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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 …
Noam Chomsky: The US-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement Is “Part of a Global Program of World Militarization“
Hakim: We are speaking from the highlands of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, and we wanted to start off by thanking you sincerely for the guidance and wisdom that you …
US Withdrawal From Iraq: “In Terms of Destroying Iraq, It’s ‘Mission Accomplished’“
Juan Gonzalez: We begin today’s show in Iraq. On Thursday, the United States military announced a formal end to almost nine years of war in Iraq. Defense Secretary Leon …
Bodies in Alliance: Gender Theorist Judith Butler on the Occupy and SlutWalk Movements
Women participate in Slutwalk on the streets of New York City in October, 2011. (Photo: David Shankbone / flickr) Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor of …
How Have We Become the United States of Fear?
(Image: Haymarket Books) Mark Karlin: Your last chapter in so many ways embodies what you have covered in TomDispatch, and what is at the core of our …
Ex-Salt Lake Mayor Rocky Anderson, Former Democrat, Launches Third Party Presidential Bid Against Obama, GOP
A new political party has entered the fray as an alternative to Democrats and Republicans ahead of the 2012 elections. On Monday, former Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson …
Simon Johnson Critiques Democracy vs Financialization
For many on the right side of the U.S. political spectrum, the financial meltdown that began in 2008 resulted from a government push to bring the American Dream of …
“I Know How to Beat Republicans”: Interview With Former GOP Staffer Mike Lofgren
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Retired Republican House and Senate staffer Mike Lofgren spoke with Truthout in Washington, DC, this fall. Lofgren's first commentary for Truthout, "Goodbye …
Jim Crow 2.0: Disenfranchised by Design
Supporters of Troy Davis react after learning the U.S. Supreme Court declined to reconsider his execution in Jackson, Ga., Sept. 21, 2011. Davis was executed at 11:08 p.m., after …