Truthout
History
Sixty-Seven Years of Pakistan
Freedom movements in contemporary Pakistan suggest that at least Sindh and Balochistan are bound to emerge as separate sovereign countries sooner or later.
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Censorship and Myth-Making Enshrined Ignorance of Hiroshima and the Bomb
The official myth that the bombs saved lives by hurrying Japanu2019s surrender can no longer be believed except by those who love to be fooled.
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The United States Has Excelled in Illegal Goods and Smuggling People Since Its Founding
“Smuggler Nation” takes on the notion that the United States has been strictly a law-abiding nation when it comes to imports.
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Education on the Killing Floor
Everything today is measured in instrumental terms, in the authority of technological expertise.
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Dispatches From Freedom Summer
A variety of voices revisit the events and lessons of Mississippi's long hot summer of 1964.
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Ten Myths for the Fourth of July
Many of the stories surrounding the Independence Day holiday are just that - stories.
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Labor in History: Mobtown and the Stirring of America’s Unions
Many historians date the first great industrial upheaval of American labor to July 16, 1877.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
A century past the Archdukeu2019s time the game of war is still a crime.
A Radical Historian’s 60th Reunion at Hotchkiss
I thrived in Chicago because I was beginning to do u201chistory from the bottom up.u201d
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The Math of Mass Starvation and Murder: Germany in Greece During World War II
In the short period of German occupation, the violence of the German-led armies of conquest turned Greece from a modestly well-to-do country to a country on the brink of …