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The Democratic Promise of Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street protesters, along with union workers, stage a demonstration on the pedestrian walkway of the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York, November 17, 2011. (Photo: Todd Heisler / …
Washington State Set to Slash Education and Health Care for the Poor
A premeditated crime is about to take place on November 28, 2011. With police across the country obsessively focused on enforcing camping regulations on Occupy activists, dangerous …
Time to Retake Politics From the One Percent in Both Political Parties
The country is still celebrating the inability of the supercommittee to cut Social Security and Medicare, but it is important to move on from this victory to retake control …
Fukushima and Okinawa: The “Abandoned People” and Civic Empowerment
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami along the Pacific coastline of Northeastern Japan brought devastation reminiscent of the 1945 atomic and incendiary bombing that devastated whole towns, …
BP on Trial at the Occupation
(Photo: Thomas Hawk; Edited: JR / TO) This is not the first courtroom where I've faced off against BP, British Petroleum. But this time, I was outdoors, …
No Free Speech at Mr. Jefferson’s Library
Here’s the First Amendment, in full: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or …
Is There a Way to Be Good Again? How to Be a Man After the Penn State Pedophilia Scandal
Students in Penn State University's student center watch a live broadcast of Pennsylvania Attorney General Linda Kelly discussing the charges against a former assistant football coach and two university …
How Private Warmongers and the US Military Infiltrated American Universities
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) A matrix of closely tied university-based strategic studies ventures, the so-called Grand Strategy Programs (GSP), have cropped up on a number of …
Vacant or Occupied: Where Do the 99 Percent Go When Nature Calls?
For the Thanksgiving Family Forum, all the GOP candidates except for Mormon Messrs. Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney gathered at a megachurch in Iowa to discuss issues of concern …
Military Detention Versus We the People
An Army spokesman in one of the detainee areas in Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 9, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) …