Truthout
Op-Ed
|
You Cannot Handcuff a Movement Whose Time Has Come: Why I Was Arrested at the State Capitol
As I was escorted by the Thurston County sheriff into a jail cell, sporting the tattered plastic sandals they exchanged for my shoes, wearing my yellow "I AM A …
|
Capitalism Is the Enemy of Democracy
Occupy Wall Street, October 21, 2011. (Photo: Tony the Misfit) The most significant accomplishment for Occupy Wall Street (OWS) to date is that the Occupiers have managed …
|
End of “Brown Rice Diplomacy” With Iran?
Ironically, the House is trying to criminalize diplomacy with Iran before sustained talks with Iran have been tried. More than eighty-percent of Congress has signed on to the bill, …
|
Burying Your Victories: What if Obama Taxed the Rich but Never Told Anyone?
President Barack Obama talks with staff in Senior Advisor David Plouffe's West Wing office at the White House, Oct. 6, 2011. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) …
|
Occupy Your Education: A Note to Students About Changing the World
Protesters gather during a rally at the University of California in Davis, Calif., Nov. 21, 2011. (Photo: Annie Tritt / The New York Times) The current Occupy …
|
A Mild Victory in Durban
Washington - I'm inclined to believe that the apparent result of the climate change summit in Durban, South Africa, might turn out to be a very big deal. Someday. …
|
2011 – the Year of the Global Revolution
So here we are, mid-December 2011. Looking back, January 2011 started with Jared Lee Loughner going on a shooting spree in Tuscon, killing a Federal Judge five …
|
Remembering Fanon: Setting Afoot a New Humanity
Suffering from leukemia and pneumonia, Frantz Omar Fanon lived his last day in what he called ‘a nation of lynchers.’ Bethesda, Maryland, USA, was hardly the place he expected …
|
Labor Not Represented in Management of “the People’s Universities“
Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest …
|
Europe’s Transition From Social Democracy to Oligarchy
As first published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: The easiest way to understand Europe’s financial crisis is to look at the solutions being proposed to resolve it. They …