Truthout
Op-Ed
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Can Obama Calm Democratic Panic?
Washington - With apologies to Winston Churchill: The talk in the political class is that this is the beginning of the end of the Obama administration, while the talk …
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Ignorance and 9/11 – an Analysis
The twin towers of the World Trade Center seen through fog from Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., on Dec. 31, 1994. (Photo: Keith Meyers / The New …
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Wall Street Goes to School
If real reform is going to happen, it has to put in place a viable, critical, formative culture that supports notions of social and engaged citizenship, civic courage, public …
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Less Work, More Living
(Photo: Richard Yuan / Flickr)
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Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?
Buddhist Monks in Bhutan. (Photo: Steve Evans / Flickr) Princeton - The small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is known internationally for two things: high visa fees, which …
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Obama Co-Opts the Labor Movement
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute’s 34th Annual Awards Gala in Washington, Sept. 14, 2011. Obama called on Congress to pass his jobs bill …
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Wounding Ourselves
People fear death because death is an instrument of fate. When people are killed by execution rather than by fate, This is like carving wood in the …
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US Trade Policy: Moving Backward in the 21st Century
Three years into the Obama Administration, progressives have no shortage of complaints about the president’s economic policies, which seem very much at odds with Candidate Obama’s soaring rhetoric. Economic …
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The Party Line – Shaken, but Still Not Stirred
Sunday, September 11, will of course be the tenth anniversary of a tragedy that fundamentally changed America in ways we are still trying to understand. But this 9/11 is …
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Global Warming IS Here
Bark beetles and egrets don't care whether Governor This or Senator That believes in global warming. They feel it in their whatevers. Responding to warmer temperatures, plant and wildlife …