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Public Jobs Now — Yes, It’s Time
One percent of US households received 23.5 percent of the nation's income in 2007. I think this is blatantly excessive and unfair. Their contribution to the nation's prosperity was …
Psychologists Notes May Indicate Zubaydah Torture Experimentation
One interesting nugget found in newly released CIA documents related to the destruction of 92 torture tapes concerns the unreported existence of psychologist's notes as a standard part of …
Goldman Sachs: What Hath Fraud Wrought?
Goldman Sachs is the Blackwater of finance, the latest in a long line of companies you love to hate, like AIG and the Dallas Cowboys. Or, as Rolling …
Red State Road Trip 2: 80 Miles Up a Dirt Road (Video Part III)
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, …
What’s Behind the Republicans Fielding 32 Black Candidates for Congress in 2010?
File it under one of those “Duh” statements.
Robert Naiman | A Year of War Would Pay for Local Jobs Bill
Sometime between now and Memorial Day, the House is expected to consider $33 billion more for war in Afghanistan. This “war supplemental” is largely intended to plug the hole …
Arizona Cracks Down on Immigration, But Congress Unlikely to Act
With a divisive new law in Arizona providing the kindling, the national debate over immigration has reignited, as Democrats and Republicans in Congress appeal to their political bases ahead …
Transgender Community in New Orleans Claims Police Harassment
New Orleans' black and transgender community members and advocates complain of rampant and systemic harassment and discrimination from the city's police force, including sexual violence and arrest without cause. …
Broadcasting Women’s Voices in Haiti’s Reconstruction
Haitian women have been increasingly vocal and active in social, political and economic issues since the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship in 1986. Though it has not come easily, …
Four Brothers Find Success Amid the Rubble of War
Gaza—With the never-ending stream of news about Israeli incursions, crushing poverty, skyrocketing unemployment and scarce health care, success stories coming out of Gaza may seem an oxymoron. But they …