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Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Virginia). (Photo: republicanconference) Last month, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor literally said Social Security "cannot exist if we want America to be what we …

Book cover to Chalmers Johnson's “Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945.” (Image: Stanford University Press) In going through my husband’s files, …

When I was a small boy I was bullied more than most, mainly because I was a foot shorter than than everyone else. They demanded the cupcake my mother …

(Photo: fling93) A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless …

The House Republican plan for balancing budgets includes deep cuts in federal health care spending. It is honest but not nice. It's not nice at all. …

Washington - One image perfectly captured the absurd, irrational and wholly unnecessary confrontation over whether to shut down the federal government on the basis of differences over a small …

(Photo: alistercoyne; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / Truthout) The third week of February, attorneys from New Orleans-based and national organizations brought a federal civil rights complaint against Louisiana's …

(Photo: random cliché) Month after month, Alternatives Economiques describes and analyzes the economic news. That does not prevent us from reflecting on what could, on what must, …

Veterans For Peace has joined in endorsing “Sounds of Resistance,” a concert and protest against Wall Street banks that draws the connections between militarism, Wall Street, the wealth divide …

TV Martí building. (Photo: Allen Pinkley) Editor's Note: This article was originally published prior to the passage of the federal budget deal. • Not much …