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Michael Moore and Cornel West on Occupy Wall Street, Iraq and the Progressive Discontent Obama Faces in 2012 Vote
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Dean Baker on How We Can Make the “Free Market” Work for the 99 Percent
In the post-War era, as a large American middle class emerged, the top 1 percent of households took in 10.02 percent of the nation's pre-tax income. In only eight …
CIA Kidnapped, Tortured “the Wrong Guy,” Says Former Agency Operative Glenn Carle
Former CIA Operative Glenn Carle. (Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Rob Richer, the No. 2 ranking official in the CIA's clandestine service, paid a visit to Glenn …
New “Unity Unions” Self-Organize to Confront Workplace Abuses
(Image: JR / Truthout) The last five years have been grim and isolating ones for immigrants and working people, right? Overall, this may be the case, but …
Voices From the Diaspora: Resistance and Community
Featuring: musician Daz-I-Kue, educator and former president of Oakland’s School Board, Greg Hodge and Oakland’s Assistant City Administrator Fred Blackwell. They explore the root of political actions from London …
Former Financial Regulator William Black: Occupy Wall Street a Counter to White-Collar Fraud
Amy Goodman: We are on the road in Kansas City, Missouri, in front of a live audience of public television broadcasters at NETA, the National Educational Telecommunications Association conference. …
Documentary Pries Open the Door to Immigrant Detention Centers
In Maria Hinojosa’s documentary, “Lost in Detention,” which will air tonight on PBS’ “Frontline,” a father of three sits down with the journalist who asks him how he has …
Yana Kunichoff Discusses Truthout’s Recent Collaboration With the ACLU on Surveillance in the “Homeland“
Listen to Truthout's Assistant Editor, Yana Kunichoff discuss our latest collaboration with the ACLU, “Ten Years Later: Surveillance in the ‘Homeland’.”
Walking Like an Egyptian: Food, Farming and Foreign Policy
Egyptian civilians celebrate the marking of President Hosni Mubarak's resignation one week earlier, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, February 18, 2011. One week after Mubarak stepped down, thousands of Egyptians …
Secret Surveillance: Truthout and the ACLU on What the Government Knows, or Wants to Know, About You
Since September 11th, 2001, the United States government has been monitoring its citizens' phone calls, license plates, internet search histories, purchases, and movements in unprecedented and, in some cases, …