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How Music Helped Save New Orleans After Katrina
No other American city values music the way New Orleans does. Heck, one of its airports is named after legendary musician Louis Armstrong! Music is not something that is …

US “Combat Troops” Exit Iraq: “What Noble Cause?“
Tonight, it's been announced, the last U.S. “combat troops” have left Iraq, some 7 years, 4 months and 29 days after they were sent their for specious and deadly …

Arctic Villages Stop Seismic Tests as Canada Mulls Oil Future
Washington - Above the Arctic Circle in Canada near Greenland, five Inuit villages have won a court order that blocks a German icebreaker from conducting seismic tests of an …

Ten Common Sense Principles for a New Economy
I find hope in the fact that millions of people the world over are seeing through the moral and practical fallacies underlying the Wall Street economy and—by contributing to …

Will Social Security Be the Next Deficit Hawk Prey?
Social Security turned 75 last week (along with unemployment insurance). President Obama celebrated the program’s birthday by vowing to fight against privatizing it, an idea that was supposed to …

Does Washington Want Normal Diplomatic Relations With Venezuela?
While President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela and the new President of Colombia, Manuel Santos, met in Santa Marta, Colombia, last Tuesday and agreed to normalize relations after a fierce …

Joe Conason | Courage and Lower Manhattan
Nothing tests a president like standing up against a wave of fear and prejudice, even at potentially great cost to his own party and prospects. That is what Lyndon …

Praise for Truthout
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Other Countries Probing Bush-Era Torture – Why Aren’t We?
WASHINGTON — In June, the Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a Canadian man who contends that U.S. authorities mistook him for an al Qaida operative in …

Regulatory Agencies
Washington, DC - A recent report by the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center (a collaboration between the federal government and BP) claiming that only 25 percent of spilled …