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The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby
Nearly half of all Americans will be obese by 2030, researchers reported at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Weight of the Nation conference in Washington earlier this month. …
Occupy Movement Wins Spate of Legal Battles, but Faces New Challenges Ahead as “NATO 3” Face Terrorism Charges
Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here to help us keep doing this work! (Photo: Zach Roberts / GregPalast.com)Much of the …
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Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Scott Walker. (Photo: Jackie Guthrie / Flickr)When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on …
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Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves on Flight for US
Click here to support news free of corporate influence by donating to Truthout. Chen Guangcheng. (Photo: Amnesty International via The New York Times)Beijing - Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal …
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Most Expensive Weapon Ever
Tom Cruise steps onto the tarmac - cool and confident in his flight suit and dark aviator glasses. This is “Top Gun 2,” and the fighter plane he's getting …
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
(Photo courtesy of Julie Castro)Julie Castro is a young doctor from France, a country that proves that it is possible for a nation to offer quality health care for …
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One Sees a Tree, the Other, a Canoe: The Humor and Struggle of International Solidarity
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity Ramor RyanAK PressOakland, 2011 The Zapatistas have lingered in the imaginations of progressives and radicals …
Why Protest NATO?
In many ways, Afghanistan is worse off under NATO's Groundhog Day-like reign of terror than it was before. For more than five years now, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has …
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Nurses Gather at NATO Summit to Demand Government Fund Health, Not Death
Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here to help us keep doing this work! Around a thousand individuals, including rocker Tom …
House GOP Leaders Block Amendment Solidifying Afghanistan Withdrawal Timeline
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. "I can't let this be a war without end, and I can't lose the whole …