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Will Catholic Bishops and the Religious Right Save Obama?
What is most striking about the showdown over contraceptive freedom is not the political victory that President Obama earned by standing up for women's reproductive rights, although his Republican …
Federal Pay: Another Battle in the War on the Middle Class
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Charles Smith is a retired Army civilian employee hero, who went up against the Iraq contractor KBR on behalf of the troops …
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Secrecy Loophole Could Still Weaken Bureau of Land Management’s Tougher Fracking Regulations
New regulations drafted by the federal Bureau of Land Management would increase pressure on energy companies to disclose information about the chemicals they use in hydraulic fracturing, a process …
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Audit Uncovers Extensive Flaws in Foreclosures
An audit by San Francisco county officials of about 400 recent foreclosures there determined that almost all involved either legal violations or suspicious documentation, according to a report released …
The Big Lie About Plan B – What You Really Should Be Telling Your Friends
It’s time, once and for all, to clear up the confusion about Plan B on progressive message boards, Facebook pages, forums and comment threads. Tweet this: Plan B doesn’t …
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Fifty Activist Groups Call for Congressional Hearings on Citizens United
Montpelier Vermont: Rally at State Capitol, Friday, January 20, protesting the Citizens United v. FEC Ruling and supporting Senator Lyons' resolution calling for an amendment to overturn it. (Photo: …
Reforming a Recalcitrant Military
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In his third State of the Union address, President Obama opened and closed with iconic praise for the military. Yet his script, …
Noam Chomsky: The Imperial Way
In the years of conscious, self-inflicted decline at home, “losses” continued to mount elsewhere.
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Leak Reveals How Big Business Funds Climate-Change Deniers
The climate-change-denying think tank The Heartland Institute pays monthly stipends to vocal global warming skeptics, received $200,000 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation in 2011 and received a total …
Could Lieberman Bill Block War-Averting Diplomacy With Iran?
There's no question that some people in Washington would very much like for the US to have a policy toward Iran, the endgame of which is war or externally …