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In the fall of 2006 Irma Luna, a community worker for California Rural Legal Assistance in Fresno, got a phone call from the tiny town of Tulelake, on the …

(Image: JR / Truthout) For nine and a half years - almost as long as the “war on terror” has been providing an excuse for paranoia about …

Very few people outside the agricultural world know that if the rooster in a flock dies the hens will continue to produce fertile eggs for up to four weeks …

Bill Clinton presided over a period of growth, but his legacy of eased financial restrictions also opened the door for the fiscal crisis. (Photo: Sebastian Derungs / World Economic …

(Photo: mikedemers) Articles about the deficits and the national debt generally talk about unsustainable long-term deficits that will drive the national debt up to a level where …

The Bloomberg news investigation into Charles and David Koch has uncovered unlawful and unpatriotic environmental crimes, political donations and business decisions benefitting Iran. There are so many secret sins …

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speak during a commercial break in a Republican presidential debate in Orlando, on September 22, 2011. (Photo: Chip …

(Photo: Vermin Inc) Like all great capers, this $30 billion Medicare crime unfolded in plain sight. A drug rep sat in the doctor's office, balancing folders on …

Mugshot of Luis Posada Carriles, taken following his arrest. (Photo: Trinidad Police Department) Former Vice President Dick Cheney may have expressed the pervasive American double standard on …

Portrait of Gertrude Stein, New York, November 4, 1934. (Photo: Carl Van Vechten) Gertrude Stein was a complex, iconic, artistic figure: an experimental writer, an intellectual salon …