Truthout
Op-Ed
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How to Safely Scale Down the Fiscal Cliff
We should climb down the fiscal cliff slowly and carefully, with the clear goal of achieving a fairer, more balanced federal budget.
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Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening
From Paris, Athens and London to Montreal and New York City, young people are challenging the current repressive historical conjuncture by rejecting its dominant premises and practices.
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The New Rampage Mentality
Whatever the motive, why does it take the predictable form of an indiscriminate assault with guns blazing?
A Dream Come True: Ed McCurdy’s 1950s Folk Song and the Kellogg-Briand Pact
In a few places around the country groups are working to make August 27th a local or national holiday as a result of reading “When the World Outlawed War.”
Remembering Howard Zinn by Meditating on Teacher Unions and Tenure?
Howard Zinn would have turned 90 a couple of days ago. I have to imagine after reading and re-reading most of Zinn's works that if Zinn were alive today, …
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Percolate-Up Economics
Every dime of a minimum-wage hike is spent by its recipients — circulating upward in our local economies as they increase their purchases of such basics as food, kids' …
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GOP Ghosts in Tampa
This week, 48 years on, Mitt Romney is set to achieve what his father never could. But this great family triumph will not represent a vindication of his father's …
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Romney Pledges a Fed That Will Screw Workers
Last week, Mitt Romney committed himself to picking a Federal Reserve Board chairman that will try to keep workers' wages down.
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Murderous Art: Entertainment as a Precursor to Violence
The rash of mass shootings in America speaks not just to the absence of rational gun laws, but also to a culture that glorifies violence, in the reality of …
Invisible Americans Get the Silent Treatment
Official Washington continues to see poverty with tunnel vision u2013 out of sight, out of mind.