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On Earth Day 2010 (April 22), the US Navy is going to stage a demonstration of its F/A-18 Super Hornet (a.k.a. the Green Hornet), powered by a 50/50 biofuel …

In 2005, filmmaker and truthout reporter Chris Hume took the nation's pulse. He traveled to the forgotten corners of America, and let the people speak. It was a disturbing, …

As approval ratings for Barack Obama decline at home, world opinion of the United States is rising steadily under his stewardship.

More service is not necessarily good service. And bad service dressed as good service is even worse. Here are examples: Restaurants. A waiter breaks into a lively conversation …

You may have heard the latest those-folks-are-crazy story coming out of my home county in Ohio. It started two weeks ago with a local television station's tiny sound bite …

Christian groups are trying to create a run around health care reform by setting up alternative, unregulated religious health care bill collectives—and movement conservatives are cheering them on.

When we try to engage people politically we never know who will respond, or when someone will shift from reveling in their apathy to taking powerful public stands. With …

Three prominent environmental activists reflect on the state of the American green movement for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of …

Further complicating peace talks as White House envoy George Mitchell arrives in Israel today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected Barack Obama's call for a building halt in East Jerusalem. …

New York - President Barack Obama will call on Wall Street and industry lobbyists today to “join us, instead of fighting us” as Congress prepares to create new regulations …