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When direct democracy actions like ballot initiatives threaten corporate interests, corporate lawyers run to court to prevent citizens from getting the chance to vote.

Pointing to growing opposition to bioenergy facilities around the nation and the world, they say burning trees, contaminated wastes, and garbage is grossly and dangerously misrepresented by industry advocates …

The truth is that the ruling elite care not for those living in abject destitution.

Thomas Eric Duncan is one of countless victims of the distorted priorities the government is imposing.

This is money that is creating demand elsewhere, not in the United States.

In days following the march, people took action to pressure the United Nations (UN) and global leaders to take real community-led action on Climate Change.

That this Bill of Rights shall not limit the type of society that we determine to have in order to reflect the contemporary need for justice, the evolution of …

Risen case tests reporters' power to reveal government wrongdoing.

(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)President Barack Obama proudly signed the law that repealed the Pentagon’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, freeing lesbian, gay, and bisexual Americans (although not trans people) to openly …

Recent estimates suggest that a third of women worldwide have experienced partner violence at some point in their life, with wide-ranging implications for their social, mental and physical well-being.