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Author of “Pity the Billionaire” Maps Our Ideological Fantasy World
(Image: Metropolitan Books) Thomas Frank is the author of “Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right” (Metropolitan Books). He wrote several …
As States Take on Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig Offers Bold Plan to Get Money Out of Politics
California and New York City lawmakers are introducing measures today calling for a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United, the controversial 2010 Supreme Court ruling that characterizes political spending as …
Super PACs, Occupy Iowa Protests and a Surging Rick Santorum: Iowa GOP Caucus Begins 2012 Race
Iowa is awash in millions of dollars of negative campaign ads funded by so-called Super PACs as voters head to their caucuses in the first real test of the …
Confronting Stereotypes of the Black Woman
Author and professor Melissa Harris-Perry. (Photo: Ove Overmyer) Since the days of slavery, the African-American woman has been subjected to stereotypes: the mammy, the angry black female …
Global Power Relationships Shift as Competition for Resources Intensifies
Mr. Escobar, given your experience in that field, what would you highlight as the most crucial misunderstanding held by the general public related to the so called “War on …
Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope
New Yorkers take part in a program called Added Value by preparing a plant bed in Red Hook, Brooklyn on August 14, 2003. (Photo: Nancy Siesel / The New …
Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Increase in Veterans’ Suicides (2)
With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average …
Torture’s Other Victims: US Soldiers (2)
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Truthout’s Jason Leopold Speaks to RT About Increase in Veterans’ Suicides
With the thousands of lives lost in Iraq, more US soldiers are dying of suicide then dying in battle. In 2010, 468 US troops committed suicide and an average …
Torture’s Other Victims: US Soldiers
Journalist Joshua Phillips. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) The Iraq war isn't over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never …