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Memo to Mayor Bloomberg: JPMorgan Blow-Up Is Not a “Hiccup” – It’s a Giant Warning
The tone-deaf, gold-plated, Wall Street-worshipping mayor of New York City rushes to defend Jamie Dimon. New York's Mayor Bloomberg rarely loses an opportunity to rush to the defense of …
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A Radical Idea to Transform What Kids Learn in School
Exxon-Mobil is airing education-reform television ads. In the one I’ve seen most often, implicit and explicit messages are simple and clear: (a) We live in a dangerous, technologically complex …
The 2012 Farm Bill and the Real Obesity Lobby
Nearly half of all Americans will be obese by 2030, researchers reported at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Weight of the Nation conference in Washington earlier this month. …
Occupy Movement Wins Spate of Legal Battles, but Faces New Challenges Ahead as “NATO 3” Face Terrorism Charges
Truthout has been covering the antiwar movement closely for more than ten years. Click here to help us keep doing this work! (Photo: Zach Roberts / GregPalast.com)Much of the …
Tom Morello Leads the Occupy “Guitarmy” (Video)
An army of guitarists took to the streets of New York City as part of Occupy Wall Street’s May Day resurgence. Led by former Rage Against the Machine guitarist …
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Donations to Scott Walker Flagged as Potential Fraud
Truthout combats corporatization by bringing you trustworthy news: click here to join the effort. Scott Walker. (Photo: Jackie Guthrie / Flickr)When MaryAnn Nellis tried to pay for groceries on …
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Blind Chinese Dissident Leaves on Flight for US
Click here to support news free of corporate influence by donating to Truthout. Chen Guangcheng. (Photo: Amnesty International via The New York Times)Beijing - Chen Guangcheng, the blind legal …
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Most Expensive Weapon Ever
Tom Cruise steps onto the tarmac - cool and confident in his flight suit and dark aviator glasses. This is “Top Gun 2,” and the fighter plane he's getting …
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
(Photo courtesy of Julie Castro)Julie Castro is a young doctor from France, a country that proves that it is possible for a nation to offer quality health care for …
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One Sees a Tree, the Other, a Canoe: The Humor and Struggle of International Solidarity
Zapatista Spring: Anatomy of a Rebel Water Project & the Lessons of International Solidarity Ramor RyanAK PressOakland, 2011 The Zapatistas have lingered in the imaginations of progressives and radicals …