Truthout
Op-Ed
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Let’s Outgrow the Infantile Disorders Evident in Occupy the DNC
With the one year anniversary of the #Occupy movement just around the corner, DC based activist Joel Northam gives a critique of the movement during both National Conventions.
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Apology for Akin: Why He Is Only Saying What Republicans Are Thinking
When it comes to the GOP and the controversy surrounding
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The Worst Teacher in Chicago
It's Back to School Time! Time for the editorialists and the Tea Party and Barack Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan to rip into the people who dare teach in …
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Chris Hedges vs. CrimethInc. on Violence: Will We Get the Debate We Deserve?
Squaring off to determine what role - if any - violence is to have in movements like Occupy, the opponents will march into one of the left's most treacherous …
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We Won the War on Poverty, Then Lost the Peace
We have the money to end poverty in America. We only lack the will.
Iran, the Left and the Non-Aligned Movement: A Guide for the Perplexed
The bafflement about Iran so widespread on the Left has a long history.
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Anti-Drug War Caravan Comes to the Midwest, Heads East
Washington spends billions to incarcerate people for drug crimes, has criminalized Latinos and African-Americans, but the US is still the biggest drug market in the world, and violence is …
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Strike Is the Best Lesson Chicago Teachers Union Could Have Planned
Some Chicago students are already at the forefront of the fight against privatizing education.
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Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution
This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems …
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Leaving the GOP and Joining the Reality-Based Community: How I Learned to Stop Loving the Bombs
This is the story of how in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and later in Iraq, I discovered that what I believed to be the full spectrum of reality …