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This capitalist crisis resembles a certain kind of serious disease. Different symptoms keep flaring up at different locations. It began with sub-prime mortgages in residential housing. Then, sequential flare-ups …

A former commando known as ‘Comandante Jahob’ says he is rearming a group of contras to oppose the reelection of President Daniel Ortega. Former contra leaders and ex-military intelligence …

Washington - This is a radical break from journalistic convention, I realize, but today I'd like to give credit where it's due — specifically, to President Obama. Quiet as …

Update: An Army spokesman now says the Pentagon will investigate soldiers' claims that they were punished for refusing to attend the Christian-themed concert. Pvt. Anthony Smith is the type …

Dear Truthout Friends, Most days, my work at Truthout centers on cultivating sources and obtaining documents so I can put together hard-hitting investigative stories about hot-button issues you won't …

Eric Alterman is thoughtful and eloquent as he describes progressive disappointments with Obama's first eighteen months in the presidency and probes the huge obstacles to progressive change built into …

Havana - After more than a century of existence, feminism is still around in Latin America and the world, but the history of this ideology that seeks equality for …

Hilario Jimenez was a farmer from a poor town in the Mexican state of Nayarit. Working on tobacco, bean, and tomato farms, he would earn as little as $12 …

Gaza City - Just off Omar Al-Mukhtar Street, Gaza City's main thoroughfare, in a narrow, sandy alley way is a little second-hand clothing shop. In the dimly lit store, …

Canadian citizen Omar Khadr is now facing trial via a US military commission at Guantanamo Bay. Khadr is accused of throwing a hand grenade, which killed a US soldier …