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On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more …

Wall Street stocks plummeted on Monday as skittish investors, already concerned about the economy, struggled to work out the implications of last week’s unprecedented downgrade of the United States …

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) said he is open to revenue increases as part of a deal to reduce the deficit today, seemingly shifting positions from the hardline …

London - The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. …

Chicago's first round of testing for a toxic metal called hexavalent chromium found that levels in local drinking water are more than 11 times higher than a health standard …

Paris - The interest rates on Spanish and Italian bonds plummeted Monday after the European Central Bank expanded its purchases of government debt to support Madrid and Rome for …

The 30 US soldiers, many of them Navy SEALs, who died Saturday in the US military's single biggest loss of the Afghan war, were operating in a Taliban-controlled valley …

(Photo: chrisdlugosz; Edited: JR / Truthout) Global economic turmoil is getting worse. Europe’s financial crisis now imperils Spain and Italy. The folly of pre-mature austerity savages economies …

[An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.] My title is ambitious and …

(Image: Viking) Most of us grow into our identities as easily as acorns do into oaks - rarely questioning, resisting or protesting those events that do not …