The USDA recently approved Monsanto's Roundup Ready alfalfa. Government regulators openly rely on data and research provided by the biotech industry when approving GE technology. (Photo: tipsycat) …
News
Phoenix, Arizona — Shawna Forde, a leader in the Minutemen border watch movement, has been sentenced to die for the 2009 killings of a Latino father and his…
From across North Africa to Wisconsin, activists are navigating a new terrain of global protest and relationships with their governments. Whether in ousting old tyrants or dealing with…
Colombia’s never ending conflict with the country’s drug dealers has demonstrably decreased since the mid-1990s, although the U.S. public’s demand for foreign narcotics has not.[1] While Washington’s anti-narcotics…
On February 15, 2011, the Pentagon was slammed with a class action lawsuit filed by 15 women and two men who are victims and survivors of rape in…
Veterans, particularly poor and minority veterans, are 50 percent more likely to become homeless compared to other Americans, according to a report released last week by the Housing…
David Hicks, author of “Guantanamo: My Journey.” (Image: Random House Australia) I’ve been struggling these past few weeks. I read a book written by a former…
Rabat, Morocco – Facebook and cell phone text messages helped Tunisia’s youth organize an unprecedented revolution, which led to the overthrow of the 23-year-long Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali…
(Image: US Army) An experimental, Army mental-health, fitness initiative designed by the same psychologist whose work heavily influenced the psychological aspects of the Bush administration’s torture…
Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout; Adapted: electron, diarmuidorg Military officials were instructed not to publicly discuss a decision made in January 2002 to presumptively treat all…