Truthout
Op-Ed
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Lawsuit Abuse, Indeed
A product malfunctions causing severe injury to your eight year old son. A corporation lays off your neighbor without reason after thirty years of service and age discrimination is …
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Does Medicaid Matter? New Study Shows How Much
As we noted recently, one of the charges that policymakers seeking radical changes in Medicaid have leveled against the program is that Medicaid coverage is worse than no coverage. …
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Is the Obama National Security Team a Pilotless Drone?
A soldier from A Company, 1 Rifles is pictured facing the downwash of a departing Merlin helicopter during Operation Omid Haft near the town of Alikosi in Helmand province, …
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Nearly $2 Trillion Purloined From US Workers in 2009
(Photo: bredgur) In 2009, stock owners, bankers, brokers, hedge-fund wizards, highly paid corporate executives, corporations, and mid-ranking managers pocketed—as either income, benefits, or perks such as corporate …
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No Agreement Is Better Than a Bad Agreement
The Doha Development Round (DDR) negotiations at the WTO have reached a deadlock. Various views have been expressed on the issue in the media (including in CUTS-Trade Forum). Some …
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Something to Squawk About
Washington - Washington has many lazy habits, and one of the worst is a reflexive tendency to see equivalence where none exists. Hence the nonsense, being peddled by politicians …
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End Trickle-Down Economics to Pay Off Debt
President Obama has given speech after speech calling on Congress to reduce tax breaks for the wealthy to balance the budget. When President Clinton left office, the budget had …
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War Without Humans: Modern Blood Rites Revisited
For a book about the all-too-human “passions of war,” my 1997 work Blood Rites ended on a strangely inhuman note: I suggested that, whatever distinctly human qualities war calls …
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Bring Our Troops Home: The Afghan War Is Over
At long last, America's overdue withdrawal from Afghanistan has begun. "The tide of war is receding," President Barack Obama declared as he announced that 10,000 troops would come home …
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Greed at a Glance
The Rockefellers, ever since the days of old John D., have enjoyed the great outdoors. They also seem to have figured out how to make that great outdoors pay. …