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The Plight of Marco Sauceda and the Loss of Our Freedoms
"A person should feel secure in their own home. No matter black, white, Hispanic, Asian, I don't care who they are, they should feel secure in their own home. …
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Truman Lied, Hundreds of Thousands Died
On August 6, 1945, President Harry S Truman announced: "Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima, an important Japanese Army base. That bomb had more …
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Can America Still Lead?
London - The first week of August 2011 will be remembered as a singularly irrational, wasteful and shameful moment in the political and economic history of the United States. …
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Shock Doctrine? Fight Back
(Photo: chrisdlugosz; Edited: JR / Truthout) Global economic turmoil is getting worse. Europe’s financial crisis now imperils Spain and Italy. The folly of pre-mature austerity savages economies …
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Nature Bats Last: Notes on Revolution and Resistance, Revelation and Redemption
[An edited version of this talk was presented to the Veterans for Peace conference in Portland, OR, on August 4, 2011.] My title is ambitious and …
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Science Distorted by the Bomb
Atomic cloud bursting over Hiroshima, 2 minutes after the explosion, at 8:17 AM. (Photo: UN Photo/Mitsuo Matsushige) The United States assumed the mantle of Western civilization immediately …
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Why S&P Has No Business Downgrading the US
(Image: JR / Truthout; Adapted: daliborlev, willc2, _Davo_) Standard & Poor’s downgrade of America’s debt couldn’t come at a worse time. The result is likely to be …
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Bosnia, Kosovo, and Now Libya: The Human Costs of Washington’s Ongoing Collusion With Terrorists
On a tour led by Libyan government officials, two men survey the damage of building said to be a law school following an alleged air strike by NATO two …
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Spain’s “Indignados” at the Vanguard of a Global Nonviolent Revolt
Thursday night Madrid’s city centre offered a glimpse of what Western democracies have become, as thousands of unarmed nonviolent civilians with their hands up in the air shouting “these …
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Mainstream Media Ignores S&P Attack on Republicans
(Photo: SpeakerBoehner / Flickr) Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? “We have changed our assumption …