social and economic changes of this century, the end game has not: equality for all women and the work that they do.
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Ryan’s Diet of Whoppers
Eugene Robinson ask the question everyone has been thinking:
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Money in Politics: Where Is the Outrage?
The name for whatu2019s happening to our political system is corruption u2014 a deep, systemic corruption.
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Paul Ryan’s Magic Asterisks
Mr. Ryan basically proposes three big things: slashing Medicaid, cutting taxes on corporations and high-income people, and replacing Medicare with a drastically less well funded voucher system.
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White Racial Anxiety and the Changing Demographic Tide: Legitimate Concern or Illogical Worry?
In about 30 years, whites will no longer make up the majority of the American population.