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US Still Paying Billions in Benefits to Deal With Psychological Effects of War
The U.S. government is paying billions to war veterans and their families, including monthly payments to the children of Civil War veterans.
American Jewish Poet Hilton Obenzinger on Israel, Zionism, and the Radical Sixties
American Jews have been suckered into supporting Israel in unthinking ways.
Truthout TV With Mike Lofgren: America’s Three-Tiered Justice System
Equal justice under law? Not according to Mike Lofgren.
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Detroit Police Officer Accused of Shooting 7-Year-Old Will Go to Trial
In a military-style raid, the police officer shot Aiyana Stanley-Jones. Now a trial date has been set.
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Farmworkers Feed Nation, But Few Have Health Care
Around 75 percent of farmworkers hired in the United States lack health insurance, the highest proportion of any major occupational category.
Gifted and Talented Schools are Segregation by Another Name
While African Americans and Latinos make up two-thirds of the children in the city's public elementary schools, they are barely a quarter of the students in the city's gifted …
The Iraq Retrospective We Deserve
On this 10-year anniversary, that dialogue is needed more than ever if there's to be any hope of limiting wars of aggression in the future.
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Heroes Not Saints: Dreier’s Greatest Americans
Peter Dreier's ‘The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame’ forces reflection on greatness, the vast progress and reaction of 20th century history …
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Wave of “Ag Gag” Bills Threaten Food Safety and Freedom of the Press
‘Ag gag’ bills seek to prevent the documentation and exposure of safety violations and atrocities in animal industries by criminalizing them and labeling them ‘obstruction.’
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Remembering Jancita Eagle Deer
Jancita's story reminds us why the Violence Against Women Act deserves passage.