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World Bank Supports Harmful Water Corporations, Report Finds
Water privatisation has been proven not to help the poor, yet a quarter of all World Bank funding goes directly to corporations and the private sector, bypassing both governments …
The War on Public-Sector Workers
Politicians across the country are using heaping doses of the politics of envy to try to arouse the anger of workers. However, their targets are not the corporate CEOs …
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CISPA (aka SOPA 2.0) Pushed Forward by For-Profit Spying Lobby
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. (Photo: Kayla C) A cyber security bill moving swiftly through Congress would give government intelligence …
Pink Slime Controversy Recalls Long History of Mishandling Mad Cow Outbreaks
There is an upside for the beef industry and industry-friendly federal food safety officials when people talk about pink slime. The burger extender, known as lean, finely textured beef …
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Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming People Among First, Most Affected by War on Terror’s Biometrics Craze
A Transportation Security Agency officer guides a passenger through a body scanner at BWI International Airport in Baltimore, on November 19, 2010. (Photo: Nicole Bengiveno / The New York …
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Higher Education’s Role in Occupy and Related Social Justice Movements
Last month, I attended an event at my alma mater in Vermont which was billed as “Occupy Goddard.” Hosted by the college's president, Barbara Vacarr, who wrote an op-ed …
Shutting Down a Military Recruiting Office Near Little Kabul: Afghans for Peace Protest US War on Afghanistan
Friday, March 30, Fremont CA: Outraged by the March 11 massacre of 17 villagers in Afghanistan's Kandahar Province, people took to the streets of Fremont, California in a bold …
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Romney: Poor Mothers Should Be Required to Work Outside the Home Or Lose Welfare
In case it wasn't already clear that last week's controversy over stay at home moms was entirely manufactured, this should put the question to bed. Romney and allies cried …
European Airlines Silence Palestine Protest
Jerusalem - As 60 percent of the international activists set to land at Ben Gurion airport Sunday had their plane tickets cancelled, organisers of the ‘Welcome to Palestine’ fly-in …
What Face Should the French Sixth Republic Have?
Five analyses of the essential characteristics of the Sixth Republic, the creation of which is the central plank in the electoral platform of the Front de gauche in the …