Truthout
Op-Ed

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Improving Schools With “the Project“
A few days ago I got an email from Phil Cullen. Before he retired, Phil was director of Primary Education for the state of Queensland, Australia. He now lives …

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Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You
Not long ago, the city council of Ventura, California, passed an ordinance making it legal for the unemployed and homeless to sleep in their cars. At the height …

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How Much Has Obama Learned?
Washington - Our political system is not accustomed to the kind of battle that is going on now. President Obama has been slow to adjust to it. The voters …

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The Children of Aftermath
A few paintings from the Art for Heart exhibition, an exhibit featuring art created by nearly 200 children who lost loved ones in the attacks on New York City's …

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A Pie for Peace: Tenth Anniversary of 9/11 Chance to Reflect, Bake, Resist
September 11, 2001 was my friend Diana’s 30th birthday. I planned on meeting her at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station after work. Instead I walked across the …

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Education: Our True Homeland Security
Students use an interactive whiteboard during a class in the Kyrene School District in Tempe, Arizona. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) Today's students see education as a …

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Nine Eleven and the Manufacture of Consent
If, traditionally, war is a hallmark of sovereignty, so it is with war on terror, but in this case it is not an act of sovereignty abroad only, but …

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How the Most Dangerous Game Is Being Played
(Image: RLHyde) There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. -Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World" …

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Relics, Artifacts and Memories: A Year Spent With World Trade Center Steel
Frederic Schwartz, architect of the Westchester and New Jersey 9/11 Memorials, stands in front of “Empty Sky.” Almost 50 percent of the victims’ families have no remains to …

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Bird-Dogging Torturers in NYC
As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 nears, many ex-Bush administration officials who approved torture in the “war on terror” and botched the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are back …