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Vulture Funds Await Jersey Decision on Poor Countries’ Debts
Jean Ngaigy, the head of a school in Lepaigagone, interprets the words of one of her six-year-old students. The girl is happy to have a school now. Her favourite …
Panic in the Pentagon: Can’t Pass Weapons Testing? Army Chief Says to Get Rid of It
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The Department of Defense (DoD) contractors and their followers in the Pentagon are in a panic. The first set of proposed cuts …
Occupy the Church
More GRITtv Just hours after the forced eviction of the Occupy Wall St site at Zuccotti Park in New York, local faith leaders issued a call for places of …
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Brookfield Deploys Private Security Squadron to Liberty Plaza Park
There is a new group of people occupying Liberty Plaza Park. Clad in dark clothes with glowing yellow vests, a group of husky security guards, all of them white …
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Police Interventions Fire Up Occupy Protesters; Big Rallies Planned Thursday
Washington - After getting pepper-sprayed Tuesday night in downtown Seattle, 84-year-old Dorli Rainey of the Occupy Seattle movement felt fired up, ready for more protesting. And like …
The Crash of 1929 Was Just a Prelude: Truthout Interviews Whistleblower-Novelist Nomi Prins
Nomi Prins, author of “Black Tuesday.” (Photo: Official Nomi Prins Page) Nomi Prins: Into the crash of 1929, there were six big banks. Their leaders controlled most …
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This Is What America Looks Like
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement in Zuccotti Park in New York, November 15, 2011. After being evicted by the police Tuesday morning, several hundred Occupy Wall Street …
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Occupy: Cathedrals and Ivory Towers
This past weekend in the UK saw people walking about sporting red poppies on their lapels. It was Armistice Day on Friday, November 11, and Sunday, November 13 was …
Occupy Wall Street Protest Live Blog
This blog will feature Truthout's live coverage of the Occupy movement's national day of protest today. Our editors will be summarizing news from around the country. Matt Renner (Truthout's …