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Lie to Congress; Get Fourth Star
U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander may well be harboring the thought attributed to prevaricator Oliver North upon being spared punishment - and instead getting rewarded handsomely - for …
Boldness vs. Bullets at the Gaza Border
The razor-wire and concrete frontier between Israel and Gaza is intermittently interrupted by remote-controlled metal observation towers equipped with motion sensors. When the sensors detect something, the metal petals …
An Insignificant Yemeni at Guantanamo Loses His Habeas Petition
Such is the prevailing disregard for the fate of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo that last week, when Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, the chief of staff to former Secretary of …
‘Haystack’ Gives Iranian Opposition Hope for Evading Internet Censorship
Istanbul, Turkey — Opposition activists in Iran are beginning to deploy a new weapon in the cyber war against the regime that they hope will defeat extensive government efforts …
Women’s College Corrects Gender Miseducation
Manila - Flip open a typical textbook used in many Philippine schools and you will likely find images of women illustrating verbs such as ‘cook’ or ‘clean’, but hardly …
Truthout | News in Brief (8)
The New York Times reported a second day of flight cancellations across Europe Friday as a high-altitude plume of volcanic ash spread across northern and central Europe, closing down …
Preventing Another Wall Street Bailout Requires Capping the Size of Its Big Banks
The best way for Senate Dems and the White House to respond to the Republican charge that the Dem plan for financial reform doesn’t go far enough to prevent …
An Administration on Its Heels: Inviting Torture to Appease the Right Wing
Last Friday, the administration conceded yet another political defeat by withdrawing the nomination of Dawn Johnsen, Obama's first nominee to head the Office of Legal Counsel - the government …
After Peak Oil, Are We Heading Toward Social Collapse?
Recently, Glen Sweetnam, director of the International, Economic and Greenhouse Gas division of the Energy Information Administration at the Department of Energy (DOE), announced that worldwide oil availability had …
Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Teachers (Video)
Porter Chair Lecture Eastern Michigan Universitry April 8, 2010 ALSO SEE: Henry A. Giroux | In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis