Truthout
Op-Ed
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Beyond November: Thoughts on Politics, Social Movements and the 2012 Elections
Marx wrote in The Civil War in France that every few years workers got to decide which members of the ruling class were to misrepresent them. How right he …
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Corriendo Educando or Teaching/Learning While Running
Dr. Rodriguez examine running, specifically Indigenous ceremonial running, as a means of learning and acquiring knowledge and as a method of teaching and raising consciousness.
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George Lakoff: Low Information or High Morality?
The job of progressives is to speak morally to morally complex voters to activate the progressive moral system already there in their brains.
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Four Ways Romney and Ryan Would Roll Back the 20th Century
As Paul Ryan's budget plan threatens to drastically reduce public services, this election will decide the future of our welfare state
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Addressing the Food Crisis: Let’s Get Our Facts Straight
While a recent Guardian article get some facts correct about the current global food crisis, its solutions are slightly off the mark.
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End of Summer News Puts Nuclear Renaissance on Permanent Vacation
“There is no nuclear renaissance,” says writer Gregg Levine. With a new decision shutting down the construction of a nuclear reactor in Maryland, America needs start thinking beyond nuclear …
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It Gets Better: The Day I Ran Away From Home
There's no way you can really imagine what it's like...to look back on your period of captivity, and to exhale the breath that you held as a child.
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A Candidate’s Implausible Dream
Paul Ryan said that his views on monetary policy are based on a character's speech in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
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Chris Hedges: Life Is Sacred
Corporations care nothing for democracy, the rule of law, human rights or the sanctity of life.
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The Week of Living Dangerously
William Rivers Pitt: If you happened to wonder why nothing under my name appeared in print during the long debacle that was the Republican National Convention, the reason is …