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“Globalization” Is Coming Home: Protests Spread as Financial Institutions Target Global North
UPDATED FROM EARLIER ARTICLE At some point recently, we entered a “movement moment”, a period of time where long-term strategic campaigns merge with spontaneous, organic social upheaval …
Target: Africa
An informal competition took place during the Bush years for the title of “second front” in the war on terror. Administration officials often referred to Southeast Asia as the …
Ten Reasons Not to Bank On (or With) Bank of America
Bank of America security blocks a photographer during an Iraq War protest in March of 2008. (Photo: Steve Rhodes) There is no shortage of hatred for the …
As Qaddafi is Buried, a Look Back at the Complexities and Contradictions of the Libya Mission
With Muammar Qaddafi now dead in Libya and NATO tentatively winding down its mission there by the end of the month, the Obama administration has claimed another foreign policy …
Junk Food Companies Can’t Have It Both Ways
An apple a day and eating your peas used to lead to good health. Now, according to major food manufacturers, they are “job killers” that will devastate the American …
All Money Trails Lead to Wall Street
How much of our income goes to Wall Street? Anthropologist David Graeber, a specialist in the study of debt, recently set out to find out how much of an …
New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government
With Election Day just over a year away, a deep sense of economic anxiety and doubt about the future hangs over the nation, according to the latest New York …
The Unpatriotic Act: Ten Years Later
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The USA Patriot Act became law ten years ago today. Bearing the awkward name, Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools …
Out of Iraq: What Will the War Service Industry Do Now?
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) In September, I wrote a column about how the Government Accountability Office and I were concerned about how the military was going …
Wisconsin Democrats Allege Governor Walker Used Taxpayer Dollars for Campaign Web Site
“At Best Inappropriate, At Worst Against the Law” With Walker facing an “imminent recall,” the website consists of “propaganda” and “cherry-picked facts” designed to help Walker's reelection, …