Truthout
News Analysis
We Are In A Class War
The u2018Walmartizationu2019 of the US economy has created a downward spiral in wages and destroyed small businesses and communities while heightening the wealth divide that is at the root …
Bernie Sanders on 2016: His Candidacy, Elizabeth Warren and the Clintons
Senator Bernie Sanders recently announced that he's considering entering the 2016 presidential race if a strong progressive doesn't. He also mentioned that he likes Elizabeth Warren.
Welcome to the Memory Hole: Disappearing Edward Snowden
The future of whistleblowers' work might be in danger not because of a threat to their lives, but a digital threat to their legacy.
Contra-Cocaine Was a Real Conspiracy
The New York Magazine's mocking the proven Contra-cocaine scandal as a u201cconspiracy theory
The American Heart Association—Protecting Industry Not Patients
The American Heart Association continues to take massive from donations from non government sources and let their research be swayed by their investors.
A Victory for Diplomacy
President Obamau2019s failure to follow this doctrine, at least in the case of Iran, has made him a target for these warmongers.
“Thinking Globally, Acting Locally” in the Minimum Wage Fight
“Think globally, act locally,” has been the philosophy that many minimum wage fighters have been adopting in their fight for a living wage.
ALEC’s Extreme Legislative Agenda for 2014
The American Legislative Exchange Council meets in Washington, DC this week for its “States and Nation Policy Summit,” which is one of the ways ALEC crafts and pushes its …
The Googlization of the Far Right: Why Is Google Funding Grover Norquist, Heritage Action and ALEC?
Organizations that received u201csubstantialu201d funding from Google for the first time over the past year include Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, the Federalist Society, the American Conservative Union …
Gaza is Flooded with Sewage and Conspiracies
The latest punishment of Gaza may seem like another familiar plot to humiliate the strip to the satisfaction of Israel, but something far more sinister is brewing.