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What the Tunisian revolution and WikiLeaks tell us about American support for corrupt dictatorships in the Muslim world. Here’s one obvious lesson of the Tunisian Revolution of 2011: …

A key resolution on the Israel-Palestine conflict is now before the UN Security Council. Largely echoing stated US policy, the resolution embraces negotiations, endorses the creation of a Palestinian …

President Obama is delivering his State of the Union message today. This is the speech that I would like to hear: "My fellow Americans. Two years ago, 69 million …

Washington - Despite what you might have heard, the coming battle on Capitol Hill is not really about “government spending” in the abstract. It's about two radically different visions …

It seems that objectively rich people in the United States are feeling poor these days. In an article published online on Jan. 11, Catherine Rampell, an economics editor at …

Mexico City - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stressed in a visit to Mexico Monday the importance of reforming Mexico’s judicial system, a policy matter that has been overshadowed …

 

A quick confession that might not sit well with many Truthout readers: I was, on a personal level, quite ambivalent about the loss of Keith Olbermann's show, “Countdown,” when …

I must state at the start of this essay that I am no prude, no Victorian. In fact I am generally quite tolerant of contemporary mores in the area …

In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi — known for its independent investigative style — is under …