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South Pacific “Cannibal” Claims Amount to Dangerous Journalism
The news that the charred remains of a German traveler have been found in the forest of Nuka Hiva, one of the largest of the Marquesas Islands in the …
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Greg Palast: US “Vulture” Funds Make Millions By Exploiting African Nations
American “vulture” investors, including a top funder of the Republican Party, have demanded that African nations pay over half a billion dollars for old debts – for which the …
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Tens of Thousands Call for Tantawi to Go in Cairo’s Tahrir Square
Cairo - Tens of thousands of anti-military protesters streamed into downtown Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on Tuesday as the nation waited anxiously for the head of the embattled ruling …
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Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions on Share Buybacks to Enrich Executives
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of …
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The Public Intellectual: Simon Dawes
Articles by Simon Dawes on Truthout.
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The American Behind India’s 9/11 – And How the US Botched Chances to Stop Him
Prologue: Justice Denied During a meeting overseas last summer, a senior U.S. official and Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the chief of Pakistan’s armed forces, discussed a threat …
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Occupy Wall Street is Bringing Down the Big Banks, and More (2)
In today's On the News segment: Occupy Wall Street is bringing down the big banks, Gang of 12 SuperCommittee failed to come up with a compromise, according to a …
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Slanting the Case on Iran’s Nukes
As Washington’s political/media class rises up in arms over new WMD allegations against Iran, it might be worth recalling how a similar process played out nearly a decade ago …
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The “Public University” as Response to Funding Cuts to UK’s Higher Education
Student protests have risen in the wake of the government's plans to make society pay for the economic crisis.
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Pull of Family Reshapes US-Cuban Relations
Miami - For two consecutive years, Stephanie Várcia, 11, a sixth grader here, has done something that was unimaginable five years ago. She has spent four weeks in Havana, …