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Who Is the Brick Thrower?
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The brick-throwing man whose projectiles hit two protesters at the Occupy San Francisco takeover of …
Permaculture Visionary: “We Don’t Need to Wait for Permission” to Transform Our Societies
Four years ago, a British educator and permaculturist named Rob Hopkins initiated what has since become one of the most rapidly evolving and far-reaching social experiments of our time. …
Playwright Tony Kushner Hails Obama’s Support for Same-Sex Marriage: “I Felt the Earth Move”
In an historic announcement, President Obama has become the first U.S. president to support same-sex marriage. We get reaction from acclaimed playwright and activist Tony Kushner. In 2003, he …
Austerity, the Euro Crisis and the US
Dean Baker: Austerity policy hitting a dead end, threat to US is a sovereign default leading to financial crisis. TRANSCRIPT: PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real …
Inside the Mind of a Microcredit Icon: Truthout Interviews Director of “Bonsai People,” a Film on Mohammad Yunus
Director Holly Mosher spent years making this documentary detailing how innovative economic initiatives, such as microcredit to the poor, can provide an alternative to traditional capitalistic financial products that …
“We Need to Make a Ruckus”: Robert Reich Hails Occupy for Exposing Concentration of Wealth and Power
In his new book, “Beyond Outrage,” former Labor Secretary Robert Reich opens with a dedication to the Occupy Wall Street movement. He writes: "To the Occupiers, and all others …
Between Two Worlds – Life on the Border
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea, whose life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a …
Fighting for the Future: Interview With Youth Climate Movement Leader Alec Loorz
Alec Loorz. (Photo courtesy of Kids vs. Global Warming)Alec Loorz is a 17-year-old high school student in Ventura, California, who believes his generation is poised to inherit a world …
Violence, USA: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux
One of the things that I am trying to say in this piece is that war has become one of our most vaunted and cherished national values. What I …
David Harvey: Taking Back the Streets for Anti-Capitalist Struggles
David Harvey, anthropology professor, geographer and authority on Karl Marx's work Capital, has just published Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. The book …