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Remembering Satomi in Post-Fukushima India
A March 24th picture of unit three in Fukushima, Japan. (Photo: daveeza / Flickr) For me, as for many others who knew her even slightly, the first …
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The New American Dream
(Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) If you are wealthy, you are living in the Golden Age of your American Dream, and it's a damned fine time to be …
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WikiLeaks Cable Casts Doubt on Guantanamo Medical Care
Detainees are seen inside Camp Four, one of the camps inside Camp Delta, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times) …
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The Social Security Scam: How Media Driven Misdirection Is Being Used to Hijack Your Future
As the budget battle rages in Washington, calls to cutSocial Security benefits are ramping up. Pundits pushing ‘conventional wisdom’ say that doing so is prudent for a nation facing …
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Stiglitz: Common Sense Pierces The Budget Hysteria
Common sense is an endangered species in today’s budget frenzy. Inside the Beltway, millions of dollars have gone into a concerted campaign to elevate hysteria about deficits, …
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Who Are the Liquidators?
The prime minister of Japan has said that his government is “not in a position where we can be optimistic” about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Is there …
Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True Oversight? (Part II)
(Image: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout)
EXCLUSIVE: CIA Psychologist’s Notes Reveal True Purpose Behind Bush’s Torture Program
This diagram was included in a paper written by Dr. Bruce Jessen's and shows his view of the conflicting psychological pressures bearing down on a prisoner who is held …
Congress Must Debate the Libya War
The US is now at war in a third Muslim country, according to the “official tally” (that is, counting Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, but not Pakistan or Yemen, for …
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News in Brief: Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manning, and More
Daniel Ellsberg, Col. Ann Wright Among 30 Arrested for Protesting Against Abuse of Bradley Manning