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Bird-Dogging the New Hampshire Candidates
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, with his wife, Callista, during a campaign stop at the Pinkerton Academy, in Derry, New Hampshire, January …
Author of “Pity the Billionaire” Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
(Image: Metropolitan Books) Thomas Frank is the author of “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” (Metropolitan Books). He wrote several …
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The Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised
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Ten Years of Guantanamo: What Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld Knew
The Bush administration deceived the American people about the certain danger posed by Guantanamo Bay detainees – the “worst of the worst” as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called them …
The Year of Voter Suppression
Claren Merritt, 3, looks up at her father Andy Merritt as he casts his ballot in Atlanta, on election day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009. (Photo: Erik Lesser/The New York …
Gaming the Global Economy
While members of the 99 percent made New Year’s resolutions to shave a few bucks off the grocery bill, turn the heat down, or maybe donate a few dollars …
The Cost of Trickle-Down Government Job Creation: $1.5 Million Per Worker
(Photo: Gamma Man) Suppose I were to tell you that for the past two years the federal government has been spending nearly $1.5 million to create one …
Judy Miller Alert! The New York Times Is Lying About Iran’s Nuclear Program
(Image: JR / TO; Adapted: indigoprime, D Sharon Pruitt) It's deja vu all over again. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is trying to trick America …
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The Lasting Damage of Iraq
Madrid - The folding of the American flag in Iraq amid a collapse of public security and a severe crisis in the country’s fragile political order seals a tragic …
America’s Mental Health Industry Is a Threat to Our Sanity
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Why do some of us become dissident mental health professionals? The majority of psychiatrists, psychologists and other mental health professionals …