Truthout
Op-Ed
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Late to the Game, Again
Washington - I'm no sports nut but I've spent enough time at kids' soccer games to understand that it's impossible to score if you're playing on the wrong side …
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Two Unreasonable Women
They're back. Actually, they never left, they just laid low while the heat of political anger blew over. They are the schemers and scammers of Wall Street …
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Not Licensed to Kill: America’s Imperious Attitude in Pakistan Is Wearing Thin
There was a truly bizarre and telling paragraph at the end of a Wall Street Journal news report today on Pakistan’s demand that the US bring home hundreds of …
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The Justice Dept. Doesn’t “Legalize” War With Secret Memos Anymore: Now They’re Public
In the good old days of Bybee and Yoo, before we let them get away with it, thereby guaranteeing worse things to come, Justice Department memos "legalizing" the crime …
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Lies About the US Civil War 150 Years Later
Tuesday marks 150 years since the start of the US Civil War. Newspapers everywhere are proclaiming it the deadliest war in US history, the costliest US war in terms …
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America and the Great Disappointment
(Photo: Jacek Sniecikowski) I was considering having myself dusted with ash and measured for sackcloth last week, so many are the current predictions of impending apocalypse. …
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From Prosperity to Austerity: Dialing Down Our Expectations
In the middle of the 1982 recession, with the worst unemployment since the Depression, Ronald Reagan gravely looked into the camera and told us that prosperity was right around …
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I Remember America
President Barack Obama returns to the Oval Office. (Photo: Pete Souza / White House) It has not always been this way. Maybe we're all suckers for the …
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An Inferior Argument for American Superiority
(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) Aaron Carroll, in his health-care-focused blog “The Incidental Economist,” had a very good takedown of a recent Wall …
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Government Shutdown Averted, but at What Cost?
Congressional leaders and President Barack Obama reached an eleventh hour budget deal on Friday night, to fund the government for the rest of the 2011 fiscal year and avert …