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Mark Weisbrot | Aristide Should Be Allowed to Return to Haiti
Haiti's infamous dictator “Baby Doc” Duvalier, returned to his country this week, while the country's first elected President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, is kept out. These two facts really say everything …
JFK’s Eloquence, 50 Years Later
Washington - It's remembered as a day chilled by “a Siberian wind knifing down Pennsylvania Avenue” and illuminated by “the dazzling combination of bright sunshine and deep snow.” On …
Aristide Says He Is Ready to Return to Haiti, Too
Port-au-Prince, Haiti - Days after Haitians watched an exiled dictator come home, a former president issued a statement on Wednesday that fueled rumors that he, too, was angling to …
Court Weighs Whether Corporations Have Personal Privacy Rights
Washington - The claim that corporations have personal privacy rights met with widespread skepticism on Wednesday during a lively Supreme Court argument.
Ira Chernus | How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War
When I try to figure out why we are still in Afghanistan, though every ounce of logic says we ought to get out, an unexpected conversation I had last …
Ira Chernus How the Power of Myth Keeps Us Mired in War
When I try to figure out why we are still in Afghanistan, though every ounce of logic says we ought to get out, an unexpected conversation I had last …
Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Released From Guantánamo
For several years now, one organization in the US government has persistently undermined attempts to have a grown-up debate about the perceived dangerousness of prisoners at Guantánamo, and the …
House Votes to Repeal Health-Care Reform: What Happens Now?
Washington - The struggle over the future of health-care reform is just beginning. After what Speaker John Boehner dubbed “a spirited but respectful debate,” the House voted 245 to …
Hyped-Up Charges of Maoism Leveled Against Indian Medical Missionary
Many readers of Truthout must have heard the story of Binayak Sen by now. The doctor, who has spent nearly three decades serving some of the most destitute of …