Truthout
Op-Ed
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Biodiverse Ecological Farming is the Answer, not Genetic Engineering
Industrial globalised agriculture is heavily implicated in climate change. It contributes to the three major greenhouse gases: carbon dioxide (CO2) from the use of fossil fuels, nitrogen oxide (N2O) …
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Disinformation About The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
In Washington, before lobbyists try hard to destroy something, they first spread a great deal of disinformation about it. Thus the “End Users’ Coalition” (a front for the derivatives …
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No Other Way Out
I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. …
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Commodity Market Reform: Wall Street Versus the Regulators
In contrast to the rapidity with which governments moved to use taxpayer funds to rescue the “too big to fail banks” in 2008, the pace of financial and commodity …
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Out-of-Whack Budget Whackers: Washington’s Ferocious Ax-Wielders Are Sparing Assorted Corporate Subsidies
Let's play a game called “Washington Budget Whackers Go Wacky”! Unfortunately, though, it's not a game. Ax-wielding Republicans and Democrats alike are madly whacking at our nation's …
Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy
Counterpublic spheres and modes of resistance that we once did not think young people could mount have erupted in a rush of emotional and political expressions.
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Why the Wisconsin Fight Matters
Washington - This is not the first time that Wisconsin has been at the center of national agitation over the role of unions. The earlier battle was …
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A Clenched Fist On Every Lapel
Sunday evening, February 27, hundreds of millions of movie fans will watch the 83d annual Academy Awards. These viewers may not be aware of a fact that merits particular …
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America as a Free Fire Zone
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. …
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Wisconsin: Health Care, Democracy and the Middle Class Are At Stake
Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill Protest, February 19, 2011. (Photo: mrbula) “Mom’s in intensive care. Mom says: Go to Madison.” Such was the conversation with my …