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Bill Moyers on His Legendary Journalism Career: “Democracy Should Be a Brake on Unbridled Greed and Power“
Bill Moyers, July 21, 1965. (Photo: Yoichi Okamoto / Wikimedia)
Hope in Afghanistan: An Interview With Malalai Joya
Malalai Joya. (Photo: AfghanKabul / Flickr) Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga …
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The Bernanke Scandal: Full-Frontal Cluelessness
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) How I wish that Ben Bernanke would get caught emailing photos of his underwear-clad …
Food Sovereignty Responds to Corporate Takeover of Food Production
(Photo: Scott Robinson / Flickr) Introduction Although the credit crunch has pushed the issue of the global food crisis to the background, it is …
More Bucks, Less Bang: The Ineffective Weapons Disease Infects Another Generation of Weapons
(Image: Lance Page / Truthout) In the early 1980s, the Pentagon was in the midst of several new generations of tanks, aircraft and missiles, especially during the …
Why the Rich – Corporations and Wealthy Individuals – Can and Should Pay More in Taxes
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NATO Planes Bomb Tripoli for Hours on End
Tripoli, Libya - Waves of NATO fighter planes hit the Libyan capital Tuesday with one of the largest bombardments of the city since the Western-led alliance began airstrikes almost …
A Brief History of the Patriot Act
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GOP Plan to Run Fake Democratic Candidates
Madison, Wisconsin - The gears of government tend to grind slowly. But in Wisconsin lately they are racing at turbocharged speed. In just the last few weeks, …
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Has Economic Power Replaced Military Might?
(Photo: The U.S. Army / Flickr) Cambridge - At the Cold War’s end, some pundits proclaimed that “geo-economics” had replaced geopolitics. Economic power would become the key …