Unhappy Thanksgiving

by: William Rivers Pitt, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

White House with Fall trees.
(Photo: anjan58 / Flickr)

The calendar has come around again to Thanksgiving, and families all over the country will be gathering around dinner tables to celebrate. Or try to, anyway. With unemployment above ten percent, and with actual unemployment closer to twenty percent, with foreclosures all over the place, with wages dropping and food prices rising, with the economy improving only for those who have lots of money, there will be millions of people without a whole hell of a lot to feel thankful for. »

Jane Goodall Thanksgiving

A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving

by: Michael Winship, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

Give thanks. Because this isn't one of those Thanksgiving lists of things for which we should be grateful - although health, family, friends, laughter etc. would certainly all be on mine.

And Jane Goodall.
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Candles in Mumbai

A Year After Mumbai

by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

On November 26, 2009, India marks the anniversary of a nightmare. Around 9.30 p.m. this day last year began the terrorist strike in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), a tragedy watched on the television by the rest of the country and etched in its memory ever since. We can look back upon the event today only as an undeclared war, by other means, launched by enemies of South Asian people and peace.
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