Truthout
Op-Ed
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Are We Getting Enough Bang for Our Health Care Buck? Hardly
The US healthcare system costs each of us about twice as much as those in other wealthy countries.
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US Air Force Prepares to Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Dogs of Fundamentalist Christians Proselytizing War
What lies at stake is the alteration (and possible evisceration) of one of the only protective barriers restraining the brutal spread of ruthless fundamentalist Christianity spread throughout the U.S. …
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On Israel and Palestine
Many in the United States dismiss the Palestine-Israel topic as both impossible to understand and impossible to resolve, but it is neither.
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Hillary Clinton’s Real Scandal Is Honduras, Not Benghazi
Her Central American foreign policy blunder ought to darken her presidential prospects.
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Let Them Drink Pop: Detroit’s Water Crisis and the Fight for Basic Human Rights in the Motor City
American workers in Motor City have been exploited in more than just Chrysler's idyllic Super Bowl ads.
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A Smarter Commute in the Age of Uber
The big benefit from new information technology-mediated car services will come if they make it possible for lots of people to forgo buying their own cars.
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Five Misconceptions About the Israel-Palestine Conflict
US media accounts tend to propagate false and misleading information about Israel, Hamas and Gaza; five key misconceptions are debunked.
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The Trials of Alleged Tween Terrorist Omar Khadr of Canada
It is unclear how long the United States and Canada intend to keep selling the myth of Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested at age 15 in Afghanistan, as an …
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Attorney General Declares POWs “Non-Persons”
The men held outside the law by the US at Guantu00e1namo Bay have been called “non-persons” by the US attorney general.
The Blame for MH 17 Isn’t Russia’s Alone
The ultimate responsibility for this disaster falls on those whose actions led to the civil war in the Ukraine.