Truthout
Articles
|
For Retail Workers, Time Is Money
A new law in San Francisco to curb erratic scheduling practices could be the first of many.
The Secret History of Cannabis in Japan
Many of Japan's licensed cannabis farms grow a low-THC strain which was first developed in the post-War period.
Texas Oil Regulators Fired for Trying to Actually Regulate
What happens to energy regulators that dare to do their jobs and try to actually regulate energy companies? They get fired.
Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup
The House has passed a bill repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries.
UN Climate Negotiators Drop the Ball in Lima – Now It’s Up to the Grassroots to Pick It Up
It's up to the people to push our governments to action.
|
Going Beyond Private Versus Public
Economic democracy inside all enterprises is our era's issue, not secondary disputes over the division of production between private and state enterprises.
|
Dan Berger Illustrates Centrality of Prison to Civil Rights Struggle
Author Dan Berger shows how prison and carceral violence fit into structural US racism and the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s in ‘Captive Nation.’
|
Our Nuclear Weapons Warriors – Are They Rational? Are They Sane?
Is our acceptance as normal of grotesque acts committed by our leaders not more evidence of collective psychopathology?
What Hitler and ISIS Have in Common
As an educator and a Muslim, I find this assault on knowledge deplorable.
|
Latin America’s Lesson for the US: Prosecute the Torturers
Latin America's transition out of dictatorship hinged on two words the US would be wise to heed: “Never again.”