Truthout
Latest
Anonymous Members Arrested – FBI Fear Mongering?
|
Economy Continued Strong Jobs Growth in February
After a stretch of economic expansion so weak that Main Street struggled to detect any improvement, three consecutive months of solid employment growth have begun to lift the mood …
|
In the US, Futile Hopes for Another Presidential Contender
Political pundits have speculated about the possibility of another presidential candidate entering the November race. (Damon Winter / The New York Times) I haven’t written …
Conyers Urges Obama to Nominate Jeff Sachs to Lead the World Bank
President Obama has a historic opportunity to help reform the World Bank, by nominating development expert Jeffrey Sachs to be the World Bank's next president. Sachs has said that …
|
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Keystone XL Shot Down Again, and More
Thom Hartmann here – on the news… You need to know this. Rejected! Democrats in the Senate yesterday beat back an attempt by Republicans to have the Keystone XL …
|
Five Million Voters May Lose Rights in the 2012 Elections
Today’s Super Tuesday primary involves 10 states and 437 delegates at stake for the Republican Party’s presidential prospects. There are two states among that crop that are worth taking …
How the Right’s Smear Machine Started
Americans sometimes wonder how the nation’s political process got so unspeakably nasty with vitriol pouring forth especially from right-wing voices like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Michael Savage, to …
|
Undernutrition and Overnutrition: Who’s Feeding Whom?
We live in a world today where one billion people– that is one in every seven people on the planet – are undernourished. At the same time, more than …
|
Financial Markets Are Not Faceless, Their Face Is That of the Oligarchy
L’Humanité interviews the author of la Finance imaginaire, anatomie du capitalisme: des “marchés financiers” à l’oligarchie, Arden publishers (Fantasizing about Finance - an Anatomy of Capitalism: “Financial Markets” or …
|