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The Link to Humanity – Gift Economies
All of Coumba Toure’s work is aimed at keeping African values alive. As part of this, she is deeply involved in a women-led movement to keep the gift economy …
Congressional Candidate Norman Solomon on What Makes a Healthy Progressive Ecosystem
Norman Solomon. (Photo: Steve Rhodes / Flickr) Norman Solomon, a longtime activist and media scholar, first came under FBI scrutiny at the age of 14 for picketing a segregated …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Karl Rove’s Super PAC Under Scrutiny, and More
In today's On the News segment, George Zimmerman out on bail, for-profit college supporters in Congress opposing student loan reforms, Colorado and California look to pass marijuana legalization laws …
Beating the Drug-War Addiction
Buenos Aires - In January, US President Barack Obama nominated Marine Corps Lieutenant General John F. Kelly to head the United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM). Based in Miami, Florida, …
National Security Agency Whistleblower William Binney on Growing State Surveillance
In his first television interview since he resigned from the National Security Agency over its domestic surveillance program, William Binney discusses the NSA's massive power to spy on Americans …
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FBI Seizes Server From Progressive Internet Service Provider
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. In an attack on our infrastructure, our movement and the democratic Internet, the FBI seized a server …
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Afghan Screams Aren’t Heard
Support Truthout’s work by making a tax-deductible donation: click here to contribute. An Afghan boy waits as his father receives medical care at a cooperative medical engagement site near …
What a Difference a Day (of Iran Talks) Makes
After ten hours of talks with Iran, opportunities for a diplomatic resolution of the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program have dramatically improved, and Congress gears up to vote on …
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Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past and Future of American “Free-Market” Capitalism
Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It can be found across broad stretches of the American economy and around the world. Penitentiaries have become a niche market for …
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Student Loan Interest Rates Loom as Political Battle
President Obama begins an all-out push on Friday to get Congress to extend the low interest rate on federal student loans, White House officials said, an effort that is …