Truthout
Op-Ed
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Privatization: The Road to Hell
Billionaires are different from you and me, for obvious reasons, including the fact that they buy much pricier baubles than we do.
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Was Rahm Right?
Rally for Barack Obama in Manchester, NH, September 13, 2008. (Photo: binarydreams) In 2009, then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel infamously said that progressives are “fucking …
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Stop All Military Aid
Israel is now dictating conditions to the United States and upbraiding President Obama for having the nerve to suggest finally following UN Resolution 242, which has long called for …
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Access Journalism: The Movie
It is not true, as a Wall Street Journal reviewer claimed, that the HBO movie version of Andrew Sorkin's book “Too Big to Fail” was “Too Boring to Watch.” …
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The Crisis Enters Year Five
Tony Harrington waits in line to talk with potential employers at a job fair, which drew more than 250 people, in Bloomington, Minnesota, May 2, 2011. (Photo: Craig Lassig …
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Are Latin America’s Economies Overheating?
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) in spite of all the talk about reform is pushing for fiscal adjustment around the world. The IMF argues overheating in the developing world, …
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Wrong Question, Wrong Answer
(Photo: COCOEN daily photos) A hundred and fifty years ago, the rich and the royal came from as far away as Europe and South America to Carthage, …
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Days of Decision on Ending the Wars
If you don't see yourself as the sort of person who calls your representatives in Congress and urges them to vote to end the war in Afghanistan, stand up …
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It’s Time to Take Back Our Civil Liberties
It took the United States government nearly 10 years to hunt down and kill Osama bin Laden in retribution for the September 11, 2001, attacks. Over that same period, …
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The Small Group of Thoughtful, Committed Citizens Has Been Drugged
Movements for justice have historically been driven by a small percentage of any population. One percent of Americans nonviolently occupying Washington DC, could make Cairo and Madison and Madrid …