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Piketty’s New Class
Piketty's “Capital In the 21st Century” could ignite a new political conversation on the intertwining of caste and class, creating new kinds of movements against today's inheritance-based "US Gilded …
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William Rivers Pitt | Iraq, Two Bullets and the Long Arc of History
Two bullets in Sarajevo unleashed one hundred years of carnage. Some facile lies from a few American politicians may well have unleashed another hundred years of the same.
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Noam Chomsky | Whose Security? How Washington Protects Itself and the Corporate Sector
What happened when the Russian threat disappeared in 1989? Answer: everything continued much as before.
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Cutting Off Sex Work Advertising Sites Disrupts Communities, Not Trafficking
Shutting down advertising sites used by sex workers silences peer-to-peer harm reduction channels that help sex workers in the absence of formal services and does little to address trafficking.
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The Giant Methane Monster Lurking
There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean, and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet.
Dahr Jamail: What’s Happening in Iraq Is the Legacy of the US Invasion and Occupation
For this week's episode of “Unauthorized Discloure,” Kevin Gosztola and Rania Khalek spoke with Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail about Iraq's continued descent into chaos.
Gustavo Esteva With Brad Evans | Violence and Hope in Chiapas: Pedagogies by the Globally Oppressed
The Zapatista "struggle is our struggle, everywhere, in every city, in every country of the world. We are in a very difficult moment, in a terrible moment of humankind, …
SCOTUS Reinterprets Religious Liberty to Justify Corporate Discrimination
Patricia Miller and Tarso Luis Ramos say the decision reinterprets religious liberty in order to justify discriminatory practices of corporations, and privileges religious freedom of corporations over individuals.
Snowden Asylum in Germany? Support Grows for NSA Whistleblower After Merkel Cancels Verizon Contract
Revelations by Edward Snowden about US surveillance continue to shake Germany more than one year after he came forward as an National Security Agency whistleblower.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Supreme Court Eliminates President’s Power to Make Recess Appointments, and More
The Supreme Court virtually eliminated the President's power to make recess appointments, and more.