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Lessons of the Sequester
James Kwak explains why the lessons we ignore today about the sequester will come back to haunt us in the future.
QE for the People: Comedian Beppe Grillo’s Populist Plan for Italy
Unilateral default on the public debt and nationalization of the banks could actually save the Italian economy.
Greg Palast | Vaya con Dios, Hugo Chávez, Mi Amigo
For BBC Television, Greg Palast met several times with Hugo Chu00e1vez, who passed away yesterday.
The Lowdown in Portlandia: Austerity Versus a People’s Budget
Portlandu2019s Mayor Charlie Hales has announced that there is a $25 u2013 $40 million hole in the cityu2019s budget.
Fracking Industry Propaganda Battles Science in Obama’s New Energy Pick
MIT's Energy Initiative has received more than $125 million dollars from fossil fuel firms since 2006.
US Climate Bomb is Ticking: What the Gas Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The history, science, economics and politics of hydraulic shale gas fracking.
What the McCarthy and Moniz Nominations Really Say About Obama’s Climate Policy
With Obama's Keystone XL decision still weeks away, Truthout's Mike Ludwig offers an analysis of what the new heads of EPA and DOE portend for the administration's direction on …
“Talking Points” for Hagel on Iran
Despite a beating from Republicans, Ray McGovern suggests in these proposed u201ctalking pointsu201d that Chuck Hagel stuck to his principled reputation as someone who tells it like it is, …
Shadow Lives: How the War on Terror in England Became a War on Women and Children
Once, as a reporter, I covered wars, conflicts, civil wars, and even a genocide in places like Vietnam, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, keeping away …
Why Are Walmart Billionaires Bankrolling Phony School “Reform” In LA?
The Waltons want to turn our educational choices into a junior version of the corporate world.