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A recent study has found that, under certain conditions, the chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little …

After almost ten years of detention at CIA dark sites and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators were brought before a military commission to …

What do the Austrian-born, self-styled “social ecologist” and management theorist Peter Drucker and the Italian autonomist Marxist scholar Paolo Virno have in common? At first blush, little beyond their …

American society has lost its claim on democracy. One indication of such a loss is that the crises produced on a daily basis by crony capitalism operate within a …

After risking their lives abroad, American veterans are returning home to a new set of dangers. For-profit college companies are increasingly targeting veterans and their education benefits as a …

Late last week, the financial markets were rocked with the announcement that the biggest, and heretofore assumed most stable US bank, J.P. Morgan, lost $2 billion in recent months. …

By hosting a self-proclaimed “nuclear alliance” like NATO, Chicago is violating the spirit if not the letter of the city’s status as a nuclear free zone, passed unanimously by …

For the better part of a century, some visionaries have been trying to break out of the dominant belief that there are only two means of forcing change: reform …

You think Romney was a jerk in 1965? Look at the guy now. Romney’s days as a gay-bashing high school bully, back in 1965, have been making headlines this …

Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. (Photo: Mario Garcia-Baeza) In a week of action before the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit hits …