Truthout
Latest
Ebola Regional Fund Shows Growing Solidarity in West Africa
Time will tell whether the Ebola regional solidarity fund turns out to be the precursor of a more substantial ECOWAS social development agenda.
Obama’s Dumb War
The president is now poised to leave behind a Middle East quagmire much like the one he was elected to end.
|
No Exit Strategy
Re-enter here and go back to square one.
US Government Sanitizes Vietnam War History
The Pentagon plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history.
US Treasury and Transportation Departments Hold a Privatization Party
Ignoring the benefits of taxes as a revenue source forces us into depending on the people who crashed the economy to fund our infrastructure.
A Blueprint for Bankruptcy
The “privates” in much-touted “public private partnerships” make billions by seeming to lose millions in US transportation projects.
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Seven Worst-Case Scenarios in the Battle With the Islamic State
Here are seven worst-case scenarios in a part of the world where the worst case has regularly been the best that's on offer.
|
Pay to Prey: Governors Facilitate the Predatory Outsourcing of US Public Services
Shocking new allegations of a murder-for-hire plot are emerging from Michigan as the media digs deeper into that state's failed outsourcing of prison services.
|
The United States Is Founded Upon the Model of European Conquest: Dispose of the Disposable People
In order to expand, the original 13 colonies had to decimate the Native-American nations and seize their lands.
|
Sins, Both Moral and Intellectual
If inflation had in fact risen, they would have claimed vindication.