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Prime Minister’s Defection in the Dark Jolts Syrians
The defection of Syriau2019s prime minister, Riyad Farid Hijab, began like so many others: with coded conversations and furtive planning. He began discussing the idea of fleeing, an aide …
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Warring Over Tax Returns
Mitt Romney's defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden …
We All Need Heroes
Truthout's Leslie Thatcher conducted an email interview with activist and academic Peter Dreier, author of
The Hunger Wars in Our Future: Heat, Drought, Rising Food Costs and Global Unrest
The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of Americau2019s counties …
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New House Bill Tries to Save Medical Marijuana Dispensaries From Justice Department Crackdown
Recently, however, U.S. Attorneys in states such as California and Colorado, where medical marijuana use is legal, have began threatening to seize the buildings that house medical marijuana dispensaries …
Very Bad Things Happen When We Depend on the Same People Who Caused the Foreclosure Crisis to Track Its Destruction
There is not a single federal agency that has tracked foreclosures comprehensively, a massive information gap that prevents the work of journalists, advocates and policymakers alike.
Mitt Romney: Gold Medal in Dishonesty
I think a serious fundamental defect in Mitt has been on display for a long time.
Mr. President, the Elephant in the Room Is Not a Republican
Black male unemployment is 14.8 percent, and the current trend is up.
Interview With the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Candidate for Organizer in Chief
Enter Stein, whose key platform is the Green New Deal, a jobs program which she says will both build on the success of the New Deal in the 1930s …
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The Toxic Effects of Agent Orange Persist 51 Years After the Vietnam War
Second and third generations of children, born to parents exposed during the war and in areas of heavy spraying hot spots, suffer unspeakable deformities that medical authorities attribute to …