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Never Forget That Bradley Manning, Not Gay Marriage, Is the Issue
In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama …
From Pride to Shame: Vets Return Their Medals
The transition from pride to shame was a common theme among the more than forty veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who publicly hurled their medals in …
In Chicago, Afghanistan and Iraq Veterans Put NATO’s Endless War on Trial
Veterans hold court during the NATO demonstrations in Chicago, May 20, 2012. (Photo: peoplesworld) Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here …
Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?
It was almost four years ago that Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke, Treasury Secretary Henry Paul Paulson and then New York Fed Bank President Timothy Geithner ran to …
Veterans Return Their Medals as Marchers Turn Chicago Into Peace Town
A huge crowd gathered for several hours and marched for over two miles in the hot sun to oppose NATO and U.S. wars on Sunday in Chicago.
A Victory for All of Us
Obama-appointed judge was very critical of government's position as she ruled the NDAA's Section 1021 unconstitutional.
How Rural America Got Fracked
Wisconsin's farms are swiftly becoming part of a vast assembly line in the corporate race for the last fossil fuels.
Whose Firebombs? Inside the Alleged “Conspiracy“
The Associated Press has the best report I’ve seen about the alleged firebombing conspiracy in Bridgeport, noting that defense lawyers say there were police infiltrators who stayed in the …
Ending the Mindset That Gets Us Into War
May 20, 2012, militarized Chicago - Next month in Baltimore they're going to celebrate the War of 1812. That's what we do with wars. We say they're the last …
Who Is Killing the Journalists in Mexico?
Journalists are being killed, wounded and threatened at an alarming rate in Mexico since the US/Mexican war on drugs accelerated into a bloodbath of deaths, wounding and torture beginning …