Truthout
Op-Ed
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A Conservative Disdain for the Unemployed
I could ask how, exactly, Mr. Boehner believes that increased willingness to work would conjure more jobs into existence.
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Nakhwa Without Borders: Gaza and the End of “Arab Gallantry”
Is this the end of Arab Nakhwa? Did it even ever exist?
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Young Climate Marchers: Support From Boomers Makes Us Feel Less Alone
When more than 300,000 people filled the streets of New York City for the People's Climate March on September 21, one thing became clear: This is an issue that …
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Forcing an Island of Peace to Host a Billion-Dollar Military Base
Uncle Sam is wrecking a great deal of South Korea's top tourist destination.
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Scrambling Birds’ Brains: Could This Toxic Algae Offer Clues to Human Diseases?
A mysterious toxin with no name and no cure lurking in lakes in the South has drilled holes in the brains of the region's birds.
Another War, Another Evil: Haven’t We Learned That the Devil Cannot Be Slain?
The public is sold the idea of the need for violence to cure the world's ills, despite our responsibility for creating those ills.
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Four-Day Workweeks: Change for the Better?
Reducing worktimes with no reduction in pay is a perfectly viable economic development strategy.
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Code Black: Murder, Mass Incarceration, Militarization and Genocide in Progress
“Instead of lynchings, we now enjoy the spectacle of the fraternal-order-of-police executing blacks and browns as sport.”
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It’s Time for the US Middle Class to Make a Comeback
It's time to repudiate Reaganomics, so the American middle class can make a comeback.
Two Afghan Stories
There's a lesson here about folly, if only we would care to draw it.