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NYC’s $40 Million Central Park Five Settlement Resolves Wrongful Jailing Fueled by Race-Baiting, Police Abuse
The City of New York has reportedly agreed to pay $40 million to five men wrongfully convicted of raping a female jogger in Central Park 25 years ago.
The Respectable Face of Terror
Robert Moses says America from 1875 down to the civil rights movement, was slavery by another name.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: GOP Considers Government Shutdown to Protect Big Oil, and More
The last government shut down cost our nation billions, but Republicans are thinking about doing it all over again just to protect Big Oil and the Coal Lobby, and …
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US Funds “Terror Studies” to Dissect and Neutralize Social Movements
When American rulers say they are defending US national security interests against all potential enemies, what they really mean is they are defending the prevailing capitalist order against any …
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Pundits and Partisans Are Up to Old Tricks in Iraq
There was no al Qaeda-Iraq connection until the war; our invasion made it so. We have known this for nearly a decade, well before the murderous ISIS even appeared.
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Working Families Party Betrayal
In New York or Illinois or anywhere else in the country, working people have few champions in the smoked-filled rooms of politics.
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On Anniversary of Caperton v. Massey, Recusal Rules Still an Issue
Despite the ways in which recusal rules can strengthen the judiciary, few states have chosen to adopt them.
Iraqis Are Not “Abstractions“
As our policymakers plan next steps in Iraq, let us do all we can to prevent the Iraqi people from remaining “something of an abstraction.”
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White Blindness and Smiley Faces
Society has been trained to believe the surface is the entirety of life.
Truthout Interviews Chris Crass on Feminism
Truthout contributor, Chris Crass, talks to Ted Asregadoo about structural and behavioral sexism, and the ways in which men can change their behavior to transform family relationships and the …