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Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is the Issue
In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama …
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Entrapment of Cleveland 5 and NATO 3 Is Nothing New
The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who are …
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Investor Kicked Out, WellPoint Refuses Further Disclosure of Toxic Political Spending
WellPoint executives hemmed and hawed at questions pertaining to political spending at Wednesday’s annual shareholders’ meeting. Health plan members and union leaders, who represent members with WellPoint health insurance, …
From Pride to Shame: Vets Return Their Medals
The transition from pride to shame was a common theme among the more than forty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who publicly hurled their medals in …
In Chicago, Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Put NATO’s Endless War on Trial
Veterans hold court during the NATO demonstrations in Chicago, May 20, 2012. (Photo: peoplesworld) Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here …
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The Six Lessons of the Sixth of May
Translated Thursday, 10 May 2012, by Henry Crapo and reviewed by Bill Scoble. Rejection of Sarkozysm, failure of the swerve to the right by the UMP [i], its sanction by …
Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?
It was almost four years ago that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paul Paulson and then New York Fed Bank President Timothy Geithner ran to …
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Meet the Group Trying to Use Citizens United to Kill Montana’s Ban on Corporate Spending in Elections
Last week, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) submitted an amicus brief “ urging the U.S. Supreme Court to let stand Montana’s century-old ban on corporate money in political campaigns despite …
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More NATO Summit Activists Charged; Five Linked by Two Informants
Thousands protested in the streets of downtown Chicago on Sunday May 20 while the NATO Summit unfolded at McCormick Place. With most eyes on that, another key development flew …
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The Ills of Money-Driven Medicine
A couple of weeks ago, nine medical specialty societies released a list of 45 medical tests and procedures they believed are significantly overused. On the heels of this announcement …