Truthout
Op-Ed
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One Week in the Life of a Police State
Keeping up with the real news can be difficult today—especially since those who provide us with the "news" often deliver entertainment packaged as news. In this way, what passes …
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Seeing Through Transparency: On WikiLeaks
The news took a turn for the worse in 2005 when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer began broadcasting from The Situation Room, a simulation of the legendary presidential techno-bunker. Most recently, …
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Nonviolence Is the Essence of Democracy
The prophetic proclamation of the death of God by Friedrich Nietzsche's 'madman with a lantern' continues to stir the imaginations of Western society over a century and a half …
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No Need to “Demagogue” the Ryan Plan
Washington - It always gets back to health care. That's why 2009 and 2010 were so consumed by President Obama's push for health care reform, and why …
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Obama Strikes Out on Global Warming
In our globalized world, old-fashioned geography is not supposed to count for much: mountain ranges, deep-water ports, railroad grades — those seem so nineteenth century. The earth is flat, …
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Sex and Surveillance
(Photo: Jonathan McIntosh) New York - It is impossible to hear about sexual or sex-crime scandals nowadays – whether that involving Dominique Strauss-Kahn or those of former …
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Disrupted Economy and Disruptive Technology
We have seen residential housing lose what little steam it had built up. Jobs numbers, due Friday, are likely to show moderation in the pace of new job creation. …
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Obama Deregulates GMO Crops Despite Supreme Court Injunction
Early this spring, while the world was distracted by Egypt’s uprising, President Barack Obama pushed the Secretary of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to deregulate genetically engineered …
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From Civil Disobedience to Civil Defiance
School of the Americas (SOA) Watch protesters in Ft. Benning, Georgia, November 22, 2009. (Photo: alexis.lassus) Over the years, I've been jailed numerous times. Each such event …
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Diagnosing New Inflation Symptoms
It's been more than three years since the Great Recession began, and it's no longer debatable that the federal spending in its wake did not provoke inflation. Years of …