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Government Recants Major Terror Claims Against High-Value Detainee Abu Zubaydah
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to …

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EXCLUSIVE: Waterboarding Too Dangerous, Internal DoD Memo Reveals
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout; Adapted: Snap®, Nowordz, Hayley Austin) In recent weeks, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen has been on a public relations campaign defending the …

Snow Can’t Stop Freedom to Marry Day in Dallas
Against a backdrop of a rare amount of newly fallen snow, the city was a scene fit for a gay wedding.

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The Christmas Truce of 1914
Although World War I ranks as one of the most horrific in history, causing about 40 million casualties and up to 20 million military and civilian deaths, it also …

Truthout Becomes First Online-Only News Site to Unionize
Truthout held the country's first “virtual card check” on August 27, 2009.