A nuclear test is detonated on the Enewetak Atoll, a segment of the Marshall Islands, on November 15, 1952. (Photo: United States Department of Energy) When…
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(Photo: ion-bogdan dumitrescu / Flickr) Kabul, Afghanistan – The United States, on the verge of shutting down its own government for lack of funds, just forked…
The Blackstone Hotel, Chicago. A federal development program intended to help poor communities, the New Market Tax Credit, instead funnels up to ten billion taxpayer dollars to…
The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's 205-year-old “crime against nature” statute, a law designed…
David Koch, a billionaire known for his contributions to conservative causes. (Photo: Gretchen Ertl / The New York Times) At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives…
For years, “not in my backyard” has been the battle cry of residents in Cape Cod who stand opposed to an offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. …
(Photo: NOAA/NASA GOES Project; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) Some years ago in New England, a group of environmentalists asked a corporate executive how his company…
In a provocative demonstration against the tar sands, clean energy advocates poured “oil” onto a female model draped with the Canadian flag on Parliament Hill. Those pouring the…
UK Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during the Special Address at the Annual Meeting 2011 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 28, 2011. (Photo:…
“I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith…