Truthout
Op-Ed
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The High Cost of Cheap War
It seems only fitting that in the very month the Terminator sci-fi franchise predicted the rise of militarized artificial intelligence, the Guardian of London reported on a British Ministry …
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Gulf Oil Drilling Disaster: Gendered Layers of Impact
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Disaster of April 20, 2010 (the “BP Oil Spill”) is, as the news sometimes tells us, causing grave damage to the waterways and shores, …
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What’s Behind the Obama Administration’s About Face Regarding Medical Marijuana?
Here was the Obama administration's well publicized position on medical marijuana, circa 2009 (via the Ogden memo to all United States attorneys): "The prosecution of significant traffickers of illegal …
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The IMF’s Switch in Time
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director, International Monetary Fund (IMF), Washington, DC, is captured during the session “Global Economic Outlook” at the Annual Meeting 2010 of the World Economic Forum in …
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Torture Is Still Torture
It wasn't torture that revealed Osama bin Laden's hiding place. Finding and killing the world's most-wanted terrorist took years of patient intelligence gathering and dogged detective work, plus a …
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What Has Bin Laden’s Killing Wrought?
Pakistani police and locals gather outside the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 5, 2011. The head of Pakistan's Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, …
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It’s Time to Stop Celebrating and Go Back to Kansas
Back in the 1960s, Senator George Aiken of Vermont offered two American presidents a plan for dealing with the Vietnam War: declare victory and go home. Roundly ignored at …
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Killing Bin Laden Will Not Make America Safer
Soon after the killing of Osama bin Laden hit the news, thousands of Americans were celebrating outside the White House and at Ground Zero in New York. Arab experts …
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Jihadi Butch Cassidy
We have, once again, played right into Osama bin Laden's hands. This might seem like an odd assertion, since the al-Qaeda mastermind is finally dead at the hands of …
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We Killed Osama bin Laden, Now Let’s Kill the Myth
The United States is jubilant over the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. However, it will be some time before history catches up with the mythology that arose …