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The World Bank's rap sheet seems to be ever expanding. On April 8, the organization voted to approve a whopping $3.75 billion dollar loan to build an enormous coal-fired …

On Thursday April 1, 2010, Truthout's Leslie Thatcher interviewed La Tribune editor and author of “Capital Sins” Sophie Gherardi over Skype. This February, Ms. Gherardi was awarded the French …

The unemployment rate last year for young male veterans, including those returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, hit 21.6 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The stats show …

Kabul, Afghanistan - It is being called Operation Omid. The word omid means “hope” in Afghanistan’s Dari language. But, judging by the reaction of local residents, the coming U.S.-led …

Washington - Against the backdrop of tough hearings on the collapse of Washington Mutual in the largest bank failure in U.S. history, Sen. Maria Cantwell says there are signs …

On his first day in office, President Barack Obama promised that he would close the Bush-era prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, “as soon as practicable” and "no later than …

Until April 17, US Army Spc. Marc Hall sat in a military brig at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, facing an imminent court-martial for challenging the US military’s stop-loss policy in …

Washington - An opinion survey of Afghanistan's Kandahar province funded by the U.S. Army has revealed that 94 percent of respondents support negotiating with the Taliban over military confrontation …

A secret memo from US Defense Secretary Robert Gates warned the White House in January that the US lacks a long-term plan to deal with Iran, according to reports. …

More nimble cities and regions are eyeing the first-mover advantage. A pattern is emerging in the geopolitics of climate change this year: Countries are banding together to begin to …