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Last week, Barack Obama announced that he wants to cut $400 billion in military spending and said he would work Sec. of Defense Robert Gates and the Joint Chiefs …

Japan Enforces Mandatory Evacuation Near Nuclear Plant

Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, DC (Photo: Gage Skidmore) I spent this past weekend visiting family and friends in the wilds of western Pennsylvania, …

On a cold Ukrainian winter night in mid-February 2011, a Gaza civil engineer named Dirar Abu Sisi was lying in bed in a railroad sleeper car traveling to Kiev …

When I was growing up, people joked about how much they hated taxes, but they paid them, and we had a solid middle-class society. Real wages rose from WWII …

Yet another poll is out, showing that the public wants taxes raised on the rich and on Wall Street and the giant multi-national corporations, and does not want cuts …

If you've ever spent quality time trying to move an agenda through Congress, you know that moving an agenda isn't just about lobbying individual members. You need a “champion” …

Films that win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film range from deserving works by masters like Fellini (Amarcord), Truffaut (Day for Night), and Bergman (Fanny and Alexander) …

(Photo: Okko Pyykkö; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) On 18 April, Standard & Poor's (S&P), one of three “credit-rating companies” that control that sector of the financial …

How do you get politicians living off legalized bribery to criminalize bribery? How do you persuade the corporate media to report on the interests of flesh-and-blood, non-corporate people? How …