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Occupy Chicago Takes on the War at Home
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 …
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Court Ruling May Force Advocacy Groups to Disclose Secret Donors
Washington - Advocacy groups spending millions of dollars in the 2012 campaign are now faced with the prospect of having to reveal the donors who have been secretly financing their …
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The Dog That Didn’t Bark: Obama on JPMorgan
The dog that didn’t bark this week, let alone bite, was the President’s response to JP Morgan Chase’s bombshell admission of losing more than $2 billion in risky derivative …
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Occupy the Farm Dug In, Dug Up
The national movement looked local with an Earth Day action that took over a long-disputed tract of land in California's East Bay and turned it into a community farm …
Preying on the Poor: How Government and Corporations Use the Poor as Piggy Banks
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker …
Pilots as Lab Rats: The Reprehensible Risk-Taking on the F-22 Raptor
In May of 2011, the Air Force took the unusual and radical step of grounding their entire F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft fleet because it appeared that something was wrong …
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GOP Super PAC Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama
(Photo: Lawrence Jackson / White House)Washington - A group of high-profile Republican strategists is working with a conservative billionaire on a proposal to mount one of the most provocative …
Mobilizing Military Moms Against NATO
In a 2007 military photograph taken just before his first deployment to Iraq, 20-year-old Army infantryman Derek Kirkland is staring solemnly at the camera from behind a desert camouflage …
Truthout Contributor Richard Wolff on Challenging Capitalism in His New Book, “Occupy the Economy“
(Photo: david_shankbone / Flickr) Matt Renner: In your introduction to the book, you discuss New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's “cleanliness” excuse for clearing the original Occupy Wall Street …
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Activists Win Preliminary Injunction Blocking Enforcement of NDAA’s Military Detention Provision
Seven journalists and activists who sued President Barack Obama earlier this year over the controversial indefinite detention provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) were handed a …