Scott Tucker on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/scott_tucker Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-07-03T10:06:43+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo The Age of Paine http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090703_the_age_of_paine/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090703_the_age_of_paine/ congress, democracy, democrats, economy, election, government, history, law, media, money, paine, politics, religion, republicans, rhetoric, scott tucker, war, Thomas Paine

“That filthy little atheist,” as Thomas Paine was called by Theodore Roosevelt, has few monuments dedicated to his memory. Building a bronze and marble monument to Paine will never revive the republic, but his words still carry an electric current of freedom. His intellectual and political energy is always available for rediscovery.

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The right to rebel is my real subject here, but the misery of the law is not incidental. No good case can be made for rebellion as an unqualified good in itself. But the right to rebel also cannot be limited to the rebel causes that were won long ago and have passed over into our national mythology.

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The current global economic crisis is not just another roller-coaster ride. Many sane and sober observers fear that the international locomotive of corporatism is going off the rails. Is this a necessary crisis of the capitalist system, determined by the self-destruction and self-renovation of a perpetual motion machine?

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]]> 2009-05-01T15:41:32+00:00 A Less Perfect Union: Gay Marriage and the Subversion of the Republic http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081025_a_less_perfect_union/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081025_a_less_perfect_union/ arnold schwarzenegger, barack obama, civil union, democratic party, gay marriage, human rights, lesbian, mormon, nancy pelosi, proposition 8, religion, secular, sexual politics, wedge issue, married couple

As political leaders from the right rally their base seeking to outlaw gay marriage, and their counterparts on the left triangulate and equivocate, any real examination of the driving conflicts and stakes behind this crucial human rights concern is conspicuously missing from their debates about California’s Proposition 8.

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]]> 2008-10-25T07:00:00+00:00 Borders, Bullies and Global Health http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/borders_bullies_and_global_health/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/borders_bullies_and_global_health/ aids, australia, health, hiv, howard, immigration, politics, scott tucker, Australian Prime Minister John Howard is hurting politically, and so he has despicably turned against the vulnerable, arguing recently that Australia should have a blanket ban against HIV-positive immigrants.

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