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Israel’s Ongoing War Against the Press
The recent arrest of an Israeli journalist who allegedly leaked materials to a reporter, and the gag order that followed, is just the latest in a long string of …
Robert Reich | The Challenge of Closing Tax Loopholes for Billionaires
Who could be opposed to closing a tax loophole that allows hedge-fund and private equity managers to treat their earnings as capital gains – and pay a rate of …
Veterans With Brain Injuries Still Struggle to Get Help
Washington - Improvised bombs rattled former Army Spc. Adam Pittman a dozen times in his three tours in Iraq, most severely when his Bradley fighting vehicle ran over one …
How to Shrink Corporate Tumors With Immunogentility
War budgets booming, drills and nukes reviving, health insurers hooting, agro-biz bloating, privacy invasions through the roof - any progressives or patriots out there not ulcerating yet?
Below the Radar: HUD Is Trying to Privatize and Mortgage Off All of America’s Public Housing
The Obama administration's move to the right is about to give conservatives a victory they could not have anticipated, even under Bush. HUD, under Obama, submitted legislation, called PETRA, …
E.J. Dionne Jr. | Casting Stones at Glass Houses
Washington - A fall from grace of the sort experienced recently by Indiana's Mark Souder typically brings smiles to the faces of liberals weary of moralistic religious types who …
Before the US Civil Rights Laws: Anti-Discrimination Action in New York State
Rand Paul's criticism of the federal civil rights legislation of the 1960s can be better evaluated by looking at the workings of similar legislation that appeared on the state …
Whistleblowers Speak: Who’s Protecting Them and Who’s Listening?
Over the past few decades, whistleblowers have changed the course of history. AudioPlayer.setup(“https://truthout.org/video123/audio/player.swf”, { …
Citizen Alioune: How Not to Deal With Muslims in America
Alioune Niass, the Sengalese Muslim vendor who first spotted the now infamous smoking SUV in Times Square and alerted police, is no hero. If it were not for the …
Connie Schultz | She’s Graduating With Wings
I am the mother, and you are the child. That's what I told her the day she was born. I repeated it many times over the course of …