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The Public Intellectual: Peter Mayo
Peter Mayo For Landslide Victory to Be Meaningful, Malta's Labor Party Must Return to Its RootsThursday 14 March 2013by: Peter Mayo, Truthout | News Analysis Politics of Indignation: As …
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The Public Intellectual: Cary Fraser
Articles by Cary Fraser on Truthout.
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Unequal Influence: There Are Politicians Who Work on Behalf of Corporations and Those Who Work on Behalf of Humans
(Image: JR / Truthout) The people have got to know if their president is a crook,” U.S. President Richard Nixon told a national television audience on November …
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An Open Letter to Wall Street
Let's face it: the mess outside your office is your doing.
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An Unending Crisis – America in the 21st Century
The "credibility" gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.
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Dick Cheney, the Ultimate American Terrorist
Vice President Dick Cheney in a June 20, 2007 file photo. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) It is axiomatic by now: when someone leaves …
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The Unacceptables
And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures.
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America in Decline
Corporate power's ascendancy over politics and society both political parties far to the right of the population.
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Breivik’s Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours
The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots in right-wing ideology and fundamentalist movements.
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Unequal Protection: Corporate Control of Politics
(Image: JR / Truthout) During the bruising primary election season of 2008, a right-wing group put together a ninety-minute hit-job on Hillary Clinton and wanted to run …