Truthout
Latest
On Memorial Day Weekend, America Reckons With Torture
If we really want to honor the Americans in uniform who gave their lives fighting for their country, weu2019ll redouble our efforts to make sure weu2019re worthy of their …
Fighting for (and Winning) Rights: An Analysis
those of us who see ourselves as actively fighting for the rights of the Palestinians on the one hand, and the protections of the U.S. Constitution on the other, …
|
Why Even “Failed” Activism Succeeds
The beautiful thing about nonviolent activism is that, while risking no harm, it has the potential to do good in ways small and large that ripple out from it …
Has the FBI Launched a War of Entrapment Against the Occupy Movement?
Is the government unleashing the same methods of entrapment against OWS that it has used against left movements and Muslim-Americans?
From the Chilean Winter to the Maple Spring Solidarity: the Student Movements in Chile and Québec
For both of these movements to move forward, it is important to not only promote informal acts and statements of solidarity between the two movements, but to begin establishing …
|
Coal Industry Pays Fake Activists $50 to Wear Pro-Coal Shirts at Public Hearing
Apparently unable to find real activists, the coal industry paid astroturfers to wear pro-coal t-shirts at an EPA hearing.
|
Bank Regulators Under Scrutiny in JPMorgan Loss
Scores of federal regulators are stationed inside JPMorgan Chaseu2019s Manhattan headquarters, but none of them were assigned to the powerful unit that recently disclosed a multibillion trading loss.
This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
Throughout the US, Native, Chicano, and other peoples are rejecting industrialized agriculture and are growing their own food instead, thereby reclaiming the health of their traditions, culture, bodies, and …
|
Entrapped! Confessions of a Violent Consumerist
It is past time to wash our hands of these inscribed behaviors, reduce the damage being done in our wake, and start to clean up our collective act.
Economic Update: Spains Thriving Communist Mayor, and More
Economics Professor Richard D. Wolff and guests discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis. The segment contains economic updates …