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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Walgreens Will Not Move Overseas to Avoid Taxes, and More
Walgreens has caved to public pressure and announced that they will not move overseas to avoid paying US taxes, and more.
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The US Has a Scary Sewage Problem: Let’s Clean It Up and Jumpstart the Economy While We’re at It
Stormwater management is an opportunity to stem a crisis and move toward a sustainable future.
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Women Warriors Take Environmental Protection Into Their Own Hands
Aleta Baun has been at the forefront of her tribe's efforts to stop mining companies destroying the forests of the Mutis Mountains that hug the western part of the …
Truthout Interviews Tanya Lee on Native American Gender-Based Violence
Tanya Lee speaks with Ted Asregadoo about the startlingly high rates of gender-based violence among Native American and Native Alaskan communities and the lack of access the victims of …
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“Humanitarian Emergency” Does Not Suspend the Constitution on War Powers
Obama failed to clearly explain why his decision to order airstrikes in Iraq without Congressional authorization is Constitutional and legal.
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Leaked Documents Show Spyware Used to Snoop on US Computers
Software created by the controversial UK based Gamma Group International was used to spy on computers that appear to be located in the United States.
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Inside Our Profoundly Unequal “New Normal“
Wealth's current tilt to the top sometimes seems almost eternal. But can our economy “self-correct”? A provocative new paper out of the developed world's official research agency contemplates our …
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For Disenfranchised Haitian Islanders, Tourism Signals a Paradise Lost
Islanders are angry at their exclusion from the government decision-making process that has opened the island for investment - investments that place residents' futures in limbo.
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Dahr Jamail | Open Source Farming: A Renaissance Man Tackles the Food Crisis
The news about our global food supply is not good.
European Court Finds CIA Interrogation Techniques “Amounted to Torture“
The European Court of Human Rights concludes that so-called enhanced interrogation techniques - specifically approved by John Yoo and Jay Bybee for use by the CIA on Abu Zubaydah …