Truthout
Review
![Stacked barrells of toxic waste line the claustrophobic interior of an underground storage bunker](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/10/2022_1012-nuclear-waste-400x300.jpg)
Nuclear Power Isn’t Clean — It Creates Hellish Wastelands of Radioactive Sewage
Nuclear power carries with it an unbearable price tag: nightmarish contamination and the threat to survival itself.
![NYPD officers stand by as people take part in a rally in a show of solidarity with Muslims in the U.S. at Times Square on February 19, 2017, in New York City.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/07/2022_0707-muslim-protest-400x300.jpg)
Twenty Years Later, It Is Still Time to Dismantle the War on Terror
New book “Innocent Until Proven Muslim” demands we hold war criminals to account for decades of systemic Islamophobia.
![A student walks by Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on November 17, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/03/GettyImages-1236648711-400x300.jpg)
Higher Education Is Now a Battlefield Between Workers and Corporatization
“Power Despite Precarity” offers a case study of how educators in the California State University system built power.
![People in orange jumpsuits and hoods protest as one holds a sign reading "WE MOURN GUANTANAMO: JAN. 11, 2002 - ????"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/12/2021_1223-guantanamo-bay-400x300.jpg)
Guantánamo Film Ignores the War on Terror’s Ongoing Tangible Harms
Abu Zubaydah’s story is not about unequal justice, but the absence of justice altogether.
![Jodie Foster and Tahar Rahim in The Mauritanian.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/07/2021_0715-the-mauritanian-400x300.jpg)
Guantánamo Memoir Film Skewers George W. Bush, But Exonerates Barack Obama
“The Mauritanian” fails to examine Obama's or Biden’s complicity in the continuing scandal of Guantánamo.
![Jana Schmieding chopping wood as Reagan Wells from episode 102 "Buckheart Lodge" of NBC's "Rutherford Falls"](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2021/05/2021_0531-Rutherford-Falls-400x300.jpg)
“Rutherford Falls” Confronts Everyday Colonialism
Representation is not revolutionary, but it can break open new possibilities.
![People demonstrate in front of a statue Chief Quipuha](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/2021_0428-guam-400x300.jpg)
Abolitionist Struggles Are Also Matters of Global Justice
Author Julian Aguon’s new book links the struggle to demilitarize his native Guam to the Black Lives Matter movement.
![A protester holds a sign reading "no more us bases" during a protest](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2018/05/GettyImages-1180625223-400x300.jpg)
US Military Exposed 600,000 to Toxins in Japan and Micronesia — and Hid It
A new book examines the environmental degradation caused by the U.S. military in East Asia and the Pacific Islands.
![American singer, acclaimed actor of stage and screen, political activist and civil rights campaigner Paul Robeson rehearses at the piano on July 22, 1958.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/2021_0105-paul-robeson-400x300.jpg)
Graphic Biography Highlights the Life of Actor and Activist Paul Robeson
“Ballad of an American” tells the tale of Paul Robeson’s role in the earliest civil rights movement to a new generation.
![Portrait of Josh White, Cafe Society (Downtown), New York, New York, circa June 1946.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2020/12/GettyImages-959652494-400x300.jpg)
New Book Digs Into Government Files to Keep Alive Memory of Radical Folk Artists
“The Folk Singers and the Bureau” is a vast treatise on the sad interplay between the red-baiters and the folkies.