Truthout
Op-Ed
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Why Republicans Aren’t Mentioning the Real Cause of Rising Prices at the Gas Pump
(Photo: Paulo Ordoveza / Flickr) Gas prices continue to rise, which is finally giving Republicans an issue. Mitt Romney is demanding the President open up more domestic …
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The Fetishization of Balance
I generally don’t bother reading Thomas Friedman. A good friend gave me a copy of The World Is Flat, and I started reading it. Somewhere in the first one …
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At Last, Some Decency on Wall Street
By the time you read this, the PR hacks of Goldman Sachs will be vigorously pressing their efforts to destroy the reputation of whistle-blower Greg Smith, a former Goldman …
Everything Dies
Call me a convert, but I'm beginning to dig this whole let-the-marketplace-work-it-out capitalism thing.
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Giving Up Your Bank for Lent
(Photo: Jesse757 / Flickr) Growing up Protestant in a small town in upstate New York, the commemoration of Lent was not as major an event as it …
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Who’s a Freeloader?
A year ago, Vanessa Williamson, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin published a paper based on their in-depth interviews of Tea Party activists. A longer presentation of their research was published as a book a …
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US Auto Industry Is Much More Than the Sum of Its Parts
Industrial robots assemble a 2012 Chevrolet Sonic at the General Motors Orion Assembly Plant in Lake Orion, Michigan. (Photo: Fabrizio Costantini / The New York Times) …
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A Call for US and Afghan Citizens to Question the US/Afghan Strategic Partnership Agreement
The Afghan Youth Peace Volunteers question the presumption that the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan is necessary for American or Afghan peace.
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Facebook Can Go Public, but Can It Build Solidarity?
Let's try to get a grasp on where Facebook stands in terms of that super old-school term, “reality.” Your plight is this: You can't get to any objective truths …
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Urinals, Mona Lisa and Canada’s Mustachioed Vic Toews
When entering Chile, disembarking at the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport, I was separated from my family and taken away by Interpol. I was questioned, fingerprinted and photographed for …