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Why You Should Still Care About Chicago’s NATO Summit
Chicago, Illinois. (Photo: Merrick Brown) When it was announced in March that the G-8 summit would not take place in Chicago as scheduled, but instead Camp David, Occupy …
The Globalization of Hollow Politics
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort.The offices of the French Socialist Party in the Cergy suburb of Paris, Feb. 24, 2012. …
BP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one from the …
Labor Unions’ Fight for the 99 Percent Goes Beyond Raising Campaign Dollars
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Protesting provisions of Governor Scott Walker's Budget Repair Bill, February, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin. (Photo: Richard …
Non-Tribal Research Studies of American Indians Erode Tribal Sovereignty
San Francisco - For Native Americans in need of good research on their persistent health issues, the troubling case of Arizona’s tiny Havasupai Indian tribe “put genetic research on the …
Shareholders Say No to Citigroup CEO Pay: A Model for Fighting Crony Capitalism
A Citibank branch in New York, February 23, 2009. (Photo: JB Reed / The New York Times) Last week, the country saw one of the fruits of the Dodd-Frank …
More Than One Third of All US Executions Took Place in Texas
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the …
Word Order: The Internet as the Toy With a Tin Ear
But in which language does one speak to a machine, and what can be expected by way of response? The questions arise from the accelerating data-streams out of which …
Class Warfare on Two Fronts: From Afghanistan to Middle America, the Untold Story of Sgt. Bales
This past Thursday, a Modesto, California, man whose house was in foreclosure shot and killed the Sheriff's deputy and the locksmith who came to evict him from his condominium …
Occupy Earth Day
This Earth Day, like so many others, we'll be invited to pick up litter, plant trees, be reminded to recycle, and countless other personal habits we can adopt to …