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An abandoned School. (Photo: Wout / Flickr) Last week, the city of Philadelphia's school system announced that it expects to close 40 public schools next year and 64 schools …

Should the enormous US military budget be cut? Many who would like to protect the military from the budget knife raise economic arguments to make their case: Won’t cutting …

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Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's longtime pastor, during a speech at the …

A recent study has found that, under certain conditions, the chemical-laced water used in hydraulic fracturing can migrate through fractures and faults up to overlying aquifers in as little …

After almost ten years of detention at CIA dark sites and at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four alleged co-conspirators were brought before a military commission to …

What do the Austrian-born, self-styled “social ecologist” and management theorist Peter Drucker and the Italian autonomist Marxist scholar Paolo Virno have in common? At first blush, little beyond their …

American society has lost its claim on democracy. One indication of such a loss is that the crises produced on a daily basis by crony capitalism operate within a …

Last week, President Obama proposed national guidelines on hydraulic fracturing. The technique, known as fracking, extracts natural gas from the ground by pumping fluid into the Earth. At the …

After risking their lives abroad, American veterans are returning home to a new set of dangers. For-profit college companies are increasingly targeting veterans and their education benefits as a …